Brian O’Connor
BRIAN O’CONNOR | |
BORN | |
| 1958 | Hartford, CT; grew up in New Mexico
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EDUCATION | |
| 2002 | Certificate in computer animation, TVI, Albuquerque, NM |
| 1983 | B.F.A., University of New Mexico; Albuquerque, New Mexico |
| 1978-79 | Centro Andino; Quito, Ecuador
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SELECTED MUSEUM EXHIBITIONS | |
| 2004 | So Que, Albuquerque Museum of Fine Art, Albuquerque, NM |
| 2003 | The Show, Museum of Fine Arts, Santa Fe, NM
A New Generation of Magic Realists, Sangre de Cristo Arts Center, Pueblo, CO Albuquerque Museum of Fine Arts, Albuquerque Contemporary, Albuquerque, NM |
SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS | |
| 2004 | Flagship, Klaudia Marr Gallery, Santa Fe, NM |
| 2003 | A Thousand Lies, La Luz de Jesus Gallery, Los Angeles, CA |
| 2002 | new work, van de Griff Marr Gallery, Santa Fe, NM |
| 2000 | La Luz de Jesus, Sugarland, Los Angeles, CA |
| 1999 | LewAllen Contemporary, Santa Fe, NM |
| 1998 | J. Cacciola Gallery, New York, NY
Interstate 25 Billboard, Faith and Reason, Albuquerque, NM |
| 1997 | LewAllen Contemporary, Santa Fe, NM |
| Sangre de Cristo Center for the Arts, The King's Highway, Pueblo, CO | |
| 1994 | LewAllen Contemporary, Santa Fe, NM |
| 1990 | LewAllen Contemporary, Santa Fe, NM
Graham Gallery, Albuquerque, NM |
| 1989 | Andrea Ross Gallery, Santa Monica, CA
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SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS | |
| 2004 | Significant Others, Harwood Art Center, Albuquerque, NM
Art Chicago, Gescheidle Gallery, Chicago, IL Seven Degrees, Form Fragments and Folly, Laguna Beach, California Three Person Show, Gescheidle Gallery, Chicago, IL |
| 2003 | 10th Annual Realism Invitational, Klaudia Marr Gallery, Santa Fe, NM |
| 2002 | Harboring Beauty, Lyons Wier Gallery, Chicago, IL
9th Annual Realism Invitational, van de Griff Marr Gallery, Santa Fe, NM |
| 2001 | Figure Eight, Diane Nelson Gallery, Laguna Beach, CA
8th Annual Realism Invitational, van de Griff Marr Gallery, Santa Fe, NM |
| 2000 | LewAllen Contemporary, Go Figure, Santa Fe, NM |
| 1999 | Diane Nelson Fine Art, Laguna Beach, California |
| 1998 | Realism Knows No Bounds, van de Griff Gallery, Santa Fe, NM |
| 1997 | Arvada Center for the Arts, The Surreal West, Arvada, CO |
| 1996 | Palo Alto Cultural Center, The Mythic Narrative, Palo Alto, CA
Lowe Gallery, An American Renaissance, Atlanta, GA |
| 1995 | Artspace/Virginia Miller Galleries, Figuration, Coral Gables, FL
ArtMiami International Exposition, represented by Virginia Miller Galleries, Miami, FL |
| 1994 | SW Texas State University, Visiting Artist Show and Lecture,
San Marcos, TX |
| 1993 | Lowe Gallery, An American Renaissance, Atlanta, GA
LewAllen Contemporary, Eye on the Figure, Santa Fe, NM Lowe Gallery, Santa Monica, CA |
| 1992 | College of Santa Fe Fine Arts Gallery, Three Artists Painting, Santa Fe, NM
Cafe Gallery, Creation of the Goddess, Albuquerque, NM |
| 1991 | Graham Gallery, Short Stories, Albuquerque, NM |
| 1990 | Art L.A., International Exposition, Represented by WESTAF/NEA, Los Angeles, CA
Riverside Museum of Art, The Art of Love, Riverside, CA Andrea Ross Gallery, Selected Figural Works, Santa Monica, CA |
| 1989 | San Antonio Museum of Fine Art, Contemporary Narrative Painters of the
Southwest, San Antonio, TX Art LA, International Exposition, Rep. by Andrea Ross Gallery, Los Angeles, CA |
| 1988 | Santa Fe Museum of Fine Arts, Santa Fe, NM
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GRANTS, AWARDS, LECTURES | |
| 2003 | New Mexico Museum of Fine Arts purchase of Perfect Circle, Santa Fe, NM
Best of Show, Albuquerque Contemporary, Albuquerque Museum of Fine Arts, NM Flora Kirsch Beck Visiting Artist, Glen Oaks College, Centreville, MI |
| 2002 | Visiting Artists, show and lecture, ISAS, Albuquerque Academy, Albuquerque, NM |
| 1997 | Visiting Artist Lecture, University of Puget Sound, Tacoma, WA |
| 1994 | Visiting Artist Lecture and Exhibition, SW Texas State University, San Marcos, TX
Best of Show, Art of Albuquerque, Magnifico, Albuquerque, NM |
| 1992 | Visiting Artist Lecture, Alfred University, Alfred, NY |
| 1990 | WESTAF/NEA Painting Fellowship |
| 1988 | Artists' Liaison National Competition, Cash Award, Sacramento, CA |
| 1985-87 | New Mexico Artists in Residence Program, Arts Division, Santa Fe, NM |
| 1983 | Senior Award, College of Fine Arts, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, NM |
| 1982 | Anna C. Hellman Award for drawing and painting, UNM, Albuquerque, NM |
| 1981-82 | Scholarship for drawing and painting, University of New Mexico, Department
of Art, Albuquerque, NM |
| 1981 | Faculty Award for drawing and painting, University of New Mexico,
Department of Art, Albuquerque, NM |
| 1978-79 | Scholarship for Study Abroad, Modern and Classical Languages Department, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, NM
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BIBLIOGRAPHY | |
| So-Q Catalogue, New Mexico Museum of fine Arts, Santa Fe, NM, 2004 | |
| The Universe of Brian O'Connor, The Magazine, Santa Fe, NM 2003 (coming up) | |
| New American Paintings #42, Open Studios Press, Wellesly, MA 2002 (and 1997) | |
| New American Paintings, The Open Studios Press, Wellesley, Massachusetts, October 1997 | |
| Brian O’Connor, Diane Armitage, THE Magazine, April 1997 | |
| Lost Tribes of Suburbia, Tom Collins, The Santa Fe Reporter, March 19-25, 1997 | |
| Brian O'Connor¹s Complex Narrative Imagery, Lis Bensley, The Santa Fe New Mexican, Pasatiempo, March 7-13, 1997 | |
| Brian O’Connor Thinks, Speaks in Visions, T.D. Mobely-Martinez, The Albuquerque Tribune, | |
| March 7, 1997 | |
| Like a Mattress Balances on a Bottle of Wine: Paintings of Brian O’Connor, Gus Blaisdale, the American Renaissance Tour, 1996 | |
| Brian O’Connor, Diane Armitage, THE Magazine, October 1994 | |
| Brian O’Connor, Pilot Project, THE Magazine, March 1994 | |
| Brian O’Connor: King of Hats, Gus Blaisdale, Artspace Magazine, January 1990 | |