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Paintings: Brian O’Connor: Biography

BRIAN O’CONNOR

BORN
1958	Hartford, CT; grew up in New Mexico
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
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
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
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
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