Robyn O'Neil

Born: 1977

Hometown: Omaha, NE

Lives and Works: Los Angeles, CA

Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/RobynONeil

Education: Kings College, London, England, 1997
BFA, Texas A&M University, 2000
Graduate studies in Fine Art, University Fellowship, University of Illinois, Chicago, IL, 2001
Werner Herzog's Rogue Film School, Los Angeles, CA, 2010

Robyn O'Neil Bio

About The Artist

Artist Robyn O'Neil said in a 2008 interview, "I can't stress enough how important it is to choose what the people you draw or paint are going to wear." In an attempt to create normal-looking people, many of the subjects in her drawings are depicted either in cloaks or all black sweat suits with white tennis shoes, an outfit which O'Neil claims works as an equalizer among the men in her drawings. Many of O'Neil's works are based on history and popular culture, with settings that feel simultaneously familiar and strange.

O'Neil has had many solo exhibitions and was included in the 2004 Whitney Biennial. O'Neil was awarded the Hunting Art Prize in 2009, and in 2010 she attended Werner Herzog's Rogue Film School in Los Angeles.

Robyn O'Neil Gallery Art

Galleries

Dunn and Brown Contemporary, Dallas, TX
Praz—Delavallade, Paris, France
Susan Inglett Gallery, New York, NY
Tony Wight Gallery, Chicago, IL

Robyn O'Neil Permanent Collections

Select Permanent Collections

Whitney Museum of American Art, New York City, NY
Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY
Blanton Museum of Art, Austin, TX
Dallas Museum of Art, Dallas, TX
Microsoft Corporation Art Collection, Redmond, WA
Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, TX
Ulrich Museum of Art, Wichita State University, Wichita, KS
Linda Pace Foundation, San Antonio, TX