John J. O’Connor

Lecturer in Visual Arts in the Lewis Center for the Arts

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John J. O'Connor received a Master of Fine Arts and Master of Art History from Pratt Institute in 2000.  He also attended the Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture (2000) and was a recipient of a Pollock-Krasner Foundation grant (2007).  Mr. O’Connor was a resident artist at the Farpath Foundation in Dijon France (2007), and visiting printmaker at the Flying Horse Press in Orlando, FL (2003).  He recently presented work and conducted studio visits at both the School of the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston, and at the Maryland Institute College of Art.  Mr. O’Connor has taught art and art history at Pratt Institute, NYU, and Adelphi University.

John J. O'Connor is represented by Pierogi gallery in Brooklyn where he had a solo show in September of 2008, titled "Flannel Tongue."  Also in 2008, he had a solo show at Martin Asbaek Gallery in Copenhagen, Denmark, and was included in the Weatherspoon Museum's 40th Anniversary Art on Paper exhibition, which was accompanied by a catalog.  His interview with Eve Aschheim was published in the Brooklyn Rail, and his work was reproduced in The Southern Review.  Mr. O’Connor’s work was included in the Greater New York exhibition at PS1/MOMA in 2005, and the Queens Biennial in 2004.  His work has been exhibited at galleries nationally and internationally, including Andrea Rosen (NYC), Rodolphe Janssen (Belgium), Ronald Feldman (NYC), Bernard Toale (Boston), and White Columns (NYC).  Reviews of O'Connor's work have appeared in the New York Times, Art in America, the Village Voice, Art Papers, and the New Yorker.  O'Connor's work is held in the collections of the Museum of Modern Art, Whitney Museum of Art,  Weatherspoon Museum, Southern Methodist University, and the New Museum of Contemporary Art.