Career Narrative
Born and raised in Mississippi, Alex O’Neal attended Delta State University and graduated from Rhode Island School of Design (BFA 1979) and School of the Art Institute of Chicago (MFA 1985). His paintings and drawings have been shown at Herbert Johnson Museum, Ithaca, NY; City Without Walls, Newark, NJ; Rockefeller Art Center, SUNY Fredonia; Rotunda Gallery, Brooklyn, NY; Fayerweather Art Gallery at University of Virginia; Tennessee Arts Commission, Nashville; Mississippi Museum of Art, Jackson, MS; Contemporary Arts Center, New Orleans; One Illinois Center, Chicago; P.S.122, NewYork; Ecomuseu, Valls d'Aneu, Spain; LACE; Amory Arts Center, West Palm Beach; Huntsville Museum of Art, AL; Woodruff Arts Center, Atlanta; ART LA; Art Chicago; and Laguna Gloria Museum, Austin, TX. O’Neal’s work is in volumes 16 and 38 of New American Paintings and was in Current Visions, part of the PBS website for the American Visions series.
The artist has been awarded fellowships from the Council of Danish Artists, Copenhagen (2003), New York Foundation for theArts (2001), John Simon Guggenheim Foundation (1999), Tennessee Arts Commission and Walter and Anne Knestrick Fund of Nashville (1998), Djerassi Resident Artists Program, CA (1997), and National Endowment for the Arts(1987-88). He has been a resident artist at Klitgaarden Refugium, Skagen, Denmark; Millay Colony, Austerlitz, NY; Saltonstall Foundation, Ithaca, NY; Ragdale Foundation, Lake Forest, IL; Dorland Mountain Arts Colony,Temecula, CA; Tyrone Guthrie Centre in Ireland, and Fundacion Valparaiso and Centre d'Art i Natura, both in Spain.
Alex O’Neal is represented by Linda Warren Gallery, Chicago.