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'''Robyn O'Neil''' (born 1977) is an American artist known for her large-scale graphite on paper drawings.<ref name=":1">{{Cite web|url=https://observer.com/2011/10/his-name-is-legion-robyn-oneil-at-susan-inglett-and-dominic-mcgill-at-derek-eller/|title=His Name Is Legion: Robyn O'Neil at Susan Inglett and Dominic McGill at Derek Eller|date=2011-10-25|website=Observer|language=en|access-date=2019-07-10}}</ref> She was also the host of the podcast "ME READING STUFF".<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://mereadingstuff.podomatic.com/|title=Me Reading Stuff|website=Podomatic|access-date=2019-07-09}}</ref> In 2023, she retired from the art world by posting a [[Kristy McNichol]] quote on her Instagram account.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.instagram.com/robyn_oneil/|title=Robyn O'Neil on Instagram}}</ref> She launched a new podcast, called ROBYN'S GATE, in early 2024.<ref>{{cite web | url=https://www.patreon.com/ROBYNSGATE/ | title=Get more from Robyn's Gate on Patreon }}</ref>
Robyn O'Neil (born 1977, [[Nebraska]]) is an American artist known for her large-scale graphite on paper drawings. She is also the host of the podcast "[http://mereadingstuff.podomatic.com ME READING STUFF]".


== Early Life and Education ==
== Early life and education ==
Robyn O'Neil was born in [[Omaha, Nebraska]] in 1977 and currently lives in Los Angeles, California. She received a BFA from Texas A&M University-Commerce, TX continuing with studies at the [[University of Illinois at Chicago]] and [[King's College London]].
Robyn O'Neil was born in [[Omaha, Nebraska]] in 1977.<ref name=":0">{{Cite web|url=https://www.inglettgallery.com/artists/robyn-o-neil|title=Susan Inglett Gallery {{!}} Robyn O'Neil|website=www.inglettgallery.com|access-date=2019-07-09}}</ref> She lives and works in [[Los Angeles]], [[California]].<ref name=":0" /> She received a [[Bachelor of Fine Arts]] from [[Texas A&M University–Commerce|Texas A&M University-Commerce]], continuing with studies at the [[University of Illinois at Chicago]], [[King's College London]], and Werner Herzog's Rogue Film School, Los Angeles.<ref name=":0" />


== Career and Work ==
== Professional career and work ==
[[File:O'NEIL Ship.Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art, Kansas City.jpg|thumb|right|Robyn O'Neil ''Masses and masses rove a darkened pool; never is there laughter on this boat of fools'', 2007, graphite on paper. Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art, Kansas City.]]
O’Neil is known for her large-scale intricately detailed narrative drawings. Early work bore the clear influence of Hieronymus Bosch and Pieter Bruegel, complex scenerios populated by dozens of sweat-suited men performing ritualized tasks to no discernable end. In his review of an exhibition at Bodybuilder and Sportsman for Artforum, James Yood stated, “O’Neil’s project is to evoke a place where the normal rules of behavior don’t apply, where stark nature is accompanied by stark humankind” <ref>Artform 2004</ref> . Her titles are equally poetic and mysterious, reinforcing the narrative and spiritual qualities of her work. Comparing O’Neil’s detailed work to that of a Renaissance alter, Alison de Lima Greene writes, “And as much as Fra Angelico or Giovanni di Paolo chose scenes from the lives of the saints to illuminate moral choice and sacred belief, O’Neil addresses the human condition” <ref>Gulf Coast: A Journal of Literature and Fine Arts 2006</ref>.


O’Neil is known for her detailed narrative drawings that often contain art historical references and center on a theme of existential bleakness and absurdity.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.latimes.com/entertainment/arts/la-et-cm-steve-turner-review-20180801-story.html|title=When the cover of a book becomes postcard art: Captivating messages in surprising packages|last=Ollman|first=Leah|website=[[Los Angeles Times]]|date=3 August 2018 |access-date=2019-07-10}}</ref><ref name=":1" /> Traditionally, her monochromatic drawings have depicted "apocalyptic" scenes in which small human figures engage in acts of violence and trauma.<ref name=":1" /> Art critic Christopher French has noted of the artist's practice, "Inventing realities rather than describing aspects of nature, O'Neil's dreamlike vistas offer a potent combination of incorporated graphite collage elements so as to inject foreground detail into ambiguous and otherwise largely unmarked middle distances."<ref>{{Cite news|title=Robyn O'Neil|last=French|first=Christopher|date=November 2014|work=ARTnews}}</ref>
O'Neil shows at Susan Inglett Gallery<ref>{{Cite web|title = Robyn O'Neil|url = http://www.inglettgallery.com/artists/robyn-o-neil|website = Susan Inglett Gallery|access-date = 2018-07-12}}</ref> in New York, Talley Dunn Gallery in Dallas, Western Exhibitions in Chicago. She has had solo exhibitions at the Southeastern Center for Contemporary Art, Winston-Salem; the Des Moines Art Center, and the Contemporary Arts Museum, Houston, which traveled to the Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art, Cornell University, Ithaca and Frye Art Museum, Seattle. Her work was included in the Whitney Museum of American Art’s 2004 Whitney Biennial, an exhibition celebrating Henry Darger's influence on contemporary art entitled Dargerism at the American Folk Art Museum. O'Neil has been included in numerous acclaimed museum and gallery exhibitions both domestically and internationally. She received a grant from the Irish Film Board for a film written and art directed by her entitled “WE, THE MASSES” which was conceived at Werner Herzog’s Rogue Film School. O'Neil was featured with author John Green on PBS Digital Studios The Art Assignment in 2014. A recent monograph of the work Robyn O’Neil: 20 Years of Drawings was published by Archon Projects in 2017.


Despite the dark nature of her work, positive signs for the future of life and humanity abound.<ref name=":2">{{Cite journal|last=Harris|first=Susan|date=November 2007|title=Robyn O'Neil at Clementine|journal=Art in America}}</ref> Susan Harris wrote for ''Art in America'' that the "[s]oft, velvety passages of shading; painstaking and lovingly articulated rhythms of line; and the implication of the artist's own hand and arm in gestures both small and grand are palpable evocations of the will to make something out of nothing..."<ref name=":2" />
== Solo Exhibitions ==
[[File:O'NEIL Studies in Suffocation I.jpg|thumb|right|Robyn O'Neil ''Studies in Suffocation I'', 2016, graphite on paper. Menil Collection, Houston. ]]
* 2018 "Robyn O’Neil We, The Masses,” Rose Netzorg and James W. Kerr Gallery, Richmond Center for Visual Arts, Western Michigan University, Kalamazoo, MI (upcoming)
* 2018 “Robyn O’Neil,” curated by Deasil, The River Oaks Bank Tower, Houston, TX
* 2018 “We, The Masses,” College of Wooster Art Museum, Wooster, OH
* 2017 Southeastern Center for Contemporary Art (SECCA), Winston-Salem, NC; traveling to Sheldon Museum of Art, University of Nebraska, Lincoln, NE
* 2017 "The Good Herd,” Susan Inglett Gallery, NYC
* 2016 “Castle Elementary,” Talley Dunn Gallery, Dallas, TX
* 2016 “The Lost Show,” Western Exhibitions, Chicago, IL
* 2016 “The Great Kansas Sea,” Harvester Arts, Wichita, KS
* 2015 “We, The Masses,” The McNay Art Museum, San Antonio, TX
* 2014 “I Burned Waves,” Susan Inglett Gallery, NYC
* 2013 “We Spoke Mirage,” Talley Dunn Gallery, Dallas, TX
* 2013 “I Want Blood,” Western Exhibitions, Chicago, IL
* 2011 “Hell,” Susan Inglett Gallery, NYC
* 2010 “The world has won. A final bow was taken,” Des Moines Art Center, Des Moines, IA
* 2010 “Come all that is quiet,” Dunn and Brown Contemporary, Dallas, TX
* 2009 “New Edition,” Susan Inglett Gallery, NYC
* 2009 “A World Disrupted,” Roberts and Tilton Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
* 2009 “The Dismantled,” Praz-Delavallade, Berlin, Germany
* 2009 “On sinking,” Tony Wight Gallery, Chicago, IL
* 2007 “This Is a descending world,” Clementine Gallery, NYC
* 2007 “This is our ending, this is our past,” Dunn and Brown Contemporary, Dallas, TX
* 2006 “As They Fall,” Praz-Delavallade, Paris, France
* 2006 “Robyn O’Neil,“ Frye Art Museum, Seattle traveling to Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY
* 2006 “Robyn O’Neil,” Contemporary Arts Museum, Houston, TX
* 2005 “My brother holds tight my feeble hand,“ Clementine Gallery, NYC
* 2005 “Take me gently through your troubled sky,” Inman Gallery, Houston, TX
* 2004 “And Then They Were Upon Him,” Bodybuilder & Sportsman Gallery, Chicago, IL
* 2003 “International Artist in Residence Exhibition,” ArtPace, San Antonio, TX
* 2003 “Even If It Shall Break Them: The Prelude To A Solid Hope For Something Better,” Clementine Gallery, NYC
* 2003 “They Walk, Fall, Continue, and Die,” Inman Gallery, Houston, TX
* 2002 “These are Pictures of Boats and Dinosaurs,” Angstrom Gallery, Dallas, TX
* 2002 “Beat Epiphanies and Home Runs,” Jack Rutberg Fine Arts Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
* 2002 “SAM RAM,” Riverside Art Museum, Riverside, CA


O'Neil has held solo museum exhibitions at the [[Southeastern Center for Contemporary Art]],<ref>{{Cite web|title=Robyn O'Neil: Something Vanished Over Paradise|url=https://www.secca.org/exhibition-detail.php?LinkId=123796253|access-date=2021-03-06|website=SECCA – Southeastern Center for Contemporary Art|language=en-us}}</ref> Winston-Salem; the [[Des Moines Art Center]];<ref>{{Cite web|title=Robyn O'neil|url=https://www.desmoinesartcenter.org/exhibitions/robyn-oneil|access-date=2021-03-06|website=www.desmoinesartcenter.org|language=en}}</ref> the [[Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth]];<ref>{{Cite web|title=Robyn O'Neil: WE, THE MASSES|url=https://www.themodern.org/exhibition/robyn-oneil-we-masses|access-date=2021-03-06|website=www.themodern.org|language=en}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|last=Liberty|first=Megan N.|date=2020-02-01|title=Literary Drawings Foreshadow an Apocalyptic Future|url=https://hyperallergic.com/539794/robyn-oneil-we-the-masses-at-the-modern-art-museum-of-fort-worth/|access-date=2021-03-06|website=Hyperallergic|language=en-US}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|date=2019-11-20|title=Robyn O'Neil's first major museum show exudes a sense of dread and wonder|url=https://www.dallasnews.com/arts-entertainment/visual-arts/2019/11/20/robyn-oneils-first-major-museum-show-exudes-a-sense-of-dread-and-wonder/|access-date=2021-03-06|website=Dallas News|language=en}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|date=2019-10-03|title=Artist With a Cinematic Scope Takes on Cults, Hall Passes and Pajamas With Fort Worth Showcase Looming|url=https://www.papercitymag.com/arts/robyn-oneil-artist-examines-heaven-gate-cult-modern-fort-worth/|access-date=2021-03-06|website=PaperCity Magazine|language=en-US}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|date=2019-10-22|title=At The Modern, Robyn O'Neil Draws the World Burning|url=http://www.dmagazine.com/arts-entertainment/2019/10/at-the-modern-robyn-oneil-draws-the-world-burning/|access-date=2021-03-06|website=D Magazine|language=en}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|date=2020-11-01|title='Telling Stories': Exhibit to feature contemporary drawings by three female artists|url=https://presspublications.com/content/%E2%80%98telling-stories%E2%80%99-exhibit-feature-contemporary-drawings-three-female-artists|access-date=2021-03-06|website=The Press|language=en}}</ref> and the [[Contemporary Arts Museum Houston|Contemporary Arts Museum]],<ref>{{Cite web|title=Perspectives 150: Robyn O'Neil|url=https://camh.org/event/perspectives-150-robyn-oneil/|access-date=2021-03-06|website=Contemporary Arts Museum Houston|language=en-US}}</ref> Houston, which traveled to the [[Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art]] at [[Cornell University]],<ref>{{Cite web|title=Robyn O'Neil {{!}} Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art|url=https://museum.cornell.edu/exhibitions/robyn-oneil|access-date=2021-03-06|website=museum.cornell.edu}}</ref> the [[Frye Art Museum]],<ref>{{Cite web|title=Robyn O'Neil|url=https://fryemuseum.org/exhibition/74|access-date=2021-03-06|website=Frye Art Museum|language=en-US}}</ref> Seattle.<ref name=":0" /> She has participated in group exhibitions at institutions such as the [[Toledo Museum of Art]];<ref>{{Cite web|last=Sharp|first=Sarah Rose|date=2021-01-28|title=Three Artists Illustrate the Expressive Potential of Drawing|url=https://hyperallergic.com/609935/telling-stories-drawing-toledo-museum/|access-date=2021-03-06|website=Hyperallergic|language=en-US}}</ref> the [[Museum of Fine Arts, Houston]]; the [[John Michael Kohler Arts Center]], Sheboygan; the [[Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago]]; [[The Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum]]; The Kemper Museum, Kansas City; and, the [[Dallas Museum of Art]].<ref name=":0" /> Drawings by O'Neil were included in the [[Whitney Museum of American Art]]’s 2004 [[Whitney Biennial]].<ref>{{Cite web|title=Robyn O'Neil|url=https://whitney.org/artists/9234|access-date=2021-03-06|website=whitney.org|language=en}}</ref><ref name=":0" /> Her work is included in the public collections of the [[Menil Collection]], Houston; [[Whitney Museum of American Art]]; [[Blanton Museum of Art]]; [[Dallas Museum of Art]]; [[John Michael Kohler Arts Center]]; The [[Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art|Kemper Museum]]; [[Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth]]; [[Museum of Fine Arts, Houston]]; [[Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts|Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts]]; [[Sheldon Museum of Art]], Omaha; [[Des Moines Art Center]]; [[Ulrich Museum|Ulrich Museum of Art]], Wichita; and, the [[Art Gallery of Western Australia]], Perth.<ref name=":0" />
==Select Group Exhibitions ==
* 2018 “Reclaimed,” SPACE, the Linda Pace Foundation Gallery, Austin, TX
* 2017 “Joseph Yoakum + Robyn O’Neil,” Susan Inglett Gallery, NYC
* 2017 “From Out Under,” curated by Lucien Smith & Matthew Brown, Appointment Only, Los Angeles, CA
* 2017 “Figurative Futures,” curated by Mark Murphy, 101 / EXHIBIT, Los Angeles, CA
* 2017 “Picture Show of the Mind: A Tribute to the Teachings of Lee Baxter Davis,” curated by Mark Burt, Meadows Museum of Art, Shreveport, LA
* 2017 “Wild Life,” Des Moines Art Center, Des Moines, IA
* 2017 “Multiverse: Stories of This World and Beyond,” Kemper Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO
* 2017 “Unapologetic Drawing,” Ralph Arnold Fine Arts Gallery, Loyola University, Chicago, IL
* 2016 “Four Large Drawings,” Western Exhibitions, Chicago, IL
* 2016 “Werewolf,” Charlie James Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
* 2016 “Drawing Conclusions: Prints, Drawings and Photographs,” RISD Museum, Providence, RI
* 2015 “Hare & Hound Press + artspace,” The Art Collaboration, San Antonio, TX
* 2015 “Destination Unknown,” Talley Dunn Gallery, Dallas, TX
* 2015 “Ducks,” Minotaur, Los Angeles, CA
* 2015 “Robyn O'Neil & Matthew Sontheimer,” Brigham Young University Art Gallery, Provo, UT
* 2014 “Shapeshifting: Contemporary Masculinities,” College of Wooster Art Museum, Wooster, OH
* 2014 “Graphic Studio: Uncommon Practice at USF,” Tampa Museum of Art, FL
* 2014 “Head,” Western Exhibitions, Chicago, IL
* 2014 “Ducks,” Greenpoint Terminal Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
* 2014 “Drawn In / Drawn Out,” The Old Jail Art Center, Albany, TX
* 2013 “The Shorts,” Fantastic Fest, Austin, TX
* 2013 “Out of Commerce,” The McKinney Avenue Contemporary, Dallas, TX
* 2013 “Curator: Eli Jones, Heads of Family,” Western Exhibitions, Chicago, IL
* 2012 “About Face,” curated by Daniel Weinberg, ACME., Los Angeles, CA
* 2013 “Where My Cones At?” Double Break, San Diego, CA
* 2011 “Chris Hipkiss & Robyn O’Neil,” John Michael Kohler Art Center, Sheboygan, WI
* 2011 “Streams of consciousness: The Histories, Mythologies, and Ecologies of Water,” Salina Art Center, Salina, KS
* 2011 ”Plain,” Gymnasia Herzliya, Tel Aviv, Israel
* 2011 “Silver: 25th Anniversary Exhibition,” The Gallery at UTA, Arlington, TX (catalogue)
* 2011 “Wild Kingdom,” Texas State University, San Marcos, TX
* 2011 “Figured Spaces,” Schmidt Center Gallery & Ritter Art Gallery, Atlantic University, Boca Raton, FL
* 2011 “Impressions: Prints Made in Texas,” The Gallery at UTA, Arlington, TX
* 2010 “SHUT YOUR EYES IN ORDER TO SEE,” Praz-Delavallade, Paris, France
* 2010 “Private Collections II: Work from four Metroplex private collections,” The University of Texas at Arlington, Arlington, TX
* 2009 “Trouble in Paradise: Examining the Discord between Nature and Society,“ curated by Julie Sasse, Tucson Museum of Art, Tucson, AZ
* 2009 “New Weather, with Robyn O’Neil, Diana Al Hadid, and Iva Guerorguieva,” curated by David Norr, University of Southern Florida Contemporary Art Museum, Tampa, FL
* 2009 “There does come a time when laughs become sighs; we put all to rest, we said our goodbyes,” Electric Works, San Francisco, CA
* 2009 “Toil and Trouble,“ CTRL Gallery, Houston, TX “Drawings by,“ Praz-Delavallade, Paris, France
* 2009 “Supramundane,” AMBACH and RICE, Seattle, WA
* 2009 “Houston Bicentennial,” The Joanna, Houston, TX
* 2009 “Drawing In,” CADD ARTLAB, Dallas, TX
* 2008 “Dargerism: Contemporary Artists and Henry Darger,” American Folk Museum, NYC
* 2008 “Close Encounters: Facing The Future,” The American University Museum, Washington, DC
* 2008 “The Flight of Fake Tears,” Inova (Institute of Visual Arts), University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, WI
* 2008 “Transfigure,” Kemper Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO
* 2008 “Summer Group Show,” Derek Eller Gallery, NYC
* 2008 “Failure,” The Laboratory of Art and Ideas at Belmar (The Lab), Lakewood, CO
* 2008 “Something New,” Dunn and Brown Contemporary, Dallas, TX
* 2008 “The Drawing Narrative,” Jenny Jaskey Gallery, Philadelphia, PA
* 2007 “Drawing Is a Fine Art,” Museum of Fine Arts, Florida State University, Tallahassee, FL
* 2007 “Sheldon Survey: An Invitational,” Sheldon Memorial Art Gallery, Lincoln, NE
* 2007 “The Lizard Cult,” Clementine Gallery, NYC
* 2007 “Size Matters: Large Drawings from the MFAH Collection,” Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, TX
* 2007 “New Directions in American wing,” Columbus Museum, traveling to the Telfair Museum of Art in Savannah; Knoxville Museum of Art in Knoxville, TN
* 2007 “Drawn to the Edge,” Adam Baumgold Gallery, NYC
* 2007 “Don’t Look, Contemporary Drawings from an Alumna’s Collection,“ Martina Yamin, class of 1958, Davis Museum And Cultural Center, Wellesley College, Wellesley, MA “Paper Trails,” V1 Gallery, Copenhagen, Denmark
* 2007 “Phantasmania,” Kemper Art Museum, Kansas City, MO
* 2007 “Art Forum Berlin,” through Praz Delavallade Gallery, Berlin, Germany
* 2007 “20th-Anniversary Benefit Silent Art Auction,” The Menil Collection, Houston, TX
* 2006 “The Texas Prize Exhibition,” finalist Arthouse, Austin, TX
* 2005 Trials and Terrors,” Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, IL
* 2005 “Drawing Narrative,” The College of Wooster Art Museum, Wooster, OH
* 2005 “Every Picture Tells A Story: The Narrative Impulse in Modern and Contemporary Art,” Galerie St. Etienne, NYC
* 2004 “Whitney Biennial,“ Whitney Museum of American Art, NYC
* 2004 “The Drawn Page,” The Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum, Ridgefield, CT
* 2004 “It’s a Wonderful Life: Psychodrama in Contemporary Painting,” Spaces, Cleveland, OH
* 2004 “I Feel Mysterious Today,” Palm Institute of Contemporary Art, Lake Worth, FL
* 2004 “Young Americans,” Hof and Huyser, Amsterdam, Netherlands “drawings...“ Praz-Delavallade, Paris, France
* 2004 “Landscape,” Rena Bransten, San Francisco, CA
* 2004 “Figure Out,” Gallery Joe, Philadelphia, PA
* 2004 “Untold Tales,” Adam Baumgold Gallery, NYC
* 2004 “Books and Shelves,” Gahlberg Gallery, McAninch Arts Center, Glen Ellyn, IL
* 2003 “Come Forward: Emerging Art in Texas,” curated by Suzanne Weaver and Lane Relyea, Dallas Museum of Art, Dallas, TX
* 2003 Artissima, Inman Gallery, Turin, Italy “The Company We Keep,” Inman Gallery, Houston, TX
* 2003 “Art Chicago,” Bodybuilder and Sportsman Gallery, Chicago, IL
* 2003 “Whim?” Angstrom Gallery, Dallas, TX
* 2003 “American Dream,” Ronald Feldman Fine Arts, NYC
* 2002 “Art Chicago,” Bodybuilder and Sportsman, Chicago, IL
* 2002 “Bad Touch,” Ukranian Institute of Modern Art, Chicago, IL
* 2002 “Drawn II,” Barry Whistler Gallery, Dallas, TX
* 2002 “Postcards from the Edge,” Visual AIDS Benefit, Sperone Westwater Gallery, NYC
* 2002 “Summer Drawings,” Mixture Gallery, Dallas, TX
* 2001 “Supernature,” Inman Gallery, Houston, TX
* 2001 "Group Show of Gallery Artists,” Bodybuilder and Sportsman Gallery, Chicago, IL
* 2001 “Pin-up, Bodybuilder and Sportsman Gallery,” Chicago, IL
* 2000“ Hi Jinx,” Arlington Museum of Art, Arlington and University of Texas Dallas, Richardson, TX
* 2000 “Small Abstract Paintings and Sculpture,” Eugene Binder Gallery, NYC
* 2000 “Positexan Project,” curated by Michael Odom, Wichita, KS
* 2000 “4th Anniversary Show,“ Angstrom Gallery, Dallas, TX
* 2000 “Drawn,” Barry Whistler Gallery, Dallas, TX
* 2000 “New Pollution,” Plush Gallery, Dallas, TX
* 1999 “Creatures, Lago Vista Gallery,” Richland College, Richland, TX
* 1999 “Don’t Trust its Softness,” University of Texas - Dallas, Richardson, TX
* 1999 “Some Kind of Wonderful: Part II,” Barry Whistler Gallery, Dallas, TX
* 1999 “Federation of North Texas Area Universities Exhibition,” The Museum of Fine Arts Houston, curated by Alison de Lima Greene and Anne Wilkes Tucker, TX
* 1998 “Material Matters,” University of Texas – Dallas, Richardson, TX
* 1998 “Sofa Not Included,” Gallery: Untitled, Dallas, TX
* 1997 “Expo ’97,” curated by Suzanne Weaver 500X, Dallas, TX


In 2010, O'Neil received a FRAMEWORKS Grant from the [[Irish Film Board]] for a film written and directed by her titled “WE, THE MASSES,” which was conceived at Werner Herzog’s Rogue Film School.<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.irishtimes.com/culture/film/shutterbugs-1.664821|title=Shutterbugs|newspaper=The Irish Times|language=en|access-date=2019-07-10}}</ref> O'Neil is the recipient of numerous grants and awards, including the [[Joan Mitchell Foundation]] Grant,<ref>{{Cite web|title=Robyn O'Neil|url=https://www.joanmitchellfoundation.org/robyn-oneil|access-date=2021-03-06|website=Joan Mitchell Foundation|language=en}}</ref> an [[Artadia]] grant,<ref>{{Cite web|title=Robyn O'Neil|url=https://artadia.org/artist/robyn-oneil/|access-date=2021-03-06|website=Artadia|date=2 February 2016 }}</ref> and the Huntington Prize.<ref>{{Cite web|title=Artforum.com|url=https://www.artforum.com/news/robyn-o-neil-wins-hunting-art-prize-22730|access-date=2021-03-06|website=www.artforum.com|date=4 May 2009 |language=en-US}}</ref> She was featured alongside author [[John Green]] on [[PBS Digital Studios|PBS Digital Studios']] ''[[The Art Assignment]]'' in 2014.<ref>{{Citation|title=Psychological Landscape – Robyn O'Neil {{!}} Season 1 Episode 14 {{!}} The Art Assignment|url=https://www.pbs.org/video/the-art-assignment-landscape/|language=en|access-date=2019-07-10}}</ref> A recent monograph of her work, ''Robyn O’Neil: 20 Years of Drawings,'' was published by Archon Projects in 2017.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://dallas.culturemap.com/news/arts/09-07-17-gallerist-launches-art-book-company-archon/|title=Dallas gallerist launches art book company with 2 must-have titles|website=CultureMap Dallas|language=en|access-date=2019-07-10}}</ref>
== Grants, Residencies, and Awards ==
* 2016 Harvester Arts, Artist Residency, Wichita, KS
* 2013 Nucci Award, Graphic Studio Florida
* 2013 Featured Short, Chicago Irish Film Festival
* 2012 Spirit Award, Brooklyn Film Festival, NY
* 2012 Best Horror, Dallas Video Festival, TX
* 2012 United States Artists Fellow Nominee
* 2010 FRAMEWORKS Grant, Irish Film Board, Dublin, Ireland
* 2010 Residency at Still Films, Dublin, Ireland
* 2009 Hunting Art Prize Recipient, Houston, TX
* 2008 Joan Mitchell Foundation Grant Recipient, NYC
* 2005 Arthouse Texas prize Finalist, Austin, TX
* 2003 Artadia: The Fund For Art and Dialogue, Individual Artist Grant, NYC
* 2003 International Artist in Residence, ArtPace
* 2003 Foundation for Contemporary Art, San Antonio, TX
* 1999 DeGolyer Grant, Dallas Museum of Art, Dallas, TX

== Bibliography ==
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* Staff. “Tally Dunn Gallery,” Briggs Freeman/Sotheby’s International Fall 2012 (ill.)
* Heinrich, Will. “His Name is Legion: Robyn O’Neil, ‘HELL’, at Susan Inglett Gallery,” The New York Observer, 31 October 2011, p. B6.
* Staff. “Robyn O’Neil: HELL,” Time Out New York, 28 October 2011.
* Miller, Jill. “Artists to Watch: Robyn O’Neil,” The Art Economist, Volume I, Issue 3, March 2011.
* Weinberg, Lauren. “Art & Design Art Review Robyn O’Neil,” Time Out Chicago, January 2011.
* Faulds, W. Rod. “Figured Spaces: Selections from the John Morrissey Collection,” Boca Raton: University Galleries Florida Atlantic University. (ill.)
* Huerta, Benito. Silver: 25th Anniversary Exhibition, Arlington: The Gallery at UTA.(ill.)
* McCullough, Holly Koons & High, Steven & Wheeler, Lawrence J. Goicolea. “Alter Ego: A Decade of Work by Anthony Goicolea.”(ill.)
* Murphy, Lauren. “Shutterbugs,” The Irish Times,16 October 2010. (ill.)
* Duncan, Jim. “Robyn O’Neil: Origins of the Universe,” Cityview, 15 April 2010.
* Anspon, Catherine. “Texas Artist Today,” Seattle: Marquand Books, Inc.(ill.)
* Hickson, Patricia and Anderson, Brooke. “Robyn O’Neil: The World has Won. A Final Bow Was Taken,” Des Moines: Des Moines Art Center. (ill.)
* Drutt, Matthew. “DreamWorks,” Artpace San Antonio, 2010. (ill.)
* Morain, Michael. “Drawings depict impending doom,” Des Moines Register, 6 March 2010(ill.)
* Morain, Michael. “Arts start strong in 2010,” Des Moines Register, 10 January 2010.
* Norr, David. “New Weather: Diana Al-Hadid, Iva Gueorguieva, Robyn O’Neil,” Tampa: USF Contemporary Art Museum. (ill.)
* Sawyer, Robert. “[THE TERROR WITHIN],” Adbusters, July/August 2009.
* Sasse, Julie. “Trouble in Paradise: Examining Discord Between Nature and Society,” Tucson Museum of Art, 2009.
* Klaasmeyer, Kelly. “Toil and Trouble,” Houston Press, 7 July 2009.
* Cash, Stephanie. “Robyn O’Neil is the winner of the $50,000 Hunting Art Prize,” Art In America, June-July 2009.
* Finnegan, Molly. “At The End of The World with Robyn O’Neil,” PBS Newshour: Art Beat,16 July 2009.
* Brown, Jeffrey. “Conversation: Werner Herzog,” Art Beat, The Online News Hour, 2009.
* Brown, Rebecca and Mary Jane Knecht. “Looking Together, Writers on Art,” New York and London: UNIVERSITYOF WASHINGTON PRESS, 2009.
* King, Shari, “Robyn O’Neil Wins 2009 Hunting Art Prize,” Reuters, 2009.
* Britt, Douglas. “Robyn O’Neil on Duchamp, goodbyes, and her new ‘slow read,’” Houston Chronicle, 14 May 2009.
* Britt, Douglas. “Hunting and gathering,” Houston Chronicle, 12 May 2009.
* Britt, Douglas. “Kingwood artist Robyn O’Neil wins $50,000 Hunting Art Prize,” Houston Chronicle, 3 May 2009.
* Hugg, Hillery. “Interview with Robyn O’Neil,” The Believer, December 2008.
* Green, Tyler. “Dargerism and Robyn O’Neil: A Q&A, four parts,” MODERN ART NOTES, ArtsJournal eblog, 22 July 2008.
* Davis, Ben. “The Insider’s Outsider,” Artnet, 28 April 2008. (ill.)
* Johnson, Ken. “An Insider Perspective on an Outsider Artist: Dargerism at the American Folk Art Museum,” The New York Times, 18 April 2008.
* Morrone, Francis. “Darger’s Disciples,” The New York Sun, 17 April 2008.
* Rodriguez, Teliza V. RSVP/MONA, Exhibition Catalogue (ill.)
* White, Michelle. “Drawing after the End of the World: Robyn O’Neil’s new Adventure,” Art Papers, March/April 2008.
* Krainak, Michael J. “Sheldon Survey: An Invitational,” Review Inc., February 2008.
* Harris, Susan. “Robyn O’Neil at Clementine,” Art in America, November 2007. (ill.)
* Kanton, Jordan. “Don’t Look,” Contemporary Drawings from an alumna’s Collection Martina Yamin, Class of 1958, Davis Museum and Cultural Center (ill.), 2007. * * Kathman, Ryan. “Sheldon Survey,” Omaha City Weekly, November 21-27th Issue, 2007.
* Momin, Shamim. ROBYN O’NEIL, Exhibition Catalogue, 2007.
* Siedell, Dan. ROBYN O’NEIL, THIS IS OUR ENDING, THIS IS OUR PAST, Exhibition Catalogue, 2007.
* Wolgamott, L. Kent. “A Slice of Today’s Art World: Sheldon brings works by nationally recognized artists to Lincoln,” The Lincoln Journal Star, 2007.
* Herbert, Lynn M. ROBYN O’NEIL, Houston: Contemporary Arts Museum Houston, Exhibition Catalog, 2007.
* Johnson, Patricia C. “For young artist, the end is here,” Houston Chronicle, February 7, 2007.
* Dunbar, Elizabeth. “Phantasmania,” Kansas City: Kemper Museum of Art (ill.), 2007.
* Wolgamott, L. Kent. “A Slice of Today’s Art World: Sheldon brings works by nationally recognized artists to Lincoln,” The Lincoln Journal Star, 2007.
* Carberry, Valerie, Scott Fife, Robyn O’Neil, David Schutter, and Scott Wolniak, Artnews, November 2006.
* Graves, Jen. “Into The Woods: Three Women and a Series of Wild Animals,”The Stranger, 2006.
* Peters, Sue. “Robyn O’Neil: American Gothic,”The Seattle Weekly, 2006.
* Reel, Tom. “Blanton Museum puts School’s Collections in Worthy Building,” San Antonio Express, 2006.
* De Lima Greene, Alison. “Robyn O’Neil: Leaving,”Gulf Coast: A Journal of Literature and Fine Arts, Volume 18, Number 2, 2006.
* Enriquez, Lucia. “Galleries Dwelling in Imagined Worlds,”The Seattle Times, 2 June 2006.
* Wilson, John. “Museum Maestros,”The Sunday World-Herald, 8 October 2006.
* Fauntelroy, Gussie & Ganghelhoff, Bonnie, “21 Under 31,”Southwest Art Magazine,September, 2006.
* French, Christopher. “Robyn O’Neil,”Art Papers, July/August, 2006.
* French, Christopher. “Robyn O’Neil,”Flash Art, Nov/Dec. 2006. (ill.)
* Herbert, Lynn M. ROBYN O’NEIL, (exhibition catalogue) Houston: Contemporary Arts Museum Houston, 2006. (ill.)
* Johnson, Patricia C. “For young artist, the end is here,”Houston Chronicle, 7 February 2006. (ill.)
* Martinez, Michael. Phoebe: A Journal of Literature and Art, Volume 35, Number 2, 2006.
* Basha, Regine. “Arthouse Texas Prize 2005,”Austin: Arthouse, 2005. (ill.)
* Dailey, Meghan. “Portfolio: Contemporary Drawing,”Art + Auction, November 2005.(ill.)
* Dexter, Emma. VITAMIN D: NEW PERSPECTIVES IN DRAWING, London: Phaidon Press, 2005. (ill.)
* Egan, Maura. “High Art B Three Emerging Stars Draw From Fashion,”The New York Times Style Magazine, Fall, 2005. (ill.)
* French, Christopher. “Robyn O’Neil,”Flash Art,Nov/December 2005.
* Kwon, Jean. “Emerging artists + $ 30 000 prize = Texas Excess,”Houston Chronicle,23 October 2005, p.14.
* Faires, Robert. “The Final Four,”Austin Chronicle,21 October 2005.
* Korotkin, Joyce. “Robyn O’Neil,” Tema Celeste, 11 Sept/Oct. 2005(ill.)
* Hall, Emily. “Robyn O’Neil,”Artforum, September 2005.
* Karotkin, Joyce B. “Robyn O’Neil,”Tema Celeste, Sept/October 2005.
* French, Christopher. “Robyn O’Neil: ‘Take me gently through your troubled sky,’”Glasstire, 2 September 2005.
* Ewing, John. “Robyn O’Neil: My brother holds tight...”Artlies, Summer 2005.
* Tucker, Annie. “Life on Earth - The landscapes of Robyn O’Neil,”Juxtapoz, Spring 2005.
* “Special,”The New Yorker, 23 May 2005.
* Cohen, Joanne, and Langsam, Julie. IT’S A WONDERFUL LIFE, Cleveland, OH: SPACES Press (ill.) 2004.
* Kolpas, Norman. “Luck of the Draw,”Southwest Art, September 2004. (ill.)
* Heartney, Eleanor. “The Well-Tempered Biennial,”Art in America, June/July 2004.
* Hagan, Susan. “Ghostland,”Philadelphia City Paper, 27 June 2004. (ill,)
* Klein, Richard. “Aldrich Museum Opens Drawn Page Exhibition,”The Ridgefield Press,13 June 2004. (ill.)
* Litt, Steven. “Whitney show reflects well on Cleveland’s art scene,”The Plain Dealer,6 June 2004.
* Fallon, Roberta. “A Pose by Any Other Name,” Philadelphia Weekly, 19 May 2004.
* French, Christopher. “How do Texans stack up at the Whitney?,” Houston Chronicle, 2 May 2004.
* Joselit, David. “Apocalypse Not,” Artforum, May 2004.
* Goodrich, Terry Lee. “Grapevine grad wins,” Fort Worth Star Telegram, 19 April 2004. (ill.)
* Helber, A.M. “Loaded,” Dallas Observer, 1 April 2004.
* Iles, Chrissie, and Momin, Shamim M., and Singer, Debra. WHITNEY BIENNIAL 2004, New York, NY: Harry N. Abrams, Inc. 2004. (ill.)
* McNatt, Glenn. “Exhibit has something for all,” Baltimore Sun, 16 March 2004.
* Mitchell, Charles Dee. “Pupils with vision,” The Dallas Morning News, 5 May 2004. (ill.)
* Perree, Rob. “Robyn O’Neil,” TIJDSCHRIFT VOOR BEELDENDE KUNST, nr 06. 2004. (ill.)
* Plagens, Peter. “Art’s Star Search,” Newsweek, 22 March 2004.
* Rothkopf, Scott. “Subject Matters,” Artforum, May 2004.
* Rushing III, Jackson W. “Robyn O’Neil at Inman Gallery,” Art on Paper, March/April 2004. (ill.)
* Schjeldahl, Peter. “What’s New: The Whitney Biennial,” The New Yorker, 22 March 2004.
* Schmidt, Stacey. “Curated art section, The Encounters and Two of the Deaths,” At Length, Spring 2004 (ill.)
* Thibodeaux, Julie. “Artist selected by Whitney,” Fort Worth Star Telegram, 16 April 2004.(ill.)
* Thorson, Alice. “2004 Whitney Biennial,” Kansas City Star, 2 May 2004.
* Yood, James. “Robyn O’Neil at Bodybuilder and Sportsman,” Artforum, Summer 2004. (ill.)
* Goddard, Dan. “Art: The best of 2003,” San Antonio Express-News, 28 December 2003.
* Goddard, Dan. “O’Neil at ease with drawings,” San Antonio Express-News, 7 December 2003.
* Relyea, Lane, and Weaver, Suzanne. Come Forward: Emerging Art in Texas. Dallas, TX: Texas A&M University Press (ill.)
* Tyson, Janet. “Julie Bozzi: Landscapes 1975-2003,” Glasstire, 23 November 2003.
* Woolf, Elaine. “Drawing Conclusions,” San Antonio Current, 26 November 2003 (ill.)
* Trainor, James. “Robyn O’Neil,” Tema Celeste, September/October 2003, p. 88.
* Klaasmeyer, Kelly. “Body Art,” Houston Press, July 24 – July 31, 2003, p. 46.
* Kelley, Sylvia. “A Creative Collection,” The Pride, Summer 2003. (ill.)
* Valdez, Sarah. “Gallery: Texas-Based 25-year old,” Paper Magazine, June/July 2003, no. 1.
* Jankauskas, Jennifer. “Come Forward: Emerging Art in Texas,” Artlies #38, Spring 2003, p. 72-73.
* Johnson, Patricia C. “Five Houston artists honored with Artadia awards,” Houston Chronicle, 28 April 2003.
* Kutner, Janet. “Gen-A: DMA hooks up with young artists,” The Dallas Morning News, Arts/Entertainment, 9 March 2003, p. 6.
* “Come Forward: Emerging Art in Texas,” exhibition catalog, Dallas Museum of Art, February 23 - May 11, 2003.
* Daniel, Mike. “Come Forward: Emerging Art in Texas,” The Dallas Morning News, 21 February 2003, Guide, p. 35.
* Sime, Tom. “Dino Diva,” The Dallas Morning News, 29 May 2002, p. 6C.
* Klaasmeyer, Kelly. “Hello, My Name is Simon...And I like to do drawing,” Houston Press, 2002, p. 60.
* Daniel, Mike. “Quick Sketch-Robyn O’Neil and Daniel Gordon,” The Dallas Morning News, 16 November 2001, p. 56.
* Slattery, Sean. “Spring Opens with Hi Jinx,” Arlington Star-Telegram, Artifax. Winter 2000.
* Massey Helber, Annabelle. “Some Kind of Wonderful, Part II,” The Met, 14 –21 July 1999, p. 33.
* Daniel, Mike. “Promising young artists get some exposure,” The Dallas Morning News, 30 July 1999, Guide, p. 50.
* Daniel, Mike. “A (just) fitting space for art,” The Dallas Morning News, 10 December 1999, Guide, p.10.
* Sime, Tom. “Trinidad-Tobago artworks sing in Plano,” The Dallas Morning News, 3 December 1999, Today Section C.


== Public Collections ==
* Art Gallery of Western Australia, Perth, Western Australia
* Blanton Museum of Art, Austin, TX
* Dallas Museum of Art, Dallas, TX
* Des Moines Art Center, Des Moines, IA
* Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY
* John Michael Kohler Arts Center, Sheboygan, WI
* The Kemper Museum, Kansas City, KS
* Menil Collection, Houston, TX
* Microsoft Corporation Art Collection, Redmond, WA
* Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth, Fort Worth, TX
* Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, TX
* Philadelphia Academy of Fine Art, Philadelphia, PA
* Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia, PA
* Progressive Insurance, Mayfield Village, OH
* Rhode Island School of Design, Provincetown, RI
* Sheldon Museum of Art, Omaha, NE
* Tang Museum, Saratoga Springs, NY
* Ulrich Museum of Art, Wichita State University, Wichita, KS
* Whitney Museum of American Art, NYC

== Workshops, Conferences, Lectures, and Panels ==
* “Nat. Brut Issue Five Release,” Carpenter Center for Art, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA. (28 March 2015)
* “On Drawing,” Symposium, Rice University, Houston, Texas. (20 March 2015)

== Creative Writing ==
* O’Neil, Robyn, “Fall In Love With Me, Hannah Silverman,” Nat. Brut, Fiction-Issue 5, Spring 2015.
* O’Neil, Robyn, “Mr. Belvedere Crisis,” Dark Fucking Wizard, 2015
* O’Neil, Robyn, “The Secret Ally,” Forward to Dan Siedell’s
* O’Neil, Robyn, “Who’s Afraid of Modern Art? Essays on Modern Art and Theology in Conversation,” Cascade Books, 2015
* O’Neil, Robyn, “Little Pink Lake,” Susan Inglett Gallery, 2014
* O’Neil, Robyn, “The War Against Fossils,” USF Contemporary Art Museum, 2014
* O’Neil, Robyn, “Forward, Iva Gueorguieva,”Ameringer, McEnery, Yohe, 2014
* O’Neil, Robyn, “Francesca Fuchs: Paintings of Paintings at Talley Dunn Gallery,”Glasstire, 2012


In 2016, O'Neil directed a community collaborative drawing project with Harvester Arts in Wichita, KS. The project, The Great Kansas Sea, was inspired by the Permian Sea that covered Kansas 250 million years ago. The massive seascape was created by 700 drawings submitted by 500 participants.<ref>{{Cite web|title=Robyn O'Neil {{!}} Past Artists|url=https://harvesterarts.org/artists/past/robyn-oneil|access-date=2021-03-06|website=Harvester Arts}}</ref>


== References ==
== References ==
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{{smaller | 1. Dexter, Emma. Vitamin D: New Perspectives in Drawing. London: Phaidon Press., (ill.)}}

{{smaller | 2. Iles, Chrissie, and Momin, Shamim M., and Singer, Debra. Whitney Biennial 2004. New York, NY: Harry N. Abrams, Inc., (ill.)}}

{{smaller |3. Herbert, Lynn M. Robyn O’Neil. (exhibition catalogue) Houston: Contemporary Arts Museum Houston (ill.)

4. Biennial 2004. New York, NY: Harry N. Abrams, Inc. (ill.) Joselit, David. Apocalypse Not. Artforum May., 2004}}


== Further reading ==
== Further reading ==
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*{{cite journal |last=Hugg |first=Hillery |date=November–December 2008 |title='I can't stress enough how important it is to choose ...' |journal= [[The Believer (magazine)|The Believer]]|volume=6 |issue=9 |pages=63–68}}
*French, Christopher. "Robyn O'Neil: Houston/Seattle/Ithaca." ''Art Papers'' 30, no. 4 (July/August 2006): 61.


== External links ==
== External links ==
* [http://www.robynoneil.com www.robynoneil.com]
* [http://www.robynoneil.com www.robynoneil.com]
* [http://www.inglettgallery.com/robyn-oneil Robyn O'Neil at Susan Inglett Gallery]
* [http://www.praz-delavallade.com/index.php?site=artists&fromlink=artist_id&a_id=14&detail=selectedworks Robyn O'Neil at Praz-Delavallade]
* [http://www.tonywightgallery.com/ Robyn O'Neil at Tony Wight]
* [https://www.nytimes.com/slideshow/2005/08/25/style/tmagazine/20050828_ARTISTS_SLIDESHOW_2.html New York Times]
* [http://www.newyorker.com/archive/2004/03/22/040322craw_artworld The New Yorker]
* [http://www.arthousetexas.org/index.php?_page=load_page&_id=robyn Robyn O'Neil at Arthouse, Austin]
* [http://www.artnet.com/artist/79911/robyn-oneil.html Robyn O'Neil on Artnet]
* [http://www.artsjournal.com/man/2008/07/dargerism_and_robyn_oneil_a_q.html Robyn O'Neil on Modern Art Notes with Tyler Green]
* [http://fryemuseum.org/exhibition/74/ Frye Art Museum]
* [http://www.artpace.org/aboutTheExhibition.php?axid=228&sort=title Artpace, San Antonio]
* [http://video.aol.com/video-detail/14-robyn-oneil-artist-profile/2448139918/?icid=VIDURVART1 Knoxville video on Robyn O'Neil]
* [http://www.gulfcoastmag.org/index.php?n=3&si=44&s=2736 "Come, all that is quiet" by Robyn O'Neil in ''Gulf Coast: A Journal of Literature and Fine Arts'' (23.2)]

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Robyn O'Neil
Born1977
Omaha, NE
EducationWerner Herzog's Rogue Film School, Texas A&M University-Commerce, University of Illinois at Chicago, King's College London
Known forDrawings
SpouseDamien Jurado[1]

Robyn O'Neil (born 1977) is an American artist known for her large-scale graphite on paper drawings.[2] She was also the host of the podcast "ME READING STUFF".[3] In 2023, she retired from the art world by posting a Kristy McNichol quote on her Instagram account.[4] She launched a new podcast, called ROBYN'S GATE, in early 2024.[5]

Early life and education

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Robyn O'Neil was born in Omaha, Nebraska in 1977.[6] She lives and works in Los Angeles, California.[6] She received a Bachelor of Fine Arts from Texas A&M University-Commerce, continuing with studies at the University of Illinois at Chicago, King's College London, and Werner Herzog's Rogue Film School, Los Angeles.[6]

Professional career and work

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O’Neil is known for her detailed narrative drawings that often contain art historical references and center on a theme of existential bleakness and absurdity.[7][2] Traditionally, her monochromatic drawings have depicted "apocalyptic" scenes in which small human figures engage in acts of violence and trauma.[2] Art critic Christopher French has noted of the artist's practice, "Inventing realities rather than describing aspects of nature, O'Neil's dreamlike vistas offer a potent combination of incorporated graphite collage elements so as to inject foreground detail into ambiguous and otherwise largely unmarked middle distances."[8]

Despite the dark nature of her work, positive signs for the future of life and humanity abound.[9] Susan Harris wrote for Art in America that the "[s]oft, velvety passages of shading; painstaking and lovingly articulated rhythms of line; and the implication of the artist's own hand and arm in gestures both small and grand are palpable evocations of the will to make something out of nothing..."[9]

O'Neil has held solo museum exhibitions at the Southeastern Center for Contemporary Art,[10] Winston-Salem; the Des Moines Art Center;[11] the Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth;[12][13][14][15][16][17] and the Contemporary Arts Museum,[18] Houston, which traveled to the Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art at Cornell University,[19] the Frye Art Museum,[20] Seattle.[6] She has participated in group exhibitions at institutions such as the Toledo Museum of Art;[21] the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston; the John Michael Kohler Arts Center, Sheboygan; the Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago; The Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum; The Kemper Museum, Kansas City; and, the Dallas Museum of Art.[6] Drawings by O'Neil were included in the Whitney Museum of American Art’s 2004 Whitney Biennial.[22][6] Her work is included in the public collections of the Menil Collection, Houston; Whitney Museum of American Art; Blanton Museum of Art; Dallas Museum of Art; John Michael Kohler Arts Center; The Kemper Museum; Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth; Museum of Fine Arts, Houston; Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts; Sheldon Museum of Art, Omaha; Des Moines Art Center; Ulrich Museum of Art, Wichita; and, the Art Gallery of Western Australia, Perth.[6]

In 2010, O'Neil received a FRAMEWORKS Grant from the Irish Film Board for a film written and directed by her titled “WE, THE MASSES,” which was conceived at Werner Herzog’s Rogue Film School.[23] O'Neil is the recipient of numerous grants and awards, including the Joan Mitchell Foundation Grant,[24] an Artadia grant,[25] and the Huntington Prize.[26] She was featured alongside author John Green on PBS Digital Studios' The Art Assignment in 2014.[27] A recent monograph of her work, Robyn O’Neil: 20 Years of Drawings, was published by Archon Projects in 2017.[28]

In 2016, O'Neil directed a community collaborative drawing project with Harvester Arts in Wichita, KS. The project, The Great Kansas Sea, was inspired by the Permian Sea that covered Kansas 250 million years ago. The massive seascape was created by 700 drawings submitted by 500 participants.[29]

References

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  1. ^ "Going Deep With Damien Jurado". Aquarium Drunkard. March 2, 2020.
  2. ^ a b c "His Name Is Legion: Robyn O'Neil at Susan Inglett and Dominic McGill at Derek Eller". Observer. 2011-10-25. Retrieved 2019-07-10.
  3. ^ "Me Reading Stuff". Podomatic. Retrieved 2019-07-09.
  4. ^ "Robyn O'Neil on Instagram".
  5. ^ "Get more from Robyn's Gate on Patreon".
  6. ^ a b c d e f g "Susan Inglett Gallery | Robyn O'Neil". www.inglettgallery.com. Retrieved 2019-07-09.
  7. ^ Ollman, Leah (3 August 2018). "When the cover of a book becomes postcard art: Captivating messages in surprising packages". Los Angeles Times. Retrieved 2019-07-10.
  8. ^ French, Christopher (November 2014). "Robyn O'Neil". ARTnews.
  9. ^ a b Harris, Susan (November 2007). "Robyn O'Neil at Clementine". Art in America.
  10. ^ "Robyn O'Neil: Something Vanished Over Paradise". SECCA – Southeastern Center for Contemporary Art. Retrieved 2021-03-06.
  11. ^ "Robyn O'neil". www.desmoinesartcenter.org. Retrieved 2021-03-06.
  12. ^ "Robyn O'Neil: WE, THE MASSES". www.themodern.org. Retrieved 2021-03-06.
  13. ^ Liberty, Megan N. (2020-02-01). "Literary Drawings Foreshadow an Apocalyptic Future". Hyperallergic. Retrieved 2021-03-06.
  14. ^ "Robyn O'Neil's first major museum show exudes a sense of dread and wonder". Dallas News. 2019-11-20. Retrieved 2021-03-06.
  15. ^ "Artist With a Cinematic Scope Takes on Cults, Hall Passes and Pajamas With Fort Worth Showcase Looming". PaperCity Magazine. 2019-10-03. Retrieved 2021-03-06.
  16. ^ "At The Modern, Robyn O'Neil Draws the World Burning". D Magazine. 2019-10-22. Retrieved 2021-03-06.
  17. ^ "'Telling Stories': Exhibit to feature contemporary drawings by three female artists". The Press. 2020-11-01. Retrieved 2021-03-06.
  18. ^ "Perspectives 150: Robyn O'Neil". Contemporary Arts Museum Houston. Retrieved 2021-03-06.
  19. ^ "Robyn O'Neil | Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art". museum.cornell.edu. Retrieved 2021-03-06.
  20. ^ "Robyn O'Neil". Frye Art Museum. Retrieved 2021-03-06.
  21. ^ Sharp, Sarah Rose (2021-01-28). "Three Artists Illustrate the Expressive Potential of Drawing". Hyperallergic. Retrieved 2021-03-06.
  22. ^ "Robyn O'Neil". whitney.org. Retrieved 2021-03-06.
  23. ^ "Shutterbugs". The Irish Times. Retrieved 2019-07-10.
  24. ^ "Robyn O'Neil". Joan Mitchell Foundation. Retrieved 2021-03-06.
  25. ^ "Robyn O'Neil". Artadia. 2 February 2016. Retrieved 2021-03-06.
  26. ^ "Artforum.com". www.artforum.com. 4 May 2009. Retrieved 2021-03-06.
  27. ^ Psychological Landscape – Robyn O'Neil | Season 1 Episode 14 | The Art Assignment, retrieved 2019-07-10
  28. ^ "Dallas gallerist launches art book company with 2 must-have titles". CultureMap Dallas. Retrieved 2019-07-10.
  29. ^ "Robyn O'Neil | Past Artists". Harvester Arts. Retrieved 2021-03-06.

Further reading

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  • Hugg, Hillery (November–December 2008). "'I can't stress enough how important it is to choose ...'". The Believer. 6 (9): 63–68.
  • French, Christopher. "Robyn O'Neil: Houston/Seattle/Ithaca." Art Papers 30, no. 4 (July/August 2006): 61.
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