Vermont Studio Center will host a Visiting Artist Talk with John O'Connor as a part of the Visiting Artist Program. On Monday, January 9th, 7:00 – 8:00 PM, the talk will take place in the Red Mill Building in Johnson, VT. This event is free and open to the public. Limited seating is available. Contact VSC for more information.
John J. O'Connor was born in Westfield, MA and received an MFA in painting and an MS in Art History and Criticism from Pratt Institute in 2000. He attended The MacDowell Colony, the Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture, was a recipient of New York Foundation for the Arts Grants in both painting and drawing, the Pollock-Krasner Foundation grant, and the Marie Walsh Sharpe Foundation Studio residency. He was awarded a residency from the Celia & Wally Gilbert Artist-in-Residence Program, at The Cold Spring Center for Humanities and History of Modern Biology.
John presented his work in discussion with Fred Tomaselli at The New Museum, and his work is included in the collections of the Museum of Modern Art, Whitney Museum of American Art, Weatherspoon Museum, Hood Museum, Southern Methodist University, and the New Museum of Contemporary Art. A catalog spanning 10 years of John's work was published by Pierogi Gallery with essays by Robert Storr, John Yau, and Rick Moody.
John is a member of the visual and sound art / technology collective called NonCoreProjector. He teaches and chairs the Visual and Studio Arts program at Sarah Lawrence College.
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