BIOGRAPHY - Brian O'Neill (Born 1969) Brian O’Neill’s work has been showcased in galleries across The U.S, Canada, Japan and England. O’Neill is a graduate of The Ani Art Academy apprenticeship program where he studied under the guidance of acclaimed realism painter Anthony Waichulis. Brian has also found success in both realism and abstract painting with his dynamic and expressive Organic Abstraction work that connects the living subject matter of his still life and figurative paintings and expresses them is a bold and innovative manner.
Brian is a sought-after instructor and teaches workshops and classes in his Rochester, NY studio in both representational and abstract work. His work has been included in three museum shows in the past four years with a Jurors Choice Award at the prestigious Naples Museum of Art for the Blossom 2: Art of Flowers Premier Exhibition, inclusion in the two year traveling museum exhibition of Blossom, The American Still Life exhibition at the Shreveport Museum of Art and most recently, The 74th Annual Regional Exhibition at The Arnot Art Museum, Elmira, NY.
O’Neill has garnered numerous international awards and feature articles in many of today’s top art publications such as, The Artist’s Magazine “An Artist’s Life” Sept. 2014, The Pastel Journal Magazine, Top 100 Competition 2nd Place Still Life/Floral and was featured in the magazines coverage of the competition with a full page article and image of the winning painting (April 2011 issue), O’Neill also received an Honorable Mention in the same competition, Artists Magazine Annual Art Competition Honorable Mention, The ARC Art Renewal Center’s Annual Salon Competition, The Artists Magazine On-Line All Media Competition Honorable Mention and a Finalist Award in The Art Kudos International Competition.
“My responsibility as an artist is one that asks me to create not because I want to but because I have to, I am driven to make work that is at the highest level possible and depict beauty as I feel it to be and describe that in a language that can be read by all people who view my work even if we have never met in person” –Brian O’Neill
Ani Art Academy Waichulis, Wilkes-Barre, PA
Affiliations The Pastel Society of America, Signature Member The Arts & Cultural Council of Greater Rochester, Member
2012 The Arts & Cultural Council for Greater Rochester, Inc. 2012 Mainstreet Gallery, Kingston PA “New Season New Works” 2012 The Oxford Gallery, Rochester NY-“Palimpsest” 2012 Elliot Fouts Gallery, Sacramento CA-“Planes, Trains, & Automobiles” 2012 Art Center Manatee, Bradenten FL, Blossom 2: Art of Flowers 2011 The Oxford Gallery-Holiday Show, Rochester, NY 2011 Capturing Realism-Ani Art Academy Pauly Friedman Gallery Dallas, PA 2011 Naples Museum of Art, Naples FL, Premier Exhibition Blossom 2: Art of Flowers 2011 Arizona-Sedona Desert Museum Tucson, AZ, Blossom 2: Art of Flowers 2011 R.W. Norton Art Gallery, Shreveport, LA Blossom 2: Art of Flowers 2011 Garfield Park Conservatory, Chicago IL, Blossom 2: Art of Flowers 2011 The Oxford Gallery, Summer Still Life Invitational Show, Rochester, NY 2010 NYC International Art Expo 2009 The Waichulis Studio Capturing Realism Pauly Freidman Gallery 2008 NYC International Art Expo 2008 Las Vegas International Art Expo 2007 NYC International Art Expo 2007 Las Vegas International Art Expo 2006 NYC International Art Expo
2009 Artist Magazine On-Line 2009 All Media Competition Honorable Mention Floral 2009 ARC Art Renewal Center 2009 International Salon Competition Top 100 Finalist 2009 NYFA New York Foundation For The Arts Grant Recipient 2009 Artists Magazine 27th Annual Art Competition Finalist Still Life/Floral 2010 The Pastel Journal 2010 Top 100 Competition Second Place Still Life/Floral 2010 The Pastel Journal 2010 Top 100 Honorable Mention 2010 Blossom 2: Art of Flowers Jurors Choice Award Winner Naples, Museum of Art 2010 Blossom 2: Art of Flowers Honorable Mention 2010 Artist Magazine On-Line All Media Competition 2010 Honorable Mention 2010 ARC Art Renewal Center International Salon Competition 2010 Finalist 2011 Art Kudos International Art Competition 2011 Finalist 2011 The Pastel Journal 2011 Top 100 Competition Honorable Mention 2011 The American Chinese Oil Painters League ACOPAL Top 50 Finalist open competition
2012 RayMar Art Competition-Finalist, February 2012 2012 Art Kudos 2012 International Competition-Finalist Award
2012 The Informed Art Collector-FASO, featured artist March 2012 2012 Metropolitan Magazine, cover story-Brian O’Neill, The Abstraction of Reality-winter issue 2012 Metropolitan Magazine, Spring 2012 “The Bridge Between Two Worlds” 2012 The City Newspaper, Rochester NY April 2012 “The Bridge Between Two Worlds” 2012 The Democrat & Chronicle Rochester, NY April 2012 2012 The City Newspaper “Cultural Crawl” April 2012 2012 Metropolitan Magazine April 2012 “An Evening With The Artist” 2012 The Democrat & Chronicle, Rochester, NY August 2012 “Garden-Artist Series” 2011 Pastel Journal Magazine Top 100 feature: Second Place, page 63 April 2011 2011 Pastel Journal Magazine Top 100 Honorable Mention page 80 April 2011 2007 Art Business News February 2007 Art World News February 2007 Feature Article 2007 Fine Art Magazine Spring 2007 Cover and Feature Article 2007 Art World News May 2007 Cover and “Artist’s to Watch” Feature 2008 Art Business News September 2008 Art Business News November 2008 Feature Article 2010 Artist Magazine December 2010 Finalist Award 27th Annual Art Competition
Blossom 2: Art of Flowers Museum Catalog News Channel 10 NBC Rochester, NY Interview Contemporary Realism Show News 10 Philadelphia, PA Artist in the Garden Stone Harbor, NJ News 40 Stone Harbor NJ Interview News 10 NBC Rochester, NY Interview Highland Hospital Commission Painting Ani Art Academy Waichulis Promotional DVD Ani Art Academy Language of Drawing Instructional DVD Vol. 1
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Sold Works |  Brian O'Neill (Born 1969) Ladies Rock Oil on board 16 x 12 inches Signed |  Brian O'Neill (Born 1969) Shades of Summer Oil on masonite 8 x 10 inches Signed |  Brian O'Neill (Born 1969) Infinity Oil on masonite 10 x 8 inches Signed | Exhibited Works |  Brian O'Neill (Born 1969) Queen Anne's March Oil on masonite 8 x 10 inches Signed |  Brian O'Neill (Born 1969) Queen Anne's March, 2 Oil on masonite 10 x 8 inches Signed |  Brian O'Neill (Born 1969) The Proposal Oil on panel 14 x 19 inches Signed |
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