John O’Connor 

Using the simple media of colored pencil and graphite on paper, John O’Connor creates highly complex drawings that feel cumulative, whether he is rendering a convoluted story or generating diagrams that allude to greater forces at play. In these works as well as in smaller drawings, collages, and sculptures, O’Connor reconstitutes data and processes from systems that shape human behavior (social, political, historical, or psychological) into wildly original visual forms and patterns. 

John O’Connor’s works are included in the permanent collections of The Museum of Modern Art (NYC), and the Whitney Museum (NYC), and have been included in exhibitions at the Tang Museum (Saratoga Springs, NY), Luohu District Art Museum (Shenzhen, China), The Arkansas Arts Center, Weatherspoon Museum, and the Museum of Contemporary Art in Baltimore, among others. O’Connor received an MFA from Pratt Institute and studied at Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture. He is the recipient of a 2023 Guggenheim Foundation Fellowship, a Pollock-Krasner Foundation Grant, and a MacDowell Colony Residency.