Artist Biography

Amy O’Neill is a painter whose work investigates the intersections and balances between community and isolation, and the collaborative effort to build and maintain shared commonalities. Her paintings explore the invisible structures that support, improve, or divide specific communities, and how aspects of time, order, chaos, and magic affect people and places who are not historically the subjects of traditional paintings.

Amy O’Neill received her BFA in Visual Art in 1998 and her MFA in Painting in 2004 from the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee. She is currently an instructor at UWM in Painting + Drawing and First Year Programs. She is a current member of the Milwaukee Arts Board. Previously, O’Neill taught at the Milwaukee Institute of Art and Design, Fisher College in Boston, and was the Artist in Residence at Highland Community School, a K8 Montessori school in Milwaukee. Her work has been included in solo and group invitational exhibitions in New York, Boston, St. Louis, Nashville, South Bend, IN, and Los Angeles. Locally, her work has been exhibited by the Portrait Society Gallery, the Milwaukee Art Museum, and the Charles Allis Museum.