Patrick O’Neill is a research-based multidisciplinary artist born and raised on the traditional, unceded and ancestral territories of the Coast Salish peoples - the Sḵwx̱wú7mesh (Squamish), Stó:lō and Səl̓ílwətaʔ/Selilwitulh (Tsleil-Waututh) and xʷməθkʷəy̓əm (Musqueam) Nations (Vancouver, Canada).
He is an MA candidate in Contemporary Art Practice (Critical Practice) at the Royal College of Art, London UK. He works with performance, video, writing, sculpture and installation to create unwieldy containers of thought that critically examine the construction of the “self” and the mind-body relationship.
His current body of work is centred around the anxieties and ecstasies of experiences with the unknowable, specifically as it concerns the politics and history of psychiatry, madness and magic. Humour and play are often invoked as a way to question the role of tone, voice and expression in the production of knowledge and the granting of authority.
PATRICK O'NEILL
b. Vancouver, 1989
patrick.oneill@network.rca.ac.uk
EDUCATION
2021 ROYAL COLLEGE OF ART, London UK
MA Contemporary Art Practice (Critical Practice)
with distinction in Critical & Historical Studies [dissertation]
2016 UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA, Vancouver BC
BFA Visual Art
RELATED WORK
2021- present Audain Artistic Director, Arts Umbrella, Vancouver BC
2020 - present Founding Member, Waste Authority Collective, London UK
2011 - 2019 Visual Arts Instructor, Arts Umbrella, Vancouver BC
2017 - 2019 Board Member (President), UNIT/PITT Projects, Vancouver BC
2016 - 2019 Animateur, Vancouver Art Gallery, Vancouver BC
2017 - 2018 Family Programs Coordinator, Polygon Gallery, North Vancouver BC
2015 - 2018 Artist Assistant, Cathy Busby, Vancouver BC
2015 - 2017 Artist Assistant, Garry Neill Kennedy, Vancouver BC
SELECTED EXHIBITIONS
2021 WAITING ROOM, TactileBOSCH, Cardiff Wales
MA CONTEMPORARY ART PRACTICE DEGREE SHOW, Cromwell Place, London UK
NOT A SPHERE, DOOResidency, Amsterdam Netherlands
EVERYTHING FOREVER, online, London UK
2020 302_redirect, online, London UK
POTLUCK, Dyson Gallery, London UK
WIP SHOW, Royal College of Art, London UK
2019 …we know more than we can tell…, AHVA Gallery, Vancouver Canada
SELECTED WORK, The Bakery, Vancouver Canada
2018 QUICKIE, James Black Gallery, Vancouver Canada
INTRODUCE, The Bakery, Vancouver Canada
COLLATERAL (FROM TROPHY DADDY BORING ART), Cartems Donuterie, Vancouver Canada
2016 NEW SHOW NEW WORK NEW PEOPLE, Viridian Gallery, Vancouver Canada
DISCOVERY: LINE, Seymour Art Gallery, Vancouver Canada
2015 PIECE OF MIND, Hatch Art Gallery, Vancouver Canada
DOUBLE SPACE (UBC GRADUATION EXHIBITION), AHVA Gallery, Vancouver Canada
470 EXHIBITION/EXHIBITION, AHVA Gallery, Vancouver Canada
2014 LOL ((Lots of Love)), Skylight Gallery, Vancouver Canada
KINETICA, AHVA Gallery, Vancouver Canada
2013 READing ROOM, Read Books, Vancouver Canada
ARTIST TALKS / SYMPOSIUMS / WORKSHOPS
2021 STATE OF THE ART (symposium), Everything Forever, London UK
COMPOSTING THE INSTITUTION (3 day Zoom workshop), as Waste Authority Collective, London UK
2020 MUSEUM WITHOUT A PUBLIC (symposium), 302_redirect, London UK
2019 …we know more than we can tell…(panel talk), AHVA Gallery, Vancouver Canada
ART IGNITES (panel talk as part of ART VANCOUVER), Vancouver Convention Centre, Canada
2015 PIECE OF MIND: ARTIST PANEL TALK, with Rebecca Ou, Dave Stevens, Simiao Wei, Vancouver Canada
PRESS
2015 PIECE OF MIND OPENS MENTAL HEALTH DISCUSSION THROUGH ART, by Miguel Santa Maria, The Ubyssey, Vancouver Canada
2014 PATRICK'S STORY, UBC Story, Vancouver Canada
2014 SKYLIGHT GALLERY'S GROUP SHOW, by Zoya Mirzaghitova, Issue Magazine Vol. 3, Vancouver Canada
PUBLISHED WRITING
2021 HOW I LEARNED TO STOP WORRYING AND LOVE THE DUMB, New Critique, London UK
MAGICAL THINKING, The Pluralist, London UK
2015 UBC INTERN PATRICK O'NEILL IN CONVERSATION WITH JEREMY SHAW | PART 1, 2, & 3, Contemporary Art Gallery Blog, Vancouver Canada