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Education
International Center of Photography, 2009-2010
Art Students League, 2005-2010
Yale University, B.S., 1987
Selected Solo and Two/Three Person Exhibitions
2024
ROMA, with Cristin Tierney gallery at the Dallas Art Fair, Fashion Industry Gallery, Dallas, Texas
2023
By the same sea, homes of the Irish diaspora The Custom House Studios + Gallery, The Quay, Westport, County Mayo, Ireland
2022
Both/And, Cristin Tierney gallery, New York, New York
Portraits of Ireland’s Easter Rising Leaders, Kimmel Windows Gallery, Schwartz Plaza, New York University, New York, New York
2021
Slightly Surreal Suburbia, with Joan Linder, Cristin Tierney, New York, New York
2020
Not in my backyard, with Sarah Hughes and Meryl Bennett, Public Swim, New York, New York
2017
What's Not to Like but Everything, Earlville Opera House, Earlville, New York
2016
havens. Hangars, with David Shaughnessy, curated by James Brittingham, Wayfarers, Brooklyn, New York
2015
Honey Lane (or number 352), One Arts, Burlington, Vermont
2014
Belle Mort, with Terri Phillips, Marshall Arts Gallery, Memphis, Tennessee
2013
Maureen O'Leary Recent Paintings, Center Stage Cuts and Culture, Newark, New Jersey
2010
Look, Listen, with Valerie Kelemen, Lucky Gallery, Red Hook, Brooklyn, New York
1996
Maureen O'Leary, Yellow Barn Gallery, Glen Echo, Maryland
1995
Maureen O’Leary, new paintings, GO!, Arlington, Virginia
1990
Paintings: Maureen O’Leary, Art Attic, Baltimore
Maureen O’Leary (Harriet Hale Woolley Fellows Exhibit), Fondation des États-Unis, Paris
1989
Untitled, D.C. Space, Washington, D.C.
Selected Group Exhibitions
2023
What is for Supper? What is a Meal? Northern Illinois University Art Museum, DeKalb, Illinois
Art for Climate, Fondation des États-Unis, Paris, France
Nesting, Midwest Center for Photography, Wichita, Kansas
2021
Annual Open Exhibition, Royal Cambrian Academy, Conwy, Wales, United Kingdom
2020
Quarantine Quotidian, Cristin Tierney, New York, NY
ASUNDER, Tussle Projects, NY
What We Create May Save Us, Ejecta Projects, Carlisle, PA
Breeding the Unfamiliar, Quaid Gallery, Tampa, Florida.
2019
American Wilderness, Art Lab Tokyo and Art Lab Akiba, Tokyo, Japan
What Surrounds, Ely Center of Contemporary Art, New Haven, Connecticut
Anthropocene Blues, Wayfarers, Brooklyn, New York
Summer group exhibition, Ejecta Projects, Carlisle, Pennsylvania
Flora, Midwest Center for Photography, Wichita, Kansas
Group Show, Guild Hall, East Hampton, New York
Ten Years of Photographs, Midwest Center for Photography, Wichita, Kansas
2018
Superfine! (art fair), Washington, D.C.
Life in Analogue, curated by Kristen Gaylord, Fort Works Art, Forth Worth, Texas
Members show, curated by Tom McGlynn, Wayfarers, Brooklyn, New York
Squaring the Circle, Fondation des États-Unis, Paris, France
Lasciare la Terra/To Leave Earth, Palazzina Liberty, Giardini Margherita, Bologna, Italy
Language of Perception, Artspace, Loveland, Colorado
Domesticity, Midwest Center for Photography, Wichita, Kansas
2017
How to Draw a Tyrant, curated by Jasmine Dreame Wagner, Wayfarers, Brooklyn, New York
ATM Cigarettes Flowers Lottery God Bless Deli 2, Space Heater Gallery, Brooklyn, New York
Sketch Open, Rabley Drawing Center, Marlborough, United Kingdom
2016
Playing Favorites, curated by A.W. Strouse, Wayfarers, Brooklyn, New York
The Reconsidered Landscape, Perry and Carlson Gallery, Mount Vernon, Washington
Fall Show, curated by George Turner, New York Arbor, Rockaways, Queens, New York
I'll be your mirror, Wayfarers, Brooklyn, New York
2015
Family Album, curated by Candace Moeller, Wayfarers, Brooklyn, New York
Emerge, Midwest Center for Photography, Wichita, Kansas
Uncharted, Lewis Art Gallery, Milsaps College, Jackson, Mississippi
Profiles, Shoestring Press, Brooklyn, New York
Bushwick Open Studios, Wayfarers, Brooklyn
What Does Art Add? Figuring the More-than-Human World, City Without Walls, Newark, New Jersey
The Body in Eden, Wayfarers Gallery, Brooklyn, New York
2nd Annual Artists’ Books Exhibition, WOCA Projects, Fort Worth, Texas
2014
Picture Books, Power Plant Gallery, Center for Documentary Studies, Duke University, Durham, North Carolina
M.A.C.H.I.N.E. Consciousness, Gallery West, University of Texas at Arlington
Viewpoints, Aljira Center for Contemporary Art, Newark, New Jersey
The Trip, Loft 594, Bushwick, Brooklyn, New York
2013
Art of the Figure, Gallery North, East Setauket, New York
Material Witness, Dalton Gallery, Agnes Scott College, Decatur, Georgia
Winter show, Todd Art Gallery, Murfreesboro, Tennessee
Valdosta National, Valdosta State University Fine Arts Gallery, Valdosta, Georgia
Art of the Urban Environment, Cakewalk Gallery, Baltimore, Maryland
2012
Summer Show, Staten Island Museum
Contemporary, Traditional and Emerging Work from All Over Ireland, Higher Bridges Gallery, Enniskillen, United Kingdom
27th International Exhibition, Meadows Gallery, University of Texas at Tyler, Texas
2011
PHOTOMONTH, Gallery 50 and Packard-Reath Gallery, Rehoboth and Lewes, Delaware
Black and White, Brooklyn Waterfront Artists Coalition, Red Hook, Brooklyn, New York
Under the Influence, Foto Foto, Huntington, New York
Early Morning/After Dark, MPLS Photo Center, Minneapolis, Minnesota
Midwest Center for Photography, Center Gallery, Wichita, Kansas
2008
Small Works. Border Walls, Boltax.Gallery, Shelter Island, New York
1989
Resident and guest artists, Fondation des États-Unis, Cite Universitaire, Paris
Artist Books and Editions
2024
ROMA, digital catalog online at the Cristin Tierney gallery
2023
By the same sea, homes of the Irish diaspora, Red Fox Press, Achill, Ireland
2021
Record. A book of photographs by Maureen O’Leary published by the Midwest Center for Photography.
2018
Lasciare la Terra/ To Leave Earth, Samantha Robinson, Kate Kosek, George Ferrandi, Maureen O’Leary and Macon Reed. Limited edition print portfolio published by Wayfarers.
2013
Belle Mort. A collaborative book of photographys by Maureen O’Leary and Terri Phillips. Paper Chase Press, Los Angeles.
2010
Look/Listen, Volume 1, Susanna Kohn (editor), Look/Listen Press (cover)
Catalogs, Books and Installation Videos
2023
By the same sea, homes of the Irish diaspora. Custom House Studios + Gallery, Westport, Ireland (digital and print)
2022
Both/And, digital catalog, Cristin Tierney, New York, New York
2021
Slightly Surreal Suburbia, digital catalog, Cristin Tierney, New York, New York
Slightly Surreal Suburbia, installation video, Cristin Tierney, New York, New York.
2020
what we create may save us, catalogue accompanying exhibition at Ejecta Projects, Carlisle, PA. Digital catalogue by curator Cynthia Reynolds on
2018
Ten Years of Photography, retrospective book on ten years of exhibitions at the Midwest Center for Photography, curator Linda K. Robinson
2017
Art Shape Mammoth, curated by Margaret Coleman
2013
Material Witness, Dalton Gallery of St. Agnes College, curators Judy Parady and Katherine Smith
2011
Early Morning, After Dark, MPLS Photo Center, curator Peter How
Grants and Awards
2023
Tyrone Guthrie Centre at Annaghmakerrig, Monaghan, Ireland (Residency)
2022
American Academy in Rome, Visiting Artist (Residency)
2017
Brooklyn Arts Council, Brooklyn Arts Fund Grant (to Wayfarers with George Ferrandi and Christy Gast), 2017
1990
Harriet Hale Woolley Fellowship (painting), Fondation des Etats-Unis, Cité Internationale Universitaire, Paris
Public Collections
Fondation des Etats-Unis, Cité Internationale Universitaire, Paris, France
Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library (Belle Mort in Indie Photobook Library), Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut
Private Collections
J.P. Morgan Chase Collection
Fidelity Invesments Collection
Press
2024
D’Avignon, A. Eavesdropping at the Dallas Art Fair. Hyperallergic. 5 April
Harris, J.U. When in Rome, or a Visit to Paint the Eternal City: An Interview with Maureen O’Leary by Jane Ursula Harris. Exhibition catalog (available at the Cristin Tierney gallery)
Laster, P. 6 Standout Artists Discovered at the Dallas Art Fair. Galerie. 8 April
Benzine, V. Maureen O’Leary at the Dallas Art Fair. FAD magazine. 5 April
2023
Myers, J. Custom House Studios and Gallery. iIRish, October.
Babbs, V. Maureen O’Leary: By the same sea, homes of the Irish diaspora. The BS Art Report.
Høltermand, K. Maureen O’Leary: Record. Nowhere Diary.
The Trash at Night featured in An Capall Dorcha, Issue 4. Summer.
2022
Two poussins featured in Hayden’s Ferry Review, the literary journal of Arizona State University (Summer).
Sandstorm: A journal of arts and letters, published by the University of Texas, Permian Basin, three paintings featured (Spring, p. 41-42).
Benzine, V. Dualities over dichotomies: Maureen O’Leary at Cristin Tierney Gallery. Whitehot Magazine of Contemporary Art. May
Lambert, A. Modern Stillness: Maureen O’Leary’s “Both/And” at Cristin Tierney Gallery. AnteMag. May 16.
Da Silva Cox, K., Maureen O’Leary addresses Ireland’s 1916 Easter Rising at NYU’s Kimmel Windows gallery. Cultbytes.
Interview on This Irish American Life radio program with Dr. Miriam Nyhan Grey, WNYE radio, New York, New York.
2021
Zises, H. Slightly Surreal Suburbia-Cristin Tierney Gallery. Portray Magazine. August 2.
Able, K. D.C. is a city of grand monuments and federal buildings. These photos capture the often unseen poetic details. The Washington Post. July 30.
Ghassemitari, S. Joan Linder and Maureen O’Leary turn the suburbs surreal. HYPEBEAST.
Silvester, J. 2021. 25 Notable new releases over the next two weeks. Joan Linder and Maureen O’Leary in “Slightly Surreal Suburbia”. New York Magazine.
Huffman, A. Maureen O’Leary’s Record: Reverential photographs that are meditations on the systems, structures, functions, and duties of government. The Brooklyn Rail. June, 2021.
Lambert, A. 2021. 21 Artists to watch in 2021: movers and shakers. Ante Mag.
2020
George, J. and B.A. 2020. Art: Brooklyn collaborative’s final exhibit shown in Carlisle gallery. The Sentinel.
Strouse, A.W. 2020. NIMBY. Medium.
Zises, H. 2020. Not in My Backyard: Interview with Maureen O’Leary. Fine Art Globe.
2019
Lambert, A. 2019. What surrounds, Ely Center of Contemporary Art. Delicious Line.
Slattery, B. 2019. Ely Center Strikes a Climate Nerve. New Have Independent. October 30, 2019
Lambert, A. 2019. Anthropocene Blues at Wayfarers Captures our Ephemeral Moment. Ante. Mag.
2018
Gellert, C. A. K. 2018. Visions of liberty, rooms with a view. Transatlantica: Revue d'études américaines.
Sokolova, A. When you hear the word palazzo. Artsy.
Il Collettivo Antonello Ghezzi con CNA Cultura, Dalla Palazzina Liberty dei Giardini a New York, l'arte e gemellata. CNA Cultura on You Tube.
Bologna, big apple per gli artisti. Maureen O'Leary, artista alla Palazzina Liberty con il collettivo Antonello Grezzi e CNA Cultura. CNA Cultura on You Tube.
Gemellaggio Artistico Bologna. 2018. Confederazione Nazionale dell’Artigianato e della Piccola e Media Impressa, Bologna. https://www.bo.cna.it/eventi/evento/gemellaggio-artistico-bologna-newyork
Albani-Burgio, P. Three artists consider nature of awareness at Loveland’s Artspace Gallery. Loveland Reporter-Herald
2017
Axiomakaros, A. 2017. Maureen O'Leary's Suburban Vernacular. Artsy.
Strouse, A. W. 2017. Cool day job. One Rooph. February 6.
2016
Hunter, S. 2016, Perry and Carlson: a new game in town, Cascadia Arts Weekly. 11 (50), p. 16.
Hannan, P. 2016 Nature and some numbers. The Wave, Rockaway Beach, New York.
Artist’s Writings
2021
Mary Fitzsimon’s Wedgwood China, @TheKeepThings (Instagram), April 9, 2021
2018
Interview with Cynthia Reynolds, Number: Inc. magazine, Vol. 96.
Catalogue essay for Squaring the Circle, Fondation des États-Unis, Cité Universitaire, Paris.
2017
Review, Props for Pictures by Douglas Degges. Art Shape Mammoth Blog.
2014
Review, Belle Mort performance by Terri Phillips, Number: Inc. magazine.
Professional Service
Board member, Wayfarers studio program, Brooklyn, New York, 2016-2020.
Record covers
Senator Flux, Spectacles, Testicles, Wallet and Watch, Resonance Records, 1988.
Artist Talks/Panel Discussions
2022
Interview about the exhibition “Portraits of Ireland’s Easter Rising Leaders” with NYU curator Pamela Jean Tinnen and historian Dr. Miriam Nyhan Grey, recorded on Vimeo (April 18)
Radio interview with Dr. Miriam Nyhan Grey about the exhibition “Portraits of Ireland’s Easter Rising Leaders,” This Irish American Life, WNYE 91.5 FM New York.
2021
Artist talk: Maureen O’Leary in conversation with art historian Jennifer Hock of the Maryland Institute College of Art at the Arts Club of Washington, Washington, D.C.
2020
Artist talk on the exhibition Breeding the Unfamiliar, Quaid Gallery, Tampa, Florida
2019
Artist talk on the exhibition What Surrounds, Ely Center of Contemporary Art, New Haven, CT
Interview and talk with curator Jane Ursula Harris, Wayfarers, Brooklyn, New York
2018
Interview and talk with curator Tom McGlynn, Wayfarers, Brooklyn, New York
Artist talk for the exhibition Squaring the Circle, Fondation des Etats-Unis, Paris
Artist talk for Language of Perception, Loveland ArtSpace, Loveland, Colorado
2017
Artist talk for exhibition What’s not to like but everything, Earlville Opera House, Earlville, New York
2015
Panel Discussion, What Does Art Add? Figuring the More-than-Human World, City Without Walls, Newark, New Jersey
Artist Lecture accompanying exhibition Honey Lane, One Arts, Burlington, Vermont