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Education
BFA, National College of Art and Design, Dublin, 2009
Awards
Agility Award, The Arts Council, 2023
Solstice Visual Arts Award, Surveyor 2021, Solstice Arts Centre, Meath, 2021
AXA Insurance Purchase Award, 2009
Shortlisted
RHA Hennessy Craig Award 2019, RHA, Dublin, 2019
Solo Exhibitions
‘Luminous Gatherings’, Kevin Kavanagh Gallery, Dublin, 2022
Selected Group Exhibitions
Moments of Being, Solstice Arts Centre, Meath, 2025
Surveyor 2024, Solstice Arts Centre, Meath, 2024
Arthouse 2024 - Charity Art Auction for Outhouse LGBTQ + Centre, Dublin, 2024
194th RHA Annual Exhibition, RHA, Dublin, 2024
'Bucolica' Open Call Exhibition, Art in the Gardens with Artform at Mount Congreve Gardens, Waterford, 2024
Surveyor 2023, Solstice Arts Centre, Meath, 2023
Open Submission Group Show 2023, Dunamaise Arts Centre, Laois, 2023
Connections, Boyle Arts Festival 2023, Roscommon, 2023
193rd RHA Annual Exhibition, RHA, Dublin, 2023
Surveyor 2022, Solstice Arts Centre, Meath, 2022
Annual Art Exhibition 2022, Mason Hayes & Curran, Dublin, 2022
Surveyor 2021, Solstice Arts Centre, Meath, 2021
191st RHA Annual Exhibition, RHA, Dublin, 2021
Surveyor 2020, Solstice Arts Centre, Meath, 2020
139th RUA Annual Exhibition, Royal Ulster Academy of Arts, Belfast, 2020
190th RHA Annual Exhibition, RHA, Dublin, 2020
Winter Open 2019, Rua Red, Dublin, 2019
RHA Hennessy Craig Award exhibition 2019, RHA, Dublin, 2019
189th RHA Annual Exhibition, RHA, Dublin, 2019
Christmas / Winter Group Show, Custom House Studios and Gallery, Mayo, 2018
Island Life, Custom House Studios and Gallery, Mayo, 2018
Island Life, Kevin Kavanagh Gallery, Dublin, 2018
188th RHA Annual Exhibition, RHA, Dublin, 2018
Cordially Yours, Camel Art Space, New York, USA, 2011
Mailto:, Drift Station Gallery+Performance Space, Nebraska, USA, 2011
Summer Group Show, Nag, The Cross Gallery, Dublin, 2011
Ingrid Lyons & William O’Neill, Monster Truck Gallery, Dublin, 2010
Spaced Out, Pretty Vacant at the Ilac, Dublin, 2010
Hooverville, The Sycamore Arts Club, Dublin, 2009
Summer Group Show, Nag, The Cross Gallery, Dublin, 2009
NCAD Graduate Exhibition 2009, NCAD, Dublin, 2009
Indecision, Broadstone Studios and Gallery, Dublin, 2008
Residencies
Joya: arte + ecología / AiR, Almeria, Spain, 2023
Collections
AXA Insurance Ireland
Meath County Council
OPW (Office of Public Works)
Wesley College
Private collections in Ireland, Europe & USA
Bibliography/Press
‘Dynamic new group exhibition to open in Solstice at weekend’, John Donohoe, Meath Chronicle, January, 2025
William O’Neill Paintings, artist book, Published by Kevin Kavanagh, 2023
2022: A Year in Review, MADE IN BED magazine, January, 2023
191st RHA Annual Exhibition catalogue, 2021
‘What Lies Beneath’ People&Culture, Niall MacMonagle, The Sunday Independent, September, 2021
‘Reverie as Resistance: William O’Neill’, Ingrid Lyons, Mirror Lamp Press - No.1 HAPPINESS, 2021
‘SURVEYOR 2020’, Catherine Marshall, Solstice Arts Centre, 2020
‘RHA exhibition shows painting is a broad-brush church’, Aidan Dunne, The Irish Times, September, 2019
188th RHA Annual Exhibition catalogue, 2018
‘What Lies Beneath’ Living section, Niall MacMonagle, The Sunday Independent, May, 2012
‘Poetry Now’ 2012, work features on both academic level publications. 2012
‘Take in a really Spaced – Out exhibition in the Ilac center’ Weekender Supplement, The Irish Independent, 2010
Book Fairs
Dublin Art Book Fair 2023: Polyphonic, Temple Bar Gallery + Studios, Dublin, 2023
Tsundoku Art Book Fair, Dublin, 2023
Artist Talks
Artist: Process & Media, Guest speaker at Wesley College Dublin, 2022
William O’Neill and Geraldine O’Neill: In Conversation, Kevin Kavanagh Gallery, 2022
‘Ultraviolet Art Talks’ Season 1, via ultravioletarttalks instagram, 2020
RHA, artists in conversation with Abigail O’Brien & Patrick T Murphy for RHA Hennessy Craig Award Exhibition, 2019
RHA, select artists in conversation with Sinead Ni Mhaonaigh for ART Form Evening tours of the RHA 189th Annual Exhibition, 2019
Custom House Studios and Gallery, artists in conversation with Kevin Kavanagh for Island Life, 2018
Previous Employment/ Teaching Experience
Creative Clutch -masterclass in still life paintings, Learning & Engagement, Solstice Arts Centre, Co. Meath, 2025
The Met Store, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, 2010
Invigilator at Monster Truck Gallery, Dublin, 2010
Invigilator at NCAD Gallery, Dublin, 2009