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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