Morgan O'Hara

Morgan O'Hara
Born1941 (age 82–83)
OccupationConceptual artist
Websitemorganohara.art

Morgan O'Hara (born 1941 in New York),[1] is a conceptual artist based in Venice who works in performative drawing (Live Transmission[2][3]) and social practice.[4]

She was the recipient of fellowships from the Pollock-Krasner Foundation, Gottlieb Foundation, and Artists Fellowship Inc and The Pollock-Krasner Foundation's Lee Krasner Lifetime Achievement Award, which was awarded in 2017.[5]

Her work is represented in public collections, including the National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC; the Hammer Museum, Los Angeles, California; the British Museum, London, UK; the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY; Kupferstichkabinett Berlin, Germany; Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam; Cranbrook Art Museum, Detroit, Michigan; the Arkansas Arts Center, Little Rock, Arkansas; Weatherspoon Gallery, Greensboro, North Carolina; the Hood Museum of Art, Hanover, New Hampshire; the Czech National Gallery, Prague; Moravska Galerie, Brno, Czech Republic; and Macau Art Museum, Macau, China.

Her permanent site-specific wall drawings can be found in Macau, China (2); Kobe, Japan (9), and Amsterdam, the Netherlands.

Publications include seven volumes of LIVE TRANSMISSION drawings.

  1. ^ O'Hara, Morgan. O'Hara, Morgan, 1941-. VIAF.
  2. ^ O'Hara, Morgan; Belloni, Cesare; Poot, Jurrie; Giuriati, Sarah; Castello Borromeo (Corneliano Bertario, Italy) (2006). Morgan O'Hara: Live Transmission: Attention and Drawing as Time-Based Performance. ISBN 887766326X. OCLC 156957026.
  3. ^ O'Hara, Morgan; Teatro sociale (Bergamo, Italy) (2002). Morgan O'Hara: Live Transmissions: Attention and Drawing as Time-Based Performance, [2 (concert hall open space). Bergamo: Lubrina Editore. ISBN 8877662530. OCLC 51615922.
  4. ^ O'Hara, Morgan (2017-06-30). "Opinion | 10 Hours, a Few Sharpies, One Act of Resistance: Writing the Constitution". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 2018-03-03.
  5. ^ "The Pollock-Krasner Foundation announces 2017-18 Grants of 3.9 Million - The Pollock Krasner Foundation". The Pollock Krasner Foundation. 2018-10-10. Retrieved 2018-11-20.