EXHIBITIONS
one / two person exhibits:
2024 "Ceramic Gardens" Bailey Contemporary Art Center, Pompano Beach, FL
2023 Walter O'Neill and Wayne Pelke, Deerfield Historical Society and Museum
2019 "New Ceramics by Walter O'Neill" Sugar Sand Park Art Gallery, Boca Raton, FL
group exhibits:
2023 Hotspot Gallery, Wilton Manors, Florida
2023 "Abstract Organics" Jeff Whyman, Walter O'Neill, Heather Couch and Addison Wolff, 1880 Gallery, Delray Beach, FL
2023 "Fire and Ice" Raw Gallery, Vero Beach, FL
2022 Group exhibit: Gallery 21, Wilton Manors, FL
2021 Group exhibit: Gallery 21, Wilton Manors, FL
2021 Group exhibit: Diversity in the Arts, Hatch Gallery, Lake Worth, FL
2021 Group exhibit: ArtsUnited at Artserve Gallery, Fort Lauderdale, FL
2019 "Textured" presented by DBA, Artserve Gallery, Fort Lauderdale, FL
2019 "Pop Up Shop" Gallery 21, Wilton Manors, FL
Painting solo exhibits:
2019 Club Silver, Wilton Manors, FL
2012 Natura Spa, Astoria, Queens, NY
1996 “Yvonne Jacquette and Walter O’Neill” Caldbeck Gallery, Rockland, Me
1996 The Interchurch Center, New York, NY
1995 Adelphi University Gallery, NY
1993 Osuna Gallery, Washington. D.C.
1993 Cyr Gallery, New York, NY
1991 Nye Gomez Gallery, Baltimore, MD
1990 School 33 Art Center, Baltimore, MD
Painting group exhibits:
2018 "I Am..." 1310 Gallery at Sailboat Bend, Fort Lauderdale, FL
2014 "Off the Wall / Fresco Painting" Hudson Guild Gallery, New York, NY
2013 "Nature Interpreted" 3 person exhibit, Hudson Guild Gallery, NY, NY
2013 "LES Artists" The Yard on Delancey, NY, NY
2013 "All of the Above" installation in Church of St. Paul the Apostle, NY, NY
2013 "Bridging the Gap" Flushing Council on the Arts, Flushing, NY and traveled to
La Guardia Community College Art Gallery, Long Island City, NY
2013 "First Person Plural" group St. Francis College Art Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
2013 Hullaballoo Collective at the Fountain Art Fair, NY, NY
2012 "Joie de Vivre" Hullaballoo Collective, at PS Project Space, NY, NY
2012 "small works, LIC artists" Sterling National, Long Island City, NY
2010 “Ecstatic,” Curious
Matters, Jersey City, NJ
2002 “About
Nature,” six artists, Flushing Council on the Arts, Flushing, NY
2000 “Faculty exhibit” Educational Alliance Art School Gallery,
NY, NY
1997 “Fresh / Fresco” Pelham Art Center, Pelham,
NY
1994 “Contemporary
Fresco,” Snug Harbor
Cultural Center,
Staten Island, NY
and traveled to Parsons School of Design, NY, NY and Boston College.
1994 Organization
of Independent Artists, New York,
NY
1992 “Sketches,
plans and models for installations,” University
of Virginia
1991 National
Academy of Design, NY
1991 - 1993 Nye
Gomez Gallery, Baltimore, MD
1990 Academy
for the Arts, Easton, MD
1989- 1993 Osuna
Gallery, Washington,
D.C.
1989 Skowhegan faculty exhibit, Portland
Museum of Art
FRESCO MURAL COMMISSIONS
1994 Buon fresco for Community Access, Inc. at
old Gouveneur Hospital, NY, NY
1988 Buon fresco mural, Madison
High School, Madison, Maine
1983 Buon fresco mural for office of Renaissance
Faire, Agora, CA
1979 Fresco mural room for Bloomingdales
Store, NY
1990 - 1994 Private commission fresco murals
COLLECTIONS
Baltimore Museum of Art, Baltimore, MD
Citi Smith Barney Corporation, New York, NY
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Neuberger / Berman, New York, NY
Fannie Mae, Washington, D.C
Wadsworth Atheneum, Hartford, CT
AWARDS
AND RESIDENCY
2023-24 Bailey Contemporary Art Center, Pompano Beach, FL
2022 Watershed Center for Ceramics
2022 Pentaculum2022, Arrowmont School of Arts and Crafts
2021 Skowhegan special Alumni session
2005 Virginia Center for the Creative Arts
2003 Weir Farm residency
2001 Hydra, Greece
1989 Baltimore City Artists Grant
1974 Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture
2024 Artist Support Grant Broward County Cultural Division
2023 Artist Support Grant Broward County Cultural Division
BIBLIOGRAPHY
Artist Spotlight: Walter O'Neill, Pelican Newspaper, Pompano , FL, Oct, 2021
"Fresco painter turned ceramic artist" Sun Sentinel Newspaper, South Florida,. 2019
"From Painter to Potter" Pelican Newspaper, Deerfield Beach, FL. Oct. 2019
"Ceramic Exhibit" Boca Newspaper, Boca Raton, FL, Oct. 2019
Miami Voyage http://voyagemia.com/interview/meet-walter-oneill-artist-deerf/ield-beach-broward-county
"Off the Wall / Fresco Painting"
http://hyperallergic.com/161420/contemporary-fresco-thats-off-the-wall/S
taten Island Advance, December
14, 1993 “Fresco with a Flair”
New Art
Examiner, May, 1990
“Art Review”
The Baltimore
Sun, January 25, 1990
“Individuality on Display”
The Portland
News, June 30, 1989
“Skowhegan Faculty Show”
The Morning Sentinel, (Maine)
March 3, 1988
“Fresco takes Shape”
The Washington
Post, June 16, 1988 “Hands up at Osuna
”
The New York Times, April
12, 1979 “Store’s show is a tour of Italy”
EDUCATION
Hunter College of the City University, M.A., 1977
School of Visual
Arts, B.F.A., 1974
Art Students League
of New York, 1969-1973