L’il Neverbetter
1969-2002
Polyester laminate, wood, lacquer
18.5 x 32 x 25 inches, 46.99 x 81.28 x 63.5 centimeters
Untitled (Strips)
1974
35mm print film mounted in glass, straight pine wood frame
24 x 20 x 1.25 inches, 43.18 x 58.42 x 3.18 centimeters
Where the Chocolate Mountains
2015
HD digital video
TRT 55 min., 35 sec., loop
Sound design: George Lockwood
British Columbia Sweep
1970-2017
Fiberglass, wood, lacquer surface
144 x 180 x 48 inches
Runs Good
1970
1-channel 16mm and 16mm transferred to digital; 3-channel digital edit 2013
TRT 1-channel – 15 min., 07 sec., loop;
3-channel – 6 min., 07 sec, loop
Sound design: Pat O’Neill (1-channel)
BiographyBorn 1939 in Los Angeles, CA
Lives and works in Los Angeles, CA
EDUCATION
1964 MA, University of California, Los Angeles
1962 BA, University of California, Los Angeles
ACADEMIC POSITIONS
1970–1975 California Institute of the Arts, Associate Dean, Film/Video Department, Valencia, CA
1966–1967 University of California, Photography Department, Los Angeles, CA
1964–1966 Mount St. Mary's College, Art Department, Los Angeles, CA
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2019
Pat O’Neill: Three Answers, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, CA
Filmica, Monitor Gallery, Lisbon, Portugal
2018
The Decay of Fiction, Philip Martin Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
2016
Pat O'Neill, Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive, Berkeley, CA
Pat O'Neill, Monitor, Rome, Italy
Pat O'Neill, VeneKlasen/Werner, Berlin, Germany
Pat O'Neill, Quinta do Quetzal, Vidigueira, Portugal
2015
Pat O'Neill, Cherry and Martin, Los Angeles, CA
Pat O'Neill, Mitchell-Innes & Nash, New York, NY
2013
Pat O’Neill: Horizontal Boundaries, Cherry and Martin, Los Angeles, CA
2011
Watching Abstraction in Hollywood: The Work of Pat OʼNeill, The Academy of Motion Picture
Arts and Sciences, Hollywood, CA
2008
Rosamund Felsen Gallery, Santa Monica, CA
2005
Rosamund Felsen Gallery, Santa Monica, CA
2004
Pat OʼNeill: Views From Lookout Mountain, curated by Julie Lazar, Santa Monica Museum of Art, Santa Monica, CA; traveling to Cornerhouse, Manchester, UK
1999
Gallery Luisotti, Santa Monica, CA.
1978
Installation, Letʼs Make a Sandwich, LACE, Los Angeles, CA
1968
Plastics: LA, Esther Robles Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
NOW Technology in Art, Esther Robles Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
1966
Orlando Gallery, Encino, CA
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2019
Fall Apart, Nikita Gale and Pat O’Neill, Martos Gallery, New York, NY
2018
2017
Jesse Fleming and Pat O’Neill, Otis Ben Maltz Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
2016
Dreamlands: Immersive Cinema and Art, 1905-2016, The Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY
2015
Artist’s Proof: Jennifer West (Special Installation), Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh,
2014
Extracts and Extractions, Les Abattoirs / Frac Midi-Pyrénées, Toulouse, France
Augment This (Meditations on the Image), Cherry and Martin, Los Angeles, CA
2011
Site As Symbol, curated by Survey West Collaborative, Fellows of Contemporary Art,
Los Angeles, CA
2010
Crises 2 Films, De Cinema Experimental Dans Les Collections Cinedoc/Paris Films Coop, Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris
Exhibition at Screening Philadelphia, PA, featuring Horizontal Boundaries
2009
Collecting History: Highlighting Recent Acquisitions, Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, CA
Crises de Films: 35th Anniversary of Cinema of the collections of Cinedoc/Paris Film Coop,
Centre Pompidou, Paris
2008
Traces du Sacré, Centre Pompidou, Paris; traveling to Haus der Kunst, Munich, Germany
The Underground, Machine Projects, Los Angeles, CA
Paul McCarthy: Film List, curated by Paul McCarthy, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York
2006
Los Angeles 1955-1985: The Birth of an Art Capital Centre Pompidou, Paris, France
Summer of Love- Art of the Psychedelic Era, Tate Liverpool, Liverpool, United Kingdom; traveling to Schirn Kunsthalle, Frankfurt, Germany; Kunsthalle Vienna, Austria
2005
Translation, Post, Los Angeles, CA
2003
The Turbulent Screen: The Structural Movement in Film and Video, Edith Russ Site for Media Art, Oldenberg, Germany
2002
Future Cinema: The Cinematic Imaginary After Film, curated by Jeffrey Shaw and Peter Weibel,
ZKM, Karlsruhe, Germany; travels to Nykytaiteen Museo, Helsinki, Finland and NTT
InterCommunication Center, Tokyo, Japan
2001
Made in California, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, CA
1998
Mister Exacto: Carl Cheng and Pat OʼNeill, Photographic Work, University of Nevada, Reno, NV
1996
Water and Power in “Art and Film Since 1945: Hall of Mirrors,” Museum of Contemporary Art,
Los Angeles, CA
1992
Water and Power film, Unknown Territory – American Independents, Six-Pack, Vienna, Austria
White Light/White Heat, curated by Bruce Posner; toured USA
1991
Water and Power film, Whitney Biennial, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY
1985
20-20, Twentieth-anniversary exhibition for UCLAʼs Photography Department, University of California Art Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
Cinema Immateriaux, Center Georges Pompidou, Paris, France
1982
Frisco Cinema, Centre Pompidou, Paris, France
1979
Installation Two Sweeps, curated by Grahame Weinbren, Mount San Antonio College, Walnut, CA
Installation Two Sweeps, The Kitchen Center, New York, NY
Cineprobe, Museum of Contemporary Art, New York, NY
1970
A Plastic Presence, organized by Gerald Nordland, Jewish Museum, New York, NY; travels to Milwaukee Art Center, Milwaukee, WI, and San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, CA
1969
Electric Art, curated by Oliver Andrews, University of California Art Galleries, Los Angeles, CA; traveled to Phoenix Art Museum, Phoenix, AZ
PUBLICATIONS
Young, Paul and Paul Duncan, Ed. Art Cinema. Taschen, 2009.
Another Kind of Record, The Iceplant Press and DAP, A collection of graphic work and found texts, 2008.
Arthur, Paul. A Line of Sight, American Avant-Garde Cinema Since 1965. U. Minnesota Press, 2005, pp. 92-110.
James, David. "Pat O'Neill: A Most Typical Avant-Garde Filmmaker," in The Most Typical Avant-Garde: History and Geography of Minor Cinemas in Los Angeles. Oakland, CA: The University of California Press, 2005, pp. 428-440.
McDonald, Scott. “Coda: Reinventing the City Film in Water and Power and Invisible Cities.” The Garden in the Machine. University of California Press, 2001. 208-214.
Albertini, Rosanna. “Pat OʼNeill: Sculptures of Time.” Technological Ritual: Stories from the Annenberg Center. University of Southern California, Annenberg Center for Communication, 1999. 73-98.
Posner, Bruce. “Foregrounds & Backgrounds: The Optical Printer of Pat OʼNeill,” Notes for Unseen Cinema: A Century of Passion and Obscurity. Chapter 15. May 1998.
McDonald, Scott. “The City as Motion Picture: Notes on Some California City Films.” Wide AnglesVolume 19, Number 9. Ed. Clark Arnwine and Jesse Lerner, Ohio University School of Film, 1997. 109-128.
Houston, Beverle and Marsha Kinder. Close-Up. Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1972, pp. 92-100.
Curtis, David. Experimental Cinema. Universe Books (New York), 1971, pp. 27, 38, 53-54, 62, 140-41 (reproductions), 96-97.
Youngblood, Gene. Expanded Cinema. E.P. Dutton (New York), 1970.
Andrews, Oliver. Electric Art. UCLA Department of Art (Los Angeles), 1969.
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Hoberman, J. “They Aim to Please,” Village Voice, October 19-15, 2002.
Holden, Stephen. “Hollywood Haunts an Empty Hotel,” The New York Times, October 12, 2002.
Anderson, Steve. “Dissolving Boundaries: Pat OʼNeill Experiments in Hollywood,” Release Print, September 2002 (reproductions).
Ise, Claudine. “Off the Digital Deep End With OʼNeill,” Los Angeles Times, May 28, 1999.
Frank, Peter. “Photography Pick of the Week,” LA Weekly, May 28 – June 3, 1999.
Ed., “Moving Image Arts visits with Pat OʼNeill,” Pasatiempo, March 26 – April 1, 1999, p. 21 – 22 (reproduction).
Evans, Ingrid. “ʼMr. E-actoʼ at UNRʼs Sheppard Gallery,” Artweek, December 1998 (reproduction).
James, David. “Interview with Pat OʼNeill,” Millennium Film Journal, No. 30/31, Oct./Nov. 1997.
Thomas, Kevin. “Calendar Weekend – Screening Room,” Los Angeles Times, Thursday April 17, 1997.
Sterritt, David. “Traveling Film Program Makes Case for the Big Screen,” The Christian Science Monitor, March 6, 1997.
Feaster, Felicia. “OnGrarde: Avant garde at cinefest,” Atlanta Creative Loafing, Vol. 26., No. 2, May 31, 1997.
Keough, Peter. “State of the art: White Light/White Heat,” The Boston Phoenix, March 13, 1997.
Harvey, Dennis. “White Light/White Heat: The Power of 35mm,” The San Francisco Bay Guardian, March 26-April 1, 1997.
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Keough, Peter. “Animated Animation Artists,” The Boston Phoenix, March 1, 1996.
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Albertini, Rosanna. “Histoires Virtuelles”/”Virtual Stories,” artpress (International ed.), No. 182, July/August 1993 (reproductions).
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Carr, Jay. “Happenings,” The Boston Globe, Friday September 27, 1991.
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Sherman, Betsy. “Critic’s Tip,” The Boston Globe, September 26, 1991.
Corliss, Richard. “A Happy Birthday to the Kids of Kane,” Time, May 13, 1991, pp. 69-70.
Thomas, Kevin. “’Water and Power:ʼ A Mural of Southland Life,” Los Angeles Times, May 10, 1991.
Strauss, Bob. “Water and Power stretches limits of cinematic narrative,” Los Angeles Daily News, May 10, 1991.
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Hisato, Aikura. Translated by Yuki Sakamura. “The Furnie of Image,” Image Forum Journal(Tokyo), No. 131, February 1991, pp. 34-37.
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Camper, Fred. “Natural Industry,” Chicago Reader, Vol. 20, No. 6, November 9, 1990.
Crane, Tricia. “Los Locals,” L.A. Style, Vol. 6, No. 6, November 1990, pp. 121-122 (reproductions).
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Strauss, Bob. “AFI Festival Declares Independence,” Los Angeles Daily News, April 19, 1990, pp. 1, 22.
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Byrge, Duane. “Chameleon Tops the U.S. Film Fest,” The Hollywood Reporter, January 29, 1990.
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Wolff, Kurt. “Taking High Tech to the Limits,” San Francisco Bay Guardian, Vol. 23, No. 49, September 13, 1989, p.19 (reproductions).
OʼNeill, Pat. “Water and Power: A Fragmentary Synopsis,” Canrillʼs Film Notes, No. 59-60, September 1989, pp. 24-28 & 20-23. (reproduction).
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Welling, James. “Pat OʼNeill and Morgan Fisher-Film Spaces,” Artweek, January 14, 1978.
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NOTABLE COLLECTIONS
American Film Institute, Los Angeles, CA
Archives du Film Experimental, Avigon, France
Arts Council of Great Britain (British Film Institute), London, United Kingdom
Belgian Film Archive, Brussels, Belgium
Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive, Berkeley, CA
Museum California College of the Arts, Oakland, CA
California Institute of the Arts, Los Angeles, CA
Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh, PA
Castello di Rivoli-GAM, Turin, Italy
Centre Pompidou, Paris, France
Chicago Art Institute, Chicago, IL
Film Archive of India, Calcutta, India
Foundation Louis Vuitton, Paris, France
Hammer Museum, Los Angeles, CA
Kobe College of Art, Kobe, Japan
Les Abattoirs/FRAC Midi-Pyrénées, Toulouse, France
Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, CA
Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, CA
Musee d’art moderne et d’art contemporain / Frac, Toulouse, France
National Library of Australia, Canberra, Australia
New York Public Library, New York, NY
New York University, New York, NY
Oberhausen Kurzfilmtage, Oberhausen, Germany
Otis Art Institute, Los Angeles, CA
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, CA
Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, MN
Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY
Lives and works in Los Angeles, CA
EDUCATION
1964 MA, University of California, Los Angeles
1962 BA, University of California, Los Angeles
ACADEMIC POSITIONS
1970–1975 California Institute of the Arts, Associate Dean, Film/Video Department, Valencia, CA
1966–1967 University of California, Photography Department, Los Angeles, CA
1964–1966 Mount St. Mary's College, Art Department, Los Angeles, CA
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2019
Pat O’Neill: Three Answers, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, CA
Filmica, Monitor Gallery, Lisbon, Portugal
2018
The Decay of Fiction, Philip Martin Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
2016
Pat O'Neill, Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive, Berkeley, CA
Pat O'Neill, Monitor, Rome, Italy
Pat O'Neill, VeneKlasen/Werner, Berlin, Germany
Pat O'Neill, Quinta do Quetzal, Vidigueira, Portugal
2015
Pat O'Neill, Cherry and Martin, Los Angeles, CA
Pat O'Neill, Mitchell-Innes & Nash, New York, NY
2013
Pat O’Neill: Horizontal Boundaries, Cherry and Martin, Los Angeles, CA
2011
Watching Abstraction in Hollywood: The Work of Pat OʼNeill, The Academy of Motion Picture
Arts and Sciences, Hollywood, CA
2008
Rosamund Felsen Gallery, Santa Monica, CA
2005
Rosamund Felsen Gallery, Santa Monica, CA
2004
Pat OʼNeill: Views From Lookout Mountain, curated by Julie Lazar, Santa Monica Museum of Art, Santa Monica, CA; traveling to Cornerhouse, Manchester, UK
1999
Gallery Luisotti, Santa Monica, CA.
1978
Installation, Letʼs Make a Sandwich, LACE, Los Angeles, CA
1968
Plastics: LA, Esther Robles Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
NOW Technology in Art, Esther Robles Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
1966
Orlando Gallery, Encino, CA
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2019
Fall Apart, Nikita Gale and Pat O’Neill, Martos Gallery, New York, NY
2018
Paradise, curated by Todd von Ammon, Westport Arts Center
Los Angeles, The Cool Years, Judy Chicago with Billy Al Bengston, Marcia Hafif, John McCracken, Robert Morris, Bruce Nauman, Pat O’Neill, James Turrell and De Wain Valentine, Villa Arson, Nice, FranceIf on a Winter's Night a Traveler: Marcel Broodthaers, James Lee Byars, Enrico David, Marie Karlberg, Pat O'Neill, and Sigmar Polke, Michael Werner Gallery and TRAMPS, New York, NY
2017
Jesse Fleming and Pat O’Neill, Otis Ben Maltz Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
2016
Dreamlands: Immersive Cinema and Art, 1905-2016, The Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY
2015
Artist’s Proof: Jennifer West (Special Installation), Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh,
2014
Extracts and Extractions, Les Abattoirs / Frac Midi-Pyrénées, Toulouse, France
Augment This (Meditations on the Image), Cherry and Martin, Los Angeles, CA
2011
Site As Symbol, curated by Survey West Collaborative, Fellows of Contemporary Art,
Los Angeles, CA
2010
Crises 2 Films, De Cinema Experimental Dans Les Collections Cinedoc/Paris Films Coop, Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris
Exhibition at Screening Philadelphia, PA, featuring Horizontal Boundaries
2009
Collecting History: Highlighting Recent Acquisitions, Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, CA
Crises de Films: 35th Anniversary of Cinema of the collections of Cinedoc/Paris Film Coop,
Centre Pompidou, Paris
2008
Traces du Sacré, Centre Pompidou, Paris; traveling to Haus der Kunst, Munich, Germany
The Underground, Machine Projects, Los Angeles, CA
Paul McCarthy: Film List, curated by Paul McCarthy, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York
2006
Los Angeles 1955-1985: The Birth of an Art Capital Centre Pompidou, Paris, France
Summer of Love- Art of the Psychedelic Era, Tate Liverpool, Liverpool, United Kingdom; traveling to Schirn Kunsthalle, Frankfurt, Germany; Kunsthalle Vienna, Austria
2005
Translation, Post, Los Angeles, CA
2003
The Turbulent Screen: The Structural Movement in Film and Video, Edith Russ Site for Media Art, Oldenberg, Germany
2002
Future Cinema: The Cinematic Imaginary After Film, curated by Jeffrey Shaw and Peter Weibel,
ZKM, Karlsruhe, Germany; travels to Nykytaiteen Museo, Helsinki, Finland and NTT
InterCommunication Center, Tokyo, Japan
2001
Made in California, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, CA
1998
Mister Exacto: Carl Cheng and Pat OʼNeill, Photographic Work, University of Nevada, Reno, NV
1996
Water and Power in “Art and Film Since 1945: Hall of Mirrors,” Museum of Contemporary Art,
Los Angeles, CA
1992
Water and Power film, Unknown Territory – American Independents, Six-Pack, Vienna, Austria
White Light/White Heat, curated by Bruce Posner; toured USA
1991
Water and Power film, Whitney Biennial, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY
1985
20-20, Twentieth-anniversary exhibition for UCLAʼs Photography Department, University of California Art Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
Cinema Immateriaux, Center Georges Pompidou, Paris, France
1982
Frisco Cinema, Centre Pompidou, Paris, France
1979
Installation Two Sweeps, curated by Grahame Weinbren, Mount San Antonio College, Walnut, CA
Installation Two Sweeps, The Kitchen Center, New York, NY
Cineprobe, Museum of Contemporary Art, New York, NY
1970
A Plastic Presence, organized by Gerald Nordland, Jewish Museum, New York, NY; travels to Milwaukee Art Center, Milwaukee, WI, and San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, CA
1969
Electric Art, curated by Oliver Andrews, University of California Art Galleries, Los Angeles, CA; traveled to Phoenix Art Museum, Phoenix, AZ
PUBLICATIONS
Heitzman, Lorraine. “Pat O’Neill, The Decay of Fiction,” Art and Cake Magazine. October 17, 2018.
Earle, David P. The Open Daybook, Random House, 2010.Young, Paul and Paul Duncan, Ed. Art Cinema. Taschen, 2009.
Another Kind of Record, The Iceplant Press and DAP, A collection of graphic work and found texts, 2008.
Arthur, Paul. A Line of Sight, American Avant-Garde Cinema Since 1965. U. Minnesota Press, 2005, pp. 92-110.
James, David. "Pat O'Neill: A Most Typical Avant-Garde Filmmaker," in The Most Typical Avant-Garde: History and Geography of Minor Cinemas in Los Angeles. Oakland, CA: The University of California Press, 2005, pp. 428-440.
McDonald, Scott. “Coda: Reinventing the City Film in Water and Power and Invisible Cities.” The Garden in the Machine. University of California Press, 2001. 208-214.
Albertini, Rosanna. “Pat OʼNeill: Sculptures of Time.” Technological Ritual: Stories from the Annenberg Center. University of Southern California, Annenberg Center for Communication, 1999. 73-98.
Posner, Bruce. “Foregrounds & Backgrounds: The Optical Printer of Pat OʼNeill,” Notes for Unseen Cinema: A Century of Passion and Obscurity. Chapter 15. May 1998.
McDonald, Scott. “The City as Motion Picture: Notes on Some California City Films.” Wide AnglesVolume 19, Number 9. Ed. Clark Arnwine and Jesse Lerner, Ohio University School of Film, 1997. 109-128.
Houston, Beverle and Marsha Kinder. Close-Up. Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1972, pp. 92-100.
Curtis, David. Experimental Cinema. Universe Books (New York), 1971, pp. 27, 38, 53-54, 62, 140-41 (reproductions), 96-97.
Youngblood, Gene. Expanded Cinema. E.P. Dutton (New York), 1970.
Andrews, Oliver. Electric Art. UCLA Department of Art (Los Angeles), 1969.
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Anderson, Steve. “Dissolving Boundaries: Pat OʼNeill Experiments in Hollywood,” Release Print, September 2002 (reproductions).
Ise, Claudine. “Off the Digital Deep End With OʼNeill,” Los Angeles Times, May 28, 1999.
Frank, Peter. “Photography Pick of the Week,” LA Weekly, May 28 – June 3, 1999.
Ed., “Moving Image Arts visits with Pat OʼNeill,” Pasatiempo, March 26 – April 1, 1999, p. 21 – 22 (reproduction).
Evans, Ingrid. “ʼMr. E-actoʼ at UNRʼs Sheppard Gallery,” Artweek, December 1998 (reproduction).
James, David. “Interview with Pat OʼNeill,” Millennium Film Journal, No. 30/31, Oct./Nov. 1997.
Thomas, Kevin. “Calendar Weekend – Screening Room,” Los Angeles Times, Thursday April 17, 1997.
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NOTABLE COLLECTIONS
American Film Institute, Los Angeles, CA
Archives du Film Experimental, Avigon, France
Arts Council of Great Britain (British Film Institute), London, United Kingdom
Belgian Film Archive, Brussels, Belgium
Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive, Berkeley, CA
Museum California College of the Arts, Oakland, CA
California Institute of the Arts, Los Angeles, CA
Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh, PA
Castello di Rivoli-GAM, Turin, Italy
Centre Pompidou, Paris, France
Chicago Art Institute, Chicago, IL
Film Archive of India, Calcutta, India
Foundation Louis Vuitton, Paris, France
Hammer Museum, Los Angeles, CA
Kobe College of Art, Kobe, Japan
Les Abattoirs/FRAC Midi-Pyrénées, Toulouse, France
Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, CA
Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, CA
Musee d’art moderne et d’art contemporain / Frac, Toulouse, France
National Library of Australia, Canberra, Australia
New York Public Library, New York, NY
New York University, New York, NY
Oberhausen Kurzfilmtage, Oberhausen, Germany
Otis Art Institute, Los Angeles, CA
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, CA
Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, MN
Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY
Exhibitions
The Decay of Fiction
September 8 - October 27, 2018
The Armory Show, New York, NY
March 8 - 11, 2018
Carl Cheng, Robert Heinecken and Pat O’Neill: Works 1964-1984
Art Basel Miami Beach, Miami, FL
December 1-4, 2016
Pat O’Neill
Art Basel, Basel, Switzerland
June 16-19, 2016
Expanded Photographic/Material Practice at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) 1963-1973
FIAC, Paris, France
October 22-25, 2015
Pat O'Neill
February 28 - March 28, 2015
Pat O’Neill
FIAC, Paris, France
October 23-26, 2014
Augment This (Meditations on the Image)
July 12 - September 13, 2014
Pat O’Neill
Art Basel | Film, Stadtkino Basel, Switzerland
June 20-22, 2014
Pat O’Neill: Horizontal Boundaries
September 28 - November 16, 2013
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