Curriculum Vitae
Education
1990 - 1994
BA Honours Fine Art (Cum laude)
University of Natal
1997 - 1998
Postgraduate Diploma of Museum Management
University of Cape Town
Exhibitions
Solo
2022 Sanctuary, Barnard Gallery, Cape Town
An Urban Chronicle, 131A Gallery, Cape Town
2018 An Interlude, Circa / Everard Read Gallery, Cape Town
2013 Visage, Association of Visual Arts (AVA), Cape Town
2004 There, Galerie Expo 3036, Berlin
2002 Thread, Prince Albert Gallery, Prince Albert, Great Karoo
2002 Muscle, Mark Coetzee Fine Art Cabinet, Cape Town
1998 Before Swallowing, Mark Coetzee Fine Art Cabinet, Cape Town
1996 Neuroglia, Rembrandt Van Rijn Gallery, Market Theatre, Johannesburg
Group
2023 Serendipitious, Daor Contemporary, Cape Town
Optimal Vibration, Graham Contemporary, Johannesburg
Barnard Gallery Booth at Investec Cape Town Art Fair, Cape Town
Sunny Side Up, Graham Contemporary, Johannesburg
2022 Barnard Collective, Barnard Gallery, Cape Town
New Day, Graham Contemporary, Johannesburg
Painter Painter, Barnard Gallery, Cape Town
Abstract_ed, Barnard Gallery, Cape Town
Barnard Gallery Booth at Investec Cape Town Art Fair, Cape Town
2021 Elixir, 131A Gallery, Cape Town
2020 Assimilate, 131A Gallery, Cape Town
IMAGO, Everard Read Gallery, Franschoek
On Being, Everard Read Gallery, Franschoek
Untitled, 131 A Gallery, Cape Town
Still, Everard Read Gallery, Cape Town
Summer, Everard Read Gallery, Cape Town
2019 Nano 3.1, Barnard Gallery, Cape Town
Winter, Everard Read Gallery, Cape Town
2018 Summer, Everard Read Gallery, Cape Town
2017 Winter Collection, Everard Read Gallery, Cape Town
Spectrum, Circa / Everard Read Gallery, Johannesburg
Hardline, Circa / Everard Read Gallery, Cape Town
2016 Summer in the City, Everard Read Gallery, Cape Town
Winter Collection, Everard Read Gallery, Cape Town
Homage, Everard Read Gallery, Cape Town
2015 Winter Collection, Everard Read Gallery, Cape Town
Empire, Everard Read Gallery, Cape Town
2009 Own Goal, AVA, Cape Town
2007 Stilte, Klein Karoo Kunsfees, Oudshoorn
Home/Room 516, Spier Hotel, Stellenbosch
2006 Out of Context, Erdmann Contemporary, Cape Town
Home/Room 516, Spier Hotel, Stellenbosch
2005 Routes Around the World Portfolio, curated by Harm Lux, Wirth & Hauser, Switzerland
Pulse, Videoart Centre Tokyo, Tokyo
2004 Somerfest, Karl Hofer Gesellschaft, Berlin
Very Real Time, curated by Gregg Smith, Cape Town
2003 Spare Change, Bell-Roberts Gallery, Karoo Nasionale Kunsfees, Oudshoorn
2002 Gardenism, Spier Outdoor Sculpture Bienniel, Spier Hotel, Stellenbosch
Filling, YDETAG, South African National Gallery, Cape Town
2001 Fridge Project, One City Many Culture Festival, Cape Town
2000 Johannesburg as at March 2000, Urban Futures, Rembrandt van Rijn Gallery, JHB
Fridge Project, Cape Town Art Night, Cape Town
Fridge Project, SOFTSERVE, South African National Gallery, Cape Town
1999 Like it (But Can't Afford it), collaboration with James Webb, Cape Town Art Night
1998 Snack Corridor, Shopping Trolley Project, River Club, Cape Town
1997 Expecting, The District Six Sculpture Festival, Cape Town
Residencies
2004 Karl Hofer Gesellschaft, Berlin
2003 Very Real Time, Cape Town
2000 Thupelo, Cape Town
Catalogues* and reviews
Coulson, M. 'Welcome to a new find', Financial Mail. May 24 1996, p 106.
Edmunds, P. “A Total Scoop’ , Artthrob. http//www.artthrob.co.za/99nov/reviews.html
Edmunds, P. 'KKNK', Artthrob. http//www.artthrob.co.za/02apr/reviews.html
Edmunds, P. 'Jo O'Connor at the Mark Coetzee Fine art Cabinet', Artthrob.
http//www.artthrob.co.za/00may/reviews.html
*Edmunds, P. (ed). Spier Outdoor Sculpture Biennial. Bell-Roberts: Cape Town, 2002.
Pollak, L. 'Eloquent Silence of the Tongues', Cape Times. 25 April 2000, p7.
Murinik, T. 'Spier Outdoor Sculpture Festival', Artthrob.
http//www.artthrob.co.za/02jan/reviews.html
Murinik, T. 'Feeding Frenzy', Mail & Guardian. July 3 - 9 1998, p11.
http//www.mg.co.za/art/fineart/9807/980702-oconnor.html
Murinik, T. 'More about Art Night', Artthrob.
http//www.artthrob.co.za/99apr/news.html#artnight
Roper, C. 'Object d'art', SL. September 1998; Vol 5 no 8, p22.
Shantall, L. 'Experiments in time and place', Art South Africa. Vol 2 Issue 2 Summer 2003 pp16-17.
Smith, G & De Bondt, S (eds). Very Real Time . Die Keure,: Belgium, 2004.
Website: www.veryrealtime.co.za
Soudein, C & Meyer, R. (ed.s) The District Six Public Sculpture Project. Cape Town, 1997.
Stephen, J. 'Fresh Face: Jo O'Connor (27) Artist', SL. June 2000, p32.
Van Bosch, C. ‘Kos as medium…’, Die Burger. 20 June 1998, p20.
Van den Berg, C; Smith, K; Burger, L (ed.s) KKNK 2002. Bell-Roberts: Cape Town, 2002.
Wallace, L. http://www.houseandgarden.co.za/home/hardline/
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