Eryn O'Neill | Construction Season

THE ARTIST

Eryn O’Neill holds a BFA from NSCAD University in Halifax, NS (2008), and an MFA in conjunction with her thesis exhibition titled Restrictions of Routine from the University of Waterloo (2018). She has completed her MA in Art and Architectural History at Carleton University (2022), and will be pursuing her PhD in Canadian Studies at Carleton University in Fall of 2024.

Eryn has had numerous solo and group exhibitions in Toronto, Ottawa, Kitchener-Waterloo, Guelph, Hamilton, and Montreal. Her most recent solo exhibition Travelling Vicariously: The High Line was presented at Wall Space Gallery in 2022. She has participated in numerous artist residencies, including the Vermont Studio Centre in March 2016, and the Golden Foundation Artist in Residence Program in March 2019.

She is a multiple Ontario Arts Council grant recipient, and a two-time recipient of the Elizabeth Greenshields Representational Painting Award. In 2021, O’Neill’s works were collected into the City of Ottawa’s permanent Art Collection and the Global Affairs Canada collection. Eryn has a studio at the Rectory Art House in the Byward Market. She is an instructor in the Diploma Program at the Ottawa School of Art.

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