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John O’Connor (born 1972) is an American artist primarily known for his large-scale, labor-intensive, abstract works on paper. In these works, O'Connor transforms information through idiosyncratic processes, creating equally idiosyncratic abstract shapes, forms, and patterns.

His works draw on relationships between spoken and written language, psychological fallacies, self-experimentation, mathematics, emergence in science and anthropology, and climate
prediction and error.

John J. O'Connor was born in Westfield, MA and received an MFA in painting and an MS in Art
History and Criticism from Pratt Institute in 2000. John was awarded a 2023 Guggenheim
Fellowship in Fine Arts. He attended MacDowell, Skowhegan, the Vermont Studio Center, the
Celia & Wally Gilbert Artist-in-Residence Program, and was a resident artist at Civitai AI this
year. John was a recipient of 2 New York Foundation for the Arts Grants - one in painting and
another in drawing - the Pollock-Krasner Foundation grant, and the Marie Walsh Sharpe
Foundation Studio residency.

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