John J. O'Connor, born in Westfield, MA, received his MFA in painting and an MS in Art History from Pratt Institute. He was awarded a 2023 Guggenheim Fellowship and has attended residencies such as MacDowell, Skowhegan, the Vermont Studio Center, the Cold Spring Harbor Science Center, and Civitai AI. A recipient of grants from NYFA, the Pollock-Krasner Foundation, and the Marie Walsh Sharpe Foundation, his work has been exhibited nationally and internationally, and has been reviewed in publications such as The New York Times, Artforum, Bomb Magazine, The Brooklyn Rail, and Art in America. John’s work is held in the collections of the Museum of Modern Art, Whitney Museum of American Art, Weatherspoon Museum, Hood Museum, the New Museum, among others. He teaches at and co-chairs the Studio Arts program at Sarah Lawrence College and is a member of the experimental art and technology collective NonCoreProjector.