• EVA O'LEARY
  • (03.21.2020 - 09.11.2020)
  • Happy Valley (2014-2018)
  • Spitting Image (2017)
  • Concealer (2017)
  • Bambi & Kendelle (2016)
  • Video
  • info / CV
Spitting Image (2017)
Happy Valley (2014-2018)
Concealer (2017)
Bambi & Kendelle (2016)
(03.21.2020 - 09.11.2020)
Video
EVA O'LEARY
info / CV






Eva O'Leary (b. 1989) is an artist who works primarily with photography and video.  Her work navigates structural and social systems that perpetuate ideologies of fantasy, power, and control within American society specifically focused on the impact on young women and their experience in the world. Her work is deeply personal, using her own experiences, memories, and journals as the foundation of her practice. 


O'Leary received her BFA from California College of the Arts in 2012, and her MFA from Yale School of Art in 2016.   She was the recipient of the Outset Unseen Exhibition Fund in 2019, the Hyères Festival Photographie Grand Prix in 2018, The Vontobel Contemporary Photography Prize in 2017, and was named a Foam Talent in 2014.   She has exhibited her work internationally, including at the CAFA Art Museum (Beijing), FOAM (Amsterdam), Villa Noailles (Hyeres, France), l'Atelier Néerlandais (Paris), Benaki Museum (Athens), and Aperture Foundation (New York).  Her work has been featured in various publications, including ArtForum, Aperture, 1000 Words, and The New Yorker.


Selected interviews            Instagram


EDUCATION

2016     MFA Yale University, New Haven CT

2012     BFA California College of the Arts, Oakland CA  


AWARDS AND HONORS

2018     Outset Unseen Exhibition Fund 

2018     ING Unseen Talent Award, Amsterdam, Netherlands (finalist) 

2018     Hyeres Festival Photographie Grand Prix, Hyeres, France

2017     Vontobel Contemporary Photography Prize, Zurich, Switzerland

2014     Foam Talent 2014, Foam International Photography Magazine, NL


SOLO EXHIBITIONS

2021     Happy Valley, Centre Photographique Rouen Normandie, France

2020     (3.21.2020 - 09.11.2020), Hesse/ Flatow, online

2019     Happy Valley, Villa Noailles, Hyeres, France  

2019     Happy Valley, Foam Fotographiemuseum,  Amsterdam  

2019     Spitting Image, The Butler Gallery, Kilkenny Castle, Ireland  

2019     Spitting Image, Longwood University Art Museum, Virginia 

2017     Happy Valley, MEYOHAS, 43-01 21st Street, Queens, New York

2017     Spitting Image, CRUSH CURATORIAL, 526 W 26 Street, NY, New York 

2017     CONCEALER, Vontobel, Gotthardstrasse 43, Zurich, Switzerland 


SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS

2021     (forthcoming) Face Control, curated by Urs Stahel, Fundación Foto Colectania, Barcelona, Spain 

2021     (forthcoming)  Saturation, Crawford Gallery, Ireland 

2021     (forthcoming) Looking Forward, Pier 24, San Francisco, CA      

2021     Growing up in Photography, Telfair Museum, Savannah, GA

2020     Reset, FUTURES, online

2020     Athens Photography Festival, Benaki Museum, Athens, Greece

2019     Snap Judgements, Gallery of Photography, Dublin, Ireland 

2019     Close to Home, Shulamit Nazarian, Los Angeles, CA  

2019     Looking Back, Pier 24, San Francisco, CA      

2019     Radial Survey, Silver Eye Center for Photography, Pittsburgh, PA  

2018     3rd Beijing Biennial, CAFA Art Museum, Beijing 

2018     ING Unseen Talent Award, Unseen Amsterdam, Amsterdam 

2018     Everyday Muse, LTD Los Angeles, CA

2018     Said by her, Lesley Heller Gallery, New York, NY

2018     HYERES Festival, Villa Noailles, Hyeres, France 

2018     Camouflage, deceive, imitate, Curated by Josiane Imhasly, Old Factory, Zurich

2017     Visible Range, Deli Gallery, NY

2017     Public Installation for Biblioteca Panizzi, Curated by Luca Massaro, Reggio Emilia, Italy

2017     We Need To Talk, Petzel Gallery, New York, NY 

2017     Fondo Malerba per la Fotografia, Fabbrica del Vapore, Milan, Italy  

2017     Winter, Thomas Jaeckel Gallery, New York, NY 

2016     The Castle of Perseverance, Curated by Molly Surno, CRUSH Curatorial, Amagansett, NY

2016     REVIVER, ASHES/ ASHES, Los Angeles, CA

2016     REVIVER, Johalla Projects, Chicago, IL

2016     REVIVER, Danziger Gallery, New York, NY 

2016     Treading Water, TGIF Gallery, Brooklyn, NY

2016     Hillyer Art Space, Washington DC

2015     Black Mirror, Aperture Foundation, New York, NY

2015     20/20 Vision, Nominated by Seth Curcio, Christophe Guye Gallery, Zurich, Switzerland

2015     Benaki Museum, Athens Photography Festival 2015, Athens, Greece

2014     OPEN, Curated by Shane Lavalette, The Center for Fine Art Photography, CO, 

2014     FOAM Talent 2014, East Wing Gallery, Dubai 

2014     FOAM Talent 2014, Unseen Photo Fair, Amsterdam

2014     FOAM Talent 2014, L’Atelier Neerlandais, Paris 

2014     FRAMES, Curated by Hank Willis Thomas, Glasgow International Festival for Contemporary Art, Scotland

2014     First Year MFA Exhibition, Yale School of Art, Green Gallery, New Haven, CT

2014     Inaugural, 321 Gallery, Brooklyn, NY 

2013     Wexford Opera Festival, EXTRA, Ireland

2013     Daniel Cooney Gallery, Emerging Artists Auction, NYC

2013     White Boys, Curated by Hank Willis Thomas and Natasha Logan, Haverford College, PA

2013      89+, Serpentine Gallery, London, UK

2013     Some New Work in an Abandoned Apartment, Brooklyn, NY

2013     Signal Gallery, BLOG RE:BLOG, New York, NYC

2013     Cover The Walls, 7 Dunham, Brooklyn, NY

2013     The Irish Cultural Center, New York, NY

2013     Onward Compe, Project Basho, Philadelphia, PA

2013     Girls, Girls, Girls, 7 Dunham, Brooklyn, NY

2012     13/45, North Gallery, Oakland, CA

2012     Ramon’s Tailor, San Francisco, CA

2012     The Decades Show, Hub Robison Center, State College, PA

2012      The Dying Salon,  P.O Gallery, Oakland CA

2012      Zoller Gallery, State College, PA

 

SELECTED ONLINE PRESS & PRINT PUBLICATIONS

The Messy Truth, Episode 15, Eva O'Leary, 2020, online

Mfinanga, Mo, Eva O'Leary, EMMAZED, spring 2020, online 

Mosse, Richard, Through the looking glass, Irish Arts Review, Summer 2019, Print 

Meier, Anika, Eva O'Leary, Monopol, December 2019, Print 

Caffrey, Darren, Eva O'Leary / Spitting Image, Circa Magazine, online

Vilanova, Constance, Spitting Image, Les Inrocks, June, 2018, online

Le (Mauvais) Reve Americain, Portfolio, Le Magazine du Monde, April 29th, 2018, Print 

Smyth, Diane, Eva O'Leary wins the Hyeres Festival photographie Grand Prix, Brittish Journal of Photography, April 30th, 2018, Online

Wellneitz, Andreas, Eva O'Leary, Zeit Magazin, 12 Oktober 2017, Print

Weier, Sabine, Eva O'Leary, Camera Austria International, Issue 140, Print 

Heinrich, Will,  Eva O'Leary at Meyohas,  The New Yorker, October 16th, Print 

Glitten, Ariela, Eva O'Leary, Elephant Magazine, September 2017, Print 

Weiss, Isabella, Exhibition Review: Eva O'Leary at Meyohas, Musee Magazine, September 2017, Online

Stahel, Urs, Eva O'Leary, Concealer, Essay by Urs Stahel, 1000 Words,  June, 2017, Online 

Rina, Amelia, 5 Exhibitions to See in May, Aperture,  May 10, 2017, Online 

Sargent, Antwaun, Young Women Face the Camera Head-on in a Stark Photo Series, CREATORS, May 3, 2017, Online

Schwartz, Alexandra, What Teen-Age Girls See When They Look In The Mirror, The New Yorker,  May 7, 2017, Online 

Halpert, Juliana,  Critics' Pick: Eva O'Leary, ArtForum, April 21, 2017, Online 

Sargent, Antwaun, Art In America, The Outline, February 27, 2017, Online

Baras, Yevgeniya, Eva O'Leary, Maade Magazine, Issue 05, Print

Franca, Frank, Eva O'Leary, Fondo Malerba per la Fotografia, 2017, Print 

Maass, Angelika, Blicke unter die glatte Oberflache, Der Landbote, March 29, 2017, Print

Baroody, Maya,  How Eva O'Leary's Photographs Challenge the Metaphor of Surface and Beauty, The Fader, October 21, 2016, Online

Fulleylove, Rebecca, Eva O'Leary's Striking Images Tackle Consumerism and Masculinity, It's Nice That, September 01, 2016, Online

Nagaoka, Ricardo, Eva O'Leary, Ain't Bad Magazine; Independent Publisher of New Photographic Art,  August 23, 2016, Online

Frank, Priscilla, 10 Women Photographers Who Are Changing The Way We See The World, Huffington Post, August 13, 2016, Online

Renstrom, Elizabeth, Identity and Experience Are Examined Through the Portraiture of Eva O'Leary, VICE Photo Issue, August 08, 2016, Print

10 Yale Art Student Graduates Explore the Future of Photography, The Creators Project, July 11, 2016, Online

Sims, Jamie, The Best Photography from Yale’s MFA Students, THE NEW YORK TIMES ‘T’ STYLE MAGAZINE, May 12th, 2016, Online

Marshall, Max, Eva O'Leary, The Latent Image, September 5, 2016, Online

Leifheit, Matthew,  Eva O'Leary's Photos of Unnatural Nature, VICE Magazine, May 6, 2015, Print 

FOAM Magazine ‘FOAM Talent 2014’  Print 

Skidmore, Maisie, Photography: Eva O'Leary's beautiful, strange images capture our imagination, It's Nice That, 12 May 2014, Online

Eva O'Leary and Harry Griffin, BLINK Magazine #30, December 2013,  Print 

DIS,  Devils Den, Harry Griffin and Eva O'Leary, DIS Magazine, August 5, 2013, Online


RESIDENCIES

2012    Tyrone Guthrie Center, Annaghmakerrig, Ireland