Contributors

Joseph O’Neill is the author of five books, the most recent being The Dog, a novel. O’Neill’s previous novel, Netherland, was named one of the “10 Best Books of the Year” for 2008 by the New York Times and won the 2009 PEN/Faulkner Prize.  

Boru O’Brien O’Connell is an artist based in New York. He uses video, film, photography, writing, and sculpture to work within a wide range of venues, media, and collaboration. Upcoming and ongoing projects include an installation for “Works Sited,” a program at the Los Angeles Central Public Library curated by Olivien Cha, and a residency at EMPAC (Renssalaer Polytechnic Institute, NY). His first solo exhibition in New York will take place at the Kitchen in January, 2014. Website

Brian O’Doherty (b. 1928, Ireland) has had a remarkable and multifaceted career as artist, critic, novelist, and more. After working as a medical doctor and researcher in the UK, O’Doherty relocated to the US, where he hosted two network television shows on art; held posts as critic for the New York Times and editor of Art in America; edited and designed the groundbreaking “conceptual issue” of the multimedia magazine-in-a-box Aspen, a touchstone for Triple Canopy; authored the seminal essay series Inside the White Cube; and, as a director for the NEA visual arts and media programs, helped make Soho a magnet for artists, coining the term “alternative space” and championing early video art. From 1972 to 2008, he worked as an artist under the pseudonym Patrick Ireland. To date, he has mounted over forty solo exhibitions including a recent retrospective at NYU’s Grey Art Gallery (2007). O’Doherty is the author of several novels, including The Deposition of Father McGreevy (2000), which earned him a nomination for the Booker Prize. P! and Simone Subal Gallery will open a joint solo exhibition of O’Doherty’s work in March 2014. Read more about O’Doherty’s extraordinary life and accomplishments » Website

Meghan O’Hara is a San Francisco-based filmmaker who holds an MFA in documentary production from Stanford University. Her current work focuses on the contemporary relevance of representations of the cold war. Along with Mike Attie, she is in production on a documentary that follows a group of Vietnam War reenactors, many of whom are veterans of recent wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. Website

Lauren O’Neill-Butler is a New York–based writer and the managing editor of artforum.com. Website

Ken Okiishi is an artist who lives between New York and Berlin. His books include One Season in Hell (2007) and A Fair to Meddling Story (2008), and his writing has appeared in Bidoun and Artforum. Website

Okwui Okpokwasili is a Brooklyn-based writer, choreographer, and actress working at the intersection of theater, dance, and installation. She collaborates regularly with Peter Born and Ralph Lemon. She has been the recipient of numerous awards and fellowships.  

Sofía Olascoaga is a curator at Museo Universitario Arte Contemporáneo (MUAC) in Mexico City. As a curator, she works at the intersection of art and education by activating spaces for critical thinking and collective action. Olascoaga’s ongoing research project, Between Utopia and Failure, assesses the productive tension between utopia and failure in models for intentional communities developed in Mexico in past decades. In 2012 she received the Cda-Projects Grant for Artistic Research and Production for this work. Olascoaga has been a research fellow at Independent Curators International; a curatorial fellow at the Whitney Museum of American Art’s Independent Study Program; and head of education and public programs at Museo de Arte Carrillo Gil in Mexico City.  

Wendy Olsoff  

Meg Onli is the assistant curator at the Institute of Contemporary Art at the University of Pennsylvania. Her 2017 exhibition "Speech/Acts" explores experimental black poetry and how the social and cultural constructs of language have shaped black American experiences. Prior to joining the ICA she was the program coordinator at the Graham Foundation for Advanced Studies in the Fine Arts. While at the Graham Foundation she worked on the exhibitions "Architecture of Independence: African Modernism" and "Barbara Kasten: Stages." In 2010 she created the website Black Visual Archive for which she was awarded a 2012 Creative Capital/Warhol Foundation Arts Writers Grant.  

Bill Orcutt was born in Miami in the year of Cuban missile crisis and educated in Florida’s finest institutions. Orcutt was a cofounder of the band Harry Pussy. Since 2009, he has released three solo albums and many cassettes and singles on Palilalia and Editions Mego, and played with Chris Corsano and Alan Bishop. Orcutt’s most recent album, A History of Every One, a collection of the most frequently mentioned songs in American literature, was inspired by a line from The Making of Americans and the scholarship of Elijah Wald and Eric Lott.  

Orphan  

Alejandro Matamala Ortiz is a designer, developer, and art book publisher, and cofounder of Ediciones Daga. His current work explores online artistic matter publication and archiving on decentralized networks. He is from Santiago de Chile, currently living in New York City.  

Jena Osman ’s books of poems include Public Figures (Wesleyan University Press, 2012), The Network (Fence Books 2010, selected for the National Poetry Series in 2009), An Essay in Asterisks (Roof Books, 2004), and The Character (Beacon Press, winner of the 1998 Barnard New Women Poets Prize). Website

Wazhmah Osman is an assistant professor in the Department of Media Studies and Production at Temple University. Her research focuses on the politics of representation. Her critically acclaimed documentary, Postcards from Tora Bora, has screened in film festivals nationally and internationally. Website

Rachel Ossip is Triple Canopy’s deputy editor and a contributing editor at n+1. She also designs books.  

Eugene Ostashevsky  

Nathaniel Otting  

Arthur Ou is an artist and writer based in New York. His work has been featured in publications including Blind Spot, Art on Paper, North Drive Press, Art in America, and The Photograph as Contemporary Art, new edition (Thames and Hudson). His writings have been published in Aperture, X-Tra, Afterall.org, Bidoun, Words Without Pictures, and artforum.com. Website

Virginia Overton is an artist based in Brooklyn. She is known for installations that place scavenged materials and those common to the manual trades into site-responsive configurations. She has presented solo exhibitions of her work at Kunsthalle Bern (2013); Mitchell-Innes & Nash (2013); The Kitchen, New York (2012); The Power Station, Dallas (2012); Freymond-Guth, Zurich (2011); and Dispatch, New York (2010). Her work is currently on view at the Westfälischer Kunsteverein, Munster, Germany.  

Rachel Owens lives and works in Brooklyn and is represented by ZieherSmith gallery. She received her MFA from the Art Institute of Chicago in 1999 and was awarded a fellowship by Socrates Sculpture Park in 2007. She has previously exhibited at Bellwether Gallery, Jack the Pelican Presents, Lehmann Maupin Gallery, and apexart. Website

Alison O’Daniel is an artist who lives in Los Angeles. She combines film, performance, sculpture, and installation as a call-and-response between mediums. She collaborates with hearing, Deaf, and hard-of-hearing composers, performers, athletes, and musicians in order to highlight the loss or re-creation of information as it passes through various channels, and to build a visual, aural, and haptic vocabulary for story-telling. O’Daniel has presented solo exhibitions at Bemis Center for Contemporary Arts (Omaha, Nebraska), Art in General (New York), Samuel Freeman Gallery and Shulamit Nazarian Gallery (Los Angeles), and Centre d’Art Contemporain Passerelle (Brest, France). Her work was featured in “Made in LA” at the Hammer Museum and at “Infinite Ear” at Garage Museum of Contemporary Art (Moscow) in 2018. She has received grants from the Rema Hort Mann Foundation, Center for Cultural Innovation, Art Matters, Franklin Furnace Fund, and the California Community Foundation.