"Jimmy O'Neal defies artistic categorization. His fascination with the time-space continuum draws him to all corners of arts and sciences. The metaphysical works that result are peripheral evidence of the worlds that lay beyond our conscious mind and perception." - Brad Thomas curator of the Museum of Davidson College.

Jimmy O'Neal (born 1967, Atlanta Ga.) He was classically trained in "painting" at an early age, with interest in physics, science and biology. He was offered a scholarship to attend Savannah College of Art and Design in 1985. There he started showing work professionally in major galleries his second year of college.
With numerous gallery and museum shows, international commission travels to Holland, Zurich and France as well as theatrical experience, 3d video work and recording contracts under his belt, decided to go to graduate school where he started working on larger projects such as painting the worlds largest painting for the Guinness Book of World Records in 1995. After experiencing the immersive qualities of a 80,000 square ft. painting, he started working on interactive realities, conceptual time machine installations as well as developing his own mirrored paint to immerse the viewer within a single brush stroke. With his interest in immersive work and the sociological systems they create, he was commissioned in 1999 to produce an installation work on a three hundred acre peninsula by Andreas Bechtler. This project entitled OV project serves as a hikable experience on a spiritual and esoteric level based in the sacred geometry of nature.
O'Neal lectures to diverse groups nationally and internationally such as museums, college universities, architects, designers, galleries and children. His interest in sparking the creative mind has led him down many paths exploring diverse medium while maintaining a strength in classical forms. This has also led him to develop such technological artworks as "brain machine", a device that paints from EEG connections to the artist. This work placed him in the public eye via television interviews etc and he was chosen for a large scale exhibition entitled, "Painting 4", comprised of 4 revolutionary painters from around the globe (Ingrid Calame, Katharina Grosse, Michael Lin, Jimmy O'Neal) for The Rose Art Museum, Brandeis University in 2003. With this came more museum shows as well as corporate commissions.
A recent large scale mirrored work of "The Nine Muses" was installed at the new Cobb Energy Performing Arts Centre in Atlanta Ga. 2007. as well as a recent museum acquisition of the interactive "REVOL ANGELS". He is currently working on an solar electric hybrid car for the Progressive Insurance Automotive X PRIZE with the emphasis on a affordable car design as a work of interpersonal, conceptual fine art.
He lives and works in the mountains of WNC with his wife and three children.
overawed@mindspring.com



BFA, MFA, Savannah College of Art and Design, Savannah Ga.

SELECTED EXHIBITIONS, COMMISSIONS and PROJECTS

2008- Qualia, The Bill Lowe Gallery, Atlanta, Ga.
DODO, Progressive Insurance Automotive X PRIZE

2007- The Nine Muses, Cobb Energy Performing Arts Centre, Atlanta Ga.
Fountain/Seven Waters, Johnston Development Group, Greenville SC.
Make it New, Asheville Art Museum, Asheville NC.
Revolangels, The Bechtler Museum of Art, Charlotte NC.

2006- Cross Currents II, Mint Museum of Art, Charlotte NC.
Shock and Awe, Private Space, Holly Wood Ca.
This & That, Santorini Hotel, Greece

2005- Trumpets Gallore, The Bill Lowe Gallery, Santamonica Ca.
Cross Currents, North Carolina Museum of Art, Raleigh, NC.
Angel Web, The Bill Lowe Gallery, Atlanta, Ga.
Activating Space, Jacksonville Museum of Modern Art

2004- The Domino Effect, The Santa Fe Art Institute, Sante Fe New Mexico
Primacy of Movement, The Joie Lassiter Gallery, Charlotte, NC
Twitch, College of Santa Fe, Santa Fe, NM,

2003- Painting4, Ingrid Calame, Katharina Grosse, Michael Lin, Jimmy
O'Neal, The Rose Art Museum, Brandeis University, Waltham, Ma.
Home Grown, SECCA(SouthEastern Center for Contemporary Art),
Winston Salem, NC
In Holographic Glances, SGF Atlanta, GA.

2002- Jimmy O'Neal: Speculum, Van Every Gallery, Davidson College,
Davidson, NC
Jimmy O'Neal: Decade, The Lowe Gallery, Atlanta, Ga

2001- Jimmy O'Neal, The Lowe Gallery, Atlanta, Ga.
Rites of Passage, Tenth Annual Art Exhibition at TrizecHahn,
Charlotte, NC
Virtually Infinite, Marketing group,Tryon Center for Visual Art,
Charlotte, NC
You Are Here, Charlotte Transportation,Tryon Center for Visual Art,
Charlotte, NC Media Throne, The Fox Network,Tryon Center for
Visual Art, Charlotte, NC

2000- Jimmy O'Neal: The O.V. Project, Little Italy Peninsula Art Center,
Mt.Holly, NC
Jimmy O'Neal: Indifferent Staves, Carolina Theater, Charlotte, NC
In The Woods, Little Italy Peninsula Art Center, Mt.Holly, NC

1999- Bid for Life, The Lowe Gallery, Atlanta, Ga.
Requiem, Nexus Center for Contemporary Arts, Atlanta, Ga.
Jimmy O'Neal: Time Machines, Hero Space, performance, Atlanta
College of Art
Time Machines Tour, Zurich, Paris, Trance en Provence south of
France.

1998- Testosterone, Vaknin Schwartz, Atlanta, Ga.
An Interpretation of the Assumption, Hero Space, Atlanta, Ga.
The Analogy Contest, Fulcrum performance, Hexagon Charlotte, NC

1997- Vision Explosion, 8th Street Building, Charlotte, NC
Jimmy O'Neal: Three in the Center, Context Gallery, Charlotte, NC
Maximalism Sound Works, C Space, Charlotte, NC