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O'Donnell, John John O’Donnell was conceived on Halloween, born on his father’s birthday, and raised in Montana. He lives and works in Connecticut. He is the founder of the TPSSF (The Puberty Survivors Support Forum) and the inventor of “Installage” (installation... {read more}	O'Keeffe, Georgia Georgia Totto O'Keeffe (November 15, 1887 – March 6, 1986) was an American artist. Born near Sun Prairie, Wisconsin, O'Keeffe was a major figure in American art from the 1920s.[1] She received widespread recognition for her technical contributions,... {read more}
Okamura, Arthur Arthur Okamura was born in Long Beach, California, February 24, 1932. He was interned at the Santa Anita Race Track "Assembly Center" soon after Pearl Harbor was bombed by Japan, on December 1, 1941. After 6 months, he and his family were... {read more}	Olaf, Erwin Erwin Olaf (Erwin Olaf Springveld) (born 1959 Hilversum, Netherlands) is a photographer.Olaf is most famous for his commercial and personal work. He has been commissioned to photograph advertising campaigns for large international companies such as... {read more}
Oldenburg, Claes Claes Oldenburg (b.1929)One of the most popular 20th century sculptors, the Swedish-born American sculptor, painter and pop artist Claes Oldenburg began his career in New York where he participated in numerous Happenings with artists including Jim... {read more}	Olitski, Jules Color Field painter, Jules Olitski was a GI Bill student in Paris, where he had his first solo exhibition in 1951. Later in New York, with his GI compatriot Ellsworth Kelly, "he explored the autonomy of materials in terms of a completely flat... {read more}
Oliveira, Nathan Nathan Oliveira (born December 19, 1928) is an American painter, printmaker, and sculptor, born in Oakland, California. Since the late 1950s he is the veteran of nearly one hundred solo exhibitions and hundreds of group exhibitions, in important... {read more}	Olsen, Otto Otto Olsen is one of the more mysterious Danish artists. Olsen never received any training in arts nor was he from an upper class family. Olsen was from a normal working class family and both Olsen and his farther worked for many years as machinists... {read more}
Olugebefola, Ademola "Ademola Olugebefola was a pioneer in creating a new image of Blackness in the 1960s and 70s. With his colleagues, he presented images of a new African, one that encompassed not just the continental entity but also the diasporic reality. But... {read more}	Omiros, George For Greek photographer George-Omiros, photography hasn’t always been a profession. A marketing professional by training, George worked in the corporate world for over 20 years, pursuing photography as a hobby on the side. However, George eventually... {read more}
Ondák, Roman Roman Ondák (*1966 in Žilina, Slovakia) studied graphic design and painting at the Academy of Fine Arts in Bratislava from 1988 to 1994. He also studied at Slippery Rock University, Pennsylvania (1993); Collegium Helveticum in Zurich (1999–2000);... {read more}	Ono, Yoko Yoko Ono (born February 18, 1933), is a Japanese-American artist and musician who is most widely known for her relationship with John Lennon of The Beatles. When Yoko first met John Lennon, she was an artist exhibiting in the UK. Working with artist... {read more}
Onofre, João João Onofre was born in 1976 in Lisbon, Portugal, where he continues to live and work. Primarily creating performance-based videos, Onofre also uses photography and text. Many of his pieces appropriate a historical artwork, a song or a film scene as... {read more}	Opalka, Roman Roman Opałka (born 1931) is a Polish painter born in France.In 1965, in his studio in Warsaw, Opalka began painting a process of counting - from one to infinity. Starting in the top left-hand corner of the canvas and finishing in the bottom right-... {read more}
Oppedisano, Joe Joe Oppedisano is a New York based fashion photographer and also well known for his iconic gay photo books. His most recent works include the books UNCENSORED, TESTOSTERONE, and KNOCKOUT!A hard man is good to find!Men and their hormones - hard, wild... {read more}	Orensanz, Marie Marie Orensanz a passé son existence créative à mi-chemin entre l’Argentine, son pays, et la France, qui lui a servi de refuge pendant les années de la dictature militaire. Son univers profondément conceptuel aborde les questions du sens des choses... {read more}
Orlan, Mireille Orlan (born Mireille Suzanne Francette Porte) is a French artist, born May 30, 1947 in Saint-Étienne, Loire. She adopted the name Orlan in 1971. She lives and works in Los Angeles, New York, and Paris. She was invited to be a scholar in residence... {read more}	Orloff, Chana Chana Orloff (1888 -1968) was a Ukraine-born Israeli figurative sculptor.She immigrated to Ottoman Palestine in 1905 and settled in Jaffa, where she found a job as a cutter and seamstress. She joined Hapoel Hatzair workers movement. After five years... {read more}
Orlyk, Harry Harry Orlyk was born in Troy, New York in 1947. In 1971 after graduating college, he went on to graduate school at the University of Nebraska at Lincoln . Over the next nine years, he was influenced by several Nebraskan artists. "Still-life painter... {read more}	Orozco, Gabriel Gabriel Orozco (born April 27, 1962) is a Mexican artist, called "one of the most influential artists of this decade, and probably the next one too."[1] He was born in Jalapa, Veracruz, Mexico and educated in the Escuela Nacional de Artes Plásticas... {read more}
Oshima, Yumiko Yumiko Ōshima (大島弓子 Ōshima Yumiko?, born August 31, 1947) is a female Japanese manga artist and a member of Year 24 group.She made her debut in 1968 with Paula's Tears in Weekly Margaret {read more}	Ossorio, Alfonso A. Alfonso A. Ossorio (1916–1990) was an abstract expressionist artist who was born in Manila in 1916 to wealthy Filipino parents from the province of Negros Occidental. His heritage was Hispanic, Filipino, and Chinese. Between the ages of eight and... {read more}
Osuitok, Isaac Little is known about Isaac Osuitok, other than he was the son of the great Inuit sculptor Osuitok Ipeelee, and that tragically, he took his own life at a young age. The only reason we even know this much about the artist is due to an earlier... {read more}	Otterness, Tom Tom Otterness (b. 1952 in Wichita, Kansas) is an American sculptor whose works adorn parks, plazas, subway stations, libraries, courthouses and museums in New York---most notably in Rockefeller Park in Battery Park City and in the 14th Street/... {read more}
Oursler, Tony Tony Oursler (b. New York City, 1957) is a multimedia and installation artist.Tony Oursler is known for his fractured-narrative handmade video tapes including The Loner, 1980 and EVOL 1984. These works involve elaborate sound tracks, painted sets,... {read more}	Overbeeke, Aernout Born May 17, 1951 in the Netherlands. Taught himself History of Art at the Rijksmuseum and the Stedelijk Museum in Amsterdam. Being expelled from high school made focussing on photography possible. Assisted Dutch photographer Ed van der Elsken for... {read more}