Born in Starkville, Mississippi 1957 Lives and works in Brooklyn, New York
School of the Art Institute of Chicago MFA Painting 1985
Rhode Island School of Design BFA Illustration 1979
Delta State University, Cleveland, MS 1974-76
| 2012 | - Linda Warren Projects, Chicago |
| 2010 | - Festival International d'Art Singulier, Chapelle de Penitents Noirs, Aubagne, France |
| 2009, 2007 | - Linda Warren Gallery, Chicago |
| 2005 | - WORK IN PROGRESS, Mississippi Museum of Art, Jackson |
| 2000 | - Fayerweather Art Gallery, University of Virginia, Charlottesville |
| 1998 | - Huntingdon College Art Gallery, Montgomery, AL
- Wright Art Center, Delta State University, Cleveland, MS |
| 1997 | - Tennessee Arts Commission, Nashville |
| 1994 | - Municipal Gallery, Jackson, MS |
| 1989 | - Francine Ellman Gallery, Los Angeles |
| 1986 | - Illinois Center, Chicago, curated by Dennis Adrian |
| 1984 | - Contemporary Arts Center, New Orleans |
| 2012 | - DAY JOB, curated by Nina Katchadourian, Albright College Center for the Arts, Reading, PA, and Pacific Northwest College of Art, Portland, OR |
| 2011 | - HEAD CASE, Lesley Heller Workspace, New York, curated by Laurel Farrin - 30: A BROOKLYN SALON, BRIC Rotunda Gallery, Brooklyn, NY, curated by Elizabeth Ferrer - CHAIN LETTER, Samsøn Projects, Boston, MA - NEXT Art Fair, Linda Warren Gallery booth, Merchandise Mart, Chicago |
| 2010-2011 | - DAY JOB, The Drawing Center, New York, NY, curated by Nina Katchadourian |
| 2009 | - ONCE UPON A TIME AND NOW, Evanston Art Center, IL - THE HAIRY WHO AND IMAGIST LEGACY IN CONTEMPORARY ART, at ART CHICAGO, Merchandise Mart, curated by Lynne Warren, Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago - ART CHICAGO, Linda Warren Gallery booth, Merchandise Mart (Also 2006, 2007, 2008) |
| 2007 | - THE MISSISSIPPI STORY, Mississippi Museum of Art |
| 2006/7 | - RAGDALE, Chicago Cultural Center, curated by Margaret Hawkins |
| 2006 | - SALTONSTALL: THE FIRST TEN YEARS, curated by Andrea Inselmann, Herbert Johnson Museum, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY - RISD BIENNIAL, Exit Art, New York, NY, curated by Robert Storr - ARTLA, Linda Warren Gallery Booth, Santa Monica Civic Center, CA - ART ADORED: Icons from the Permanent Collection, Mississippi Museum of Art, Jackson |
| 2005 | - BRIC PROJECT DIVERSITY, Corridor Gallery, Brooklyn, NY |
| 2004 | - THE MELTING, Rockefeller Arts Center, SUNY Fredonia - TELL ME A STORY OF A WORLD WITHOUT WORDS, City Without Walls, Newark, NJ - A SLOW READ, BRIC Rotunda Gallery, Brooklyn, NY, curated by Katarina Wong - SIX NEW YORK ARTISTS, Linda Warren Gallery, Chicago - SEEN & UNSEEN, Broadway Gallery, New York |
| 2003 | - ANNUAL JURIED EXHIBITION, Delaware Center for Contemporary Arts, Wilmington |
| 2002 | - ART AT STEEPLETOP, Millay Colony for the Arts, Austerlitz, NY |
| 2001-2 | - ART CONTEMPORANI DE MUNTANYA, Universitat de Lleida, Plaça de Siurana , Lleida, Spain; Ecomuseu, Valls d'Aneu, Spain |
| 1999 | - LEST WE FORGET, Amory Arts Center, West Palm Beach, FL |
| 1996 | - RED CLAY SURVEY BIENNIAL, Huntsville Museum of Art, AL |
| 1995 | - CONFESSIONS, Woodruff Arts Center, Atlanta |
| 1994 | - ALEX O'NEAL AND JAN HANKINS, P. S. 122, New York |
| 1989 | - NEW AMERICAN TALENT, Austin Museum of Art, Austin, TX, curated by John Caldwell |
| 1988 | - BIGGER THAN A BREADBOX, S.I.T.E., Culver City, California |
| 1987 | - FIFTY YEARS OF VISUAL CREATION, Memphis College of Art |
| 1986 | - FOUR ARTISTS, Randolph Street Gallery, Chicago |
| 2012 | - Hambidge Center Residency, Rabun Gap, Georgia |
| 2011 | - New York Foundation for the Arts Fellowship in Drawing |
| 2009 | - Camargo Foundation Fellowship, Cassis, France - Byrdcliffe Art Colony Residency, Woodstock, NY |
| 2008 | - Ragdale Foundation Residency, Lake Forest, IL (Also 1995) - Artists Fellowships, Inc., New York, Assistance Grant |
| 2006 | - Centre d'Art i Natura Residency, Farrera de Pallars, Spain (Also 1996, 2010) |
| 2004 | - Council of Danish Artists, Refugiet Klitgaarden Residency, Skagen, Denmark - Saltonstall Foundation Residency, Ithaca, NY |
| 2001 | - New York Foundation for the Arts Fellowship in Drawing - Millay Colony for the Arts Residency, Austerlitz, NY - Dorland Mountain Arts Colony Residency, Temecula, CA (Also 1996, 1999) |
| 2000 | - Fundación Valparaíso Residency, Mojácar, Spain |
| 1999 | - John Simon Guggenheim Foundation Fellowship in Painting, New York |
| 1998 | - Individual Fellowship, Tennessee Arts Commission, Nashville |
| 1997 | - Djerassi Resident Artists Program, Woodside, CA |
| 1995 | - Tyrone Guthrie Centre Residency, County Monaghan, Ireland |
| 1987-88 | - National Endowment for the Arts Visual Artists Fellowship in Painting |
Aletti, Vince, "Goings On About Town, The Drawing Center",The New Yorker (January 31, 2011)
Rislene Achour, "Le festival d'art singulier:cap sur international /Rencontre : Alex O'Neal invite les enfants à créer dans son atelier," La Provence, Marseille, France (July 27, 2010)
Patti Carr Black, Art In Mississippi, University of Mississippi Press (1999)
Patti Carr Black and Robin Dietrick, The Mississippi Story, Mississippi Museum of Art (2007)
Stephanie Cash and David Ebony, "Artworld", Art In America (June 1999)
Holland Cotter, "Sampling Brooklyn, Keeper of Eclectic Flames", ART REVIEW, The New York Times ( January 23, 2004)
Tobi Elkin, "Gallery Hop: Lesley Heller Workspace and James Fuentes," Arts, The Lo-Down, New York / thelodownny.com (October 27, 2011)
Shirley Gonzales, "Two at Ely," New Haven Register, CT (April 13, 1986)
J.P. Jacob, "The Jury is Out," ARTVIEW, The Austin Chronicle, TX (June 2, 1989)
Nina Katchadourian, "Day Job", Drawing Papers 95, The Drawing Center, New York (2010)
Jeffrey McNary, "Alex O'Neal /Linda Warren Gallery," New Art City, Chicago (July 20, 2009)
Natasha Pickowicz, "Johnson Museum hosts Saltonstall retrospective show"," The Ithaca Journal, NY ( June 22, 2006)
Nicole Pietrantoni, Editor, The Individual Artist Fellowship In Visual art, Craft, and Media, Tennessee Arts Commission, Nashville (2007)
Linda Romine, "Memphians Land Back to Back New York Exhibitions," Memphis Business Journal (March 7-11, 1994)
Eva Soncin, "L'art du blues," La Marseillaise, Aubagne, France (July 27, 2010)
Mary Ellen Sullivan, "Alex O'Neal: Lick The Sun, Linda Warren Gallery", Regional Roundup: Chicago, ARTINFO.COM (March 21, 2007)
Lynne Warren, Curator, Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, "Reach for the Sky," Essay for Alex O'Neal:Work In Progress , Mississippi Museum of Art, Jackson (Spring 2005), and "Abstract Painting and the Belief in the Authentic," Commentary for Randolph Street Gallery, Chicago (November 1986)
Wienberg, Lauren, "Art Review: Alex O'Neal", Time Out Chicago, Issue 230 (July 23–29, 2009)
James Yood, "Four Artists," New Art Examiner, Chicago (February 1987)
Steven T. Zevitas, Editor, "New American Paintings", Volumes 16 and 38, Open Studios Press, Wellesley, MA (March 2002 and June1998)