Eryn O’Neill

Eryn O’Neill is an Ottawa-based painter whose work examines walking, construction landscapes, and urban transformation. Her paintings translate embodied observation of infrastructure into large-scale compositions.

Representation
Wall Space Gallery, Ottawa, ON
Ottawa Art Gallery Annexe, Ottawa, ON

Education

PhD Candidate, Cultural Mediations, Carleton University, Ottawa, ON (2024–2029)
MA, Art History, Carleton University, Ottawa, ON (2022)
MFA, University of Waterloo, Waterloo, ON (2018)
BFA, NSCAD University, Halifax, NS (2008)

Selected Solo Exhibitions

2026: Visualizing Urban Transformation, Wall Space Gallery, Ottawa, ON

2024: Construction Season, Wall Space Gallery, Ottawa, ON

2023: Stage 2: The Construction of Ottawa’s Light Rail, Preston Square, Ottawa, ON

2022: Travelling Vicariously: The High Line, Wall Space Gallery, Ottawa, ON

2020: Ottawa Underground, Wall Space Gallery, Ottawa, ON

2019: Desire Paths, Rotunda Gallery, Kitchener, ON

2019: Strangely Familiar, Button Factory Arts, Waterloo, ON

2018: Restrictions of Routine (MFA Thesis), University of Waterloo Art Gallery

Selected Group Exhibitions

2025: Overpass, Urban Art Collective, Ottawa, ON

2023: Interconnected, Ottawa Art Gallery Annexe, Ottawa, ON

2023: Drift With Me Darling, Wall Space Gallery, Ottawa, ON

2020: Made in Paint, Golden Artist Colours, New Berlin, NY

2018: Carmichael Canadian Landscape Exhibition, Orillia Museum of Art & History

Collections

City of Ottawa Art Collection

Perley-Robertson, Hill, and McDougall, LLP
Global Affairs Canada
R.W. Tomlinson Group of Companies
Edelman Group
Marathon Underground
Lahey Architects
Bray Construction
D-Squared Construction Ltd

Awards & Residencies

Elizabeth Greenshields Award, 2021
Elizabeth Greenshields Award, 2019
City of Ottawa Creation & Production Grant, 2020
Region of Waterloo Arts Fund Grant, 2019
Golden Foundation Artist Residency, New York, 2019
Vermont Studio Center Residency, 2016
Ontario Arts Council Visual Artists Grant, 2012

Art Fairs

The Artist Project, Toronto
Toronto Outdoor Art Exhibition
The New Art Festival, Ottawa
Plus Art Fair, Hamilton
Ottawa Art Expo