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SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2013
Happy Little Accidents, Mixed Greens New York, NY
The Box (Tucson), Museum of Contemporary Art, Tucson, AZ
2011
Blue Nude, Mixed Greens, New York, NY
2009
The Box (Texas), Mixed Greens, New York, NY
2007
Please Mr. Bowie, Come to My Show, Mixed Greens, New York, NY
2006
Pie Fight, Center for Contemporary Arts, Santa Fe, NM
Stranger, Finesilver Gallery, Houston, TX
Open Spaces, Socrates Sculpture Park, LIC, NY
Summer Space, Henri Bendel, New York, NY
2005
Cotton Puffs, Q-tips and Bathroom Mirrors, Evo Gallery, Santa Fe, NM
The Box, Mixed Greens, New York, NY
Open Spaces, Socrates Sculpture Park, LIC, NY
2004
Coke O’Neal, Aron Packer Gallery, Chicago, IL
2003
Coke O’Neal: Medicine Cabinet Portraits, Mixed Greens, New York, NY
Coke O’Neal: Icons, Museum of Contemporary Art, Tuscon, AZ
GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2015
Undressed, Philip Bloome Gallery, Nantucket, MA
2014
POLISH, Rox Gallery, New York, NY
2013
Come Together: Surviving Sandy, Year 1, The Dedalus Foundation and Industry City, 220 36th Street, Brooklyn, NY
2012
Flooded Art Party, 153 Imlay Red Hook Brooklyn, NY
FR**K OFF!, RH Gallery, New York, NY
AIR, Museum of Contemporary Art, Tucson, AZ
Children’s Museum of the Arts Benefit Show, New York, NY
What’s Big is Little/What’s Little is Big, VanGo! traveling exhibition through the Susquehanna Museum, PA
Brucennial, 159 Bleecker Street, New York, NY
2011
Mini Size Me: A Monumental Critique of Today's Handheld Society, Bakersfield Museum of Art, Bakersfield, CA
Enclosure, Roos Arts, Rosendale, NY
2010
Self & Family, A Recent Look, Charlotte Jackson Fine Art, Santa Fe, NM
Made in Tucson/Born in Tucson/Live in Tucson, Museum of Contemporary Art, Tucson, AZ
2009
X: Tenth Anniversary Show, Mixed Greens, New York, NY
Appetite for Nature, curated by Amy Hall Brown, Gallery 414, Brooklyn, NY
Hasselblad Masters On Tour, Cornwall House, Hong Kong; DASK Gallery, Copenhagen, Denmark; Milk Gallery, New York, NY; London, England
2008
A Relationship Left For Dead on the Lower East Side, Cuchifritos, New York, NY
2007
Art Tells a Story: Narratives in Art, VanGo! traveling exhibition, PA
Body Politic, Northern Illinois University Art Museum, DeKalb, IL
2006
Group Show, [Department], Stockholm, Sweden
Armory Show, with Socrates Sculpture Park, LIC, NY
2005
Pie Fight Performance, Center for Contemporary Arts, Santa Fe, NM
2004
Ice Cream Social, Mixed Greens, New York, NY
2003
Trespassers, Lyons Wier Gallery, New York, NY
Snapshot Now, Jamie Angell Gallery, Toronto, Canada
2002
Modern Living, Minima, Philadelphia, PA
Modern Living, Paint Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
Coke O’Neal, Furman Gallery at the Walter Reade Theater, Lincoln Center, New York, NY
2001
Film Stills, curated by Lauren Ross, White Columns, New York, NY
The Abandoned Playground, curated by Deric Carner, New York, NY
Mixed Greens at Space 101, Space 101, Brooklyn, NY
Zefer Gallery Group Exhibition, curated by Judy Schulich, New York, NY
2000
Meat Market Art Fair, with Mixed Greens, New York, NY
1999
Forever is a Hell of a Long Time, Bronwyn Keenan Gallery, New York, NY
1998
A show curated by Jennifer Bornstein, New York, NY
SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY
2011
Juric, Jozo. "The Glow In Between," Magazine Me Issue 09, February 2011.
2010
Hammond, Harmony. "Looking in the Back Door Charlotte Jackson exhibition takes another view of family," Albuquerque Journal, July 23, 2010.
Rainwater, Sarah. "Medicine Cabinet Portraits by Coke Wisdom O’Neal," apartmenttherapy.com, March 2, 2010.
Regan, Margaret, "Art Into the City," Tucson Weekly, April 8, 2010.
Sardy, Marin. "A portrait show meanders through the mysteries of identity," Santa Fe Reporter, July 21, 2010.
Shutler, Natalie, “A Look at the Winners of AOL’s “25 for 25” Arts Grants,” Artinfo.com, October 28, 2010.
The Progressive Corporation 2009 Annual Report.
2009
Scelfo, Julie. “Tenants of a Vanishing World,” The New York Times, March 4, 2009.
Shuster, Robert, "Dustin Yellin's 'Dust in the Brain Attic'; Coke Wisdom O'Neal at Mixed Greens; Sophie Calle's 'Take Care of Yourself'," The Village Voice, May 5, 2009.
Dantzic, Cynthia Maris, 100 New York Photographers, Schiffer Publishing, 154-55.
2008
Perkins, Sara, "San Isidro strikes a pose," The Brownsville Herald, December 15, 2008.
2007
Pasulka, Nicole. “Working With Family,” The Morning News, June 13, 2007.
West, Paige. The Art of Buying Art: Demystifying the Process of Finding, Appreciating, and Buying Contemporary Art on Any Budget, New York: Harper Collins, 2007.
2006
Kuczyriski, Alex. “Elegantly Wrapped, in Search of Itself,” The New York Times, July 6, 2006.
Klaasmeyer, Kelly. “Show Me Yours: Finesilver Gallery goes voyeuristic – in purses and bathrooms,” HoustonPress.com, March 16, 2006.
“Shortlist - Coke Wisdom O’Neal,” Village Voice, November 9-15, 2006.
2005
“Evo Gallery Takes Cool Ramble Through People’s Medicine Chests,” ABQ Journal, February, 2005.
Collins, Tom. “Squeaky Clean,” Santa Fe North, February 11, 2005.
Fischer, Zane. “Clean Product, Dirty Mind,” Santa Fe Reporter, February 2005.
2004
“Ice Cream Social,” NYPress, August 25-31, 2004.
“The Art of Bathroom Snooping,” The Chicago Tribune, May 26, 2004.
“Signpost Ahead,” New City, Chicago, April 29, 2004.
“The Medicine Man,” Women’s Wear Daily Beauty Biz, May 2004, p.37.
2003
Schuman, Joan. “Drawn to Draw,” Tuscan Weekly, December 11, 2003.
“Beautiful Voyeurism,” National Post, Toronto, November 27, 2003, p.AL8.
“From Russia with Lust,” Xtra!, October 16, 2003, p.27.
“Snap Decision,” NOW, October 23-29, 2003.
2002
“Traveling the Mind’s Eye Through the Lens of Five Photographers,” Berliner Kunst, vol. 7, no. 21, November 2002.
2001
“American Icons,” Addict, winter 2001–02.
Nakamura, Marie-Pierre. “Route Coke O’Neal,” Art Actuel, April 2001.
AWARDS AND HONORS
2013
Pollock-Krasner Foundation Grant Recipient
NYFA Relief Grant
Artist in residence MOCA Tucson
2012
Foundation For Contemporary Arts Grant Recipient
2010
AOL's "25 for 25" Grant Recipient
2009
Finalist, Hasselblad Masters Awards Competition
2004
Open Space Grant Recipient, Socrates Sculpture Park
Lives and works in New York, NY
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2013
Happy Little Accidents, Mixed Greens New York, NY
The Box (Tucson), Museum of Contemporary Art, Tucson, AZ
2011
Blue Nude, Mixed Greens, New York, NY
2009
The Box (Texas), Mixed Greens, New York, NY
2007
Please Mr. Bowie, Come to My Show, Mixed Greens, New York, NY
2006
Pie Fight, Center for Contemporary Arts, Santa Fe, NM
Stranger, Finesilver Gallery, Houston, TX
Open Spaces, Socrates Sculpture Park, LIC, NY
Summer Space, Henri Bendel, New York, NY
2005
Cotton Puffs, Q-tips and Bathroom Mirrors, Evo Gallery, Santa Fe, NM
The Box, Mixed Greens, New York, NY
Open Spaces, Socrates Sculpture Park, LIC, NY
2004
Coke O’Neal, Aron Packer Gallery, Chicago, IL
2003
Coke O’Neal: Medicine Cabinet Portraits, Mixed Greens, New York, NY
Coke O’Neal: Icons, Museum of Contemporary Art, Tuscon, AZ
GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2015
Undressed, Philip Bloome Gallery, Nantucket, MA
2014
POLISH, Rox Gallery, New York, NY
2013
Come Together: Surviving Sandy, Year 1, The Dedalus Foundation and Industry City, 220 36th Street, Brooklyn, NY
2012
Flooded Art Party, 153 Imlay Red Hook Brooklyn, NY
FR**K OFF!, RH Gallery, New York, NY
AIR, Museum of Contemporary Art, Tucson, AZ
Children’s Museum of the Arts Benefit Show, New York, NY
What’s Big is Little/What’s Little is Big, VanGo! traveling exhibition through the Susquehanna Museum, PA
Brucennial, 159 Bleecker Street, New York, NY
2011
Mini Size Me: A Monumental Critique of Today's Handheld Society, Bakersfield Museum of Art, Bakersfield, CA
Enclosure, Roos Arts, Rosendale, NY
2010
Self & Family, A Recent Look, Charlotte Jackson Fine Art, Santa Fe, NM
Made in Tucson/Born in Tucson/Live in Tucson, Museum of Contemporary Art, Tucson, AZ
2009
X: Tenth Anniversary Show, Mixed Greens, New York, NY
Appetite for Nature, curated by Amy Hall Brown, Gallery 414, Brooklyn, NY
Hasselblad Masters On Tour, Cornwall House, Hong Kong; DASK Gallery, Copenhagen, Denmark; Milk Gallery, New York, NY; London, England
2008
A Relationship Left For Dead on the Lower East Side, Cuchifritos, New York, NY
2007
Art Tells a Story: Narratives in Art, VanGo! traveling exhibition, PA
Body Politic, Northern Illinois University Art Museum, DeKalb, IL
2006
Group Show, [Department], Stockholm, Sweden
Armory Show, with Socrates Sculpture Park, LIC, NY
2005
Pie Fight Performance, Center for Contemporary Arts, Santa Fe, NM
2004
Ice Cream Social, Mixed Greens, New York, NY
2003
Trespassers, Lyons Wier Gallery, New York, NY
Snapshot Now, Jamie Angell Gallery, Toronto, Canada
2002
Modern Living, Minima, Philadelphia, PA
Modern Living, Paint Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
Coke O’Neal, Furman Gallery at the Walter Reade Theater, Lincoln Center, New York, NY
2001
Film Stills, curated by Lauren Ross, White Columns, New York, NY
The Abandoned Playground, curated by Deric Carner, New York, NY
Mixed Greens at Space 101, Space 101, Brooklyn, NY
Zefer Gallery Group Exhibition, curated by Judy Schulich, New York, NY
2000
Meat Market Art Fair, with Mixed Greens, New York, NY
1999
Forever is a Hell of a Long Time, Bronwyn Keenan Gallery, New York, NY
1998
A show curated by Jennifer Bornstein, New York, NY
SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY
2011
Juric, Jozo. "The Glow In Between," Magazine Me Issue 09, February 2011.
2010
Hammond, Harmony. "Looking in the Back Door Charlotte Jackson exhibition takes another view of family," Albuquerque Journal, July 23, 2010.
Rainwater, Sarah. "Medicine Cabinet Portraits by Coke Wisdom O’Neal," apartmenttherapy.com, March 2, 2010.
Regan, Margaret, "Art Into the City," Tucson Weekly, April 8, 2010.
Sardy, Marin. "A portrait show meanders through the mysteries of identity," Santa Fe Reporter, July 21, 2010.
Shutler, Natalie, “A Look at the Winners of AOL’s “25 for 25” Arts Grants,” Artinfo.com, October 28, 2010.
The Progressive Corporation 2009 Annual Report.
2009
Scelfo, Julie. “Tenants of a Vanishing World,” The New York Times, March 4, 2009.
Shuster, Robert, "Dustin Yellin's 'Dust in the Brain Attic'; Coke Wisdom O'Neal at Mixed Greens; Sophie Calle's 'Take Care of Yourself'," The Village Voice, May 5, 2009.
Dantzic, Cynthia Maris, 100 New York Photographers, Schiffer Publishing, 154-55.
2008
Perkins, Sara, "San Isidro strikes a pose," The Brownsville Herald, December 15, 2008.
2007
Pasulka, Nicole. “Working With Family,” The Morning News, June 13, 2007.
West, Paige. The Art of Buying Art: Demystifying the Process of Finding, Appreciating, and Buying Contemporary Art on Any Budget, New York: Harper Collins, 2007.
2006
Kuczyriski, Alex. “Elegantly Wrapped, in Search of Itself,” The New York Times, July 6, 2006.
Klaasmeyer, Kelly. “Show Me Yours: Finesilver Gallery goes voyeuristic – in purses and bathrooms,” HoustonPress.com, March 16, 2006.
“Shortlist - Coke Wisdom O’Neal,” Village Voice, November 9-15, 2006.
2005
“Evo Gallery Takes Cool Ramble Through People’s Medicine Chests,” ABQ Journal, February, 2005.
Collins, Tom. “Squeaky Clean,” Santa Fe North, February 11, 2005.
Fischer, Zane. “Clean Product, Dirty Mind,” Santa Fe Reporter, February 2005.
2004
“Ice Cream Social,” NYPress, August 25-31, 2004.
“The Art of Bathroom Snooping,” The Chicago Tribune, May 26, 2004.
“Signpost Ahead,” New City, Chicago, April 29, 2004.
“The Medicine Man,” Women’s Wear Daily Beauty Biz, May 2004, p.37.
2003
Schuman, Joan. “Drawn to Draw,” Tuscan Weekly, December 11, 2003.
“Beautiful Voyeurism,” National Post, Toronto, November 27, 2003, p.AL8.
“From Russia with Lust,” Xtra!, October 16, 2003, p.27.
“Snap Decision,” NOW, October 23-29, 2003.
2002
“Traveling the Mind’s Eye Through the Lens of Five Photographers,” Berliner Kunst, vol. 7, no. 21, November 2002.
2001
“American Icons,” Addict, winter 2001–02.
Nakamura, Marie-Pierre. “Route Coke O’Neal,” Art Actuel, April 2001.
AWARDS AND HONORS
2013
Pollock-Krasner Foundation Grant Recipient
NYFA Relief Grant
Artist in residence MOCA Tucson
2012
Foundation For Contemporary Arts Grant Recipient
2010
AOL's "25 for 25" Grant Recipient
2009
Finalist, Hasselblad Masters Awards Competition
2004
Open Space Grant Recipient, Socrates Sculpture Park
Lives and works in New York, NY