Morgan O'Hara (born 1941 in
New York
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), is a conceptual artist based in
Venice
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who works in performative drawing (Live Transmission) and social practice.
She was the recipient of fellowships from the
Pollock-Krasner Foundation,
Gottlieb Foundation, and Artists Fellowship Inc and The Pollock-Krasner Foundation's Lee Krasner Lifetime Achievement Award, which was awarded in 2017.
Her work is represented in public collections, including the
National Gallery of Art
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, Washington, DC; the
Hammer Museum
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, Los Angeles, California; the
British Museum
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, London, UK; the
Metropolitan Museum of Art
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, New York, NY;
Kupferstichkabinett Berlin, Germany;
Stedelijk Museum
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Cranbrook Art Museum
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, Detroit, Michigan; the
Arkansas Arts Center
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, Little Rock, Arkansas; Weatherspoon Gallery,
Greensboro, North Carolina; the
Hood Museum of Art
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, Hanover, New Hampshire; the
Czech National Gallery
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, Prague; Moravska Galerie, Brno, Czech Republic; and Macau Art Museum, Macau, China.
Her permanent site-specific wall drawings can be found in
Macau, China
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(2); Kobe, Japan (9), and Amsterdam, the Netherlands.
Publications include seven volumes of LIVE TRANSMISSION drawings.
References
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American conceptual artists
Women conceptual artists
American contemporary artists
American women performance artists
American performance artists
Feminist artists
20th-century American artists
21st-century American artists
21st-century American women artists
20th-century American women artists
1941 births
Living people
American expatriates in Italy