Morgan O'Hara (born 1941 in

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), is a conceptual artist based in

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who works in performative drawing (Live Transmission) and social practice. She was the recipient of fellowships from the

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, 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

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, Washington, DC; the

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, Los Angeles, California; the

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, London, UK; the

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, New York, NY; Kupferstichkabinett Berlin, Germany;

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, Amsterdam;

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, Detroit, Michigan; the Arkansas Arts Center, Little Rock, Arkansas; Weatherspoon Gallery,

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; the

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, Hanover, New Hampshire; the Czech National Gallery, Prague; Moravska Galerie, Brno, Czech Republic; and Macau Art Museum, Macau, China. Her permanent site-specific wall drawings can be found in

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(2); Kobe, Japan (9), and Amsterdam, the Netherlands. Publications include seven volumes of LIVE TRANSMISSION drawings.

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{{DEFAULTSORT:OHara, Morgan American conceptual artists American women conceptual artists American contemporary artists American women performance artists American performance artists American 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