Jamie O’Connell was born in 1985 in Bolivia Hill, New South Wales, Australia. Lives and works in Naarm/Melbourne, Australia.
Jamie O’Connell is an artist whose work explores complex ideas around temporalities, relating to themes including uncharted territories, geography and astrology. Working across sculpture, video, neon and site-specific installations, O’Connell incorporates elements of popular culture and the common vernacular, and uses linguistic wordplay as a conceptual impulse. O’Connell’s work reflects on the experience of time and physical space within the context of late capitalism.

Selected works (32)
Exhibitions (4)
South Yarra
19 Dec.–21 Dec.
2024
Brunswick
26 Jul.–24 Aug.
2024
City
27 May.–25 Jun.
2022
Brunswick
12 Mar.–17 Apr.
2021
Curriculum vitae (PDF)
Selected Solo and Two-Person Exhibitions
- 2024
- ‘Sins of the Cloud’, Neon Parc, Melbourne
- 2022
- ‘An Endless Supply’, Hamish McKay, Wellington
- ‘WORLD BUILDER, WORLD DESTROYER’, Neon Parc, Melbourne
- 2021
- ‘Rucas, Bitcoin and The Four Seasons’, Neon Parc, Melbourne
- 2018
- ‘Blue Blindness’, NKN, Melbourne
- 2017
- ‘Love Job, Kieren Seymour & Dana Hoey’, Sutton Projects, Melbourne
- ‘Meet The Family, Kieren Seymour’, RMIT Project Space, Melbourne
- 2015
- ‘Peace of Mind, Kieren Seymour & Holly Wilson’, RM, Auckland
- ‘Burning Your Furniture to have the Warmest House in the Street, Kieren Seymour and Jackson Slattery’, Alaska Projects, Sydney
- ‘Lucas Golding & Kieren Seymour’, Long Division, Melbourne
- 2014
- ‘Kieren Seymour and Luke Sands’, Sutton Projects, Melbourne
- ‘Best Friend, Worst Friend’, TCB Art Inc, Melbourne
- 2013
- ‘Buridans Ass’, Utopian Slumps Project Space, Melbourne
Selected Group Exhibitions
- 2023
- ‘The National 4: New Australian Art’, Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney
- ‘Thin Skin’, Monash University Museum of Art (MUMA), Melbourne, curated by Jennifer Higgie
- 2022
- ‘Zombie Eaters’, Murray Art Museum, Albury
- ‘Variations’, Blindside Gallery, Melbourne
- 2017
- ‘Group show’, Torrance Art Museum, Los Angeles
- ‘Guts Salon’, curated by Bill Hawkins, Guts Salon, South Yarra
- ‘Irene Rose’ curated James Parkinson, Irene Rose, Melbourne
- ‘They Sprayed Him With Hisses’, curated by Patrice Sharkey, West Space, Melbourne
- ‘Waiting For The Sun To Rise’, curated by Lucina Lane, TCB, Melbourne
- 2016
- ‘A Global Audit: Drawing Everywhere’, SACI Institute, Florence, Italy
- 2015
- ‘Sydney Contemporary’, curated by ACMI, Ulanda Blair and Jess Bram, Sydney
- ‘Flake Presents’, curated by Kate Meakin, Melbourne
- ‘Thirty Twenty Seven’, curated by Chris Dolman, Sydney
- ‘The Sweet Life’, curated by Nick Chilvers, Blindside, Melbourne
- 2014
- ‘Fin’, Utopian Slumps, Melbourne.
- ‘Martin Kippenberger’, Neon Parc, Melbourne
- ‘Das Boot’, Next Wave, Melbourne.
- ‘Group Show’, Brunswick Lakes, Melbourne
- ‘Melbourne Now’, Channels, Speakeasy Cinema, Melbourne
- 2013
- ‘Wired for Melbourne’, Ian Potter Centre, NGV Australia, Melbourne
- ‘Channels’, ACMI, Melbourne.
- STUDIO 6- PROJECT 3. Group Exhibition: Artwork Documentation, Melbourne
- ‘感情警備員ビザ’, featured in collaboration with Toru Ishigaki & Luke Cornelis Sands, Bonmot, Bus Projects, Melbourne
- TCB Art Inc, Melbourne.
- Interpreting Variable Arrangments, Supermarket-2013-Stockholm Independent Art Fair
- ‘Drunk vs. Stoned III’, Neon Parc, Melbourne
- 2012
- ‘Nell Artbar, (Eye for an Eye feat. Luke Sands ‘Contact lenses for Kieren’& Go to the Devil and Shake Yourself)’, MCA, Sydney
- ‘That’s Hats’, Place of Assembly, Melbourne