1971 Born Auckland.
1994 Graduated BFA, Elam SoFA, UA.
1990 Stylist/wardrobe assistant in theatre, video, TV, film.
1990-92 Member of 'Pacific Theatre'.
1994 Recipient of Pasifika Fashion Excellence Award, Auckland.
1995 Artist in Residence, DPAG. Joined Pacific Sisters Collective.
1996 Wardrobe assistant ‘City Life' TV series.
1997 Awarded Rita Angus Artist in Residence, Wellington.
1998 Costume Props artist ‘Xena / Hercules' TV series.
1999 Artist in Residence, Whitireia Polytechnic, Porirua.
1999-2001 Part-time Senior Tutor, Sculpture, Elam SoFA, UA.
2001 Founding member, Cuckoo Collective.
2001-03 Senior Tutor, Te Toi / Hou-New Art, Elam SoFA, UA.
2002 Artist in Residence, Rangiruru Girls' School, Christchurch.
2003 Artist in Residence APEXART, New York.
2004 Artist in Residence, Art In General, New York.
2005 Artist in Residence, Dunedin College of Education/Creative New Zealand Art Education Residency, Dunedin, New Zealand
2006 ‘Kikau Broom Project' School workshops, Rarotonga.
2006 Artist Workshops in Schools, ‘Pasifika Stlyes', Cambridge UK.
2007 Artist in Residence, NMIT - Nelson Marlborough Institute of Technology, Tautai Contemporary Arts Trust, Artist Mentor (Tertiary.)

Ani O'Neill was born in Auckland in 1971, and is of Cook Island and
Irish/NZ descent. She graduated with a BFA from Elam School of Fine Arts, Auckland University in 1994 (sculpture/installation), and has since exhibited extensively in New Zealand & the Pacific Region, Australia, as well as shown in L.A, N.Y.C, Singapore, Brazil, Poland, Paris, Lithuania.

Ani often works collaboratively, and makes artwork that draws on skills
learnt from her Cook Islands grandmother, utilising traditional craft techniques combined with contemporary concepts and urban sensibilities to convey her understanding of Polynesian people and culture, and its place in the world

Selected Solo Exhibitions:

1994 Sydney, C.B.D. Gallery 'Four Artists at C.B.D.' (8 Lei and 3
Mamas); Auckland, AAG, window 'Tivaevae for a Bottled Ocean'

1995 Auckland, Teststrip Gallery 'Wh.I.M'

1997 Wellington, CG and Auckland, Artspace 'Cottage Industry';
Christchurch, The Physics Room 'Aniwaniwa'

1999 Sydney, Mori Gallery 'monoPoly'; Auckland, Archill Gallery, P10
street installation space 'Doggie in the Window'

2001 Los Angeles, Chinatown, Lord Mori Gallery (aka The Happy Lion)
'Doodles'; Auckland, Sue Crockford Gallery 'Comfort Zone';
Christchurch, Kiosk project: '...sorry I couldn't return your call, a
snake swallowed my cell phone.'

2002 Auckland, Sue Crockford Gallery 'ei line'

2003 Auckland: Stella Gregg shop window 'Bags'; Sue Crockford Gallery
'Fresh Eke'

2004 New York, Chinatown, Art in General 'The Buddy System' (with
Co-Buddy Megan Hansen-Knarhoi)

2005 Hamilton, WMAH 'Fresh Eke'

2006 Melbourne, Cultural Festival, Melbourne 2006 Commonwealth Games, Arc One Gallery, ‘The Buddy System'

2007 Nelson, The Suter gallery, Lei Mai: made fresh in Nelson

Selected Group Exhibitions:

1993 Auckland: Artspace 'a. Genda'; ASA Gallery 'Voyages
Symposium';The Old Telephone Exchange Building 'Elam Sculpture
Exhibition'; ASA Gallery 'Christmas Show'

1994 Wellington: Town Hall (Festival of Arts) 'Tu Fa'atasi'; CG
'Bottled Ocean' (toured)

1995 Auckland: Fisher Gallery 'The Wallpaper Show'; Karangahape Rd,
Teststrip, 'WOW' (Ani and Yuk's show); New Plymouth, GBAG and
Wellington, CG 'The Nervous System'; Dunedin, DPAG 'Takitahi:
Multicultural Weavers'; Lower Hutt, DAM 'H2O'; Wellington, New Work
Studio 'In the Night Kitchen' (with Monique Redmond); Auckland,
Gallery 23A 'Pilot Error'

1996 Auckland, AAG 'A Floral Extravaganza' (with Judy Darragh);
Sydney, The Performance Space 'Installation Site-Specific' (as part of
Sydney's Pacific Wave Festival); Auckland, Mandalay Events Centre and
Apia, Tusitala Hotel 'Motu Tagata' fashion show with Pacific Sisters

(7th South Pacific Festival of Arts); Auckland, Lopdell House Gallery
'Lapa'; Brisbane, QAG 'Present Encounters: The Second Asia-Pacific
Triennial of Contemporary Art'; Auckland, Outreach 'Free Polynesia
from the Bomb'; Christchurch, The Physics Room 'Monitor' (video
collaboration 'Hyper Girls' with Lisa Reihana)

1996-97 The Netherlands, Nijmeegs Volkendundig Museum (Geradus van der Leeuw) Southland Museum and Art Gallery; Lower Hutt, DAM/Rotorua, RMAH (all 'Woven Path')

1997 New Plymouth, GBAG 'Vibes: Pacific Patterns'; Wellington, MONZ
and Auckland, AAG 'Dream Collectors: One Hundred Years of Art in New
Zealand'

1998 Canberra Contemporary Artspace and Gallery 4A 'Pasifika';
Rarotonga, The National Museum 'Cook Islands Artists' Annual
Exhibition'; Sydney, MCA 'Everyday' (11th Biennale of Sydney);
Rarotonga, The National Museum/Suva, The Fiji Museum/Auckland, Fisher
Gallery 'Paringa Ou'; Sydney, Centre for Contemporary Photography
'Hyper Girls' (Pacific Wave Festival); Melbourne, Monash University
and the Australian Centre for Contemporary Art 'Close Quarters:
Contemporary Art from Australia and New Zealand' (toured Australia and NZ

1999-2000, finishing at Auckland, New Gallery); Sydney, Performance
Space 'Pacific Sisters and the Extended Family Mix' (as part of the
Pacific Wave Festival)

1999 Christchurch Arts Festival 'Head Hands Heart'; Auckland, Fiat Lux
Gallery 'More than Ever' (w Lisa Reihana and Yuk King Tan - 'Jewellery Month Jam'); Porirua, Pataka Gallery 'Romantic Notions' (w Fiona Wall)

2000 Sydney, 12th Biennale 'Agents of Change' (3 performances with
Lisa Reihana and Pacific Sisters); Whangarei Art Museum 'Te Paroe';
Auckland, AUT Campus, Pilot Project Room 'Flowers of Asia Pacific';
Auckland, Archill Gallery and Ruatoki, Te Totara Pa 'Te Totara Pa - Te
Urewera Hikoi'; Noumea, Tjibaou Centre for Contemporary Art 'Biennale of Noumea'

2001 Auckland, New Gallery, inaugural Auckland Triennial 'Bright
Paradise' ('The Buddy System' installation); Wellington, CG,
inaugural Wellington Biennial 'Telecom Prospects 2001'; Auckland: Te
Tuhi-The Mark 'Interior Horizons'; Sue Crockford Gallery 'Summer
Show'; Christchurch, The Physics Room 'The Tomorrow People'; Wanganui,
Te Wa 'Wahine Pacifica'; Auckland, ASA 'Tautoko/Support'

2002 Auckland, New Gallery 'The Big Bang Theory' (Chartwell Trust
Collection); Los Angeles, Chinatown, Lord Mori Gallery (aka The Happy
Lion) 'The Tomorrow People'; Auckland, Sue Crockford Gallery 'Video Show'; Hamilton, WMAH 'Sublime Indigo'; Palmerston North, Te Manawa
'The Buddy System'; Auckland, AAG 'Sea Knowing and Island Looking';
Wellington, Adam Art Gallery and Auckland, Gus Fisher Gallery
'Botanica'; Auckland, Sue Crockford Gallery 'White Show';
Christchurch, Botanic Gardens, Cunningham House and Art and Industry
Biennial Trust SCAPE festival 'Humoured'; Christchurch 'Luncheon'
gridlocked project in collaboration with Megan Hansen-Knarhoi;
Auckland, Mataora Gallery 'dTail: Adornment Show' (Ponsonby Fringe
Festival); Lower Hutt, DAM 'Fibre and Fairylights'

2002-03 Wellington, MONZ 'Past Presents'

2003 Rarotonga, Beachcomber Gallery 'Return Descendant' (with Mahiriki
Tangaroa and Pascal Koteka); Sydney, MCA 'Liquid Sea'; Christchurch:
COCA '20/20'; SoFA 'A Third Place'; Auckland, Sue Crockford Gallery
'Spring Show'

2004 Lithuania, Vilnius/Rarotonga/Auckland, Artspace 'Iki and thanks
for all the Ika'; Rarotonga, Inanui Gallery 'Niu Work' and '20 x 20
Small Works'; Belau (Federated States of Micronesia) 'Ka Kino To
Pounamu, He Pounamu Onamata' (collaborative work with Reuben
Patterson, as part of 9th Festival of Pacific Arts, Belau; Auckland,
Sue Crockford Gallery 'Disorderorder' (with Yuk King Tan); Rarotonga,
Inanui Gallery 'Close to Home'; Auckland, Anna Bibby Gallery
'Crochet'; Wellington MONZ 'Signs and Wonders'; Sao Paolo Biennale 'Remember New Zealand'

2005 Rarotonga, Cook Islands, Puaikura Galley ‘Opening Exhibition'; Wellington, City Gallery,'Small World, Big Town - Contemporary Art from Te Papa'; Auckland, Sue Crockford Gallery, ‘Group Show'; Paris, Paris Town Hall, ‘Lattitudes'

2006 Cook Islands,Rarotonga, Kent Hall/Wellington, Adam Art Gallery/Singapore, Substation, ‘Islanded - Contemporary Art from New Zealand, Singapore and Taiwan'; Brisbane, Brisbane Powerhouse, ‘Africa Pasifika Festival: Site Pacific'; Melbourne, Cultural Festival, Melbourne 2006 Commonwealth Games, Arc One Gallery, ‘The Buddy System'; Auckland, Artstation, ‘This Is Not A Love Song'; Cambridge (UK), Cambridge University Museum of Anthropology and Archeology (CUMAA), ‘Pasifika Styles;'; Zacheta National Gallery of Art, Poland,& Lithuania Contemporary Arts Center , ‘High Tide'; Manhattan, NYC, ‘Cluster' traveling project curated by Katie Holten; Cook Islands, Rarotonga, The Art Studio,‘Vaka Eiva : Oe Auction'

2007 'Earth Wind and Whaea', Salon, St Kevins Arcade, Auckland; 'Love is the Key', Inanui Gallery, Rarotonga Cook Islands; 'Pasifika Festival', Celebrate Pasifika Arts Arena staging, Western Springs Quarry; 'Surf'n'Turf' film night, Artspace Auckland; 'Le Folaunga', Auckland Museum; 'Lei Mai' Suter Gallery, Nelson; 'Speculation',Venice Biennale pop-up pavillion, Venice, Italy; 'Longitude', Art Studio, Rarotonga Cook Islands, 'Duo' (with Richard Maloy), Sue Crockford Gallery, Auckland; 'Tagata o le Moana Festival', Te Papa, Wellington.

2008 'Splore Festival', (with Lil' Mama's Art Klub), Tapapakanga Regional Park, Auckland; 'NewArtland' Documentary series, Ep.3, Prod. Television Spaceman;
'Flat White - Black Pearl', Te Karanga Gallery, Krd, Auckland; 'Stations of the Cross', Gus Fisher Gallery, Auckland; 'Blashka', National Glass Center, Sunderland, UK.

The Pacific Arts Alliance

Core Members

Registered Artists

Directory

Ani O'Neill