@colinocon

COLIN O'CON (b.Natchitoches, LA) is a visual artist, musician, and educator. His work presents viewers with the mystery of nature through paintings, sculptures, and immersive installations. Referencing both traditional landscape painting and subliminal abstraction his works oscillate between representations of the known and unknown in experiential natural phenomenon. O’Con earned an MFA from Hunter College, New York with the Tony Smith Sculpture Award and a BFA cum laude from the University of North Texas. His work has been included in exhibitions at Half Gallery (New York, NY), Marathon Gallery (Ellenville, NY), Fresh Window (Brooklyn, NY), Rawson Gallery (New York, NY), Lesley Heller Workspace (New York, NY), The Alexandria Museum of Art (Alexandria, LA), Boston Center for the Arts (Boston, MA), Artspace (San Antonio, TX), and CSAW (Houston, TX). As an educator, O’Con has taught foundation courses at various institutions of higher education for 15 years. Alongside his visual art practice, he plays in the bands Dark Carpet and Big High Hills. He lives and works in the Hudson Valley, NY.