John J. O’Connor received an MFA and MS in Art History from Pratt Institute. He attended the Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture, and was a recipient of a New York Foundation for the Arts Grant in Painting, and the Pollock-Krasner grant. He currently teaches drawing and painting at Princeton University. In 2008, Mr. O’Connor had a solo exhibition at Pierogi Gallery in Brooklyn, and another at Martin Asbaek Projects in Copenhagen, Denmark. Mr. O’Connor’s work is included in the collections of the Museum of Modern Art, Whitney Museum of American Art, Southern Methodist University, and New Museum of Contemporary Art.