Hugh O'Donnell

1950 Born in London, England

1969-72 Attends Falmouth School of Art, Cornwall, England, and receives Bachelor of Art

1972-73 Attends Birmingham School of Art, Birmingham, England

1973 Receives first prize, Sir Whitworth Wallace Trust, Birmingham, England

1973-74 Receives fellowship to Gloucestershire College of Art, England

1974-76 Receives fellowship to Kyoto University of Arts, Kyoto, Japan

1976 First solo exhibition, Nishimura Gallery, Tokyo, Japan. Begins teaching career with lectures in various tertiary institutions across England

1977-79 Completes thesis, ‘Monumental screen painting of the Japanese Momoyama period’, at the Royal College of Art, London

1978 Receives Arts Council Award from the Arts Council of Great Britain

1979 Receives Works for Public Places Commission from the Arts Council of Great Britain and the Arun District Council, England

1980 Included in travelling exhibition, British art now: an American perspective, originating at Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York.  Receives Purchase Award, Arts Council of Great Britain

1983 Completes unique paper pulp works entitled, Weapons of desire, Bedford series, at Tyler Graphics Ltd, Bedford Village, New York. Included in exhibition, Britain salutes New York, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York

1984 Solo exhibition, Works on paper, Marlborough Graphics, London; included in exhibition, Drawings Since 1974, Hirshhorn Museum, Washington, DC

1985 Included in exhibitions: Prints from Tyler Graphics, Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, Minnesota; Ten years: a retrospective, Air Gallery, LondonVisiting artist at Chelsea School of Art, London

1985-86 Visiting artist at Slade School of Painting, London University, London

1986-87 Visiting artist at St. Martins School of Art, London

1987 Moves to New York. Included in exhibition, Emerging artists 1978-1986, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York

1988 The Body Echo project begins. This project involves the public installation of studio executed and site specific drawings inspired by the breathing patterns and heart rhythms of the human body.

1988-93 Appointed faculty member and visiting artist at New York Studio School of Painting and Drawing, New York

1989 Included in travelling exhibition, The question of drawing, originating at Miami Dade Community College, Florida. Creates set and costume designs for dance production Drawn Breath, performed by the Siobhan Davies Dance Company at Riverside Studios, London. The production receives the 1989 Digital Dance Award.

1990 Visiting professor at Pratt Institute, New York; visiting critic, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia

1992 Completes the lithograph, Waccabuc I, and the mixed-media lithographs, Mélusine I and Mélusine II, at Tyler Graphics Ltd, Mount Kisco, New York. Included in travelling exhibition, Innovation in Collaborative Printmaking: Kenneth Tyler, 1963-1992, originating at Yokohama Museum of Art, Yokohama, Japan

1993 Included in exhibitions: Drawing in black and white: selections from the permanent collection, Museum of Modern Art, New York; 20th International Print Biennial, International Center for Graphic Arts, Ljubljana, Slovenia

1994 Moves to Washington

1995 Travelling solo exhibition, Drawings: the lake series and the body echo project, originating at the Art Museum, University of Memphis, Tennessee

1995-97 Adjunct Professor, Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts, Philadelphia

1996-98 Professor of Painting and Director of School of Visual Arts, Boston University, Massachusetts

2003-05 Chair of Undergraduate Painting, School of Visual Arts, College of Fine Arts, Boston University, Boston

2004 Included in exhibition, Print Matters – the Kenneth E. Tyler gift, Tate Modern, London

2005 Solo exhibition, The body echo project, von Liebig Arts Center, Naples, Florida

2006 Publishes book, Body Echo, which documents the various installations of the Body Echo project. Included in exhibition, Transforming chronologies: an atlas of drawings, part two, in the Drawing Galleries, Museum of Modern Art, New York

2007 Solo exhibition, Paintings, Morrison Gallery, Kent, Connecticut

2008 Included in exhibition, DIGITAL'08: imagination on behalf of our planet, 10th International Digital Print Competition & Exhibition, New York Hall of Science, New York

2011 Forms Body Echo LLC, a site-specific art company specialising in motion graphic video walls and digital art; included in exhibition, 2011 international paper art exhibition, Chung-Shan National Gallery, Taipei, Taiwan

2012 Solo exhibition, New work, Morrison Gallery, Kent, Connecticut

Present Hugh O’Donnell currently lives and works in Washington, Connecticut, and Boston, Massachusetts

© Tyler Graphics Ltd; revised Emilie Owens, 2007; revised Julia Greenstreet, 2014.

This chronology provides an overview of selected biographical information, major solo and group exhibi, at Tyler Graphics Ltd, Mount Kisco, New YorkIncluded in travelling exhibition,