Hillel O'Leary

Hillel O’Leary is a sculptor, installation artist, professor, and designer living and working in Providence, RI. His work has been exhibited nationally and internationally, including recent exhibitions at the Alexandria Museum of Art, and in several college galleries throughout the northeast. Hillel has recently conducted research in the fields of site-specific installation and sculpture in the US national park system, and in cultural sites in Italy and Spain. He is currently co-developing a series of audience-focused public works that expand access to decolonized history-making, while creating new pathways connecting kids to art and artists. Hillel is also an art community collaborator, creative director, and project facilitator. He is an active partner with several local non-profit art organizations including the Outsider Collective, Providence Children’s Museum, Downcity Design, and the Wurks, a collective he has helped lead since 2011. Hillel is currently teaching in the Industrial Design department at RISD.

MFA Penn State University
BFA Rhode Island School of Design
AA Suffolk County Community College

SELECT GROUP EXHIBITIONS

2021
Real or Imagined | Attleboro Arts Museum | Juror: Clare Bell | Attleboro, MA
National Juried Exhibition | Providence Art Club | Juror: Dr. Jamie Gabbarelli | Providence, RI
Anxiety in a Time of Pandemic | Indiana University Kokomo | Kokomo, IN
Artist’s Vision 2021 | Marin Society of Artists | Juror: Kim Eagles-Smith | San Rafael, CA

2020
Valdosta National 2020 | Valdosta State University | Juror: Claire Dempster | Valdosta, GA
Being In America | Manifest Gallery | Cincinnati, OH
Waste to Create | Eco Aware Gallery | (Online)
Masc. | Curators: Shari Weschler, Michael White | Coastal Contemporary Gallery | Newport, RI
Staying Relevant | Curator: Katie Hovencamp | Linder Gallery at Keystone College | La Plume, PA

2019
Le Pietre Splendenti | Curator: Roberto Tamagnini /Walter Tognocchi | Castiglione Garfagnana, IT
Concrete and Adrift | Alexandria Museum of Art | Curator: Megan Valentine | Alexandria, LA

2018
Into the Void | Neon Void Gallery | Curator: Megan Tamas | North Adams, MA
Steering Committee Exhibition | Mahady Gallery | Marywood University | Scranton, PA
Abstract Sanctuary 5 | Verum Ultimum | Curator Jennifer Cutshall | Portland, OR

2017
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