Hello 👋.

I'm Sarah C O'Neill. I am a contemporary figurative artist (and probably the most excited person in the room)

My work explores emotion, presence and the various tensions of being human. While much of my work is done in-studio, I am drawn to the spontaneity and vulnerability of live painting, where pressure, chance and imperfection shape my work in real time. My style is gestural and intentionally painterly, as a way to assert the value of human mark-making in the age of AI.

  • ACCOMPLISHMENTS

    Featured Artist Live Painting for Veterans Affairs,
    Launch of the Women Veterans Council
    Library and Archives Canada, Ottawa Ontario, 2025

    Art Battle (Women in War) 2024 - Overall winner
    Canadian War Museum, Ottawa Ontario, 2024

    Art Battle February 2023, Doubles event - Overall winner with artist Kina Forney
    Ottawa Ontario, 2023

    Art Battle January 2023 - Overall winner
    Ottawa Ontario, 2023

    Art Battle Regional Finals - Round 1 Winner
    Ottawa Ontario, 2022

    Art Battle 554 Regional Finals - Participant
    Ottawa Ontario, 2017

    Art Battle 485 - Overall Winner
    Arts Court, Ottawa, Ontario, 2017

    Canadian Nuclear Association  "Art Battle All-Star Showcase"
    The Westin, Ottawa, Ontario, February 2016

    Art Battle 341 - Round 1 winner
    Arts Court, Ottawa, Ontario, January 2016

    Art Battle 288 Regional Finals - Round 1 Winner
    Makers Space, Ottawa, Ontario, June 2015

    On Stage Tonight "Art Battle All-Star Showcase"
    National Arts Centre, Ottawa, Ontario, May 2015

    Art Battle 238 Royal Canadian Mint Edition - Round 1 Winner
    St Brigids Centre for the Arts, Ottawa, Ontario, March 2015

    Art Battle 229 - Overall Winner
    Orpheus Musical Theatre, Ottawa, Ontario, February 2015

  • EXHIBITS

    The Cock Show
    Atomic Rooster, Ottawa, Ontario
    October 2019

    Summer Exhibition
    Oh So Good, Ottawa, Ontario
    June - August 2018

    Summer Vernissage
    Triple7, Gatineau, Quebec
    June 2018

    Remixed (formerly Chinatown Remixed) exhibition
    Superhot L.A., Ottawa, Ontario
    Fall 2017

    Drawing at the Rooster group exhibition
    The Atomic Rooster, Ottawa, Ontario
    2015

    Student Faculty Staff & Alumni Exhibition
    Cape Breton University Art Gallery, Sydney, Nova Scotia
    2008

    Permanent solo exhibit at Nova Scotia Community College Marconi Campus
    Installed 2008, Sydney, Nova Scotia

To see my traditional resumé (cv), click here.