Born 1994, Los Angeles, CA
Lives and works on Lenape Land/Brooklyn, NY
Education
2021- Hunter College MFA Painting
2016- School of Visual Arts BFA Illustration & Cartooning
Solo & Two- Person Exhibitions
2023 A Spell For Refusal, Solo Exhibition, curated by Anaïs Castro, Arsenal Contemporary, New York, NY
2022 Find Yourself Alone In The Middle Of A Forest, With Tyler Krasowski, Curated by Nora Boyd, Spring/Break Art Fair, Los
Angeles, CA
2021 The Conditional, Solo Online Project and 205 Hudson Gallery, Arsenal Contemporary, New York, NY
2019 Half Past, With Justin Chance, Three Four Three Four Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
Hereafter, Solo Exhibition, The Spite Haus, Philadelphia, PA
Group Exhibitions
2025 (forthcoming fair presentation), New York, NY
Here’s Looking At You, Plato Gallery, New York, NY
2024 The Seeds We Plant Today, Martha’s Contemporary, Austin, TX
SURVIVOR-GIRL, Ruby/Dakota, New York, NY
Vagabond Shoes, McBride Contemporain, Montreal, CA
Game Over, Soloway Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
2022 NY to Milan, F2T Gallery, Milan, IT
Twist & Shout, She BAM Art, Leipzig, DE
Graphite Stew, Upper Market Gallery, San Francisco, CA
2021 There Was Only This World, This Looted, Ventriloquized Earth, Curated by Francesca Altamura a collab with HOOK ART
It Lives, 205 Hudson Gallery, New York, NY
2020 System Failure, Plastic Murs Gallery, Valencia, ES
2019 Communion, QUAID Gallery, Tampa, FL
What We Emanate, Black Ball Projects, Brooklyn, NY
The Mnemonic Body, Hunter Gallery, New York, NY
2018 GIFC, Fisher Parrish Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
2017 Hokey Pokey, with Trey Abdella and Michael Dispena, curated by Sammy Bennett, I.M.A.G.E Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
2016 Crime and Punishment, School of Visual Arts Chelsea Gallery, New York, NY
Grants, Awards & Residencies
Invitational Artist in Residence Arsenal Contemporary Art Residency, Montreal, CA, 2022- 2023
Leeman- Boskenbaum Endowment Graduation Award, Hunter College, 2022
Stanton Grant, 2020
Press
2025 Hypebeast, Erin Ikeuchi, “Plato Gallery’s Latest Shows Rewrite the Rules of Female Portraiture”
2023 Juxtapoz, Editor’s Pick, “Opal Mae Ong Has Created: A Spell For Refusal”
Art Forum, Critic’s Pick, “MUST SEE”
2022 Art Net, Sarah Cascone, “In Pictures: The Best Art of Spring Break Los Angeles 2022”
Hyperallergic, Samantha Helou Hernandez, “The Spring/ Break Art Show Fills Up An LA Warehouse With Eccentric Visions”
Art Observed, D. Creahan, “Los Angeles: Spring/Break LA at Skylight Culver City”
Untitled Magazine, Maddie Street, “Highlights From Spring/Break Art Show Los Angeles 2022”
Drawer NYC, online feature by Corydon Cowansage, New York, NY
Teaching
2024 MFA Thesis Advisor & Visiting Artist: School of Visual Arts, New York, NY
BFA Adjunct Assistant Professor, Hunter College, New York, NY
BFA Drawing Substitute: School of Visual Arts, New York, NY
2023 MFA Thesis Advisor & Visiting Artist: School of Visual Arts, New York, NY
Teaching Artist: Studio In A School, New York, NY