Dr. Paul O’Neill is an Irish curator, artist, writer and educator. He is
the Artistic Director of PUBLICS, a position he took up in September
2017. PUBLICS is a curatorial agency and event space with a dedicated
library, and reading room in Vallila Helsinki. PUBLICS develops out of
Checkpoint Helsinki, a contemporary art initiative established in 2013. In
its spirit, PUBLICS continues this organization’s commitment to critical
social thinking, contemporary art and publicness. Between 2013-17, he was
Director of the Graduate Program at the Center for Curatorial Studies
(CCS), Bard College. Paul is widely regarded as one of the foremost
research-oriented curators, and leading scholar of curatorial practice, public
art and exhibition histories. Paul has held numerous curatorial and research
positions over the last twenty years and he has taught on many curatorial
and visual arts programs in Europe and the UK. Paul has co-curated more
than sixty curatorial projects across the world including most recently: We
are the (Epi)center, P! Gallery, New York (2016), and the muti-faceted We
are the Center for Curatorial Studies for the Hessel Museum, Bard College
(2016-17), and most recently he is co-editing the book Curating After the
Global; Roadmaps to the Present, MIT Press, CCS bard and LUMA Foundation,
Arles 2019.