Dublin, Ireland
Paul O’Neill (B.A., M.A., Ph.D.) is a curator artist writer educator and occasional DJ based in Helsinki and New York. He is Artistic Director of PUBLICS, Helsinki. He was Director of Graduate Program, Center for Curatorial Studies (CCS), Bard College, New York 2013-17. Paul has co-curated more than sixty curatorial projects across the world. He is editor of the curatorial anthologies, Curating Subjects (2007); co-editor of Curating and the Educational Turn (2010), and Curating Research (2014) with Mick Wilson; co-published by de Appel and Open Editions (Amsterdam and London). Author of Locating the Producers: Durational Approaches to Public Art (Amsterdam, Valiz, 2011), and author of critically acclaimed book The Culture of Curating and the Curating of Culture(s), (The MIT Press, 2012). His most recent books include; How Institutions Think, and The Curatorial Conundrum, co-edited with Mick Wilson and Lucy Steeds, out with CCS Bard, MIT Press, LUMA, 2017, 2016 respectively.