Education

Yale University | New Haven, Connecticut
Painting and Printmaking, Masters of Fine Arts
Degree Completed: 05.08
Awards: Schoelkopf Travel Grant Prize, 2007

UCLA | Los Angeles, California
Fine Art, Philosophy (minor), Bachelors Degree
Degree Completed: 06.04
Awards: Lillian Levinson Award, 2004
Hoyt Scholarship, 2003
Summa Cum Laude, 2003-2004

Selected Exhibitions

2009

"Spurlose Bahnen: Theorie, Kunst, Party" Volksbühne am Rosa-Luxemburg-Platz, Berlin, Germany, November 28, 2009. Kunst: Mira O'Brien , Guy Ben-Ner, Christopher Williams.

"Outside In" curated by Mary Dailey Pattee, La Viola Bank Gallery, NY, NY, September-Otober 2009

"In Real Time", organized by ASDF, Capricious Gallery, NY, NY, March 2009

2008
“Yale MFA Thesis Exhibition”, Yale School of Art, New Haven, CT, April 2008

2007
“A Summer Introduction” Group Exhibition: Casson Demmon, Isabel Maria Manalo, Katherine Love, Mira O’Brien, Togonon Gallery, San Francisco, CA, August 2007
“Is That All There is to Fire?” group show curated by David Horvitz, High Energy Construct, Los Angeles, CA, Feb 24-March 31 2007
“The Greek Play,” group show, Root Division, San Francisco, CA, January 2007

2006
“Paintings,” solo show, Tartine, San Francisco, CA, September 2006
“Fevered Days Like Waters Cool” Anna Fidler, Mimi Lauter, Mira O’Brien, Hayworth Gallery, Los Angeles, CA, June 30-August 1, 2006
“Anyhere But Where?” group show curated by Michael Bauer, Circus Gallery, Los Angeles, CA April 2006

Publications

"The Author Dreams of Glass," poem by J. Mae Barizo pulished in At Large Magazine, 2009

“Yale MFA Thesis Exhibition,” catalog essay by Susanna Newbury, 2008
“Is That All There is to Fire?” catalog with essays curated by David Horvitz, 2007

Residencies

Pilot Projekt Gropiusstadt, Berlin, Germany, January 2009
Arrowmont School of Arts and Crafts, Gatlinburg, TN, July-August 2004