KELLY O’NEAL

Kelly O’Neal, is a multidisciplinary mixed media artist. She studied at North Carolina School of the Arts, as well as at Florida State University where she earned a Bachelor of Fine Arts in Theatre.

She began her artistic career as an actor working on stages throughout the Southeast, and began painting in an attempt to capture dream images and spiritual visions.

While living in Atlanta and New York City, she has acted professionally in film, TV, musical theatre, classical theatre, performance art, commercials, and stand-up comedy. She was a founding member of the 90’s glam funk musical group Superchick & Goodpussy.

O’Neal began exhibiting and selling paintings, drawings, and collages in the mid 1990’s. In 2000 she left New York and moved to Asheville, NC to focus solely on painting. Her works were commissioned for books (Wondrous Strange, The Untold Tales of Ozman Droom, Diary of a Gentleman Diabolist), periodicals (The Asheville Poetry Review) and board games (Capes & Cowls, Mighty Forces).

In 2008, she returned to Atlanta to work as an actor. She created Mean Mama Dog Productions, becoming an early web series creator with her character-driven comedy The Gilda Sue Rosenstern Computer Internet Show, which then became a live stage performance. In 2017 she produced and directed the award-winning film Gilda Sue Rosenstern: The Motion Picture! now available on Amazon. She also collaborates with Droom Vox Theatre, editing and co-producing the ongoing film series based on the work of Robin Spriggs.

Since the upheaval in the film and theatre industries in 2020, O’Neal returned to mixed media and collage work, establishing a studio in the woods North of Atlanta.