BIO
Kelly O’Neal is an award-winning visual artist, actress, filmmaker, and educator. She studied at N.C. School of the Arts and Florida State University where she earned a BFA in Theatre.
Her mixed media collages are made by layering family stories and ancestral myth into the DNA of her visual narratives.
Her work has been exhibited in galleries, and commissioned for the covers of books and periodicals. She is the co-illustrator of Capes & Cowls, The Adventure Board Game.
While living in Atlanta, Asheville, and NYC, Kelly has acted professionally in film, TV, theatre, and stand-up comedy. She was a founding member of the 90’s glam/funk musical stage show Superchick & Goodpussy, and was a pioneer in the early days of YouTube content creation with her web series, The Gilda Sue Rosenstern Computer Internet Show. Her award-winning film Gilda Sue Rosenstern: The Motion Picture! is now available on Amazon. She continues to collaborate with Droom Vox Theatre, co-producing and editing the ongoing short film series based on the work of Robin Spriggs.
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STATEMENT
In collage images are repurposed, reimagined, and recontextualized, reminding us that not everything is as it seems. I hope to inspire a sense of wonder.
My mixed media collages are layers of painted transparencies, magazine clippings, and sometimes even pieces of my grandparents’s love letters, giving a personal layer to each canvas. I often also use paint, ink, and pastels sticks.
Exploring themes such as the ethereal nature of memory, messages from The Divine, and the human spirit’s delight in liberty, my work is a celebration of the nuance, complexity, and singular beauty of being human.
My visual art runs parallel with my work as an actor, both rooted in breathing life into characters through storytelling. Though I sometimes use my own face as a model, these are not technically self-portraits any more than playing Lady Macbeth is a self-portrait. However, the art is personal, featuring the mythologies of my Celtic and Norse ancestors, and even pieces of my grandparents’s faded love letters. As I piece together fragments of the past to understand my place in the present, I create snapshots of stories left for the viewer to complete.
EXHIBITIONS
2025, 1904 Gallery, Group Show. Braselton, GA
2025, Blue Heron, "Placemaking: A Story of Time and Water," Group show, Sandy Springs, GA
2025, d’Art Center, “Portrayed,” Group Show, Norfolk VA
2025, Ventulett Gallery, Solo Show, Atlanta GA
2024, Tarot Card Show, Group Show, ARt & Industry, Atlanta, GA
2024, “Honey I Shrunk the Art.” Grup Show, Gallery Chimera, Atlanta, GA
2024, Hudgens Center for the Arts, Group Show, Duluth, GA
2024, “Cut it Out,” Cultural Arts Council Douglasville, Group Show, Douglasville GA
2024, "Awakening Earth: Narratives of Spring," Zhou B Art Center, Group Show, SergioGomezCurates.net
2024, “Auguries of Ascension,” Gallery Chimaera, Solo Show, Atlanta, GA
2023, “Deck the Walls,” Ventulett Gallery, Group Show, Sandy Springs, GA
2023, “Elevate: New Heights in Collage,” Blue Ridge Mountain Arts, Group Show, Blue Ridge, GA
2023, “Encore,” REK Gallery, Group Show, Atlanta, GA
2023, “Building Reflections,” Callanwolde Fine Arts Center, Group Show, Atlanta, GA
2023 “Command Performance,”Art Station,” Group Show, Stone Mountain, GA
2022, “All Mixed Up: Collage Collection,” Sautee Nacoochee Cultural Center, Group Show, Sautee Nacoochee, GA
2001 “O.S.D.” Asheville, NC
2001, “Clown Gods,” Tressa’s, Solo Show, Asheville, NC
JURY MEMBER
2024, “Urban Summer Vibes”, Gallery Chimera, Atlanta GA
AWARDS
FINE ART
2023, Honorable Mention, Callanwolde Fine Arts Center
2024, Short List of Finalists, Women United Art Prize
FILM
2017, Best Comedy, Vegas Movie Awards
2017, Best Actress in a Comedy, Southern States Indie Fan Film Festival
2017, Best Comedy Feature, Central Florida Film Festival
2017, Finalist, Moving Parts Film Festival
2017, Finalist, Best Feature, Best Screenplay, Best Production Design, Tampa Bay Underground 2017, Film Festival
2017, Finalist, Best Comedy, Best Director (Southern States), Southern States Indie Fan Film Festival
PUBLICATIONS
Kelly O’Neal, “Scratch That Itch. A journey from actor to filmmaker” Oz Magazine, 2015
Robin Spriggs, The Untold Tales of Ozman Droom, Cover Art, 2014
Robin Spriggs, Diary of a Gentleman Diabolist By Robin Spriggs, Cover Art, 2010
Robin Spriggs, Capes & Cowls: The Superhero Board Game , co-illustrated, 2008
Asheville Poetry Review, Vol. 9, No. 1., Cover Art, 2001
Robin Spriggs, Wondrous Strange, Cover Art, 2001
FILMMAKER
2018 Gilda Sue Rosenstern: The Motion Picture, Feature Film, Producer/co-writer/director/designer/editor/lead actress
2019 Droom Vox Theatre, Short Film Series, Producer/Editor
2016 Ozmandroomunculus, Short Film, Producer/Editor/Prop Designer
2008 The Gilda Sue Rosenstern Computer Internet Show, Web Series, Producer/writer/director/designer/editor/lead actress
EDUCATION
Florida State University, Bachelor of Fine Arts, Theater
North Carolina School of the Arts, Theater
Tom Roche Editorial, Film Editing Apprentice
COLLECTIONS
Private Collection (Atlanta, GA)
Private Colletion (Decatur, GA)