Eamon O’Kane (born 1974, Belfast, Northern Ireland) explores the ideological tropes and visual forms of modernist architecture in his paintings and immersive sculptural installations. He was awarded a BA in the History of Art and Fine Art from the National College of Art and Design (NCAD), Dublin, in 1996 and an MFA from the University of Ulster in 1998. In 2001, he was awarded an MFA in Design Technology from Parsons School of Design in New York. O’Kane currently lives and works in Odense, Denmark and is Professor of Painting at The Art Academy, University of Bergen, Norway.

Recent solo exhibitions include Hillsboro Fine Art, Dublin (2026); The Model Arts Centre, Sligo, Ireland (2025); Galerie DGV, Svendborg, Denmark (2022); Galerie Andres Thalmann, Zuirch, Switzerland (2020); Josef Filipp Galerie, Leipzig, Germany (2019); Crawford Municipal Gallery, Cork, Ireland (2019); Funen Art Museum, Odense, Denmark (2019); and Gregory Lind Gallery, San Francisco, CA, USA (2019).

Recent awards include Arts Council of Ireland Participation Project Award (2024-2025), Norwegian Arts Council Grant (2020) and the EV+A Biennial Award (2005) and previously a Fulbright Award, Pollock Krasner Foundation Award and Taylor Art Award.

Monographs on the artist’s work include Eamon O’Kane: Oneiric Nature (University of Bergen, 2022); Eamon O’Kane: And Time Begins Again (University of Bergen, 2019); Hybrids (Academy of Art and Design, Norway, 2013); and Case Histories (ArtSway and Rugby Art Museum, UK, 2009).

O’Kane’s work is held in the public collections of KODE Museum, Bergen, Norway; Grieg Foundation Museum, Os, Norway; Burda Museum, Baden Baden, Germany; Lentos Art Museum, Linz, Austria; Museum of Fine Arts, Brest, France; META/Facebook, Dublin; Glodmann Sachs, Zurich, Switzerland; Bank of America Collection, Zurich, Switzerland; Crawford Municipal Gallery Collection, Cork, Ireland and The Arts Council Collection, Ireland.