Born 1977 in Omaha, Nebraska, Robyn O'Neil received her B.F.A. from Texas A&M, Commerce and did graduate work at the University of Illinois, Chicago. She currently lives and works in Houston, Texas. O'Neil has been included in many prestigious group museum exhibitions including the 2004 Whitney Biennial. Solo shows of O'Neil's work have been in Berlin, Paris, New York City, Dallas, Chicago, and Houston. In 2006, the Contemporary Arts Museum in Houston, Texas organized the artist's first one-person museum survey which traveled to the Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York, and the Frye Art Museum, Seattle, Washington. In 2010, The Des Moines Art Center will host a survey of O'Neil's most important work to date. That upcoming exhibition received both an NEA and a MetLife Grant. Her work has been featured in Vitamin D, a survey of contemporary drawings published by Phaidon Press. In 2005, she received an Artadia Grant from the Artadia Foundation - The Fund for Art and Dialogue in New York City, in 2008, she was a Joan Mitchell Foundation Grant recipient, and in 2009, she received the Hunting Prize - the most generous annual art prize in North America. Her work can be found in the permanent collections of the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, Blanton Museum of Art, Austin, Texas, Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Texas, Dallas Museum of Art, Dallas, Texas, and the Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York.