Born 28th March 1957 Warwickshire, England
Adelaide, Australia from 1969
Currently lives in Canberra, A.C.T
Varied, with one or two high points.
1992 Paintings Legge Gallery
1993 Paintings Legge Gallery
1994 Paintings Dick Bett Gallery, Hobart, Tasmania
1995 Paintings Legge Gallery
1996 Paintings, Dick Bett Gallery
1997 Cold Stripp Gallery, Melbourne
New Works Legge Gallery
First Love: Paintings by Derek O'Connor and Robert Cleworth Legge Gallery
1998 Cabin Fever Lovers Gallery, Melbourne
1999 Pairs Legge Gallery
Duo Dick Bett Gallery
2000 Paintings Legge Gallery
2001 Paintings Legge Gallery
Reciprocal Translocations First Floor Gallery, Melbourne
2002 Paintings Legge Gallery
2004 Paintings Legge Gallery
Derek O'Connor: Recent Work Karen Woodbury Gallery, Melbourne
2005 Collapsible Helen Maxwell Gallery,
Canberra
2006 Paintings Karen Woodbury Gallery,
Melbourne
1988 Persistent Memories EMR Gallery, Sydney
1989 Eastern States, Western States Beach Gallery, Perth
1990 Works from the Studios Ben Grady Gallery, Canberra
Sue Andrews, Derek O'Connor, Glenn Murray Legge Gallery
1991 When Love Blooms Legge Gallery
Works On Paper Legge Gallery
Group Of Five Legge Gallery
1992 Thisness Legge Gallery
1993 Moet & Chandon Touring Exhibition
A Show of Strength Dick Bett Gallery, Tasmania
Canberra Contemporary Art Fair Australian National University Drill Hall Gallery, Canberra
The Allen Allen and Hemsley Collection Westpac Gallery, Melbourne
Tempest Legge Gallery
1994 Zac Patafta 108 Gertrude Street, Melbourne
Fourth Australian Contemporary Art Fair Royal Exhibition Building, Melbourne
Artists Don’t Believe in Sanity Clause Legge Gallery
1995 Drawings Part B Legge Gallery
Carlos Raz Studio 12, 200 Getrude Street, Melbourne
Chameleon: A Decade Contemporary Art Services Tasmania, Long Gallery, Hobart
The Derwent Collection: Australian Art of the 1980s and 1990s Tasmanian Museum and Art Gallery, Hobart
Summer Exhibition Legge Gallery
1996 Dirty Surface, Stripp Gallery, Melbourne
Snow Stripp Gallery, Melbourne
Restless and Messy curated by Bala Starr, Contemporary Arts Centre South Australia
Acquisitions of Contemporary Australian Art National Gallery of Victoria
First Love: Paintings by Robert Cleworth and Derek O’Connor Legge Gallery
Fifth Australian Contemporary Art Fair Royal Exhibition Building, Melbourne
Abstraction Now curated by Simeon Kronenberg, touring exhibition
Fuss, Gallery Constantinople, Queanbeyan
1997 Living with Art, Spiral Arm Gallery, Canberra
Recent Acquisitions National Gallery of Australia, Canberra
Alumni Painting Show Photospace, Canberra School of Art
Sanguine Valediction Legge Gallery
Wer Schutzt un Fuor HANSI? Kunstwerk Kard, Cologne Art Fair 1997, Germany
1998 Tennants Show Spiral Arm Gallery, Canberra
Go Home, There’s Nothing to See Spiral Arm Gallery, Canberra
Sixth Australian Contemporary Art Fair Royal Exhibition Building, Melbourne
Christmas Show Legge Gallery
1999 Tennants Show Artspace 71, Kingston, Canberra
Contemporary Australian Paintings from the Allen Allen & Hemsley Collection UTS Sydney
Group Show Legge Gallery
Show (with Peter Vandermark) Artspace 71, Canberra
10th Summer Exhibition Legge Gallery
2000 On the brink: abstraction of the 90s curated by Kelly Gellatly, Heide Museum of Modern Art, Melbourne
Seventh Australian Contemporary Art Fair Royal Exhibition Building, Melbourne
Ten Years Legge Gallery
Summer Exhibition Legge Gallery
2001 Coincidence: an exhibition of abstract painting: curated by Geoff Newton, Spiral Arm Gallery, Canberra
Legge Gallery Artists Use Atelier Artists' Acrylics Legge Gallery
Melbourne Art Fair 2002 Royal exhibition Building, Melbourne
The Redlands Westpac Art Prize Mosman Art Gallery
Summer Show Legge Gallery
2003 Collage Legge Gallery
Scratch the Surface-Recent Portraiture Canberra Contemporary Art Space
Summer Show Legge Gallery
SHIT:Vivienne Binns in collaboration with Derek O’Connor & Geoff Newtown, Canberra Contemporary Art Space
2004 Del Kathryn Barton, Cathy Blanchflower, Derek O’Connor, Monika Tichacek , Karen Woodbury Gallery, Melbourne
Melbourne Art Fair 2004 Royal exhibition Building, Melbourne
2005 Muswellbrook Open Art Prize Muswellbrook Regional Arts centre
Legge Gallery at Big Star Gallery Adelaide
Summer Show Legge Gallery
2006 Who cares? Boutwell Draper Gallery, Sydney
Landscape Show Legge Gallery
1988 Lend Lease Painting Award
1990 Capital Arts Patrons Organisation Individual Arts Grant
1992 Tasmanian Arts Advisory Board Individual Arts Grant
1995 Pat Corrigan award for exhibition development
1998 Department of Arts and Culture A.C.T Individual Artist Grant,
Studio Residency, Cologne, Germany
ABN AMRO, Renzo Piano Building, Sydney
Allen, Allen and Hemsley, Sydney
Art and Australia
Artbank
Austcorp
Canberra Museum and Art Gallery
Derwent Collection, Hobart
National Gallery of Australia
National Gallery of Victoria
Pan Pacific Collection
ABC: Coast to Coast, television arts program, August 1991
Annear, Judy.: Moet & Chandon Touring Exhibition, catalogue, Melbourne, 1993
Ashcroft, Michael: Ugly Paintings Are Always Framed, Muse , Dec/Jan 03/04 Issue
Byrne, Lisa: Catalogue essay, SHIT ,Vivienne Binns, Nov-Dec2003
Cato, N. (Ed): Fourth Australian Contemporary Art Fair, Australian Commercial Galleries Association, Melbourne, 1994
Chapman, Chris: Bette Davis eyes, Art Monthly, no.162 August 2003
Fern, L.: People at Play, The Sydney Morning Herald, 23 March
Foster, Ernest: A Public of Individuals No.4 Feb-Apr 2003
Gates, Merryn: Catalogue essay, SHIT ,Vivienne Binns, Nov-Dec2003
Grshin, Sasha: Inner strength on display, The Canberra Times 29/9/2005
Hammond, V.: The Derwent Collection: Australian Art of the 1980s and 1990s, Tasmanian Museum and Art Gallery, Hobart, 1995
Hammond, V.: Chameleon: A Decade, exhibition catalogue, Contemporary Art Services, Tasmania,Hobart, 1995
Haynes, Peter: The Land Sited, Unreal City, Canberra Contemporary Art Space, no.1, 1990
Haynes, Peter: Reviews, Art Monthly, September, 1990
Heathcote, Christopher: Contemporary Australian Paintings, The Age, 1993
Heathcote, Christopher: Moet & Chandon, review, The Age, 1993
King, N. and Kronenberg, S.: Abstraction Now, exhibition catalogue, Geelong Art Gallery, 1996
Lamark, Richard: A Public of Individuals No.4 Feb-Apr 2003
Loxley, Anne: A Day in the Domain, The Sydney Morning Herald 27/11/2002
Malone, Gavin: Restless and Messy, Artlink, vol. 17, no. 1, 1996
Mendelssohn, Joanna: Popping the Cork, The Bulletin, March 1993
Nichols, Jonathon: Derek O’Connor ,Catalogue essay March 2004
O’Donall, S: Restless and Messy, exhibition catalogue, Contemporary Art Centre of South Australia, 1996
Currently employed National Gallery of Australia, Installations Department
Part-time lecturer at the Canberra School of Art, Core/Complimentary Studies, 1998-9