JANE O’HARA
Jane O’Hara is a contemporary American artist, curator and founder of Jane O’Hara Projects. O’Hara is an honoree of the Courage of Conscience Award from the Peace Abbey honoring individuals and organizations that have distinguished themselves through humanitarian causes, peace and social justice activism.
In O’Hara’s paintings we look from the animals perspective with narratives concerning the deeply problematic human-animal bond. This relationship with animals poses a duality which both intrigues and disturbs. The insensitivity to animals raised in captivity as commodities and the environmentally at risk, at odds with the casting of human traits on our pampered pets who exist in their own unnatural surroundings.
JANE O’HARA PROJECTS
Using transformational curatorial projects, presentations and publications as a platform, Jane O’Hara Projects Founded in 2015 by Jane O’Hara, seeks to expand social awareness of speciesism through the arts, and to cultivate compassion for all life; both human and non-human animals
Recent exhibition and curatorial projects include Jane O'Hara - State of the Union, New Bedford Art Museum, New Bedford MA, Beasts of Burden l , Harvard Educational Portal, Boston, MA, and Beasts of Burden ll , Urban Foundation Gallery, NY, NY, including a multimedia presentation at Symphony Space.
Publications include Jane O’Hara - State of The Union (Hardcover) by Jane O’Hara, published by Jane O’Hara Projects, 2023, Beasts of Burden, Our Complex Relationship with Animals, (Soft Cover) written and published by JOP with the generous support of a Culture & Animals Foundation Grant, 2017. 20% of all proceeds of this book are donated to the Culture & Animals Foundation in support of their grant program.
JOP has given presentations at Pace University, NY, NY, Worcester Art Museum, Worcester, MA, Brown University, Providence RI and the Boston Veg Fest among others.
