Biography
JT O'Neal graduated from the University of Kansas with an honors degree in History of Art, then attended medical school. His photographs are included in major museum collections, including MOMA, the Library of Congress, the Princeton Art Museum, and the Spencer Museum of Art.
Artist Statement
Much of my work deals with the human torso and how people choose to represent their bodies to others.
Men In Mirrors series is contemporary.
GIF of Me images (GIF = graphic interchange format) are from the mid 1990s.
The Bonham Project images are from the mid 1980s, at the start of the AIDS epidemic, and represent men who may be infected and infectious with HIV.
George et Jon images are a collaboration with photographer/doctor George Jerkovich.
Fashion Torsos explore clothes and the human body beneath.
Rodeo images are mainly from the Eskridge, Kansas, Labor Day Rodeo.
White Bison images deal with the sacred and spiritual meaning of albino bison in today's landscape.
Kansas Counties is composed of one photograph from each of the 105 counties in the state, and were shot in the early 1980s.
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