b. 1989 and raised on the traditional, unceded and ancestral territories of the Coast Salish peoples - the Sḵwx̱wú7mesh (Squamish), Stó:lō and Səl̓ílwətaʔ/Selilwitulh (Tsleil-Waututh), and xʷməθkʷəy̓əm (Musqueam) Nations - otherwise known as Vancouver, Canada. Lives and works in London, UK.
Patrick O'Neill holds a BFA in Visual Art from the University of British Columbia (2016) and received an honour of distinction for his MFA Critical and Historical Studies dissertation, A Habit of Haunted Spectres. Alongside his practice, he has worked as an arts educator for ten years at a number of galleries and non-profit organizations and is also a member of the artist collective, Waste Authority, with Kevin Siwoff and Anita Marante.