Eileen O’Kane Kornreich

Photo: Laurie Lambretch

Eileen O’Kane Kornreich is a New York-based visual artist who has been making art for over fifty years. Known for her paintings and drawings, her work is characterized by a profound interplay between form and color, playfully exploring the dynamic relationships between figure and abstraction, symbol, and identity.

O’Kane Kornreich’s art is marked by relentless craftsmanship and creative production. She works across a wide range of mediums, including stone lithography, monoprint and linoleum printmaking, stencil work, and performative drawing. Her textured surfaces, created through meticulous layering, engage viewers with familiar imagery while allowing space for individual interpretation and the formation of personal narratives.

A member of the White Columns Artist Registry and the Robert Blackburn Printmaking Workshop, O’Kane Kornreich has exhibited widely in New York and beyond. Recent and upcoming 2026 exhibitions include Boiler Boys at The Boiler Room Gallery on the Lower East Side, as well as exhibitions at Halsey McKay Gallery, LongHouse Reserve in East Hampton, and 128 Gallery on the Lower East Side. Her recent solo exhibition Pleasures of Duality was presented at Opening Gallery in Tribeca in 2024, and her work was included in the Robert Blackburn Printmaking Workshop’s Annual Members Show in 2025. Her performance work includes a one-hundred-foot drawing created for Warren Neidich’s Swept Away, Love Letter to a Surrogate(s) at Guild Hall in East Hampton. O’Kane Kornreich has also exhibited at the Atlantic Center for the Arts, LongHouse Reserve, The Re Institute, and Julie Keyes Galleries. Her artist residencies include the Newport Art Museum, Atlantic Center for the Arts, ChaNorth, The Watermill Center, and the School of Visual Arts.