Arizona O’Neill 

Arizona O’Neill is a multidisciplinary artist from Montreal, known for her directing and illustration work. She is very active in the Montreal art scene and has had her video productions shown on the web, in galleries, on the CBC, in flats, and on the street. In 2022, she was Wordfest’s Imaginairium filmmaker-in-residence. Her painted illustrations grace the window of the Mile End bookstore Drawn & Quarterly monthly. O’Neill has created original music videos in collaboration with artists such as Walter Scott, Laurence Philomène, and Patrick Watson, and has been the literary director for two collectives. She and her mother Heather O’Neill host a monthly book column on CBC Montreal’s Homerun. O’Neill lives in Montreal with her partner and a dog named Gatsby.

Instagram: @oneillreads @arizonaoneill

FESTIVAL SHOWS

How to… Book StorE

With Benjamin Hertwig, Arizona O’Neill & Ryan Smith
Oct. 20 @ 10 AM FREE
Alexander Calhoun Salon, Memorial Park Library, Main Floor

How to… Glow Up a Book

With Holly Gramazio, Jenny Heijun Wills & Arizona O’Neill
Oct. 20 @ 1 PM FREE
Alexander Calhoun Salon, Memorial Park Library, Main Floor

BE CURIOUSER

  • Watch Arizona O’Neill’s films celebrating Wordfest’s 2022 Imaginarium. –Wordfest
  • Arizona O’Neill interviews twelve Quebec artists about happiness in her new illustrated book. –Cult Montreal
  • L’intelligence sensible d’Arizona O’Neill. –Le Devoir