Jane O’Hara is a contemporary American artist, curator and founder of Jane O’Hara Projects (JOP) 2015. O’Hara received a BFA in painting at Boston University, Boston, MA, and a Curatorial Certification from Sotheby's Institute of Arts. Using transformational curatorial projects, presentations and publications as a platform, JOP seeks to expand social awareness of speciesism through the arts, and to cultivate compassion for all life; both human and non-human animals.

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.

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