Chronological

All work by year.

ongoing

• The Flutter of an Eyelid [project]
• Other Spaces (ongoing) [project]

2023

• Flutter Font [project]

2022

• OO Guide to Sobriety (REDUX) [project] · The Suburban, Milwaukee

2019

• Avalanche Dynamics [project] · Forest Island Project, Mammoth Lakes

2018

• OO Guide to Sobriety [project] · Los Angeles

2017

• BUILDING [project]

2016

• The Infinite Lawn [work]
• The Model of Models [work]
• The Eye and the Planets (#3) [work]
• The Eye and the Planets (#8) [work]
• The Eye and the Planets (#15) [work]
• The Eye and the Planets (#17) [work]
• Digital modeling of natural forms [research]
• The Eye and the Planets (#10) [work]
• The Eye and the Planets (#12) [work]
• The Eye and the Planets (#16) [work]
• The Eye and the Planets (#18) [work]
• The Eye and the Planets (#2) [work]
• The Eye and the Planets (#4) [work]
• The Eye and the Planets (#5) [work]
• The World Looks at the World [work]
• Collectors and Observers [series]
• WiSPR [research]
• PALOMAR [project] · Laure Genillard Gallery, London

2015

• Number One Test, Big Art Dish (NOTBAD) [work]
• Big Art Dish Model of Little Dish (BADMoLD) [work]
• First Operational Antenna Model (FOAM) [work]
• PALOMAR (film) [work]
• PALOMAR (the film) [project]

2014

• How to UCLA [work]
• After Before Present / Apr 28-29 2014 / -64 BP [work]
• Brise Soleil (Made in L.A.) [work]
• Made in L.A. [project] · Hammer Museum, Los Angeles
• How To UCLA [project] · Hammer Museum (Made in L.A.)
• Eclipse [research]
• Make in L.A. [research]

2013

• Brightly Coupled 14 [work]
• Brightly Coupled 3 [work]
• Untitled #14 [work]
• Untitled #5 [work]
• Brian O’Connell, Walls & Lights, 6757 Santa Monica Blvd, Redling Fine Art, 2013 [project] · Redling Fine Art, Los Angeles

2012

• Openings to the water I stopped… [work]
• Drafting Machine [work]
• Openings to the Water [project] · Protocinema, Istanbul
• Ways & Means [project] · Redling Fine Art, Los Angeles

2011

• Harry Dumbhocker II [work]
• Complicated P (embossed) [work]
• Double P (embossed) [work]
• P (embossed) [work]
• The Reasoner [work]
• Untitled (22211P) [work]
• Untitled (21211 P) [work]
• Dumbhockern [work]
• Harry Valencia [work]
• California Pete [work]
• Let Us Make Cake [work]
• (Not)Turtles [work]
• Cement Painting no.14/15/16 [work]
• B(n)CC 1 [work]
• CBII [project] · Gündoğan, Bodrum, Turkey
• (Not)Turtles [project] · Casey Kaplan, New York
• New Museum Projections [project] · The New Museum, New York
• Harry and Pete [project] · DUMBO Arts Center, New York
• Yoga for Drawing [research]

2010

• The Illusion of Plans, 6:864×864 [work]
• Indigo Lab [work]
• Indigofera Spicia (Creeping Indigo) found Miami Beach, Sept 15th, 2010 [work]
• Indigofera Tinctoria (True Indigo) found on Vaca Key, FL Sept 16, 2010 [work]
• Details: Meeting, PS1 July 2010 [work]
• (Not) Architecture for the Kunsthalle, PS1 [work]
• Partial Walls for Dorsch Gallery, Miami [work]
• The Illusion of Plans [project] · Emerson Dorsch Gallery, Miami
• Details: Meeting, PS1 July 2010 [project]
• (Not) Architecture: Rammed Earth [research] · MoMA PS1, Greater New York
• (Not) Architecture for the Kunsthalle, MoMA–PS1 [project]
• The Illusion of Plans (research) [research]

2009

• The Concrete Boat Project [work]
• Sculpture Seminar: Concrete Boatbuilding: Its Technique and Its Future [project] · The University of Trash, SculptureCenter, Queens
• The Concrete Boat Project [project] · Los Angeles
• Structural, Uncontrolled, Hollywood, Political, Auteur, Cosmic, Happy, Sad, and Ordinary [project]
• Concrete Boat Seminar [research]

2008

• Mental Rotation 2 [work]
• Mental Rotation 5 [work]
• Science Feb. 1971 — cover drawing [work]
• Mental Rotation 1 [work]
• Forms in the Realm of Time [project] · Laure Genillard, London

2007

• Study for production of Volume 11, of the depot of the University of Utrecht Science Museum [work]
• Study for production of Volume 11, shelf #2, of the depot of the University of Utrecht Science Museum [work]
• Composition C; Composition with Gray and Red (triple: cyan/yellow/magenta) [work]
• Composition No.1; Composition with Red and Black (filter cyan) [work]
• Composition No.1; Composition with Red and Black (triple: cyan/yellow/magenta) [work]
• House Beautiful (sculpture) [work]
• Case 111.1-8 [work]
• Sergeant C. M. Battleship of Sydney, Australia, an RAF attack leader who destroyed six Junker 52s at the El Aden airdrome, examining telephone wire draped from his plane’s oil coolers, wireless masts, tail, and rudder after flying low over a road and cracking through enemy telephone wires on return to base [work]
• Entropic Box [work]
• Rotational Negative 4.1 (cyan) [work]
• Rotational Negative 4.2 (yellow) [work]
• Rotational Negative 4.3 (magenta) [work]
• Composition C; Composition with Gray and Red (filter magenta) [work]
• Composition C; Composition with Gray and Red (filter yellow) [work]
• Composition No.1; Red and Black, filter magenta [work]
• Composition No.1; Red and Black, filter yellow [work]
• House Beautiful – Sculpture [work]
• House Beautiful – drawing [work]
• Nomadic Morris Edition [work]
• Nomadic Morris Template [work]
• Nomadic Morris Template 2 [work]
• Composition C; Composition with Gray and Red [work]
• Composition No.1; Composition with Red and Black, [work]
• House Beautiful [project] · Adamski Gallery, Berlin
• Case 111.1-8 [project] · A is for Alibi, de Appel, Amsterdam
• Glass Boxes [research]

2006

• Park Map: Schlosspark Sanssouci [work]
• Homes for German Sculpture: Cape Cod [work]
• Homes for German Sculpture: Ranch Three Times [work]
• Homes for German Sculpture: Ranch Three Times II [work]
• Homes for German Sculpture [project] · Ideal City – Invisible Cities, Zamość & Potsdam

2005

• Die Aesthetische Erziehung [work]
• Farbenlehre [work]
• Good Tasting Deity [work]
• Mourning Deity [work]
• Pure Bad Luck [work]
• Pure Deity [work]
• Pure, High Quality, Sexiness [work]
• Vacancies [work]
• FLASHBULBS [work]
• FLASHBULBS-lamp model [work]
• FLASHBULBS-preparatory drawing [work]
• The Central Library Project [project] · Central Library, Leuven, Belgium
• Mourning High Quality Bad Luck [project] · Adamski Gallery, Aachen

2004

• Alegoria Bibliotheca [work]

2003

• Froebel Gaben 50 [work]
• Froebel Gaben 51 [work]
• Froebel Gaben 52 [work]
• Froebel Gaben 53 [work]
• Sentence drawing [work]
• Sentences on Conceptual Art by Sol Lewitt According to the Game of Logic by Lewis Carroll as Played by Brian O’Connell [work]
• To My Child-Friend productiuon materials [work]
• box model [work]
• BOX [work]
• To My Child-Friend [project] · Adamski Gallery, Aachen

2002

• Aesthetik [work]
• Here Between There (drawings) [work]
• Rhetorik [work]
• Tourismus [work]
• Here Between There [work]
• Here Between There [project] · Adamski Gallery, Aachen

1999

• Letters 1999 [research]

1998

• 1998 Clocks [research]
• Berliner Kindheit [research]
• Surf ’98 [research]

undated

• Big Art Dish [project]
• Homes for German Sculpture [series]
• House Beautiful [series]
• Deities [series]
• Concrete Paintings [series]
• Untitled [series]
• Gum-bichromate printing [method]
• Projection [method]
• Lens-making [method]
• Rammed-earth construction [method]
• Cyanotype printing [method]
• The Eye and the Planets [series]
• Compositions [series]
• Froebel Gaben [series]
• Nomadic Morris [series]
• FLASHBULBS [series]
• Brightly Coupled [series]
• B(n) [series]
• Concrete Boatbuilding [method]
• Ice Lens [research]
• Luneburg Lens [research]
• Snow Science [research]
• SOF Boat [research]
• Other Spaces—Taking form [research]