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Maggie O’Neill is a Washington, D.C.-based artist, designer, entrepreneur, and activist whose work spans fine art, immersive environments, public art, hospitality, storytelling, and civic engagement. With more than 20 years of experience, she has built a multidisciplinary practice around the belief that art can create connection, shape culture, and transform the way people experience a space.
Maggie’s signature pop-impressionist artwork is held in collections across the United States and internationally. Her design portfolio includes immersive environments for restaurants, hotels, nightlife, and commercial spaces, with major projects including work at the historic Willard Hotel and creative collaborations in Morocco. Earlier in her career, she co-founded SWATCHROOM, where she helped lead the design of more than 80 hospitality and commercial spaces.
Her practice increasingly brings art into the public sphere. Maggie is a co-founder of Vote For Your Daughterand Our Daughters’ Futures Fund, initiatives that use art, exhibitions, and artist networks to encourage civic participation and expand visibility for issues affecting women and girls. Through FOREVER FEARLESS, that work has grown into a traveling body of public art shown in Washington, D.C., Brooklyn, Baltimore, Los Angeles, and other communities.
In 2026, Maggie founded FEMME Art Fair, creating a dedicated platform for women artists and bringing together art, collectors, conversations, programming, and community over four days in Washington, D.C. The inaugural fair concluded with a fundraiser benefiting Our Daughters’ Futures Fund, connecting Maggie’s work as an artist, cultural organizer, and advocate.
Maggie has also brought these ideas to the stage. Her first TEDx talk, “What If Color Is the Answer?”, explored color, connection, and the way art can help people understand one another. In 2026, she returned to the TEDx stage as a speaker at TEDxLogan Circle: Rethink Power, where she examined the role art plays in culture, community, and civic life.
Her work has been recognized with the 2024 Mayor’s Arts Award for Excellence in the Visual Arts, and she serves as a Commissioner for the D.C. Commission on the Arts and Humanities. Her work and projects have been featured by outlets including The New York Times, Forbes, The Washington Post, Modern Luxury, ABC, and NBC.
Across each part of her practice, Maggie continues to explore how art can move beyond the object itself to create spaces for connection, conversation, visibility, and cultural impact.
"I believe color is the answer. I believe art creates the most unlikely and profound connection between people all over the world. My purpose on this planet is to make art, design spaces, and spark conversation through my work."
Watch my Tedx Talk below.
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