Maureen O'Leary's paintings and photographs build out from domestic scenes and the quotidian. She makes work about nature, ordinariness, daydream and the idiosyncratic way people create their surroundings.

She was educated at Yale University, the Art Students League, New York, and the International Center for Photography, New York. She has recently shown work in solo or group shows at US venues in Brooklyn, New York, Newark, New Jersey, and Memphis, Tennessee and elsewhere. Her work has also been shown internationally in Italy, France, Ireland and the United Kingdom. She is a former recipient of the Harriet Hale Woolley Fellowship in painting, and her work is in private collections in the US and Europe and in the public collections of Beinecke Library at Yale University and the Fondation des Etats-Unis, Paris.