David O’Kane is an Irish artist whose work is included in numerous public collections such as the Kunsthalle der Sparkasse, the Zabludowicz collection, Busan Museum of Art and universities such as Yale, Stanford, Princeton and Boston College. His short film Babble, which stages a multilingual conversation between Flann O’Brien, Franz Kafka and Jorge Luis Borges, won an e v + a open award (2008) from Hou Hanru, and a still from his animated artwork Dieselbe Noman adorned the inaugural issue of The Parish Review: Journal of Flann O’Brien Studies (Summer 2012), while his work can also be seen on the covers for Flann O’Brien: Plays and Teleplays (2013), Flann O’Brien: Contesting Legacies (2014) and Flann O’Brien: Problems with Authority (2017). O’Kane has been awarded residencies at the British School at Rome (2009), the Stiftung Starke in Berlin (2010–13) and the Fire Station Artists Studios in Dublin (2014–17). In 2019, together with his parents, Edward and Joanna O’Kane, he held exhibitions inspired by Flann O’Brien’s literature at Boston College Ireland, the Irish embassy in Berlin and Boston College’s John J. Burns Library. He is represented by Gallery Baton, Cavanacor Gallery and the Josef Filipp Galerie.