Conor McGrady - Biography

conor_mcgrady.jpgConor McGrady was born in Downpatrick in the north of Ireland in 1970. He studied at Cumbria College of Art and Design in Carlisle, UK and at the University of Northumbria, Newcastle, UK, before receiving his MFA at The School of the Art Institute of Chicago in 1998. In 2000 and 2002 McGrady was awarded a Community Arts Assistance Program Grant from the City of Chicago. Most recently his work has been exhibited in the one-person exhibitions, ‘Civil Abuse’, Ratio 3, San Francisco, ‘Social Security’ at the Customs House, South Shields, UK and ‘Purity’ at Thomas Robertello Gallery in Chicago. In 2002 he was selected to participate in the Whitney Biennial at the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York. In 2003 he completed a five-month residency in the Woolworth Building, New York, through the Lower Manhattan Cultural Council’s Studio Program. He currently lives and works in New York.