Conor Kelly

CV

Born Cork, Ireland 1980.

Lives and works in Glasgow.­

 

Education           

2008   MFA, Glasgow School of Art.                                                       

2002   BA(Hons) Fine & Applied Arts, University of Ulster, Belfast.                    

 

Solo Exhibition

2013   Pentimentos and Soda, Collective Gallery, Edinburgh.

2012   Golden Years, Glasgow Project Room.             

2011   Lampara Descomunal, Kunstverein Arnsberg.     

2009   The Revolutionary Haircut, Glasgow Project Room.            

2007   A Brief History Of Wormroot, Engine Room Gallery, Belfast.                                     

 

Selected Group Exhibition

2012

Tatooed Tear, Malgras Naudet Gallery, Manchester.
P.D.A. Curtain Showroom, The Telfer Gallery, Glasgow.

The Beast That Shouted Love at the Heart of the World, + 44 141 Gallery,    

Glasgow. (with Mark Briggs and Jim Colquhoun)

 

2011

Haunt, The Old Hairdressers, Glasgow.                

Overseas – Jahresgaben 2011, Kunstverein Arnsberg.   

SAM DEROUNIAN ALEX IMPEY FLORRIE JAMES CONOR KELLY     

GRAHAM KELLY KARI ROBERTSON TESSA LYNCH CHARLOTTE

PRODGER MICHAEL SMITH, Transmission Gallery, Glasgow.                  

Exeter Contemporary Open 2011, Exeter Phoenix Gallery, Exeter.   

Members show, Transmissions Gallery, Glasgow.             

 

2010

muhl-tuh-fair-ee-uhs, SunBear Gallery, Edinburgh.                                                       

Must I Paint You A Picture? Members Show, Transmission Gallery, Glasgow.             

Turn It On Again, SWG3 Projects, Glasgow International Festival.      

Saltwater, The Tall Ship, Glasgow Harbour, Glasgow International Festival.          

Say What What Way, Shopat34 Artist-run-space, London.           

Open West 2010, Summerfield Gallery, University of Gloucestershire,   

Cheltenham. 

 

2009   

Posthumous Hummus, A.Vermin, Glasgow.                

Arts Council of Northern Ireland - Recent Acquisitions,            

The Braid Mid-Antrim Museum, Ballymena, Northern Ireland.           

Disparition, Zero Station, Portland, ME, U.S.A.             

How to Manage When Everything is a Priority,                                           

The Grace and Clark Fyfe Gallery, Glasgow School of Art.                                                 

 

2008

Jahresgaben 2008, Kunstverein Arnsberg, Arnsberg.                                    

Old And New, Pentagon Gallery, Glasgow.                               

And So It Goes, Artnews Projects, Berlin.                              

MFA Degree Show, Tramway, Glasgow.                               

Flock GLASGOW-TLV, Bezalel Gallery, Tel Aviv.                          

Arts Council of Northern Ireland - Recent Acquisitions,                    

The Carnegie Centre, Larne.                                          

 

2007

The Weirding and the Uncanny, Glasgow School of Art.                       

MFA Interim Show, Glasgow School of Art.                                     

Student Exhibition, Royal Scottish Academy, Edinburgh.                                    

 

Residency/Artist Talk/Event

2011          Artist’s talk at University of Ulster, Belfast.                         

2010          Artist’s talk at Transmission Gallery, Glasgow (with AnnaTanner).                                   

2009          Void Residency at Curfew Tower, Cushendall, Northern Ireland.                                   

2007          A Shoal of Mackeral Artist Book Launch, CCA, Glasgow.                                                 

Publication

2009   ‘Euphoric Economies’, i Quarterly Magazine Volume 1 Issue 1, i Publications.           

2007  ‘An Adventurer’s Guide To The Subjugation Of The Island Of Sapouti’ with Emmett Walsh in cahoots with A Shoal Of Mackerel.                       

              

Award

2010            Scottish Arts Council Creative Development Bursary                       

2010            Culture & Sport Glasgow Visual Arts Grant Scheme           

2009            Culture & Sport Glasgow Visual Arts Grant Scheme                

2006            Mackendrick Scholarship (Glasgow School of Art)       

                            

 

Press

Mareike Maack ‘Abstrakte Malerei und Kunst aus dem Scanner’ Westfälische Rundschau, Nr 275, 25/11/2011.

Gaby Decker ‘Schichten eines Künstlers’ Sauerland Kurier, 27/11/2011.

Talitha Kotzé ‘Must I Paint You A Picture ?’ The List (Issue 660), 2 July 2010.

Sean P Feeny ‘Memorializing Roger Casement’ Donegal News, No144, Monday, August 31st, 2009.

Liz Shannon ‘Glasgow School of Art MFA Degree Show’ The List, Issue 605, Jun-Jul 2008.

Slavka Sverakova ‘Belfast 3-13 September 2007’ Circa 122, Winter 2007.

Jenny Lee ‘Distance wins the day’ The Irish News, 23rd August 2003

                       

 

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