Biography
1964 Born in Helensburgh, Scotland
1982-1986 Glasgow School of Art
1986-1987 Postgraduate Studies, Glasgow School of Art
1998 Awarded Grand Prize of HRH Prince Rainier III, Prince Pierre of Monaco
Foundation, Monte Carlo, MC
Lives and works in Scotland
Solo Exhibitions
1989 Living the Life, Marlborough Fine Art, London;
Whitworth Art Gallery, Manchester;
Kelvingrove Art Gallery, Glasgow
1992 Recent Paintings, Marlborough Fine Art, London
Etchings and Lithographs, Marlborough Graphics, London
1995 Recent Works, Marlborough Gallery, New York
1996 Recent Works, Everard Read Gallery, Johannesburg
1997-98. Recent Works, Marlborough Galleria, Madrid
Musee Grant, Aix-en-Provence
1999 Recent Paintings, Marlborough Fine Art, London
2000 Stephen Conroy, Foire Internationale d’Art Contemporain, Paris
2001 Stephen Conroy Graphics, Thomas Zander, Cologne
2003 Stephen Conroy – Obra Reciente, Marlborough Galleria, Madrid
Stephen Conroy Retrospective, Schloss-Gottorf Landesmuseum, Schleswig
Holstein
Stephen Conroy – Recent Paintings, Marlborough Gallery, New York
Etchings and Lithographs, Marlborough Graphics, London
2004 Stephen Conroy, Everard Read Gallery, Cape Town and Johannesburg
Stephen Conroy Lithographien und Radierungen, Galerie Koch, Hannover
2005 Stephen Conroy Oeuvres Recentes, Marlborough Monaco
2006 Stephen Conroy, Beck & Eggeling International Fine Art, Dusseldorf
2007 Stephen Conroy, Marlborough Gallery, New York
2008 Stephen Conroy Recent Paintings and Drawings, Marlborough Fine Art,
London
2009 Stephen Conroy, Beck & Eggeling International Fine Art , Dusseldorf
2010 Stephen Conroy, Marlborough Gallery, New York
2012 Stephen Conroy Oeuvres Recentes, Marlborough Monaco
Stephen Conroy Obra Reciente, Marlborough Madrid
Stephen Conroy, Everard Read Gallery, Johannesburg
Group Exhibitions
1986 Royal Scottish Academy Student Exhibition, Edinburgh
The Royal Glasgow Institute of the Fine Arts, Glasgow
1987 The Vigorous Imagination – New Scottish Art, Scottish National Gallery of
Modern Art, Edinburgh
1988-90 The New British Painting, The Contemporary art Centre, Cincinnati;
Chicago Public Library; Haggerty Museum, Wisconsin; Southeastern
Centre for Contemporary Art, North Carolina; Grand Rapids Art Museum,
Michigan.
1990 Glasgow’s Great British Art Exhibition, Glasgow Museums and Art Gallery
1991 Through the Artist’s Glass, Marlborough Graphics, London
1992 Scottish Art Since 1900, Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art, Edinburgh
1993 The Portrait Now, National Portrait Gallery, London
1994 The Line of Tradition, Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art, Edinburgh
1994-95 An American Passion – the Summer Collection of Contemporary British
Painting, McLellan Galleries, Glasgow; The Royal College of Art, London
1996 Su Carta – On Paper, Galleria d’Arte il Gabbiano, Rome
1997 The Vigorous Imagination- Ten Years On, The Scottish Gallery, Edinburgh
British Figurative Art, Part One: Painting – The Human Figure, Flowers
East, London
1998 Mirror Image – Jonathan Miller on Reflection, The National Gallery,
London
Artaid ’98, Edinburgh City Art Centre
1998-99 The School of London – from Bacon to Bevan, Musee Maillol, Paris;
Auditorio de Galicia, Santiago de Compostella
1999 London International Small Print Biennale, Morley Gallery, London
2000 The New Glasgow Boys, The Fleming Collection, London
Escuela de la Visible, International figuration Exhibition, Galeria
Marlborough Madrid; Centro Las Claras, Murcia; Centro Cultural Case
Del Cordon, Burgos; Cultural Rioja, Logrono
2001 Bella Figura – 5 Painters under 50, Brusberg Gallery, Berlin
Autumn Show 2000, Marlborough Fine Art, London
2006 Summer Exhibition, Marlborough Fine Art, London
2006-2007 Zuruck zur Figur – Malerei der Gegenwart, Back to the Figure –
Contemporary Painting, Kunsthalle der Hypo-Kulturstiflung, Munich;
Museum Frank Gertsch, Burgdorf; Kunsthall, Rotterdam; The Kunsthaus,
Vienna
2007 The Figure: A British Tradition, McColl Centre for Visual Art, North
Carolina
Summer Exhibition, Marlborough Fine Art, London
9 Creative Truths, Torreon de Lozoya, Segovia
Arbeiten auf Papier, Beck and Eggeling International Fine Art, Dusseldorf
2008 Summer Exhibition, Marlborough Fine Art, London
Works on Paper, Donopoulos Gallery, Thessaloniki, Greece
2011 Summer Exhibition, Marlborough Gallery, New York
2015 Summer Exhibition, Marlborough Fine Art, London
2017 The Vigorous Imagination Revisited, Roger Billcliffe Gallery, Glasgow
Selected Literature
Keith Hartley, The Vigorous Imagination – New Scottish Art, Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art, Edinburgh, 1987
Denis Coutagne, Stephen Conroy – Peintre, Marlborough Galeria, Madrid, 1998
Dina Vierny, Bertrand Lorquin, Michael Peppiatt, Jill Lloyd, The School of London – from Bacon to Bevan, Musee Maillol, Paris, 1998
Duncan McMillan, Scottish Art 1460 – 2000, Mainstream Publishing, London 1999
Herwig Guratzsch, Thomas Gaedeke, Stephen Conroy Retrospective, Stifling Schleswig
Holsteinische Landesmuseum Verlag, 2003
Public Collections
Aberdeen Art Gallery
Birmingham Art Gallery
Kelvingrove Art Gallery and Museum, Glasgow
Scottish National Portrait Gallery, Edinburgh
Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art, Edinburgh
National Portrait Gallery, London
The British Museum, London
The British Council, London
The Victoria and Albert Museum, London
The Contemporary Art Society, London
The Fleming-Wyfold Collection, London
The Royal College of Surgeons of England, London
The Devonshire Collection, Chatsworth House, Derbyshire
The Whitworth Gallery, Manchester
Southampton Art Gallery
Newport Museum and Art Gallery
The Ingram Collection of Modern British and Contemporary Art, London
The Hiscox Collection, London
Schloss Gottorf Landesmuseum, Schleswig Holstein
The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
The Frissiras Museum, Athens