Stephen Conroy

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