Conor Rogers
b. 1992, United Kingdom
Rogers graduated from Sheffield Hallm Unviersity in 2014 and was selected for the Bloomberg New Contemporaries in 2015, exhibited at Primary Gallery, Nottingham and the ICA, London. In 2018 Rogers represented Great Britain at the Mediterranea 18 biennale in Tirana, Albania. In 2019 Conor was named as the 1st Prize winner of the UK Young Artist of the Year Award held at the Saatchi Gallery, London. He became the recipient of the 2024 March Selection of the DYCPGrant provided by Arts Council England. Selected group exhibitions include Collyer Bristow Gallery, London (2020); Holden Gallery Manchester (2021); OOF Gallery, London (2021). In 2019 he was selected for the Freelands Foundation programme at Site Gallery, Sheffield resulting in his debut solo exhibition ‘Manor Boy’ Yorkshire Artspace, Sheffield (2021). In 2022 he was commissioned as the leading artist for the National Portrait Galleries ‘Creative Connections’ project to create an exhibition of socially engaged portraiture. Rogers work is held in The Arts Council Collection.