Conor O Grady

Conor O’Grady is an Irish visual artist whose practice centres on landscape, memory, and atmosphere. Working primarily in watercolour, his paintings explore the quiet tension between observation and emotion, often drawing from rural environments shaped by isolation, weather, and time.

His work is characterised by a restrained palette and a sensitivity to light, where forms emerge and dissolve, suggesting places that feel both familiar and uncertain. Through this approach, O’Grady engages with landscape not only as a physical space but as a site of memory and psychological resonance.

He has developed his practice through a combination of exhibitions and artist residencies, allowing for periods of focused research and reflection that continue to inform his evolving body of work.

Master of Arts in Creative Practice
[Atlantic Technical University, Galway], [2023]

Bachelor of Fine Art
[Dublin Institute of Technology], [2013]

Fine Art Education
[National College of Art and Design], [2005-2007]

Exhibitions include the solo exhibitions:

Solo Exhibitions

2027 (forthcoming) — Untitled Exhibition, Sabhal Mór Ostaig, Isle of Skye, Scotland
2025 — Strange Aesthetics, Old Barracks, Ballina, Ireland
2024 — All the Men (We Ever Loved), Linenhall Arts Centre, Castlebar, Co. Mayo, Ireland
2023 — Silent Signals, Áras Inis Gluaire, Belmullet, Co. Mayo, Ireland
2019 — Damnatio Memoriae, Ballina Arts Centre, Ireland
2019 — Contested Territories, Custom House Studios and Gallery, Westport, Ireland
2018 — An Archive of Provocative Acts, National Folk Theatre Gallery, Siamsa Tíre, Tralee, Ireland
2015 — Green Carnations, Linenhall Arts Centre, Castlebar, Co. Mayo, Ireland

Selected Group Exhibitions & Festivals

2017 — Culture Prize Presentation, St. Pölten, Austria
2016 — Kathleen Lynn: Insider on the Outside, Group Exhibition
2016 — Beckett Me Festival, Kalamata, Greece
2016 — God’s Own Country, Moving Image Festival, Weston Park Museum, Sheffield, UK
2016 — The State We’re In, MART Gallery, Rathmines, Dublin, Ireland
2015 — Mona Foma Arts Festival, Tasmania, Australia
2015 — ForeverNow, Moving Image Festival, Federation Square, Melbourne, Australia
2015 — Mayo God Help Us!, Claremorris Gallery, Co. Mayo, Ireland
2015 — Off the W...