Born. 1992, Sheffield, UK Education
2011-2014 BA Creative Arts Practice, Sheffield Hallam University, Sheffield.
Past Exhibitions
Solo Shows:
2021 ‘Manor Boy’, Platform 20 – Freelands Foundation Residency interim show, Yorkshire Artspace, Sheffield.
Group shows:
2022 ‘Creative Connections’ in partnership with the National Portrait Gallery and Sheffield Museums, The Millennium Gallery, Sheffield. 2022 ‘Go Figure!’, Daniel Raphael Gallery, London. 2021 ‘Fully Awake 6.6’, The Holden Gallery, Manchester. 2021 ‘EN-GER-LAND’, OOF gallery, London. 2021 ‘For the Many not the few’ online exhibition, Guts Gallery, London. 2020 'For the love of Avocados’ online exhibition, Art Exchange, University of Essex. 2020 'Me Myself and I', Collyer Bristow Gallery, London. 2019 ‘Robert Walters Group UK Young Artist Award’, Saatchi Gallery, London. 2019 ‘Agent of Change’ Ruskin Prize, The Holden Gallery, Manchester. 2019 ‘MICRO’, AirGallery, Manchester. 2018 ‘Malevolent Eldritch Shrieking’ (curated by Paul Morrison), Attercliffe TM, Sheffield 2017 ‘The Beginnings’, The National Assembly, Seoul, South Korea. 2017 ‘Ruskin Art Prize’, The Millennium Gallery, Sheffield. 2017 ‘Mediterranea 18 Young Artists Biennale’ Albanian National Gallery, Tirana, Albania. 2016 ‘UKYA National Festival 2016’, Derby Riverlights, Derby. 2016 'Utopia Deferred' Artlink Gallery, Hull & Corke Gallery, Liverpool. 2015 'Bloomberg New Contemporaries', Primary, Nottingham & ICA, London. 2015 ‘Overlooked’, The Scottish Queen Gallery, Sheffield. 2014 ‘Exchange Rates Presents: Platform – Paper’, Norte Maar, Brooklyn, New York. 2014 ‘Everyday Illusions’, Paper Gallery, Manchester. 2014 ‘John Moores Painting Prize’, The Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool.
Awards, Commissions and Collections
2024 Grant Awarded, Arts Council DYCP Funding awarded. Full Grant for period of development. 2023 Acquisition, Arts Council Collection, 4 paintings acquired for their National collection. 2022 Commission, ‘Creative Connections’ in partnership with the National Portrait Gallery and Sheffield Museums, The Millennium Gallery, Sheffield. 2019 ‘Robert Walters Group UK Young Artist Award’, First Prize, Saatchi Gallery, London.
Selected Press
Conor Rogers’ art is a baggy-filled vision of modern Britain – Online Article - https://theface.com/culture/conor-rogers-artist-sheffield-painting-drugs-mundanities-modern-britain
Robert Walters Group UK New Artist of the year 2019 Award Winner - Video Interview - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AtLVdcVPsV4
A city that welcomes art: Three Sheffield artists reflect on winning major prizes - Online Article for Corridor8, https://corridor8.co.uk/article/three-sheffield-artists/
Trio of Sheffield Artists Celebrate national Award Glory - Online Newspaper Article - https://www.thestar.co.uk/news/people/trio-sheffield-artists-celebrate-national-award-glory-1348391
Open House : Edition Two ‘Conor Rogers’. - Video Article -https://whynow.co.uk/watch/connor-rogers/
Field Trip: Mediterranea 18 (Young Artists Biennale), Albania – Double Negative – Article and Photo feature by Niki Russel - http://www.thedoublenegative.co.uk/2017/08/field-trip-mediterranea-18-young-artists-biennale-albania/?utm_content=buffer06186&utm_medium=social&utm_source=twitter.com&utm_campaign=buffer
Artists and masters of all trades –Article feature, Sheffield Telegraph by Ian Soutar - https://www.sheffieldtelegraph.co.uk/whats-on/arts/artists-and-masters-of-all-trades-1-8645517
Mediterranean See – Artforum – Article Feature, a review by Cathryn Drake - https://www.artforum.com/diary/cathryn-drake-on-the-18th-mediterranea-young-artists-biennale-68834
Discovering You're An Artist: An Interview with Conor Rogers and Jamie Fitzpatrick – https://archive.ica.art/bulletin/discovering-youre-artist
New Contemporaries - Surface Gallery - online Blog review - http://www.surfacegallery.org/blog/2015/9/21/new-contemporaries
Bloomberg New Contemporaries, Leftlion.co.uk - Photo Feature - http://www.leftlion.co.uk/articles.cfm/title/bloomberg-new-contemporaries/id/7756
ART-PRESENTATION: Bloomberg New Contemporaries 2015, - Photo Feature - http://www.dreamideamachine.com/en/?p=6244
New Contemporaries 2015: Professionalism, in-jokes and art that looks like other art- Report by Wayne Burrows. https://www.a-n.co.uk/news/new-contemporaries-2015-professionalism-in-jokes-and-art-that-looks-like-other-art/
'Sheffield Hallam opened my eyes to art as a career '- Sheffield Hallam University - https://www.shu.ac.uk/study-here/student-stories/undergraduate-student-stories/conor-rogers
John Moores reveals the shortlist winners for the Painting Prize, 2014 - http://www.liverpoolecho.co.uk/whats-on/arts-culture-news/john-moores-painting-prize-7374523
“Conor Rogers makes intricate, exquisite paintings, miniatures on such ordinary grounds; a cigarette packet, beer mat, and condom wrapper. Things of the pub. Beer, fags and sex, the English working-class dream. And the scenes depicted, a bull-terrier grinning under the gate, a discarded four-pack ring, litter round a park bench and vandalised bin, give us working-class Britain too. This is poverty, and poor materials. This is the rich beauty of the margins and the lost.”
Conor Rogers, 27 was named as the winner of the Robert Walters Group UK Young Artist of the Year Award, at an awards ceremony held at the prestigious Saatchi Gallery on the 7th October 2019.
Judges and winners (left to right): Rosalind Davis, Gavin Turk, Philippa Adams, Robert Walters, Camilla Hanney, Conor Rogers, Michael Forbes, Michelle Bowen.
photo by - Reece Straw
“It’s what makes Rogers’ work so appealing, that honesty. With “almost everything” in his life influencing the work,”
“His portraits appeal to nostalgia, but they also push the viewer to encounter painting as something beyond a flat plane, to read the faces of his subjects alongside the textures and cultural references that tell a story about who they really are.”