Conor Mary Foy

Conor Mary Foy’s work is inspired by an array of interests including pagan and folk arts, utopian fiction and science fiction, group and power dynamics, ritual, theology, heresy, cults, and utopian and secret societies. Conor Mary Foy’s work is coloured by an overriding interest in fictions, both in relation to creating fictions, and how they are perceived. Incongruous elements in the work often complicate full immersion in the fiction or introduce an ambiguousness in relation to the intended setting. Conor Mary Foy works in video, sculpture, live art, photography, drawing, print, and painting.

Conor Mary Foy lives and works in Dublin. He graduated from the National College of Art and Design, Dublin in 2013, was recipient of the Temple Bar Gallery + Studios Recent Graduate Residency in 2014, and has exhibited in recognised public and private galleries in solo, two-person and group exhibitions. Selected exhibitions include Standard Exhibition - curated by Davey Moor, Artbox Projects, Dublin (group exhibition, 2017); Madder Lake -curated by James Merrigan, Billion Journal (publication, 2017); Hot on the Heels of love curated by Padraic Moore, Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin (group exhibition, 2015); Approaching the Landscape, Rua Red, Tallaght, Dublin – Talisman, Wormwood, Seekers (group exhibition, 2015) and Adiaphora, Kevin Kavanagh Gallery, Dublin (solo exhibition, 2013).