Collection: Stephen Conroy   1946 - Present  Follow artist

Born in Helensburgh, Stephen Conroy (b. 1964) is regarded as one of Scotland’s finest living figurative painters. A student of the Glasgow School of Art in the early 1980s, he was regarded as an artist of extraordinary promise, winning first prize at the Royal Academy’s British Institute Fund Awards and selling out his degree show. His rapid rise continued through the late 1980s, becoming the youngest artist to feature in the Edinburgh Festival’s 1987 main exhibition and, two years later, holding his first one-man show at Marlborough Fine Art.

Conroy has remained working and living in Scotland, celebrated by critics and writers such as Val McDermid for his dark and dramatic ‘quality of strangeness.’ His work is now held in several major private and public collections, including The Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, the National Portrait Gallery and the British Council in London, and the Scottish National Modern art and National Portrait Galleries.