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Nationality
  
American

Website
  
www.conoperative.com


Name
  
Tim Conlon

Role
  
Artist

Tim Conlon (artist) Tim Conlon

Born
  
October 7, 1974
Alexandria, VA

Known for
  
Graffiti, street art, public art

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Tim Conlon (born 1974 in Alexandria, Virginia) is an American artist and graffiti writer known for large-scale murals and works on canvas. He was featured as one of several artists (including Kehinde Wiley and poet, Nikki Giovanni) in the Smithsonian National Portrait Gallery exhibit, Recognize! Hip Hop and Contemporary Portraiture, which included four large graffiti murals painted by Conlon and collaborator, David Hupp in 2008. This marked the first modern graffiti ever to be in the Smithsonian Institution.

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In 2011, he was featured and curated the G scale train exhibit in the Los Angeles Museum of Contemporary Art’s, Art in The Streets survey of graffiti and street art. His Blank Canvas train paintings are in multiple collections, including the Norfolk Southern Corporation's headquarters in Norfolk, Virginia. Conlon has recently exhibited at the Corcoran Gallery of Art, along with shows and projects in New York, Los Angeles, Miami, Chicago, San Francisco, Paris, Bordeaux and Berlin. Conlon’s art can be found on the streets of Washington, D.C. in city-sponsored public art projects.

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Exhibitions

  • Cruel Summer, Jonathan LeVine Gallery, New York City (Group) 2014
  • Transit, Vertical Gallery, Chicago (Group) 2014
  • One Track Mind, The Seventh Letter, Los Angeles 2014
  • Pump Me Up: D.C. Subculture of the 1980s, Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, DC (Group) 2013
  • Art in the Streets, Los Angeles Museum of Contemporary Art (LA MOCA), Los Angeles (Group) 2011
  • Sanrio's Small Gift, Miami (Group) 2010
  • The Underbelly Project, New York City (Group) 2010
  • les grandes Traversées, Cortex Athletico, Bordeaux (Group) 2010
  • Black in Black w/Mark Jenkins, The Fridge, Washington, DC (Split) 2010
  • Recycled Meaning: Oil and Water, Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, DC (Group) 2009
  • BOMBS AWAY!, Strychnin Gallery, Berlin (Curator/Group) 2009
  • MANIFESTHOPE:DC, The Manifest Hope: DC Gallery, Washington, DC (Group) 2009
  • Recognize! Hip Hop and Contemporary Portraiture, Smithsonian National Portrait Gallery, Washington, DC (Group) 2008
  • 400ML Project, Maison des Métallos, Paris (Group) 2008
  • References

    Tim Conlon (artist) Wikipedia