"Like all really good art, Conor Foy's work is hard to pigeon-hole as being one thing, or as addressing one issue. Rather it addresses the question of being in a fascinating, multifaceted way."
- Tyler Green, a columnist with Modern Painters on the work of Conor Foy
The Molesworth Gallery is delighted to present its fourth solo exhibition of the work of Conor Foy.
Writing in The Huffington Post, Colin Darke said of Foy that he "is an important artist, he is in the arena creating great work.... he shows that he is able to capture immense emotion through delicate figurative work. He creates a quiet narrative that does not lecture the viewer, but it compels the viewer to consider the figure's tragic story".
Born in Dublin in 1967, Foy graduated with a BFA from NCAD in 1990 and an MFA from Columbia University in 1997. He has had four solo shows at the Molesworth (2013, 2015, 2017 and 2024) and has shown in multiple years at the RHA, where he was awarded the Fergus O'Ryan Memorial Award in 2007. One of a number of notable Irish artists who took up residence in New York in the 1990s, alongside Corban Walker and Norman Mooney, he still lives in the city, where Luc Tuymans is among the collectors of his work as well being an occasional visitor to his studio.
