Connor
Dolan
Statement
With an almost neurotic curiosity about the world, fact-finding and falling into Wikipedia click holes entertain me as much as anything. Often centered on a captivating technical detail I’ve stumbled across, my work expands outward to incorporate complex materials and scientific processes that lie beyond everyday familiarity. I am particularly interested in how systems that are often perceived as dangerous or opaque—industrial chemicals, biological processes, or volatile materials—can be repurposed as tools for image-making.
My background is in photorealistic painting, but my practice increasingly focuses on developing new material systems that produce images through physical processes rather than traditional mark-making. I build structures that allow ephemeral phenomena such as condensation, vapor, and chemical reactions to generate images over time. Using materials like glass, machined metal, and pigment chemistry, these works exist somewhere between painting, sculpture, and experiment.
Biography
Connor Dolan (b. 1998, Miami FL) is an artist residing in South Florida after studying at Washington University in St. Louis. His creations are driven by deep curiosity about the natural and mechanical world, leading him to communicate frequently with government agencies, defense contractors, and overseas suppliers to obtain materials that are often highly regulated. Through supersaturated portraiture and sculpture, he probes what we’ve lost through supply chains and industrialization–not environmentally, but psychically.
CV
Connor Dolan
Born in 1998, Miami, FL. USA. Lives and works in Miami.
EDUCATION
2023
B.F.A. Washington University in St. Louis, Sam Fox School of Design & Visual Arts, St. Louis MO
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2025
Self Portrait With Two Deceased Siblings, Touché Boutique, Miami FL
2024
HOT WET AMERICAN PAINTING, Tunnel Projects, Miami FL
2022
Three Cubic Feet of Stone, Blood, and Meat, MONACO, St. Louis MO
GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2024
Body & Spirit, Spinello Projects, Miami FL
Meditations on Waking Up, Miami Design District, Miami FL
dissolved, Tunnel Projects, Miami FL
2023
SOFT SHELL, Los Angeles CA
GOBSMACKED, Des Lee Gallery, St. Louis MO
Women in Philosophy: Power and Prominence, Wilson Hall, St. Louis MO
2022
Cyborg Environmentalism, Sapien Gallery, Kansas City MO
2021
Bilingual: Abstract and Figurative, Bruno David Gallery, St. Louis MO
Zero Empty Spaces Gallery (Gulfstream), Hallandale FL
Only Briefly, Forest Park, St. Louis MO
Stay Back, Des Lee Gallery, St. Louis MO
2019
Provocative Art Show, Tedd’s ART Works, Wilton Manors FL
Stonewall Pride Kickoff Party, The Manor, Wilton Manors FL
2017
Lauderdale Yacht Club Art Show, Ft. Lauderdale FL
AWARDS & RESIDENCIES
2023
Hazel H. Huntsinger Memorial Prize in Painting, St. Louis MO
2022
International Sculpture Center Outstanding Student Achievement In Contemporary Sculpture Award
(Honorable Mention), Hamilton NJ
Residency Project's Artist Retreat @ 1303, Silverton CO
2019
Best in Show, Tedd's ART Works, Wilton Manors FL
PRESS
2025
Miami New Times: The Best Art Shows to See in Miami, December 2025
2024
Miami Herald: ‘Suffocated self-portraits,’ satire and spooky theater: October arts in Miami
Miami Herald: ‘We shouldn’t be suffering.’ Miami’s artists can’t find affordable studio space
Miami New Times: Here’s Your Guide to Miami Art Shows in October 2024
Walker Art Center: Seeing Invisible Systems: Connor Dolan in conversation with Molly M. Pearson
2023
2022
Sculpture Magazine (print)