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 detail I’ve stumbled across, my work expands outward to incorporate more complex materials and sometimes misunderstood subjects that lie beyond everyday familiarity. Things like radiation, pharmaceuticals, petroleum, industrial chemicals, germs, GMOs, and even narcotics are both fascinating and terrifying. While often considered outright dangerous, I see these technologies as complex tools capable of augmenting traditional painting.
My background is in both photorealism and synthetic biology, but I’m more interested in building new ways to depict form permanently with things as ephemeral as steam and gas, while still engaging with the historical medium of oil paint. I use sleek, post-minimalistic materials such as glass and machined metal along with strategic flashes of supersaturation. These pieces manifest as either sculpture or portraiture, where pigment and paint chemistry play a significant role.
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.
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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
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
2024
2023
2022
Sculpture Magazine
Dazed Korea online