Conor Backman (b.1988) currently lives and works in Richmond, Virginia.  He is studying sculpture and painting at Virginia Commonwealth University (VCU).  He is currently co-owner of REFERENCE, an art gallery in downtown Richmond.  For more information on the gallery click [ here ].

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SELECTED EXHIBITIONS  (*denotes solo exhibition)


2011

Reduction or Something Less, Three person group exhibition, LVL3, Chicago, IL

*Works Around Building, Food, Corporate and Museum Frame Inc., Richmond, VA

Materialism of Encounter, Little Berlin, Philadelphia, PA

Chain Letter, Shoshanawayne Gallery, Santa Monica, CA

are you faux real?, soft-spot.net, online exhibition

Out of Practice, Art Blog Art Blog, curated by Nudashank, New York, NY

Almost Transparent Blue, Y Gallery, New York, NY

Forum, curated by 1708 Gallery, Richmond, VA

Brain Massage, Parse Gallery, New Orleans, LA

Reference at University of Georgia, Four person exhibition with members of Reference Gallery, Athens, GA

#*X!!! Digital, Four person exhibition with Ben Jurgensen, Duncan Malashock, and Shana Moulton, curated by Hannah Walsh, Richmond, VA

Tuesday, Mixed Greens Gallery, New York, NY

Reference at Nudashank, Nudashank Gallery, Baltimore, MD

2010

Too Weak Peak, Two person exhibition with Ross Iannatti, VCU Student Art Space, Richmond, VA

The Suspended Moment, Open Space Gallery, Baltimore, MD

View 2010, VCU FAB Gallery, Juried group exhibition
   
2009

Something Special, Plant Zero, Richmond VA

Some Watercolors, Two person exhibition with Edward Shenk, Corporate and Museum Frame Gallery, Richmond VA

*Variances, Gallery 222, Leesburg, VA

2008

Anderson Art Gallery Juried Student Exhibition, Richmond, VA

2007

*New Paintings, VCU Student Art Space, Richmond, VA


EDUCATION   

Virginia Commonwealth University, BFA, Double Major, Sculpture and Extended Media, Painting and Printmaking, anticipated 2011

HONORS

Andrew Gehr West Scholarship, VCU Painting Department Faculty Award, 2011
Dean's Scholarship, VCU School of the Arts, Spring 2010
Honors Painting, VCU Department of Painting and Printmaking, Fall 2009
Charles Renick Scholarship, VCU Sculpture Department, Spring 2009
Tyler Binsted Scholarship, VCU Sculpture Department, Spring 2008
VCU Provost Scholarship, 2007, Four-year full tuition scholarship