Conor Backman (b.1988) currently lives 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 ].



Exhibitions-

Upcoming -

    - will be showing work at Open Space Gallery, Baltimore MD summer 2010

   
Past -
  
    -VCU F.A.B. Gallery, "View 2010" Juried group exhibition through the VCU Painting and Printmaking department.
   
    -Plant Zero, "Something Special" Group Exhibition, Richmond VA, December 2009

    -Corporate and Musuem Frame Gallery, "Some Watercolors" Solo Exhibition, Richmond VA, October 2009

    -Gallery 222, "Variances" Solo Exhibition, Leesburg, VA, February 2009

    -Anderson Art Gallery, Juried Student Exhibition, Richmond, VA,  April 2008

    -VCU Student Commons Gallery, one-person exhibition, "New Paintings", Richmond, VA, November, 2007

    -Capital Garage, group exhibition, "The End", Richmond, VA, October 2007

    -Gallery 222, group exhibition, Leesburg, VA, July 2007

    -"Arts in the Alley", Purcellville, VA, June 2007

    -Gallery 222, four-person group exhibition, "Emerging Artists", Leesburg, VA, April 2007

    -"Horsing Around Loudoun", public art project, Loudoun County, VA, March 2006

Awards and Recognitions

    - Charles Renick Scholarship, VCU Sculpture Department, Spring 2009
    - Honors painting, VCU Department of Painting and Printmaking, Fall 2009
    - Tyler Binsted Scholarship, VCU Sculpture Department, Spring 2008
    - VCU Provost Scholaship, 2007 (Four year tution scholarship)
    - Best in show, 10th District Congressional Art Show 2006, 2007