Conor McGrady was born in Downpatrick, Northern Ireland in 1970. He studied at Cumbria College of Art and Design in Carlisle, UK and at the University of Northumbria, Newcastle, UK, before receiving his MFA at The School of the Art Institute of Chicago in 1998. In 2000 and 2002 McGrady was awarded a Community Arts Assistance Program Grant from the City of Chicago, and in 2009 was awarded funding from ArtsLink FACE Croatia and a Study and Travel Grant from the Jerome Foundation. Most recently his work has been exhibited at HDLU, Zagreb, Croatia, Saltworks Gallery, Atlanta, and M.Y. Art Prospects, New York. In 2002 he was selected to participate in the Whitney Biennial at the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York. In 2003 he completed a five-month residency in the Woolworth Building, New York, through the Lower Manhattan Cultural Council’s Studio Program. He is editor of Curated Spaces, a regular feature in the journal Radical History Review. He currently lives and works in New York.