Born in Downpatrick, Northern Ireland, 1970. Lives and works in New York.

Historical as well as political references also are a subtle subtext in the black and white drawings of Irish-born artist CONOR MCGRADY (1970), where space and architecture allude to places of terror and battle.

(Valeria Schulte-Fischedik, Shin il Kim, Seeing the invisible, exhibition catalogue, Milan, 2006)