Tim Conlon (artist)


Tim Conlon is an American artist and graffiti writer known for large-scale murals and works on canvas. He was featured as one of several artists in the Smithsonian National Portrait Gallery exhibit, Recognize! Hip Hop and Contemporary Portraiture, which included four large graffiti murals painted by Conlon and collaborator, David Hupp in 2008. This marked the first modern graffiti ever to be in the Smithsonian Institution.
In 2011, he curated the G scale train exhibit in the Los Angeles Museum of Contemporary Art’s, Art in The Streets survey of graffiti and street art.
In 2020 his work was featured in Sotheby's first ever Hip-Hop Auction. Conlon also produced the 2021 documentary, Rolling Like Thunder, a film about freight train graffiti produced by Mass Appeal and released on Showtime.
His Blank Canvas train paintings are in multiple collections, including the Norfolk Southern Corporation's headquarters in Atlanta, Georgia. Conlon's art can be found on the streets of Washington, D.C., in city-sponsored public art projects. Conlon has exhibited at the Corcoran Gallery of Art, along with shows and projects in New York, Los Angeles, Miami, Chicago, San Francisco, London, Paris, Bordeaux and Berlin.

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