Fiona Connor

Fiona Connor (born 1981) is a visual artist from New Zealand, currently based in Los Angeles.

Education Fiona Connor was born in 1981 in Auckland, New Zealand. In 2004 she graduated from the Elam School of Fine Arts with a BFA/BA. She has also studied at the University of California, San Diego and University of Barcelona and has an MFA from the California Institute of the Arts. She is currently based in Los Angeles.

Work Connor often replicates everyday objects in her sculptural installations. She also has an ongoing collaborative project with artist Michala Paludan, Newspaper Reading Club.

Connor has exhibited throughout New Zealand and internationally. Notable exhibitions include:

Closed for Installation, Sequence of Events, Secession, Vienna (2019) solo Closed for installation Fiona Connor, Sculpture Center, #4, Sculpture Center, New York (2019) solo Celebration of Our Enemies: Selections from the Hammer Contemporary Collection Hammer Museum, Los Angeles (2019) group Haunt Institute of Modern Art, Brisbane (2019) group Berman Board Armory Center for the Arts, Los Angeles (2019) group

Out of Place Drill Hall Gallery, Australian National University, Canberra (2021) group Long Distance Maureen Paley, London (2022) solo Continuous Sidewalk Chateau Shatto, Los Angeles (2023) solo

Connor was a founding member of two art spaces in Auckland; Special, and Gambia Castle.

Connor was a finalist in the 2010 Walters Prize with her work Something Transparent (please go round the back) (first shown in 2009 at Michael Lett, Auckland).

In 2011, she received the Arts Foundation of New Zealand Award for Patronage donation from Chartwell Trust. She also received a New Work Grant in 2008 from Creative New Zealand.

Work by Connor are held in several public collections including Auckland Art Gallery and the Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa. She is represented by Coastal Signs in Auckland, New Zealand and Maureen Paley in London.