Tim Conlon

Tim Conlon (born 1974 in Alexandria, Virginia) is an American artist and graffiti writer known for large-scale murals and works on canvas. He was featured as one of several artists (including Kehinde Wiley and poet, Nikki Giovanni) 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.

Exhibitions Tim Conlon's artwork on display at the Beyond the Streets exhibition in 2018. WE ARE [still] HERE, Petit Palais, Paris, France (Group) 2026 BEYOND THE STREETS Paris, Grande Halle de la Villette, Paris, France (Group) 2026 Appointment Only, BEYOND THE STREETS Gallery, Los Angeles, CA (Group) 2025 BEYOND THE STREETS: Post Graffiti, Southamptons Art Center, Southampton, NY (Group) 2024 Tracks of Time, Control Gallery, Los Angeles, CA (Solo) 2023 BEYOND THE STREETS Shanghai, Jingan International Center, Shanghai, China (Group) 2023 BEYOND THE STREETS London, Saatchi Gallery, London, England (Group) 2023 Sotheby's Hip Hop Auction, Sotheby's, New York, New York (Group) 2020 BEYOND THE STREETS NYC, 25 Kent, New York, NY (Group) 2019 BEYOND THE STREETS, Werkartz, Los Angeles, CA (Group) 2018 Moniker Art Fair, The Old Truman Building, London, UK (Group) 2017 Between the Lines, Roman Fine Art, East Hampton, NY 2017 Cruel Summer, Jonathan LeVine Gallery, New York City (Group) 2014 Transit, Vertical Gallery, Chicago (Group) 2014 One Track Mind, The Seventh Letter, Los Angeles 2014 Pump Me Up: D.C. Subculture of the 1980s, Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, DC (Group) 2013 Art in the Streets, Los Angeles Museum of Contemporary Art (LA MOCA), Los Angeles (Group) 2011 Sanrio's Small Gift, Miami (Group) 2010 The Underbelly Project, New York City (Group) 2010 les grandes Traversées, Cortex Athletico, Bordeaux (Group) 2010 Black in Black w/Mark Jenkins, The Fridge, Washington, DC (Split) 2010 Recycled Meaning: Oil and Water, Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, DC (Group) 2009 BOMBS AWAY!, Strychnin Gallery, Berlin (Curator/Group) 2009 MANIFESTHOPE:DC, The Manifest Hope: DC Gallery, Washington, DC (Group) 2009 Recognize! Hip Hop and Contemporary Portraiture, Smithsonian National Portrait Gallery, Washington, DC (Group) 2008 400ML Project, Maison des Métallos, Paris (Group) 2008