Born in 1964, Stephen Conroy studied at the Glasgow School of Art between 1982-7. He quickly gained recognition and achieved considerable success before beginning his postgraduate study.
In 1986 his degree show sold out and he also won the first prize for painting at the Royal Academy’s British Institute Fund Awards. Conroy was the youngest artist included in the notable Vigorous Imagination exhibition Edinburgh in 1987. Two years later he also held a solo exhibition at Marlborough Fine Art in London.
His work appears in a number of collections around Britain and abroad, including the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York and the National Portrait Gallery in London and Edinburgh.