CONRAD EGYR was born in Accra, Ghana, in 1989. In 2015, he received a BFA from Judson University and, the following year, an MFA from Cranbrook Academy of Art. Conrad’s work gained international attention, especially after being used in Beyonce’s 2020 summer visual album and film Black is King.

Conrad’s drawings and paintings are drawn from Western symbolism, pop culture, and Afrocentric folklore and are informed by his studies of political, philosophical, and religious ideologies. His paintings are often presented as narratives, focusing on subjects from the Afro-diaspora interacting with identical versions of themselves.

Conrad Egyr’s work has been exhibited at Jessica Silverman Gallery, San Francisco; Library Street Collective, Detroit; at the Institute of Contemporary Art, San José, CA; at the Museum of Contemporary Art, Detroit, MI; and the Mindy Solomon Gallery, Detroit, MI, to name a few. His public collections include Cranbrook Art Museum, Bloomfield Hills, MI; The Detroit Institute of Arts, MI; JP Morgan Chase Art Collection; Kalamazoo Institute of Arts, Kalamazoo, MI; Kaiser Permanente Bernard J. Tyson School of Medicine, Pasadena, CA; Pérez Art Museum Miami, FL, and Rennie Collection, Vancouver, Canada.

More of his work may be appreciated on his website and IG Account.