Born in Ghana and based in Detroit, Conrad Egyir finds biblical and West African folk narratives in the texture of everyday life. For 8-bridges, the artist has created four new multimedia paintings, portraying himself in red and three valued friends in blue, green and yellow. Egyir’s paintings refer to the forms of stamps, postcards, notepads and journals with tabs, as metaphors for the migration and archiving of ideas and imagery.
Conrad Egyir (b. 1989, Accra, Ghana) received his MFA from the Cranbrook Academy of Art. In 2020, the artist enjoyed a solo show at the Museum of Contemporary Art Detroit (MOCAD). and his work is in the permanent collections of: Pérez Art Museum. Miami; Rennie Collection, Vancouver BC; the JPMorgan Chase Art Collection, NY; Kaiser Permanente Bernard J. Tyson School of Medicine, Pasadena; and the Cranbrook Art Museum, Bloomfield Hills, MI. Egyir has been awarded residencies by Vermont Studio Center; ACRE Residency, Wisconsin; the Ox-Bow School of Arts and Artist Residency, Saugatuck, MI; and the International Studio & Curatorial Program (ISCP), Brooklyn. He is represented by Jessica Silverman.

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