Connie Rose in front of her painting's 'You Are The Universe' and 'Beyond 13.8 Billion Light Years'. at Contra Galleries, Chelsea NYC, 2018.

Born: United Kingdom
Lives/Studio Location: London and New York City
Exhibitions: London, Bristol, Vancouver, New York City, El Salvador, Mexico City.
Education/Residencies:
2015: Artist residency: Arquetopia, Puebla, Mexico.
2008-2011: BA Fine Art at Chelsea Art School, UAL, London, UK.
2009 : Year 2 BA Fine Art at Emily Carr University of Art and Design, Vancouver, Canada.
2006-2007: Art Foundation at UWE, Bristol, UK.

About Connie

Surrealist Connie Rose is most famous for her transcendental oil paintings that dance beautifully between fluidity and precision. Music, meditation, self-hypnosis, breath-work, and even lucid dreaming, are key components to the creation of Connie’s paintings which take the viewer on a colourful journey of electrifying visual energy to meditative imagined worlds. These worlds tap into a primal feeling that the viewer is both shaken and settled by, it is both truth and illusion. Connie explores the limitless possibilities of universes and existence with deep intuition, passion and wonder.

The first oil painting Connie ever made, when she was 17, was chosen for the Young Oil painter’s award exhibition at the Mall Galleries, Trafalgar Square, London, and she began working as a successful photorealistic portrait artist shortly after graduating from Chelsea Arts School.

Connie was commissioned to create the artwork for Dot Demo's album, 'Outer Body Experience' which was the beginning of mixing her photorealistic portraiture and surrealism. Connie's art has been featured in many art publications and is in three editions of the ‘Yo New York’ book for the MoMa Ps1, including the current 2019 edition. Connie's art has been featured in Forbes as one of New York’s top contemporary artists, and her work is collected worldwide. Connie Rose murals can be found in New York, London, El Salvador and Cuba including the 90ft Library mural for Yeshiva University, NYC.

In 2014 Connie was chosen for the British TV show Sky Arts Portrait Artist of the Year and she has been in numerous international group exhibitions. In 2014 she had her first solo show in Julian Hartnoll Gallery, Mayfair, London, and in 2016 her second solo show in at One Art Space Gallery, TriBeCa, NYC.

Connie's paintings were in 'The Subconscious Canvas’ book and exhibition, at Contra Galleries, Chelsea, NYC. It was a group show where the artists were first hypnotized to create the art on display. Contra Galleries currently holds a body of her work available for viewing.

November 7th- December 12th, 2019 Connie is had her third solo show ‘Money’ at Contra Galleries, Chelsea NYC.

The first ‘Money Tree’ was installed in Central Park by Connie in October 2019. Real money was attached to the branches, and passers by were allowed to take the money as they wished. Another ‘Money Tree’ was installed at Art Basel Miami 2019, and further versions of the interactive installation will appear in London, Thailand, and Tokyo in 2020-21. Also in November 2019 Connie did a live performance in Times Square where she gave away free money in golden envelopes attached to golden balloons, and let off the remaining money balloons (all biodegradable) into the sky.

Connie also curates exhibitions, in 2018 she curated the highly successful group show, 'Transformation' featuring her paintings, and a host of transformational events at One Art Space Gallery, TriBeCa. Most recently represented England for the curation of the Global Virtual exhibit +|- International; Virtual Festival of the Arts in Q-tine by Patchogue Arts Council and Museum of Contemporary Art Long Island (PAC•MoCA L.I.)

Also in 2018 Connie was the solo guest judge for the nationwide art competition for Save Art Space (no affiliation with One Art Space), where art is selected to replace billboard advertising.