How can I buy a work by Terry Conrad?

Bruno David Gallery handles the sale of available works by Terry Conrad. For prices and availability, email info@brunodavidgallery.com or call +1 314 696 2377.

Where can I see work by Terry Conrad in person?

At Bruno David Gallery, 7513 Forsyth Boulevard, Saint Louis, Missouri 63105, during public hours or by appointment.

What does Terry Conrad make?

Prints made with inks he makes from found and environmental materials such as walnuts, rust and ocean silt, printed on presses he builds from found objects and scrap; the colors keep shifting as metals and inks oxidize.

Where is Terry Conrad based?

Terry Conrad lives and works in Iowa City, Iowa. He divides his time between Iowa City and upstate New York.

Has Terry Conrad had an exhibition at Bruno David Gallery?

Yes. Biomarkers (12 April to 11 May 2019) is one of his exhibitions at the gallery. Catalogues can be read in the gallery’s Publications library at brunodavidgallery.com/publications.

Terry Conrad

Terry Conrad is an Iowa City–based printmaker who makes his own inks and presses from found and environmental materials. Also known as Terry James Conrad, he divides his time between Iowa City and upstate New York.

His prints carry the history of their materials, from the inks to the press that made them. Conrad builds each press from found objects and scrap and makes inks from walnuts, rust and ocean silt; images form over several days as metals and inks oxidize onto the paper. Copper, for example, turns a bright sea-foam green, and the colors keep shifting throughout the print’s life as it meets oxygen and humidity.

In 2018 he joined a Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution research cruise off Southern California, making some inks from mud bottled at sea; in 2023 he joined oceanographers Joan Bernhard and Catherine Davis on a Pacific research voyage for a National Science Foundation–funded project.

Conrad is the Iowa Print Media Associate Professor and head of printmaking at the University of Iowa and previously taught at Skidmore College. Originally from New York State, he holds a BFA from Alfred University and an MFA from Cranbrook Academy of Art. He was the 2015–16 Grant Wood Fellow in Printmaking and a 2017 New York Foundation for the Arts Fellow, and has held residencies at the Elizabeth Murray Artist Residency, Frans Masereel Centrum (Belgium), Penland School of Craft and the Vermont Studio Center. He co-founded the Round Lake School, a preschool and artist residency in upstate New York, with Rachel Ziegler-Sheridan.

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