Hello, my name is Conor Ward. I was born and raised in San Francisco. I currently live in the Tenderloin, make things in my SOMA fabrication shop, and work in a woodshop in the Mission and on construction projects throughout the city. I work as a Journeyman Carpenter at Restoration Workshop restoring historically significant San Francisco residences. As a high school student, I had the privilege of attending a school with an outstanding ceramics program. That’s where this journey began...I think. Or perhaps it began when I was just a little kid sitting in front of a pile of LEGOs. Well, regardless or when and how it began, I like to make things.

Artwork has always been a therapeutic release for me. I used to make art in response to issues I found particularly problematic. From 2010-2012, as an angsty emerging high school artist, my work spoke out against environmental degradation and animal rights violations. Very cliche, if you ask me now. At the time, I was exclusively working in clay, creating installations and dioramas depicting the tensions afflicting many life forms. Beginning in the spring of 2015, my work became focused on social injustice in an American context. Says everyone, nowadays. I don’t mean to disparage my earlier works. These earlier times were the critical stepping stones that have lead to now. And now is, frankly, a dream coming true. These days, I am mostly preoccupied with my full-time work as well as the side projects I do for clients out of my SOMA shop. Not much Art is getting made, however I am making beautiful things all of the time. In time I’m hoping to figure out how to get more of my own personal art making into the mix. I’m confident it will happen.

.At the end of the day, my artwork will always be about self-actualization and the simple joys of problem-solving, creating, and experimenting. I wish to leave this world a humble master of many crafts, who is tirelessly trying to expand his palette of experience.