Connor Everts was born in Bellingham, Washington in 1928. During his youth his family lived in various locales in the Pacific Northwest until finally settling in Los Angeles. After serving in the military, Everts enrolled at the Chouinard Art Institute under the GI Bill. He continued his studies at the University of Washington; the Mexico City College, receiving his B.A.; and the Courtauld Institute of the University of London.

Everts worked nights as a longshoreman in San Pedro throughout the 1950s so that he could devote his days to his art and in 1955, he received a major painting prize from the Los Angeles County Museum of Art and a major solo exhibition of his work was mounted at the Pasadena Art Museum in 1960. Everts was Artist in Residence at Cranbrook Academy for five years beginning in 1976 instructing in the field of printmaking and he also taught at the University of Washington and the University of Southern California. The Los Angeles County Museum of Art held a retrospective of his work in 1983 and another retrospective was mounted in 2004 at the El Camino College Art Gallery.

Everts' work is included in the collections of the Art Institute of Chicago; Brooklyn Art Museum; Des Moines Art Center; Detroit Art Institute; Gruenwald Foundation; Janco-Dada Museum; Los Angeles County Museum of Art; Museums of Modern Art, New York, San Francisco and Tokyo; Milwaukee Museum of Art; Rosenwald Print Collection; San Diego Museum of Art; Smithsonian Institution and the Whatcom Museum of History and Art.