Tim S Murphy CV

EDUCATION

MFA, The University of the Arts, Philadelphia, PA

BFA, Massachusetts College of Art and Design, Departmental Honors, Boston, MA

SOLO EXHIBITIONS


Tim Murphy
 – The Gallery at the Noah Webster Library, West Hartford, CT 

Chalk Circles – Destination Gallery, Nashville, TN

Conversion: Anne Rose Tiggoni – Fugitive Art Center, Nashville, TN

Perceptionism – University Club Gallery, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, TN

New Realism – University Club Gallery, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, TN

Kuwaiting – The Primal Plunge Gallery, Allston, MA

Tim Murphy – Paintings – Blue Knuckle Theatre, Boston, MA

MUSEUM EXHIBITIONS

Nor’Easter – New Britain Museum of American Art, CT 

Cheekwood Museum Instructors’ Show – Cheekwood Museum, Nashville, TN

Hypnagogia – Parthenon Museum, Nashville, TN

Museum of Fine Arts Boston, Staff Show – Museum of Fine Arts Boston, Boston, MA

GROUP EXHIBITIONS

2023

CT CreaturesThe Gallery at the Noah Webster Library, West Hartford, CT

2022

Planetario Nocturno – Bogota Columbia, SearchLight 360 immersive NFT Dome exhibition at Planetario De Bogota


Stratosphere 2022
Presented by Sabet & Spatial.io. Stratosphere is the premier and largest IRL/Metaverse NFT Art showcase. The virtual show in a VR Gallery created by “Spatial.io”

NFT-NYC 2022: Polygon Studios Hub: Spatial @ the VR room at the Polygon Studios hub, featuring Stratosphere galleries in VR and on Infinite Object displays

Into the Metaverse: Spatial, Ready Player Me, and the Fabricant @ Samsung 837: June 23rd at Samsung 837 and on Spatial – Stratosphere art featured on displays throughout the space

DOMANCE – SearchLight and the Vortex Community Circle, the World’s first 360 immersive NFT Dome exhibition located in the Domelandia Metaverse, and at The SearchLight Gallery in Spatial.io

2021
SearchLight Miami Art Week – NFT BZL at the FTX Arena in Downtown Miami and at DecentralCon in the Devco Digital Gallery

NFT-NYC 2021: Mask Ephemera Exhibitions @ NFT.NYC 2021 Conference:
– Edison Ballroom NYC
– The Palladium Center NYC
– Blockchain Center NYC
– The SearchLight Gallery in Spatial.io
– Pranksy’s Gallery in Decentraland

Art In Motion – Penn Station, New York, NY

2019
ArtWorks – White Space Chelsea, New York, NY

2018
Small Works – WHAL Gallery, West Hartford, CT

2017
Nor’Easter – New Britain Museum of American Art, CT

FLIGHT – Dehn Gallery, Manchester, CT

5th Annual Gallery Exhibit – LEGO Corporate Center, Enfield, CT

Contours – The Golden Thread Gallery, West Hartford, CT 

RED – The Gallery at the Noah Webster Library, West Hartford, CT

2016
Simplicity – The Golden Thread Gallery, West Hartford, CT

2015
25th Annual Carriage House Exhibition – Art League of New Britain, CT

2014
Faculty Exhibition – Hartford Art School, University of Hartford, Hartford, CT

2013
Brick House Expansion – LEGO Corporate Center, Enfield, CT

2011
Making It – University of the Arts, Philadelphia, PA

Retrospective: Untitled’s 20th Anniversary – Nashville, TN
Philly Photo Day – Philadelphia, PA

2010
The One Fifty/One Fifty Show – Philadelphia Sketch Club, Philadelphia, PA

2008
Unzipped – Icebox Project Space – Crane Arts Building, Philadelphia, PA

Painted Into a Corner Part II– University of the Arts, Philadelphia, PA

2007 
Painted Into a Corner Part I– Milk Depot, Philadelphia, PA

InLiquid Benefit V.7.0 Icebox Project Space – Crane Arts Building, Philadelphia, PA

Four Streets Apart -Two Philadelphia Painters, Tyler School of Art, Temple University, Elkins Park, PA

2006
Visions of Liberty – National Constitution Center, Philadelphia, PA

2005
Works In Progress – University of the Arts, Philadelphia, PA

The Artful Philadelphians – Krasdale Galleries – New York, NY

Draw a Crowd – APS, Boston, MA

Art Endures – Lankenau Hospital, Wynnewood, PA

2004
Main Line Art Center 67th Annual Members’ Exhibition – Haverford, PA

The Fugitive Art Center’s 5th Anniversary Show – Nashville, TN

2003
Main Line Art Center 66th Annual Members’ Exhibition – Haverford, PA

William Penn Charter School 2003 Juried Art Show – Penn Charter School, Philadelphia, PA

2002
South Boston Open Studios – The Distillery, Boston, MA

2001
Juried Paintings – Providence Art Club, Providence, RI

2000
Elephants: Benefit for the Elephant Sanctuary – Zeitgeist Gallery, Nashville, TN

Glow VII – 328 Performance Hall, Nashville, TN

1999
New Art – New Space – Zeitgeist Gallery, Nashville, TN

artGENERATOR 1, ArtSynergy, Nashville, TN

NeA’s Artstravaganza ’99, Nashville, TN

Rutherford County Center for the Arts – Murfreesboro, TN

O’More College of Design Faculty Show – Gresham & Smith, Nashville, TN

Glow VI – Untitled at the Fugitive Art Center, Nashville, TN

Introduction – Fugitive Art Center, Nashville, TN

1998
Lost in the Crowd – Zeitgeist Gallery, Nashville, TN

One Night Stand – Marathon Village, Nashville, TN

Glow V – Untitled at the Cannery, Nashville, TN 

1997
Shameless Self Portraits: Untitled Exposes Itself – 328 Performance Hall, Nashville, TN

Live & Active – Marathon Village, Nashville, TN

Glow IV – Nashville Entertainment Association, Nashville, TN

N.E.A. Extravaganza – Dark Horse Theatre, Nashville, TN

1996
Artopia – Marathon Village, Nashville, TN

Black and White – 12th & Porter, Nashville, TN

Nashville What’s the Big Idea – Untitled at the Cannery and live-streamed online, Nashville, TN

Royalty – 12th & Porter, Nashville, TN

The Glow Show III – Untitled at the Cannery, Nashville, TN

1995
Vaanguard – VAAN Gallery at the Cannery, Nashville, TN

Winterfest – VAAN Gallery, Nashville, TN

1994
Voices in the Machine – EMU Gallery, Eugene, OR

1993
Evil Twin Productions @ the Piano Factory – Piano Factory Gallery, Boston, MA

1992
Paper Prayers – Howard Yezerski Gallery, Boston, MA

DeLory-Murphy – Evil Twin Gallery, Allston, MA

1991
Foursight – Piano Factory Gallery, Boston, MA

1989
Six Visions – Piano Factory Gallery, Boston, MA

1988
Arteries – Massachusetts College of Art Gallery, Boston, MA

DeLory, Mullaney & Murphy – Tower Gallery, Boston, MA

1987
North River Arts – North River Gallery, Marshfield, MA

REVIEWS AND PUBLICATIONS


Dunne, Susan “Artists Take “Flight” At MCC ON Main” The Hartford Courant, May 18, 2017
Woike, Lynn “Works of Art” West Hartford Life, May 2017
Donohoe, Victoria “Tyler’s Produce Gallery” Philadelphia Inquirer, February 4, 2007
Rosof, Libby “Jon Manteau and Tim Murphy: Four Streets Apart” Artblog, February 1, 2007
Bostick, Alan “3 artists shine at 3 galleries” The Tennessean, March, 5 2000
Peterson, Evelyn “Murphy art exhibit” The Review Appeal, March, 1 2000
Wibking, Angela “On the Edge” Nashville Scene, April 6, 2000
Outlaw, Adrienne “Conversion @ the Fugitive” Radio Interview – WPLN-FM Nashville, December 1999
McClean, Paul “Where Art Thou?” In Review, November 16, 1999
Roland, Tom “Three Visions” The Tennessean, June, 20 1999
Bostick, Alan “Zeitgeist spaces out in Hillsboro Village” The Tennessean, May, 3 1999
McClean, Paul “To Have And Have Not” In Review, April 1, 1999
Bostick, Alan “New talent to found in the crowd” The Tennessean, August 2, 1998
Taylor, Ben “New Artist Series II: Lost in the Crowd” Nashville Scene, July 23, 1998
Bostick, Alan “Glowing reviews for alternative artists” The Tennessean, March 27, 1998
Knowels, Susan “Lost in the Crowd” Number Magazine, Issue 35 ,1998
Ribar, David “Signs of a developing visual-arts community” Nashville Scene, July 17, 1997
Bostick, Alan “Oasis” The Tennessean, June 22, 1997
Jensen, Carles R., Ph.D. “Hypnagogia” Number Magazine, Issue 32, 1997
Ribar, David “Studio 514” Nashville Scene, November 16, 1995
Chappell, Susan “Artopia Mixes Media” Nashville Banner, September 25, 1996
Alexander, M. Darsie “Call in the carnies” South End News, April 15, 1993
McQuaid, Kate “Playing with paint” South End News, November 2, 1989

VIDEO AND INSTALLATIONS

Obvious – Site Specific Installation, Legislative Plaza, Nashville, TN – 1996
Untitled Interviewed – Host of Video Documentary, WNAT, Nashville, TN – 1996
Nashville Time – Video Installation, Untitled at the Cannery, Nashville, TN – 1996
Ball of Wax – Video Shorts, WCAT, Winthrop, MA – 1994
Haystack Art Colony – Environmental sculpture, Haystack, ME – 1989

ART-RELATED POSITIONS


ProvICA – Co-director, Office of Development, Providence, RI – 2001-03
Fugitive Art Center – Board member, Nashville, TN – 1999-00
Untitled – Board member, Non-profit visual arts organization, Nashville, TN – 1997-99
Submit Magazine – Co-founder, Uncensored publication for the visual arts, Boston, MA – 1987

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