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Margaret Murphy
Margaret Murphy was born in Baltimore, Maryland in the working class neighborhood of Hampden. Living now in Jersey City, NJ for eleven years she claims it reminds her of Baltimore. Much of Margaret's work over the years has been influenced by working class beliefs and values, feminism, kitsch, religion and politics.
Professional awards and recognition include a 2008 New Jersey Print and Paper Fellowship, Brodsky Center for Innovative Editions, Rutgers University, a Puffin Foundation Grant, Change, Inc. grant, a MacDowell Colony Residency and travel award, Virginia Center and Vermont Studio Center residencies, Cooper Union Summer residency, two project based grants from the city of Chicago, Aljira EMERGE 2000 program participant, and was an Artist-in-Residence at the Newark Museum. She was also a yearlong Visiting Artist at Weir Farm in Wilton, CT.
Ms. Murphy has exhibited widely in galleries and Museums nationally. Recent exhibitions include solo exhibitions at Cheryl McGinnis Gallery in NY (Good Girls/ Bad Girls), Pentimenti Gallery in Philadelphia (The Ballerina Project), and Margaret Murphy: Guest Artist to the Permanent Collection at the Jersey City Museum (Sept.-Dec. 2005). Group exhibitions include Women Artists at HPGRP Gallery in NY and Tokyo, and numerous group exhibitions in the NY, NJ, Boston, Philadelphia areas. Museum exhibitions include The Feminine Mystique exhibition at Jersey City Museum (Sept. 2007), Cultural Exploration: New Jersey Arts Annual at the Morris Museum, SKIN DEEP at The Islip Museum in NY, Montclair Museum of Art, and The Newark Museum.
In addition to making and exhibiting work Margaret Murphy is a curator in her exhibition space The Garage in Jersey City.
