todd murphy
ABOUT
Todd Murphy was born in Chicago. IL, and moved to Georgia as a child. He is a graduate of the University of Georgia and began his career in Atlanta. Quickly rising to international acclaim, Murphy's work is described as having "underlying artistic themes of metamorphosis, allusion, and life-in-the-moment." Murphy's work is in many private, corporate arid museum collections including: The High Museum of Art, The Mint Museum, Charlotte, NC, The Triton Museum in Santa Clara, CA, the Tampa Museum of Art, FL, the McKissick Museum of Art, Columbia, SC, and the Georgia Museum of Art at the University of Georgia, Athens. He is also included in public collections at King & Spalding, Alston & Byrd, King Plow Arts Center and SAKS Fifth Avenue, as well as the Collection at SOVEREIGN.
In recent years, he has had exhibitions at the Bayly Museum of Art, University of Virginia, the Virginia Historic Society, the High Museum of Art, and the Jacksonville Museum of Modern Art. He was a visiting artist at the University of Georgia as well as a visiting artist in the University of California summer program. He will continue to pursue art and design projects in the future.
EXHIBITIONS
"Hindsight / Fore-Site: Art for the New Millennium"
Group installation responding to Jeffersonian heritage.
Saturday, June 17, 2000- Thursday. October 12, 2000
University of Virginia Rugby Road Charlottesville, Virginia 22903, Charlottesville USA
University of Virginia Art Museum, Thomas H. Bayly Building Rugby Road, Charlottesville, VA 22903 USA
"Todd Murphy: Art at the Edge"
curated by Carrie Przybilla
Saturday, February 26, 2000 - Sunday, May 21, 2000
1280 Peachtree Street, N.E. Atlanta. Georgia 30309, Atlanta USA
The High Museum of Art, 1280 Peachtree Street, Atlanta, GA 30309 USA
"Todd Murphy: The Second Coming."
Friday, December 4, 1998 - Thursday, December 31, 1998
75 Bennett Street Atlanta, Georgia 30309, Atlanta USA
The Lowe Gallery, 75 Bennett Street, Atlanta, GA 30309 USA
"Cultured Pearl"
catalogue
Monday, January I, 1996 - Wednesday, January 31. 1996
2-19 Shinmunno 2 Ga Chongno-Gu Seoul, Seoul Korea
Seoul Metropolitan Museum of Art, 2-19 Shinmunno 2 Ga Chongno-Gu, Seoul. Seoul Korea
"Collection of Peter Spirer"
Catalog essay; "The Collector's Vision"
Wednesday, November I. 1995 - Thursday, November 30, 1995
Sturgis Library Gallery & Fine Arts Gallery 1000 Chastain Road Kennesaw, Georgia 30144, Kennesaw USA Kennesaw State University, Sturgis Library Gallery & Fine Arts Gallery 1000 Chastain Road, Kennesaw, GA 30144 USA
"Todd Murphy"
Thursday, September 21. 1995 - Saturday. October 28, 1995
453 Broome Street New York, New York 10013, New York, Soho USA
Chassie Post, - CLOSED -, New York, NY USA