1959     Born in Detroit, Michigan

Lives and works in Berkeley, California

Education

1983     BFA, Center for Creative Studies, Detroit, Michigan

Solo Exhibitions

2008     “Nouvelles Images Galeri”, Den Haag, Netherlands

            “The Unreliable Narrator”, Jeff Bailey Gallery, New York, NY

2007     “The Procession”, Susanne Vielmetter Los Angeles Projects

2005     “Bloodshot and Glowing", Jeff Bailey Gallery, New York, NY

            “The Unfolding Degenerate”, Wendy Cooper Gallery, Chicago, IL

2004     “The Adversary”, Susanne Vielmetter Los Angeles Projects, Los Angeles, CA

            “New Work”, Gallery 16, San Francisco, CA

2003     “The Workers Suite”, Katharine Mulherin Contemporary Art Projects, Toronto, Canada

Group Exhibitions

2007     “Hard Times”, Jeff Bailey Gallery, New York, NY

2006     “Historical Consciousness: 2006 California Biennale”, Orange County Museum of Art, Newport Beach, CA

            “Palette”, Greenberg Van Doren Gallery, New York, NY

            Armory Fair, New York, Susanne Vielmetter Los Angeles Projects, Los Angeles, CA

2005     “A Group of Mostly Unrelated Things", Gallery 16, San Francisco, CA

            “Art Basel, Miami”, Susanne Vielmetter Los Angeles Projects, Los Angeles, CA

            “Pulse Fair, Miami”, Jeff Bailey Gallery, New York, NY

            “Pulse Fair, Miami”, Freight & Volume, New York, NY

            “Scope Fair, Miami”, Wendy Cooper Gallery, Chicago, IL

            “Art Cologne”, Susanne Vielmetter, Los Angeles Projects, Los Angeles, CA

            “Affair at the Jupiter Hotel, Portland”, Jeff Bailey Gallery, New York, NY

            ”FIAC / Future Quake, Paris”, Freight & Volume, New York, NY

            “Preview Berlin”, Wendy Cooper Gallery, Chicago, IL

            “Kunst 05, Zurich”, Freight & Volume, New York, NY

 2005     “Fresh Direct”, Jeff Bailey Gallery, New York, NY

            “Inter-States”, DNA Gallery, Provincetown, MA

            “Recent Editions”, Gallery 16, San Francisco, CA

            “Over Across”, Katharine Mulherin Projects, Toronto, Ontario

            “Conversation Lag”, Volume Gallery, New York, NY

            “The Armory Show”, Susanne Vielmetter Los Angeles Projects, Los Angeles, CA

            “Scope, New York”, Bucheon Gallery, San Francisco, CA

            “Face Paint”, Bucheon Gallery, San Francisco, CA

2004     “Art LA”, Gallery 16, San Francisco, CA

            “AAF, New York”, Gallery 16, San Francisco, CA

            “AAF, San Francisco”, Gallery 16, San Francisco, CA

            “Confronting Nature”, Jack The Pelican Presents, Brooklyn, NY

            “Home Fires Burning”, Wendy Cooper Gallery, Chicago, IL

            “Beautiful Male Objects”, Sara Nightingale Gallery, Walter Mill, NY

            “The Armory Show”, LFL Gallery, New York, NY

            “Emerging Artist Biennial”, 1708 Gallery, Richmond, VA

            “New”, Susanne Vielmetter Los Angeles Projects, Los Angeles, CA

            “Tender Landscape”, Dalton Gallery/ Agnes Scott College, Decatur, GA

            “The Minivan Show”, The Prairie Art Gallery, Grande Prairie, Alberta

2003     “Fear of Flying”, Group Show, Sara Nightingale Gallery, Water Mill, New York

            “Three Canadians / One American”, TAG, Nashville, TN

            “AAF (New York)”, Galerie Bourbon-Lally, Montreal, Canada

            “Strange Custom”, The Jogas Gallery, Barquisimeto, Estado Lara, Venezuela

2002     “Art Chicago“, Bodybuilder & Sportsman Gallery, Chicago, IL

Bibliography

2007        Brooks, Amra, “Must See Art: Martin McMurray’s ‘The Procession’ at Susanne Vielmetter”, LA Weekly,

                  February 28

2006        Rodriguez, Frank, “Art School Conventional: OC’s tame California Biennial”, artillery, November

               Coleman, Caryn, “2006 CA Biennial @ OCMA”, art.blogging.la, October 4

   Armstrong, Elizabeth, Gonzalez, Rita, and Moss, Karen, “No World Order” (catalogue essay),

      California Biennial 2006, Orange County Museum of Art

   Chambers, Kristin, “Jane Callister” (catalogue essay), California Biennial 2006, Orange County

      Museum of Art

               Smith, Roberta, “Palette”, The New York Times, August 11

2005        Smith, Roberta, “Martin McMurray: Bloodshot and Glowing”, The New York Times, September 30

2004        Whiteside, Amber, “Martin McMurray at Gallery 16”, Artweek, July/August

               Gheith, Jenny. “There’s No Place Like Home”, F-News, October

Grants / Awards

2009        Fleishhacker Foundation EUREKA Fellowship