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Martin McMurray

Lives and works in Berkeley, California
1959
Born in Detroit, Michigan
1983
BFA, Center for Creative Studies, Detroit, Michigan

Selected Exhibitions

2012
"Disputed Episodes", Gallery 16, San Francisco, CA
2010
“Dystopia – 1010 Years Ago”, Susanne Vielmetter Los Angeles Projects, Los Angeles, CA
“Reenactments”, Jeff Bailey Gallery, New York, NY
2008
“Vestiges” Galerie Nouvelles Images, Den Haag, The 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

2012
“How to Write a Novel”, Field Projects, New York, NY
2010
“In a Violet Distance”, Zurcher Gallery, NY, curated by David Humphrey
“Reader’s Delight”, McKenzie Fine Art, New York, NY
“Wall-to Wall”, Daniel Weinberg Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
“Homespun”, The College of New Jersey, Ewing, NJ
2009
“Portraits”, Galerie Nouvelles Images, Den Haag, The Netherlands
“Give Them What They Never Knew They Wanted”, Jeff Bailey Gallery, New York, NY
2008
“Perverted by Theater”, Apex Art, New York, NY, curated by Franklin Evans and Paul David Young
“Vestiges”, Galerie Nouvelles Images, Den Haag, The Netherlands
“It’s Gouache and Gouache Only”, Jeff Bailey Gallery, New York, NY
“These Are the People in Your Neighborhood: 15 Year Anniversary”, Gallery 16, San Francisco, CA
“The Big Gift: Calgary Celebrates Art from Canadians Glenbow Museum”, Glenbow Museum, Calgary, Canada
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
“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

Bibliography

2013
Morris, Barbara, “Martin McMurray at Gallery 16”, Artillery, January/February, Vol. 7, Issue 3
2012
Zevitas, Steven, "14 Must-See Painting Shows: October 2012", Huffington Post, October 16
2011
Duncan, Michael, “Soul Searching in the U.S.A.”, Art in America, March
2010
Smith, Roberta, “Reader’s Delight”, The New York Times, July 23
2009
Harvey, Michael, “Martin McMurray”, Art In America, March
2008
Bresler, Regina, “Events: Art, Martin McMurray”, Flavorpill, March
Ewing, John, “New York: Perverted by Theater at Apexart”, Art Lies, Issue 60, Winter
2007
Brooks, Amra, “Must See Art: Martin McMurray’s ‘The Procession’ at Susanne Vielmetter”, LA Weekly, February 28
Bell, Kim, “California Biennial at OCMA”, Artweek, April
2006
Rodriguez, Frank, “Art School Conventional: OC’s tame California Biennial”, artillery, November
Janku, Laura Richard, “Affair at the Jupiter”, artinfo.com, October 1
Coleman, Caryn, “2006 CA Biennial @ OCMA”, art.blogging.la, October 4
Kileen, Michael, “Color Focus”, Bloomberg News, September 1
Kerr, Merrily, “Palette”, Time Out New York, August 17
Smith, Roberta, “Palette”, The New York Times, August 11
Bors, Chris, “Chroma Trouble”, Artnet, August 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
2005
Smith, Roberta, “Martin McMurray: Bloodshot and Glowing”, The New York Times, September 30
2004
Gheith, Jenny. “There’s No Place Like Home”, F-News, October
Whiteside, Amber, “Martin McMurray at Gallery 16”, Artweek, July/August
2003
Harrison, Helen, “Journeys That Bring Joy and Fear”, The New York Times, November 2

Awards, Grants and Fellowships

2009
Fleishhacker Foundation EUREKA Fellowship

Public Collections

Glenbow Museum, Calgary, Alberta, Canada
Deutsche Bank Collection, Germany