Erin Murphy
(She/her)
Address: Kroloftet, Arnljot Gellines vei 41, 0657 Oslo
Floor: 3
Room number: 304
The studio is open Saturday 27 April from 12-17
Using the landscape as a starting point, I work with various materials such as painting, drawing, frottage printing, sculpture, and installations. I explore the relationship between nature and material culture, which often becomes a dialogue between copy and original and between symbolic thinking and lived experience.
I began my art education at the Maryland Institute College of Art in Baltimore (USA) before completing my master’s degree at the Trondheim Academy of Fine Art in the spring of 2021. I live and work in Oslo.
painting, drawing, printmaking, sculpture, installation
Installation photo from the KUK gallery window, Erin Murphy, 2023, photo credit Lili Zaneta
Drawing of a Sørdalen Geitbåt, Erin Murphy, frottage print replica of a boat: canvas, wax crayon, wood, styrofoam, fiberglass, LED lights, 490 x 160 x 110 cm (excluding hanging frame) 2022
Vessel 1 and 2, Erin Murphy, layered, embroidered frottage prints composed from artifact fragments found during the NIKU excavation of the K.U.K. building site, 31 x 36 cm, 2022, photo credit Lili Zaneta.
In my studio
Our studio collective is a lively mix of fine arts, design, and craft practitioners.
We have 4 floors of workshops including:
Basement -2: Metal shop & blacksmithing forge
Basement -1: Woodshop
Level 1: Ceramics studio
Level 2: Design, Illustration, & Architecture offices.
Level 3: Textile workshop & artist studios
During Oslo Open workshops will be open to the public to give visitors a closer look at the methods, tools, and spaces we use to create our work.
Planned projects and exhibitions
I am currently working on a book of “reverse illustrations" in collaboration with three American authors. This ongoing project explores themes of nature, landscape, place, and belonging through parallel writing and images. It will be published with Plantas Studio in 2024.
In the studio, I’m also producing a new series of paintings which blend traditional oil painting methods and frottage printing.
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Education—
2021 MFA: Kunstakademiet Trondheim at NTNU, Trondheim, Norway
2012 BFA- painting: The Maryland Institute College of Art, Baltimore, USA
2010 Exchange, 2D pathway: Central Saint Martins at UAL, London, England
Solo and Duo Exhibitions—
2023 Erin Murphy – solo exhibition at Kjøpmannsgata Ung Kunst (KUK)
2021 Souvenir from an Unknown Wonder – Galleri KiT X, Trondheim, Norway
2020 Earthly Delights – Galleri Blunk, Trondheim, Norway
2019 Terra Incognita: New Works by Erin Murphy & Andy Harding – Ground Floor Gallery, Nashville, TN
2018 Hybrid Landscapes – Werthan Lofts, Nashville, TN
2017 Portals, Boundaries, and Infinite Spaces – The Browsing Room, Nashville, TN
2016 Brave New Worlds – Julia Martin Gallery, Nashville, TN
2015 Quoting Nature (second venue) – Fort Houston, Nashville, TN
2014 Quoting Nature – Adkins Arboretum Gallery, Ridgely, MD
2012 Illumination – Harry Orlick and Erin Murphy – Salem Art Works, Salem, NY
2012 Encounters – Gateway Gallery, MICA, Baltimore, MD
Group Exhibitions—
2022 Unge Inviterte – Galleri LNM, Oslo, Norway
2021 Comma – Kunstakademiet i Trondheim Masterutstilling, Trondheim Kunstmuseum, Norway
2020 Artist’s Book Show – Trondheim Art Book Fair at TKM Gråmølna, Trondheim
2020 Stormfestivalen – Kafe Skuret, Trondheim, Norway
2020 Link Will Follow – Galleri KiT, Trondheim, Norway
2019 Geist – Galleri KiT, Trondheim, Norway
2018 Rhythm and Rush – Ground Floor Gallery, Nashville, TN
2017 Surroundings and the Self – Ground Floor Gallery, Nashville, TN
2016 Chatterpool – Construct Art Space, Nashville, TN
2013 Staff Exhibition – Fox Gallery, MICA, Baltimore, MD
2013 Art Week Cape Town – The Bijou Studio, Cape Town, South Africa
2012 Vernissage – Anita Peghini-Räber Gallery, Rehoboth Beach, DE
2012 Baker Artist Awards- Joe Squared, Baltimore, MD
2011 Intersections – Current Space Gallery, Baltimore, MD
2011 MICA in Sorrento – MICA, Baltimore, MD
2009 Summer Exhibition – International School of Painting and Drawing, Umbria, Italy
Collaborations and Public Projects—
2024 Ars Natura (upcoming) publication with Plantas Studio
2022 Artist in Residence at PROSTOR with CultureHub Croatia
2021 Utopia Drawings — a public mural for Trondheim in collaboration with Bikely
2020 Illustrator for Wave Function poems by Coco M. Kheel published by Ursus Americanus Press: Chicago, IL
2018 Concept artist for Bon Iver’s: For Emma, Forever Ago 10 year anniversary tour stage in collaboration with lighting designer Micheal Brown.
2017 Display designer for the Cheekwood Museum’s: The American Country Place Era exhibition.
2017 Display designer for the Nashville Fashion Alliance: Wardrobe Project
2016 Stage design consultant with the Nashville Repertory Theatre for Gruesome Playground Injuries
2016-17 Writer/Photographer for The Maker’s Post – Quarterly Arts Magazine