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Michael Murphy (artist/curator) (born Pasadena, California in 1957) is full-time professional studio artist residing in the U.S. state of New Jersey. Murphy recently relocated to New Jersey, where he has built a permanent studio and teaches at Rutgers University, New Jersey.

Life
Murphy works presently with the aim in combining international relations with his artistic practice. By working with artists all over the world, Murphy collaborates work to form interesting and unexpected narratives. Early on in his career, Murphy established him self as a sculptor and worked continuously with the digital medium. His strong background in media/digital art has enabled international connections. The digital age has influenced Murphy’s current work and continues to teach and collaborate with international artists.

Exhibitions
""Local Futures"": 15.9.2003-24.11.2003 Michael Murphy started his career as an artist in his own right but later moved more into the field of curation His first big moment in curation as with ‘Local Futures’- Murphy’s first solo international exhibition as curator. It was a show of works from young artists of Chinese heritage living overseas and was shown in Beijing. With featured artist, Wu Qiong, who gained a great deal of attention from this exhibition onwards for his portrayals of childhood in a ‘real’ world. ""International Art Festival"": 26.3.2011 A big highlight of Murphy’s career so far was as a key curator in the International Arts Festival in Helsinki, Finland in 2011, going by the name ‘Eyes to the Soul’. He described the experience as the peak of his career so far. ""Plastic Culture"" an exhibition of American pop culture based artworks shown in Tokyo, Japan. It was created as a critique of the treatment of Asian art by the west as being a show of ‘otherness’, as a tool used by American institutions (and other galleries in the west) to portray an image of diversity whilst still regarding the work and artists with the “curiosity of a freak show”. Edited: ""Understanding International Art Markets and Management""