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Murray Guy

Murray Guy Murray Guy is a contemporary art gallery specializing in emerging and mid-career contemporary artists. Murray Guy Gallery is located in the Chelsea gallery district at 453 West 17th Street. It was founded by Margaret Murray and Janice Guy.

Founders
Janice Guy (born 1953) a photographer, produced much of her work while studying with Bernd and Hilla Becherin at the Staatliche Kunstakademie in Dusseldorf during the 1970s. She initially studied at Loughborough College of Art and Design, Loughborough, UK during the early 1970s before receiving a BA (hons) and then acting as Faculty at Sunderland Polytechnic,in Sunderland, UK. Guy abandoned art making in the early 1980s and is now recognized as co-founder of Murray Guy.

Artists
Murray Guy Shows a consistent stable of artist including but not limited to :


 * Matthew Buckingham
 * Francis Cape
 * Alejandro Cesarco
 * Moyra Davey
 * Patricia Esquivias
 * Kota Ezawa
 * Noriko Furunishi
 * Matthew Higgs
 * An-My Lê
 * Zoe Leonard
 * Ann Lislegaard
 * Rosalind Nashashibi
 * Nashashibi/Skaer
 * Barbara Probst
 * Lucy Skaer
 * Beat Streuli
 * Sergei Tcherepnin

Public Collections
Murray Guy's artists are held in the following collections:


 * Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto
 * The Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago
 * Canada Art Bank Collection
 * Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh
 * The Fogg Art Museum, Harvard University, Cambridge
 * Foundation 20/21, New York
 * Fondation Stichting A, Brussels
 * Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston
 * Kemper Art Museum, St. Louis
 * The Museum of Modern Art, New York
 * The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
 * The Whitney Museum of American Art, New York
 * Tate Modern, London
 * Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofia, Madrid
 * Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles
 * The National Gallery of Art, Washington
 * National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa
 * San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco
 * Smith College Museum of Art, Northampton, Massachusetts
 * Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York