About

Wendy Murray (b.New Zealand)

Wendy Murray is a visual artist who works in Los Angeles and Sydney. Murray’s work addresses social and political issues through drawings, poster making and public art works.

Drawing has always been the foundation of Murray’s arts practice but it wasn’t until 2010 that she committed to a daily drawing practice. The Daily drawing series began in April 2010 whilst on residency at Hill End, NSW, Australia. Over ten years Murray has completed more than 300 drawings. These intricate, gentle drawings have been collected by institutions including Lake Macquarie City Gallery, Bathurst Regional Art Gallery, and the University of Sydney.
Over 300 of Murray’s Daily drawings were featured in her first retrospective drawing exhibition at the Bathurst Regional Art Gallery, 2019.

Selected Solo Exhibitions
2020 I’m Still Here, NSW, AUS
2020 Introducing WM, CA, USA
2019 Sydney - We Need to Talk! NSW, AUS
2019 Night & Day, BRAG, NSW, AUS

Selected Collections & Commissions
National Gallery of Australia, National Library of Australia, Lake Macquarie City Gallery, Bundanon Trust, Blacktown Arts Centre, CSPG.

Installations
2020 New Views Poster Project, Creative Fellowship Grant, City of Sydney

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WRITING BY WM

Sydney 2018 - Poster Production and Dissemination in a City Without Walls / Fresh Blood : Redback Graphix and its Aftermath published by the University of Sydney

WRITING ABOUT WM

Talking in Print by Rebecca Beardmore
IMPRINT Magazine SUMMER, 2019
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Wendy Murray on political posters and unleashing collective power in Fresh Blood 
by Rebecca Shanahan
Art Guide Australia, January 2018
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IMPRINT Magazine
Artist as Conduit by Antonia Aitken, WINTER 2015 VOLUME 50, NUMBER 2

RESIDENCIES

2023 Tamarind Institute, NM, USA
2022 University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa
2020 Bundanon, NSW, AUS
2020 KALA Art Institute, CA, USA
2019 The Poster Centre, Blacktown Arts, AUS
2018 Printer in Residence, University of Sydney
2018 Hill End, NSW, AUS
2017 The Drawing Exchange, SA, AUS
2016 AIR ANU Printmedia Workshop, ACT, AUS
2016 Value the Artist, The Art Vault, VIC, AUS
2014 Bundanon Trust Residency, NSW, AUS
2012 AIR Museum of Art & Culture Lake Macquarie
2010 Megalo Print Studio, ACT, AUS
2010 Hill End Residency, NSW, AUS

Recent Group Exhibitions
2024 Material Recovery, Angels Gate Cultural Center, San Pedro, CA, USA
2023 Brassworks Gallery, OR, USA
2021 Graphic Tendencies: Works from the City of Townsville Art Collection, QLD, AUS
2019 AUSTRALIAN POSTERS 1979–2019, Interference Archive, USA
2019 Dobell Drawing Prize, AUS
2018 FEMINAE, ArtCenter, CA, USA
2017 The Drawing Exchange, SA, AUS
2017  It's Our Thing (Part II), NSW, AUS
2017 Amplify & Multiply, CO, USA