Wendy murray CV


b.New Zealand
works. Los Angeles

EDUCATION
2014     MFA, National Art School, Sydney, Australia
1999     BDes, Massey University, Aotearoa New Zealand 

1994     Certificate in Design, Wellington Polytechnic, Aotearoa New Zealand 

INDIVIDUAL EXHIBITIONS & INSTALLATIONS
2020 Creative Fellowship Grant, City of Sydney (New Views Poster Project)
2020 I’m Still Here (Damien Minton Presents), Redfern, NSW, AUS
2020 Introducing, All Gold Print, Berkeley, CA, USA
2019 Night & Day, Bathurst Regional Art Gallery, NSW, AUS
2019 Sydney - We Need to Talk!, The Cross Art Projects, NSW, AUS
2018    Colby Country, Megalo, ACT, AUS
2018 The Daily at Bondi, Bondi Pavilion Gallery, Sydney, NSW, AUS
2017    Chartjunk, CCAS, Canberra, ACT, AUS
2017    In/Visibility, Cross Art Projects, Sydney NSW, AUS
2016     Pull your Punches, Hamilton Ink Spot, St Paul, MN, USA
2014     Behind this Smile (Racism, it stops with me) Hobsons Bay VIC, AUS
2011     Privacy, Megalo Print Studio & Gallery, Canberra, AUS
2009   What The Duck?, Oh Really Gallery (ARI), Sydney, AUS

SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2024 Material Recovery, Angels Gate Cultural Center, San Pedro, CA, USA
2023 Brassworks Gallery, OR, USA
2022 Drawing, Hill End Art Gallery, NSW, AUS
2021 Journey Through Images: 40 Years of Perc Tucker Regional Gallery, AUS
2021 Graphic Tendencies: Works from the City of Townsville Art Collection, AUS
2019 Future Feminist Archive - Live in Wollongong!, AUS
2019 Hi-Viz: Australian Political Posters 1979–2019, NY, USA
2019 Dobell Drawing Prize, National Art School, AUS
2018   FEMINAE Typographic Voices of women, by women, ArtCenter, CA, USA
2018 Propaganda : A selection of posters from the Australian War Memorial, VIC, AUS
2018 Traces of Places, Bondi Pavilion Gallery, Sydney, AUS
2017   Unfinished Business: Perspectives on art and feminism, Australian Centre for Contemporary Art, AUS
2017 The Drawing Exchange, Adelaide School of Art, AUS        
2017    It's Our Thing (Part II), Blacktown Arts Centre, AUS
2017    AMPLIFY & MULTIPLY, Coburn Gallery, USA
2016    Future Feminist Archive, Sydney University, AUS
2016    Flag Wavering, SLOT, Sydney, AUS
2016    Up Against the Wall, Australian National University, Canberra, AUS
2015 Dam Empty, Damn Right!, with Anna Macleod, Sydney, AUS
2014    Sextet, Delmar Gallery, Sydney, AUS
2013   Megalomania: 33 years of posters. Megalo Gallery, Canberra, AUS

RESIDENCIES
2023 Tamarind Institute, NM, USA
2022 University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa, Hawai’i
2020 Bundanon, NSW, AUS
2020 KALA Art Institute, Berkeley, CA, USA
2019 The Poster Centre, Blacktown Arts Centre, NSW, AUS
2018 Printer In Residence, University of Sydney Library, NSW, AUS
2018 Artist In Residence, Waverley Artists Studio Residency, NSW, AUS
2018 Australian War Memorial Commission, Canberra, ACT, AUS
2018 Hill End Residency, NSW, AUS
2017 Research Residency, Center for the Study of Poltical Graphics, CA, USA
2017 Blacktown Art Centre Commission, NSW, AUS
2016 International PIR, Hamilton Ink SPot, St Paul, MN, USA
2016 AIR ANU Printmedia Workshop, ACT, AUS
2015 Research Residency (Copyright Agency Career Fund) MN, USA
2015 Finalist Geelong Print Award, VIC, AUS
2014 Bundanon Trust Residency, Bundanon, NSW, AUS
2012 AIR Lake Macquarie City Gallery, Lake Macquarie, NSW, AUS
2011 AIR The Art Vault, VIC, AUS
2010 Megalo Print Studio, ACT, AUS
2010 Bathurst Regional Gallery (Create NSW FundHill End Residency, NSW, AUS

COMMISSIONS
2019 Bathurst Regional Art Gallery, NSW, AUS
2018 Australian War Memorial Museum, ACT, AUS
2018 Mount Alexander Shire Council, VIC, AUS
2017 Inner West Council, NSW, AUS
2015 Hobsons Bay City Council, VIC, AUS

SEMINARS / CONFERENCES / ARTIST TALKS
2022 Arts Alive, Into-Pacific Webinar Series, India
2022 ZART Conference, AUS
2019     Artist Talk, University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa, Hawai’i
2019     Panelist, Print Matters, Blacktown Arts Centre, AUS 
2018     Artist Talk, California College of the Arts Oakland, CA USA 
2018     Guest Artist, Pasadena City College, CA, USA
2018     Australian Print Triennial, AUS
2018     Artist Talk, Pasadena City College, CA, USA
2017     Artist Talk, ArtCenter School of Deign, CA, USA
2016     Guest Presenter, Picturing Politics, Australian National University, AUS
2015     Australian Print Triennial, AUS
2015     Guest Presenter, Out of the Box, National Gallery of Australia, AUS
2011 IMPACT7 International Print Conference, Melbourne, AUS
2011 Stencil Workshop Mural Project, Australian Maritime Museum, AUS
2010 7th National Print Symposium, National Gallery of Australia , AUS

WORKSHOPS / COMMUNITY ENGAGEMENT PROJECTS 

2022     Blacktown Arts with CreateNSW Poster Making Mentorship (ongoing), AUS 
2021     CEMENTA SPITIR ’21, Online Workshop
2021     CEMENTA Installation Design Mentorship Program (with Huy Nguyen), SYD, AUS
2020     Bundanon Trust, Spark a Reaction Poster Workshop Series, AUS 
2019     Lead artist, Girls Are Not Toys, Gympie Regional Art Gallery, AUS
2016     Order Disorder, Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney, AUS
2016     Street Art Activated Framework Collaboration, Perc Tucker Regional Gallery, AUS
2015     My totem, Balit Gulynia, Aboriginal Community Group, Melbourne, AUS
2011 
    Youth Arts Workshop, Gosford, AUS  

PRIZES / AWARDS
2020 Creative Fellowship Grant, City of Sydney, NSW AUS
2019 Finalist Dobell Drawing Prize, AUS
2015 Finalist Geelong Print Award, VIC, AUS
2014 Print Commission Award, Print Council of Australia AUS

USA Collections
Center for the Study of Political Graphics, International Printing Museum, Self Help Graphics & Art, Colorado College Tutt Library Special Collection

Australian University Collections

University of Queensland Museum, ANU Printmedia and Drawing Workshop, National Art School, Charles Sturt University, Rare Books & Special Collections, University of Sydney

Australian Museums, Galleries and Private Collections
National Gallery of Australia, Australian National Library, Australian War Memorial Museum, State Library of New South Wales, Art Gallery of South Australia, Print Council Australia, State Library of Victoria, Leo Kelly Blacktown Arts Centre, Megalo Print Studio + Gallery, Museum of Art and Culture Lake Macquarie, Bundanon Trust, Maitland Regional Art Gallery, Burnie Regional Art Gallery, Friends of the Wagga Art Gallery Collection, Perc Tucker Regional Gallery, Bathurst Regional Art Gallery, Wollongong City Art Gallery, St Vincent’s Hospital (Melbourne), City of Whitehorse Artspace, The Cruthers Collection of Women's Art

PUBLICATIONS
Shanahan, R., Murray, W.,  Wendy Murray on political posters and unleashing collective power in Fresh Blood Art Guide Australia, 2018
Murray, W., 2017 Banksy in the burbs, Art Guide by Wendy Murray
Aitken, Antonia., Artist as Conduit, IMPRINT Magazine, WINTER, VOLUME 50, NUMBER 2, 2015  
Iveson, K., McAuliffe, C., Murray, W., Peet, M. 2014 Reframing Graffiti and Street Art in the City of Sydney, Report of the Mural, Street Art and Graffiti Review Project, pp124.
Blaiklock, David., 2011 Feature: The Poster, Desktop #273, June 2011

ARTIST BOOKS
2022     Portraits of Nouns, L.A. Edition, digital, perfect bound, edition 100
2021     Portraits of Nouns, Sydney Edition, digital, perfect bound, edition 100
2019     Wendy Murray: Poster Artist 2009-2019, digital, perfect bound, edition 100
2019     Night & Day – Hill End Drawings by Wendy Murray, digital, perfect bound,
edition 200 
2018      Sydney – We Need to Talk!, digital, screen print, perfect binding / hand-bound
edition 100
2017     Pull Your Punches, digital, perfect bound, edition 75
2017     The Daily – Drawing Inspiration, digital, perfect bound, edition 75

MEMBERSHIPS
2023 Los Angeles Printmakers, Treasurer

ART FAIRS
2022 Los Angeles Printers Fair, IPM, USA
2019     Honolulu Print and Book Fair, Honolulu, Hawai’i
2017     Volume: Another Art Book Fair, Artspace, Sydney, AUS