Education

School of Visual Arts, New York, NY
Bachelor of Fine Arts, Sculpture, 2001
Studied with Jackie Winsor, Lynda Benglis, Haim Steinbach, Alice Aycock, Andrew Ginzel

Solo Exhibitions

2013
Parameters, Liliana Bloch Gallery, Dallas, TX

2007
Kept, Outrageous Look Gallery, Brooklyn, NY

Group Exhibitions

2013
CONstruct/conSTRUCT: The Organizing Principle, Schiltkamp Gallery, Clark University, Worchester, MA

Traces of Omnipresence, 306 at 156 Project Artspace, New York, NY

rMFA Inaugural Biennial 2013, Rochester Museum of Fine Arts, Rochester, NH

Wrap Around One, ARENA @ Suite 806, New York, NY

2012
GroupShow: Artworks You Can Smuggle in Your Suitcase, Millenaris Cultural Center, Budapest, Hungary

Bound to Printed Matter, Howland Public Library, Beacon, NY

This is How My Brain Works, Radiator Arts, Long Island City, NY

Slide Slam, Real Art Ways, Hartford, CT

Mix and Match, Exhibition II, Hampden Gallery, UMass-Amherst, MA

Collage, Recession Arts, New York, NY

2011
Dialogues, Taller Boricua Gallery, New York, NY

One, with Robert Strati, Ryan Sarah Murphy and Robert J. Walden, Jr., Exhibit 23, Valley Cottage, NY

NurtureArt Benefit Gala, Chelsea Art Museum, New York, NY

Mix and Match, Exhibition I, Atelier 030202, Budapest, Romania & Hampden Gallery, Amherst, MA

i am not a good enough feminist, Concrete Utopia, Brooklyn, NY

Art and Addiction, FSU Museum of Fine Arts, Tallahassee, FL

Urban/Urbane, Susan Hensel Gallery, Minneapolis, MN

2010
Pages: Book as Medium, Catalyst, Venue, Paragraph Gallery, Kansas City, MO

Gimme Shelter, Mixed Greens Gallery, New York, NY

Heed the Machine, Illustrious, St. Cecilia’s Gallery, Brooklyn, NY

2009
ReVisions: New Creations from Scrap, reMake Lounge, San Francisco, CA

Censored, Georgia College & State University, Milledgeville, GA

Marking Places, Retracing Spaces, Multimedia Gallery, University of the Arts, Philadelphia, PA

NurtureArt Benefit Gala, Claire Oliver Gallery, New York, NY

The Grid, Milepost 5 Gallery, Portland, OR

2008
Sculpture Show, Marlboro Gallery, Largo, MD

Art + Action = Obama ’08, Showroom NYC, New York, NY

NurtureArt Benefit Gala, James Cohan Gallery, New York, NY

Speaking Volumes: Transforming Hate, Holter Museum of Art, Helena, MT

2007
Bits & Pieces: The Collage Impulse, Lehman College Art Gallery, Bronx, NY

450 Women Have Been Murdered in Ciudad Juarez, SAC Gallery, Stonybrook, NY

Arrangements, Outrageous Look Gallery, Brooklyn, NY

Fountain Art Fair, New York, NY

2006
Terror? Intersection for the Arts, San Francisco, CA

Small Works Exhibition, Women’s Studio Center, Long Island City, NY

Works on Paper, Flux Factory, Long Island City, NY

Este es mi Hogar/This is my Home, WSU Exhibition Center, Richland, WA

Embodiment: Gender+Culture+Action, Genevieve Fisk Loranger Gallery, Detroit, MI

Women’s Things: Reassessing Everyday Objects, Wiseman Gallery, Grants Pass, OR

2005
The Dead of Juarez, Historical Society of Durango, Mexico

Get It Off Your Chest, Orange County Center for Contemporary Art, Santa Ana, CA

2004
Dead Air, UCN Gallery, Northampton, UK

Ascent, Local Project Gallery, New York, NY

Domestic Affairs, Locus Media Gallery, New York, NY

Bibliography

2013
Rochester Museum of Fine Arts, Inaugural Biennial 2013, color catalogue, pgs. 52-53, 2013.

2012
Thompson Gallery, Strange Glue- Collage at 100, Virtual Annex, color catalogue, pg. 33, 2012.

Singleton, Kate, ArtHound, January 23, 2012. www.arthound.com/2012/01/artist-crush-ryan-sarah-murphy.

Hamada, Jeff, Booooooom, January 20, 2012. www.booooooom.com/2012/01/30/cardboard-collages-by-artist-ryan-sarah-murphy.

Tzenkova, Ani, Trendland, January 13, 2012. www.trendland.com/ryan-sarah-murphy-collages.

2011
Cox, Jocelyn Jane, The Home Tome, October 19, 2011. www.thehometome.com/tag/ryan-sarah-murphy

Notpaper, Artist Interview, Sept. 15, 2011. www.notpaper.net/2011/09/ryan-sarah-murphy.html

Olson, Norma Smith. Urban/Urbane, Words and Pictures, Minnesota Women’s Press, Sept. 2011.

2008
Holter Museum of Art, Speaking Volumes, Transforming Hate – color exhibition catalogue, 2008.

Green, Elliott. Review – Solo Exhibition, ARTnews, April 2008, pg. 144.

2007
Wagner, James, archives, Apr. 7, 2007. www.jameswagner.com/2007/04/ryan_sarah_murp_1.html

Genocchio, Benjamin. Collages Go to College, and Behave Accordingly, New York Times, Dec.2007.

Schweimler, Krystal. Art in Death: Ciudad Juarez Murders at SAC Gallery, The Stonybrook Statesman, Oct. 2007.