RESUME

EDUCATION

2009      MFA Mason Gross School of the Arts, Rutgers University, NJ

2000      BFA Parsons School of Design, NY

1998      Philosophy and Religious Studies, New York University, NY

1997      Certificate Program, New York Studio School, NY

SELECTED SOLO AND TWO PERSON EXHIBITIONS

2024 Yellow Night, Ilse Murdock & Ash Ferlito, The Barn Project, Boothbay, ME

2021 Toss, Ilse Murdock and Jim Condron, Platform Project Space, Dumbo, NY 

2013 It’s, Tibor de Nagy Gallery, New York, NY 

2013 Patois, EJ Hauser & Ilse Murdock, Picture Menu, Brooklyn, NY 

2012 Ode Owe Oh, Ilse Murdock & Amy Feldman, Good Children Gallery, New Orleans, LA

2009 Flowers Flow For, Mason Gross Galleries, New Brunswick, NJ

2004 Foodies Unlimited, Perimeter Gallery, Belfast, ME

2002 Ingredients, Perimeter Gallery, Belfast, ME

SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS

2024 Disguise the Limit: John Yau’s Collaborations, University of Kentucky Art Museum, Lexington, KT

2023 Anthro-Shift, NYSS Project Space, Dumbo, NY

2023 Asters and Goldenrod, Alice Gauvin Gallery, Portland, ME

2023 Summertime Rolls, Equity Gallery, curated by Benjamin Pritchard, New York, NY

2022 Any Way I See It, Schelfhaudt Gallery, curated by Steve Mykietyn, Paier College, Bridgeport, CT 

2021 The Expanded Landscape, Thorne Sagendorph Art Gallery, Keene State College, NH

2020 Here and Now, curated by John Yau and Wes Sherman, Center for Contemporary Art, Bedminster, NJ

2020 Cultural Grants Art Award Exhibition, Scandinavian Society, Trygve Lie Gallery, New York, NY

2019 Home Game, Flyweight Projects, Brooklyn, NY

2018 Mindful Waiting, curated by Elisa Jensen, Green Door Gallery, Brooklyn, NY 

2017 Spaces, curated by William Crump, Station Independent Projects, New York, NY 

2016 The Grand Vista, curated by Wes Sherman, Noyes Museum of Art, Atlantic City, NJ

2015 Plus 1, curated by Wes Sherman, Center for Contemporary Art, Bedminster, NJ

2014 Somatic, curated by George Negroponte Ille Arts, Amagansett, NY, 

2013 Draw Gym, curated by Brian Belott, 247365 & KnowMoreGames, Brooklyn, NY

2013 Paperazzi 2, Janet Kurnatowski Gallery, Brooklyn, NY

2012 How To Be Brash in New Unreddened Spaces, curated by Em Rooney, Skowhegan, ME

2012 Fakes, Tomato House, Brooklyn, NY 

2011 The Last Gesture, curated by Charlie Finch, David Hall Fine Art Ltd., Boston, MA 

2011 Double Take, Fort Useless, Bushwick, NY

2011 (Darling) You Send Me, curated by Julie Ryan, B9 Gallerie, Vienna, Austria

2010 Bellwether 2010, Bellevue City Hall, Seattle, WA

2010 The Yard Show, The Dirty Dirty, Brooklyn, NY

2010 Portable Caves, Works on Paper, HKJB curatorial projects, Queens, NY

2009 Pseudonymous, The Dirty Dirty, Brooklyn, NY 

2009 tART at A.I.R., curated by Kat Griefen, A.I.R. Gallery, Brooklyn, NY

2009 Panel Discussion, The Dirty Dirty, Brooklyn, NY 

2008 Doppelganger (collaboration with Wendy White), Mason Gross Galleries, NJ

2008 Sculpted Green, Bellevue City Hall, Seattle, WA

2008 The Panorama Project 3, Jonathan LeVine Gallery, New York, NY

2008 Summer Guests, Accuna Hansen Gallery, Los Angeles, CA

2008 The Fungusamongus, The Dirty Dirty, Brooklyn, NY 

2006 “You have to be almost gifted to do what I do” curated by Steven Stewart and Oliver Newton, Alexander and Bonin, New York, NY 

2006 tART, Creative Time, New York, NY

2005 Alan Shields, Judy Stevens, Ilse Murdock, Virva Hinnemo, Peter Fingesten Gallery, Pace University, New York, NY

2004 John Yau + 3, Ilse Murdock, Alison Taylor & Archie Rand, Volume Gallery, New York, NY

2004 Study, New York Studio School Alumni Exhibition curated by James Hyde, Roebling Hall, Brooklyn, NY

2004 Researchers Triangle, Harrison Center for the Arts, Indianapolis, IN

2004 Feast or Famine, DNA Gallery, Provincetown, MA

2003 Online, curated by George Negroponte, Charlie Finch, and Robert Storr, Feigen Contemporary, New York, NY

2003 Narratives Upstairs, Oulous Repair, curated by Nick Lamia, Los Angeles, CA

2003 Peaceable Kingdom, DNA Gallery, Provincetown, MA

2003 Artists' Prints, Truro Center for the Arts at Castle Hill, Truro, MA

2003 Passion: Ice House Project 01, Ethan Cohen Fine Arts, Truro, MA

2003 Greatest Hits: From the Archives, Perimeter Gallery, Belfast ME

2002 Painting Lately. . . , curated by Betsy Kelleher, Abrons Art Center, New York, NY

2002 Inter-sex-tion: Couples in Mixed Media, DNA Gallery, Provincetown, MA

2002 NY Studio School Alumni Exhibition, curated by Judd Tully and Karen Wilkin, Frederieke Taylor Gallery, New York, NY

2001 Repainting Church's Territory, Olana, Hudson, NY

2001 Film Files, Perogi 2000, Brooklyn, NY, (ongoing)

1999 National Competition, juried by Graham Nickson, First Street Gallery, New York, NY 

1998 Sculpture, curated by Derek Eller, Parsons School of Design, New York, NY

BIBLIOGRAPHY

2024 Disguise the Limit: John Yau’s Collaborations, edited with text by Stuart Horodner. text by Barry         Schwabsky, Sharon Mesmer, John Yau; illus. 

2019  Hamptons Art Hub, East End Gallery Scene (November); illus.

2017 Hyperallergic, From Beaded Portraiture to Brainwave Drawings, Favorites from Greenpoint Open Studios, by Seph Rodney (June 5); illus.

2014 Hamptons Art Hub, “Somatic” Presents Industrial Abstraction, by Pat Rogers (August 15) illus.

2014 The Pelham Sun, Ilse Murdock Paints the Environment (November); Illus.

2013 ARTnews, Ilse Murdock/Patricia Broderick, Tibor de Nagy (May 2013); illus.

2012 NY Arts Magazine, 30 Artists to Watch in 2012 (summer 2012 issue); illus.

2011 The Art Fuse; The Culture of New England, The Last Guesture Suceeds, Despite Cognitive Slurry, by Franklin Einspruch (May 13th)

2008 Seatle Magazine, Art Thou Green (August) 

2007  Art Fag City, chosen by Paddy Johnson (August 6); illus.

2007  tART zine Volume 1., Edition of 40

2006  Artillery Vol. 1, No. 1, Barrage NYC (September) chosen by David Humphery; illus.

2004  The Village Soup Citizen, Murdock Unwraps Consumerism, by Lorie Costigan (August 4); illus.

2004  VOLUME Newsletter, spring/summer, John Yau + 3 (now FREIGHT/VOLUME); illus.

2003  The New York Times, Online, by Ken Johnson (August  8)

2003  Time Out, Drawing the Line, by Sarah Schmerler (May 29 - June 5)

2003  The New York Sun, Online, by David Cohen (June 26)

2003  The Art Newspaper, Online, chosen by Stan Douglas (July - August)

2003  The New Yorker, Online (August 4) 

2003  The Village Voice, Voice Choices, Online (August 6-12)

2002  The New York Times, Oil and Water Mix, Footlights, Roberta Hershensens (April 7); illus.

2002  The Republican Journal, Belfast’s Perimeter Gallery Explores the Boundaries of Taste, curated by Ilse Murdock (November 7)

2001 The Wall Street Journal, Dinning Haul; editorial (August)

2001 Repainting Church's Territory, Catalogue; illus.

AWARDS/RESIDENCIES

2021 Judy Pfaff Foundation Residency

2020 DNA Provincetown Residency 

2019 American Scandinavian Society Cultural Grant Award 

2017 Edward F. Albee Foundation Residency 

2016 DNA Provincetown Residency

2012 Skowhegan

2012 DNA Provincetown Residency 

2009 Visiting Artist Coordinator Graduate Assistantship, Mason Gross School of the Arts 

2008 Teaching Fellowship, Mason Gross School of the Arts

2004  The Vermont Studio Center, Artist’s Residency Grant 

1993 Croizer Award for Outstanding Freshman Performance, University of the Arts, PA

VISITING ARTIST PRESENTATIONS 

2024 The Life of an Artist, Panel Discussion with Silas Borsos, Rosie Lopeman, Jillaine Jones, New York Studio School, NY

2022 Artist Talk, Any Way I See It, Schelfhaudt Gallery, Paier College, Bridgeport, CT

2021 Artist Lecture, Fall 2021 Evening Lecture Series, New York Studio School, NY

2021 Artist Talk, Keene State College, Keene, New Hampshire 

2021 Visiting Critic, New York Studio School, NY

2020 Artist Talk, Rutgers Painting Department, New Brunswick, NJ

2020 Artist Talk, Here and Now, Center for Contemporary Art, Bedminster, NJ

2020 Artist Presentation and Q&A Panel; Scandinavian Society Cultural Grant Recipients

2016 Visiting Artist, Art Barge, Montauk, LI 

2013 Visiting Critic, Rutgers Painting Department, New Brunswick, NJ

CURATORIAL PROJECTS

2025 Color Group, The Barn Project, East Boothbay, Maine

2024 Support, ISM Projects, Greenpoint, Brooklyn

2016 Bodies, Perimeter Gallery, Belfast, Maine

2002 Taste, Perimeter Gallery, Belfast, Maine 

PERFORMANCES/COLLECTIVES

2021-present Color Group, Women’s Color Research Organization (founder), New York, NY

2019 She Paints the Black Sea, collaborative performance with Ander Mickalson et al., Art in General, NY 

2012 Loving Care (after Janine Antoni) Skowhegan, ME

2010 Apparent Wuzzup Fluid, (chorus) selected by Darren Bader and directed by Brian     Belott in   conjunction with Greater New York, MoMA PS1

2009 Wordless Chorus in Loving Overkill Via Satellite, directed and produced by Larissa Velez, Dance Theater Workshop, New York, NY

2008 Wordless Chorus, directed by Brian Bellot and Larissa Velez, performed at The Dark Fair, New York, NY, Milwalkee International Art Fair, WI

2005-2011     tART, Women’s Art Collective, New York, NY

2004-1999     Four Walls Slide and Film Club, Brooklyn, NY