Kate Murphy
Born 1977, Queanbeyan, NSW
Currently lives and works in Sydney, Australia

Kate Murphy graduated with First Class Honours and awarded the University Medal from the Canberra School of Art, Australian National University in 1999. In 2005 she completed a Master of Fine Arts at the College of Fine Arts, University of New South Wales, Sydney.

Murphy won the 2004 Helen Lempriere Travelling Art Scholarship, which she undertook in 2006, travelling to the UK and Ireland, where she was international artist in residence at the Fire Station Artists’ Studios in Dublin. In 2007 she was awarded an Australia Council for the Arts residency at the Greene Street studio in New York. In 2008 Murphy received a New Work Grant (Established) from the Visual Arts Board, Australia Council for the Arts.

Her first solo exhibition, Britney Love was held in 2000 at Canberra Contemporary Art Space, following a residency there. Her other solo exhibitions include Cry me a future, National Portrait Gallery, Canberra in 2009, Rehearsal at Virgin Mary Church, Dublin in 2007, Britney Love at Studio 6, Temple Bar Gallery and Studios, Dublin in 2006 and Placing the Camera at Performance Space, Sydney in 2005.

Murphy's five-channel video installation, Prayers of a Mother was acquired by the Australian Centre for the Moving Image, Melbourne and presented in the major exhibition Remembrance + the Moving Image: Reverberation (2003) curated by Ross Gibson. More recently, Prayers of a Mother was acquired by the Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney and exhibited in New Acquisitions 2007, curated by Rachel Kent.

Murphy's group exhibitions include: Video Swell Sydney, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney; Rising Tide: Film and Video Works from the MCA Collection, Sydney, Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego; EVENT: New Moving Image Works, Artspace, Sydney; Song of Sirens, The Ian Potter Museum of Art, Melbourne (2009); Contemporary Australia: Optimism, Gallery of Modern Art, Brisbane; Sonic Youth, Green on Red Gallery, Dublin & Amelie A Wallace Gallery, New York; One of Us Cannot Be Wrong, Centre for Contemporary Photography, Melbourne; Music makes the people come together, Lake Macquarie City Art Gallery (2008); The Roving Eye, Robert Steele Gallery, New York (2007); My baggage ain't all that heavy, Sutton Gallery, Melbourne (2007); Proof, ANU School of Art Gallery, Canberra (2007); The One and the Many, Dell Gallery, Queensland (2007); PLAY, Adam Art Gallery, Wellington, New Zealand (2005/2006) and PICA, Perth Institute of Contemporary Arts (2006); C'town bling, Campbelltown Arts Centre, NSW (2005); Interlace, Performance Space, Sydney and CAST Gallery, Hobart (2004); LOOK, Newcastle Region Art Gallery (2004); Scratch the Surface, CCAS (2003), So You Wanna be a Rock Star?, National Portrait Gallery, Canberra (2001); Contagion, New Zealand Film Archives, Wellington (2001). Her works have also been screened at the National Gallery of Australia, Canberra; Australian Centre for Photography and Scott Donovan Gallery, Sydney; Melbourne International Arts Festival and ABC television, Australia; FACT, Foundation for Art and Creative Technology, Liverpool, U.K and Broadstone Gallery, Dublin.

Kate Murphy is represented by BREENSPACE, Sydney.