Bio

Lauri Lynnxe Murphy has spent the majority of her professional life in Denver, Colorado, where she managed to survive as a working artist since graduating from Metropolitan State College of Denver in 1996.  She has started co-op galleries, been a community organizer and advocate, opened galleries, studio buildings, and community screen printing shops, built exhibitions in the backs of rental trucks for the Democratic National Convention, curated shows, created spectacle and taken guerilla actions to the streets, all while maintaining a rigorous studio practice.

In 2005 she was the first recipient of Westword’s Mastermind Award in Visual Arts, and in 2006 was chosen Best Arts Advocate by the Rocky Mountain News.  In 2010 she curated an exhibition for the Biennial of the Americas, titled Objectophilia, in partnership with the Museum of Contemporary Art, Denver.  She has shown her work regionally throughout the west and in Toronto, Canada.  She moved to Columbus, Ohio to pursue her MFA at the Ohio State University on fellowship, and spent the summer of 2011 at the School of Visual Arts Summer Residency in New York.

Her work is currently concerned with nature and our relationship to it, particularly in concern to mutation, illness, and the conversations and propaganda surrounding environmental politics.  By employing references to the souvenir and the miniature, the abject and the uncanny, she endeavors to make ideas and materiality meet by working with living systems such as honeybees and bacteria, new technologies and socio-politically charged materials and imagery.