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Meghan Murray Visiting Lecturer, Painting Visiting Lecturer, Fine Arts 2D
A person with shoulder-length hair, wearing a black sleeveless top and jeans, stands in an art studio. They are near an easel holding a painting of people, with paintbrushes and art supplies on a table nearby.
  • email mmurray2347@massart.edu
  • education
    • MFA Painting, Boston University
    • BS, Studio Art, Arts Administration/Art History, Skidmore College
  • pronouns she/her

Meghan Murray (b. 1994, Massachusetts) is an artist, educator, and administrator based just outside of Boston, MA. She received her BS in Studio Art from Skidmore College in 2016 and her MFA in Painting from Boston University in 2022. Her representational painting practice embodies and simultaneously intervenes upon historical tradition. Murray’s most recent work is a continued investigation into intergenerational American ideals and clichés as viewed in the mid-century family photo album. Her paintings have been on view at such spaces as Abigail Ogilvy (Boston), Morgan Lehman (NYC), Attleboro Art Museum, Boston University’s Sloane House, and virtually with newcube art through Future Fairs. Murray has participated in residencies in Concord, MA and at the Vermont Studio Center. She is a recipient of the 2022 Blanche E. Colman award for New England artists and was awarded second place in the 2023 Miami University Young Painters competition by juror John Yau.

Industry Experience

Solo & Two-Person Exhibitions
2024 – LaiSun Keane, Boston, MA – Rose’s Grenadine: Eva Lewis and Meghan Murray
2023 – Aplomb Gallery, Dover, NH – Kodachrome Cowboy: Paintings by Meghan Murray
2022 – Future Fairs Holiday Market, artsy.net – Pedro Ruxa & Meghan Murray, presented by newcube
2021 – Commonwealth Gallery, Boston University – American Myth: Paintings by Gavin Fahey & Meghan Murray
2019 – The Wall Gallery, Percival Brewing Company, Norwood, MA – From the In-Between
2017 – Emerson Umbrella Community Arts Center, Concord, MA – Selfless: an Exploration of Relationships through Portraiture
Group Exhibitions 
2025 – Laisun Keane, Boston, MA – Leo Birthday
2024 – Manifest Gallery, Cincinatti, OH – ROOTS
– 808 Gallery, Boston University, Boston, MA – Group Crit: MFA Painting and Sculpture 1969 – 2024
– Jewett Art Gallery, Wellesley College, Wellesley, MA – Time and a Half: Art Department Staff Exhibition
2023 – Laisun Keane, Boston, MA – What’s New in Still Life, Portrait and Landscape – curator John Yau
– Cambridge Art Association, Cambridge, MA – Emerging Artists Exhibit
– Miami University, Oxford, OH – Young Painters Competition – juror John Yau
2022 – Art League of RI, Pawtucket, RI – Layer on Layer – Hon. Mention
– 13Forest, Arlington, MA – Plenty: 15th Annual Group Show
– Abigail Ogilvy Gallery, Boston, MA – Coming Home
– Morgan Lehman Gallery, New York, NY – Amory Park: BU MFA Painting 2022
– Pianocraft Gallery, Boston, MA – Banging the Door: BU MFA Painting and Sculpture
– Stone Gallery, Boston University, Boston, MA – MFA Painting & Sculpture Thesis Exhibition
– Abigail Ogilvy Gallery, Boston, MA – Fresh Faces 2022
2020 – Sloane House, Boston University, Boston, MA – Art @ Sloane
– Attleboro Art Museum, Attleboro, MA – Eight Visions
2019 – Attleboro Art Museum, Attleboro, MA – Character Development
– Attleboro Art Museum, Attleboro, MA – Member’s Show – Best in Show

Awards

2025 – Vermont Studio Center Residency, Johnson, VT
2023 – Young Painters Competition for the Yeck Award, Miami University, OH
2022 – Blanche E. Colman Award
2016 – Emerson Umbrella Community Arts Center Residency, Concord, MA
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