CV | About Luke Murphy
Rev. Luke Murphy is an information-based artist whose work is united by common themes
drawn from the impossible task of quantifying the elements of the psyche and spirit. He
has a particular interest in the Gnostic gospels, Masonic ritual, religious paintings
and digital languages - in effect, codes. Amorphous concepts are dissected and reassembled
using the architecture of professional jargon and presentation techniques. Murphy's incessant
need to organize ostensibly promises the viewer the hope of discovering a pattern or the
key to the code and ultimately a shorter route to meaning, understanding and mastery of
complex situations and emotions. This attempt to draw the connections within amorphous
subjects, which in theory should soothe the viewer by simplifying the complex, instead
reveals more layers of anxiety. The work's failure to deliver what they ostensibly promise
is at once menacing and reassuring. Murphy has been producing and developing his work digitally
since 1994 although a substantial portion of his work involves drawing and painting.
Rev. Murphy graduated with and MFA from SUNY Purchase after completing his BFA from the Nova
Scotia College of Art and Design and a BS from the University of Toronto. He is the co-director
of cabinetmagazine.org and a VP of Technology at MTV Networks Online.
www.lukelab.com | canadanewyork.com | www.cabinetmagazine.org | www.comedycentral.com | www.thedailyshow.com
Solo exhibitions
2006 12th Gate Reflected, Pace Digital Gallery, NYC, NY
2006 Everything Made Pretty, Again, CANADA, NYC, NY
2005 Everything Made Pretty, with John Parker, vertexList, Brooklyn, NY
2004 Release from Bitterness with Xylor Jane and Robin Peck, CANADA, NYC, NY
2004 Home and Forgiveness,HOME, Queens, NY
2002 lndscps 1102, Wynick Tuck Gallery, Toronto, Canada
2002 Shape of the Occult, CANADA, New York
2002 Graph, Buro Fur Photo, Cologne, Germany
2001 Slope of Anxiety, Canada, New York, NY
2000 Wilderness, Bernadette Salvage + 7hours, Brooklyn, NY
2000 lndscp_0400, Wynick/Tuck Gallery, Toronto, Canada
1997 Derek Eller Gallery, New York, NY
1992 Luke A. Murphy paintings Ronald Wakkary, Mount St. Vincent University Art Gallery,
Halifax, Nova Scotia and Hamilton Artist's Inc., Hamilton, Canada
Performances
2005 The Cup of Loneliness, Special project for NADA Art Fair, Miami FL
2005 The Goals of Anxiety, Carolines Comedy Club
2005 The Ladder to Lightness, performance The Kitchen, NYC, produced by Cabinet Magazine
for Laughter Symposium with Simon Critchley
2004 The Cup of Loneliness, performance PS122, NYC
Group exhibitions
2007 DAW - Zurich, Switzerland, Digital Art Week
2006 CANADA - San Juan, Puerto Rico, Gallerie Commercial
2003 7hoursTURM series, Märkischen Museum, Berlin
2002 Tuckernuck, CANADA, NYC
2002 Video Café: About The Mind (Not Everything You Always Wanted To Know),Queens
Museum of Art, Queens, New York
2002 Image Flow, Wynick Tuck Gallery, Toronto, Canada
2000 Allianz / 7hours Exhibit, Berlin, DE
2000 Fresh Paint, Tuck/Tuck Gallery, Toronto, Canada
1999 7hours #3, Christiane Gruess; NY
1999 Photo synthesis, Rare Gallery, New York, NY
1999 7hours #2, Christiane Gruess, Berlin, Germany
1999 7hours #1, Christiane Gruess, New York, NY, USA
1998 Wynick/Tuck Gallery, Toronto, Canada
1997 Summer of Love, Fatoui Cramer Gallery, New York, NY
1996 Summers show, Greene Naftali Gallery, New York, NY
1996 Kunstart 96, Bockenheimer Depot, Frankfurt am Main, Germany
1996 Middle Show, Wynick/Tuck Gallery, Toronto, Canada
1996 Lists, Wynick/Tuck Gallery, Toronto, Canada
1995 New Pictures, Anna Leonowens Art Gallery, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada
1994 Again, (G) N.A.M.E. Gallery, Chicago, American group exhibition
1993 Four new painters, Wynick/Tuck Gallery, Toronto, Canada
1992 Eye Level Gallery, Halifax, Nova Scotia (g), Canada
1991 Art Gallery of Nova Scotia, collection exhibition, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada
1991 State University of New York at Purchase, NY
Bibliography
Luke a Murphy paintings Ronald Wakkary, Art Gallery Mount Saint Vincent University, Halifax,
Nova Scotia, Canada, 1992, catalogue
Mays, John Bentley, "Tired post-war trends to battle", The Globe and Mail, November 9, 1992
Mays, John Bentley, "These lists can't be missed", The Globe and Mail, February 10,
1996 Kunstart 96, Bockenheimer Depot, Frankfurt am Main, Germany (catalogue)
Gary Michael Dault & Blake Gopnick, Globe and Mail, 2000
Education
1991 Master of Fine Arts, State University of New York at Purchase
1988 Bachelor of Fine Arts, Nova Scotia College of Art And Design Studio And Art History
1985 Bachelor of Science, University of Toronto Physiology And English
B. May 27, 1963 Boston, MA.
Created: 2006-10-15