EVAN ROSS MURPHY

CONTACT

evanrossmurphy@gmail.com

BIO

Hailing from the swamps and tundra of Milwaukee Wisconsin, Evan Ross Murphy's works reflect symbolic discovery and mastery of diverse theoretical landscapes. Envisioning frontier worlds where primitive skill sets still needed, and are won from native guides and hardship. With a style informed by his own gathering of these skills, his works, from painting's and sculpture, to music and film act as a map for adventuring through his, and our world.

BORN

Racine, Wisconsin February 12, 1983

EDUCATION

2005 B.F.A. Painting and Drawing, Peck School of Fine Arts, University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee

EXHIBITIONS

2009 Nameless Bone, Tokyo Japan

2006 Less Arty More Farty, Fasten Gallery Milwaukee WI

2005 Hazard House, Spaights Plaza / Lake Park Milwaukee WI

2004 You’re Name Here, Boulevard Gallery Milwaukee WI

GROUP EXHIBITIONS *Milwaukee

2009 Art Vs Craft

2008 Art Vs Craft

2007 Balmoral (Venice CA)

2007 Paper Boat Gallery

2006 Beginnings, Peltz Gallery

2006 BFA Thesis Exhibition, INOVA Gallery

2005 Method 5, UWM Union Art Gallery

2004 Crossing Over, (Invitational Scholarship Exhibition) INOVA Gallery

2004 Not Flat, Walkers Point Center for the Arts

2005 Katrina Relief, Lulu, Bay View, Wisconsin

2004 Method 4, UWM Union Gallery

2004 Showdown, Turner Hall Ballroom

2003 Art Milwaukee, Gaslight Building

2003 Donnerstag, Turner Hall Ballroom 2003 Method 3, Union Gallery

PRODUCER / EVENTS

Showdown, Interdisciplinary Arts Spectacle Executive producer

Art Milwaukee, Event Manager

Donnerstag, Interdisciplinary Arts Spectacle Executive Producer

Hurricane Katrina Continued Relief Benefit, Producer

Zen Benefit, Concert Film Festival Executive Producer

Old Time Radio Revival, Event Planner Founder and President

INSTALLATIONS / PERFORMANCE

Peter Cooper Glue Factory, Bull Valley Mojave Desert CA, Tory Folliard Gallery, Elaine Ericson Gallery, Hotcakes Gallery, Gallery 218, Kenosha War Machine Museum, Western Publishing Water Tower Racine, Dean Jensen Gallery, Fasten Coop Gallery, Darkstar Gallery, Katie Gingrass Gallery, Miad Gallery, Green Gallery, The Globe, Onopa, Cactus Club, Luthers Blues Madison, Riverwest Commons, 8th Note Café, Lyons Green Bay. (Milwaukee unless otherwise noted)

FILM PRODUCTION

Heartbreaker, Will.I.am

Two Ways Out, Darker My Love

Stuck at Sea, Honorary Title

Laughing With, Regina Spektor

Rocky Trails, Art Direction

Lunik, Everybody Knows

Kanye West, Welcome to Heartbreak

Gutter Twins, Idle Hands

Takeback Squad, skate 2

Bordello Blues, Art Director

Vagrant, Art Director, Writer, Actor

Death Valley, Writer, Actor

Bully, Director Editor

Snare ,16mm Film/Art Direction, Modeler, Location Scout

Infection and Immunity, Director Editor

Hamlet A.D.D Modeler feature,Creative consultant,

ACTOR

Snare, 16mm B+W starring

Infection and Immunity, DV Video starring

Bully. DV Video starring

Hamlet A.D.D., Feature Film, as the Messenger, Mecha Gonzago, Mecha Queen, Mecha Claudius

Plastic Fangs, 16mm Color, Skeleton Skateboarder

Ghost Apollo, Documentary, as self

Esta Tu Queres?, DV Video, as Mickey

COLLABORATION/GROUPS

Hamdroid Productions

Special Entertainment

Frankie Martin

Extreme Critique

Painted Love

Surgery Room Productions

Ghost Apollo

Enemy Red

AWARDS

Rorabeck Memorial Scholarship

Racine Art Guild Scholarship

Honorable mention method 5

REVIEWS/ARTICLES

MKE Magazine From Junk to Funk

MKE Magazine

UWM Post

The Onion

TRAVEL

France, Belgium, Netherlands, Austria, Germany, Italy, Spain, Monaco, Denmark, England, Canada, Mexico, Caribbean Islands, New York, Los Angeles, 46 United States

WORK

Film Production, Gallery manager for Tory Folliard Gallery, Peltz Gallery Milwaukee , Farm worker, Artist assistant, Art Director, Prop Master, Set Dresser, Leadman,