Katie Thompson Murphy

Katie Thompson Murphy holds an MFA in Studio Art from Maryland Institute College of Art and a BFA in Studio Art from East Tennessee State University. Murphy is a painter working with ideas that consider the intimate union between embodied movement and the puzzle of memory. With work rooted in location and personal relationship, she presents a colorful collision of figure, field, and feeling. She grew up in Mississippi where cultural norms and expectations had a profound impact on her and continue to provide avenues to questioning and rethinking contemporary personhood. Murphy asks the question of what happens when we allow ourselves to expand. Murphy is an artist and educator and currently lives and works in Johnson City, TN.