KATIE THOMPSON MURPHY
Johnson City, TN
EDUCATION
2025 MFA in Studio Art
Maryland Institute College of Art, Baltimore, MD
2020 BFA in Studio Art
East Tennessee State University, Johnson City, TN
2007 BA Ed in Elementary Education
University of Mississippi, Oxford, MS
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2026 The Space Before Me, 123 West Main Gallery, Johnson City, TN
2025 Gesture of our Histories, Max Presneil, El Hub, Mexico City, Mexico
2024 Part of You Pours Out of Me, Persons Unknown Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
2024 The Great Southern Box Show, Clem Allison Gallery, Tusculum University, Greenville, TN
2023 Slippers of Fire, Galerie Tangerine, Nashville, TN
2023 Material for Serious Thought, Virginia Highlands Community College, Abingdon, VA
2023 Place Holding, Johnson City Public Library, Johnson City, TN
2022 Singing Over the Bones, The Arts Depot Spotlight Gallery, Abingdon, VA
2021 Space, Please, EAT/ART space, Johnson City, TN
2020 Wildewoman, Slocumb Galleries, Johnson City, TN
JURIED EXHIBITIONS
2024 Common Threads: National Juried Exhibition, Coulter Fussell, Gallery 130, University of Mississippi,
Oxford, MS
2024 Embodying Culture: Women in Appalachia, Ashley Gregg, Reece Museum, Johnson City, TN
2023 Nud: Art of the Figure, The Gallery at Graphite, Edmonds, WA
2022 Painting at Night, Judith Braun, Collar Works, Troy, NY
2022 Local Art in the Age of the 2020 Global Pandemic, Reece Museum, Johnson City, TN
2021 National Juried Painting Exhibition, Susan Palmisano, Gallery of Art and Design,
The University of Southern Mississippi, Hattiesburg, MS
2021 Art Now America: Positive/Negative, Mike Calway-Fagan, Slocomb Galleries, Johnson City, TN
2019 Student Honors Show, Patrick Shaw Cable, Slocumb Galleries, Johnson City, TN
2018 Student Honors Show, ETSU Faculty, Slocumb Galleries, Johnson City, TN
2017 Student Honors Show, Kelly Hider, Slocumb Galleries, Johnson City, TN
2016 Student Honors Show, Carolyn Grosch, Slocumb Galleries, Johnson City, TN
GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2026 EAT/ART at Tipton-Ashe, Jocelyn Mathewes, Tipton-Ashe Gallery, Johnson City, TN
2025 The Place Speaks, Reece Museum, Johnson City, TN
2025 Vessels: A Slow, Quiet, Moving Memory, Sleepwalker Gallery, Baltimore, MD
2025 MICA Grad Show IV, Sheila and Richard Riggs Gallery, Baltimore, MD
2025 Mind + Care, Annika Marthinuss, Maryland Hall, Annapolis, MD
2025 Layered Influence, Spenser Brenner, Reece Museum, Johnson City, TN
2024 What You Hope is Beneath Your Skin, Persons Unknown Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
2024 Ripe and Bursting: Towards an Erotics of Decay, Persons Unkown Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
2024 Celebrer Atelier, Fischman Gallery, Johnson City, TN
2024 Eternal Feminine, Artsy, Red Dot Culture
2024 I am Home to Many, Sheila and Richard Riggs Gallery, Maryland Institute College of Art, Baltimore, MD
2024 $99.99, Blair Simmons and Ariel Oakley, theBlanc Gallery, New York, NY
2023 Holiday Salon Show, Galerie Tangerine, Nashville, TN
2023 Celebrer Atelier, Fischman Gallery, Johnson City, TN
2023 Outside-In, Sheila and Richard Riggs Gallery, Maryland Institute College of Art, Baltimore, MD
2023 In the Cut, Micheal Bumgarner, Watauga Brewing Company, Johnson City, TN
2023 Brighter than the Fire Around Me, Fischman Gallery, Johnson City, TN
2023 Good Grief, Carla Taylor and Rae Tayo, Fischman Gallery, Johnson City, TN
2022 Holiday Salon Show, Galerie Tangerine, Nashville, TN
2022 Celebrer Atelier, Fischman Gallery, Johnson City, TN
2022 A New Take on an Old Space, Atelier 133, Johnson City, TN
2022 Catfish, Erin Fitzgerald, Slocumb Galleries, Johnson City, TN
2021 Destruction Before Creation, Amber Howard, Tipton Gallery, Johnson City, TN
2021 Johnson City Public Art Banner Exhibition, Johnson City Public Art, Johnson City, TN
2019 Tension/Harmony, Shawn Quilliams, East Tennessee State University, Johnson City TN
2019 5x5 Exhibition and Fundraiser, Johnson City Public Art, Johnson City, TN
2019 Boland Symposium, Amber Howard, Millenium Centre, Johnson City, TN
2018 The Face of Danger, Shawn Quilliams, Tipton Gallery, Johnson City, TN
2018 It’s Complicated, Shawn Quilliams, East Tennessee State University, Johnson City, TN