Contact

John William Murphy is an artist who grew up playing hide & seek along the canals of the Amityville Horror House. His work is a celebration and investigation into subjective experiences of queerness.

Email: johnwmurphyphotography@gmail.com

Instagram: @johnn.williamm

Education

2019 Bachelor of Fine Arts, Photography @ SUNY New Paltz, NY

Guest Lectures, Artist Talks/Interviews, Residencies

2018 State University New York at New Paltz @ Society for Photographic Education Regional Conference, PechaKucha Presenter, New Paltz, NY

@frmhereonout Artist Series with June T. Sanders

Selected Group Exhibitions/Publications

2023

The Bright Side, Anyone/Anywhere, Williamsburg Library, BK, NY

2021-2022

WITNESS @ Neon Heater, Finlay OH/University of Austin, TX/Vogue & I-D

2020

An Existing Condition @ The Film & TV School of the Academy of Performing Arts, Prague, Czech Republic

2019

World Pride Art Show, SUNY Global Center, Manhattan, NY

It Is A Miracle We Are Standing Here @ International Center for Photography, For Freedoms, Lower East Side, NY

It Is A Miracle You Are Standing Here @ Samuel Dorsky Museum, New Paltz, NY

For Freedoms: Freedom from Fear @ The Betsy Hotel, Art Basel, Miami, FL

For Freedoms: Freedom from Fear @ Mixx Mountainfilm Weekend, Telluride, CO

Memento Mori, SUNY New Paltz, Sojourner Truth Library, New Paltz, NY

2018

SELF:self @ ARTBAR Gallery, Kingston, NY

Private/Public @ Light Leaked Online Group Exhibition

Portraits @ The One’s We Love Project, Online Group Exhibition

Awards

2019 Luigi & Anita Traverso Photography Scholarship @ SUNY New Paltz, NY