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Tim Murphy is from Rockford, Illinois, where his first childhood influences were mail order prints from the Perry Picture Company, and his experiences playing in the fields, quarries, and streams near his home.
In his early 20s, he moved to the east coast and worked as a printer for R. E. Townsend Studio of Georgetown, Massachusetts before graduating from the School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston.
Based in southern Arizona, he has shown his work at Centro D’ Arte e Cultura, Brolo, Mogliano, Veneto, Italy; Davis Dominguez Gallery in Tucson, Arizona; Peyton Wright Gallery, Santa Fe, New Mexico; William Havu Gallery, Denver, Colorado; Lisa Kurtz Gallery, Memphis, Tennessee.
He is also included in numerous private collections.

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1983
Experimental Etching Studio, Boston, Massachusetts.

1985-1990
School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, Massachusetts.

1991-1993
University of Arizona

Selected Exhibitions

2023
Sofferenze Parallele, Astrazioni Del XXI Secolo Dal Mondo,
XXI Century Abstractions From the World, Centro D’Art E Cultura, Brolo
Mogliano, Veneto, Italia.

2022-2020
ARTEZONA, Virtual Gallery.

2018
Tim Murphy, A Natural Order, Davis Dominguez Gallery, Tucson, Arizona.

2017-2000
Tim Murphy, New Work: Paintings and Drawings, Davis Dominguez Gallery, Tucson, Arizona.

2014- 2011
Winter Summer Exhibitions, Lisa Kurtz Gallery, Memphis, Tennessee.

2007
Summer Landscape Invitational, William Havu Gallery, Denver, Colorado.

2004-2002
Revolving Gallery, Peyton Wright Gallery, Santa Fe, New Mexico.

2001
Tim Murphy, Peyton Wright Gallery, Santa Fe, New Mexico.

2000
Winter Mix, Peyton Wright Gallery Santa Fe, New Mexico.

1999
10^th Anniversary Exhibition, Contemporary Works from Gallery Artists and Historic Works, Peyton Wright Gallery, Santa Fe, New Mexico.
Group Eighteen, Contemporary Group Exhibition, Peyton Wright Gallery, Santa Fe, New Mexico.

1997, 1993
Arizona Biennial, Tucson Museum of Art, Tucson, Arizona.