ABOUT

Julia Helen Murray is a New York based artist drawing upon a life-long commitment to breaking class and gender boundaries. Through discreet artworks, built environment, and performance, this practice cracks open hidden dynamics of structure, trauma, and healing with particular focus on how these forces play out within family and labor contexts. At its most bold, Murray’s work posits new and unlikely curative potentials targeted at our troubled relationship with work, with those we love, and with ourselves.

Murray is currently pursuing her masters degree at RISD as a nontraditional student after more than a decade as a union ironworker on the bridges of NYC and a life-changing experience as team leader on Carol Bove’s monolithic steel sculptures, The seánces aren’t helping, that crowned the facade of The Metropolitan Museum of Art in 2022. Recent exhibitions include Midnight Screening: (S/C)ensored, a solo exhibition in an active metal shop in Red Hook Brooklyn; Sculpture Biennial at Sol Koffler Gallery in Providence; and Dunnage with Carol Bove Studio.

Her work is currently being shown at James Madison Univeristy and the Brown University BioMedical school. Upcoming shows include a group show at NADA in NYC in June 2024 and her Thesis show in the connvention center in Providence RI from May 22- June 1st 2024.