ABOUT

Julia Helen Murray is an artist who has a life-long commitment to exploring class and gender boundaries. Through discreet artworks, built environment, and performance, this practice cracks open the 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 managing the Yale School of Art Metal shop after receiving her masters degree at Rhode Island School of Design. She attended school as a nontraditional student after more than a decade as a union ironworker on the bridges and buildings of NYC. She worked 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 in New Haven Connecticut and was recently seen in a group show at NADA in NYC in June 2024. Last year she helped the Yale School of Art aquire the Helen Frankenthaler Climate Inititative grant to provide a sustainable space for metal casting.