In his most recent project titled Nature, Greg Murr (USA, *1971) examines the aesthetics and implications of various systems that shape our everyday reality yet remain outside our everyday consciousness. These structures include economic models in practice, our consumer tendencies and the criteria by which we make choices as participants social, intellectual, spiritual and human. His paintings are populated largely with dogs and present animals as our proxies while they likewise fulfill their own species’ behavior. In their congregation among strands of pearls and the accountrements of consumer society, these dogs offer an open-ended commentary. Whether indulging  themselves in the riches they meet or seeking a practical application to items of luxury, they encourage us to reflect upon our own desires and the mechanisms shaping them. Education

1997	MFA, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, NM/USA
1993	BA, Wake Forest University, Winston-Salem, NC/USA
1992	Camberwell School of Arts and Crafts, London/GB

Awards and residencies

2007	Flatbed Press, Austin, TX/USA
2004	Tamarind Institute, Albuquerque, NM/USA
2003	Robert M. MacNamara Foundation, Westport Island, ME/USA Morris Graves Foundation, Loleta, CA/USA
2001	MacDowell Colony, Peterborough, NH/USA

Selected solo exhibitions

2011	The Grammar of the Douro, Arvore School of Art, Oporto/PT Notes and Observations onNature, Perimeter Gallery, Chicago/USA Fluvial, Miller Art Gallery, Otterbein University, Columbus, Ohio/USA
2010	Fluvial; Water Drawings, Miller Gallery/ Otterbein University, Columbus/USA Grammar of the Douro, WHITECONCEPTS, Berlin/DE
2009	The Usual Politics, Morgan Lehman Gallery, New York/USA Mississippi Paintings, Perimeter Gallery, Chicago/USA Awash; cambi fantastici della laguna veneziana, Galleria il Sotoportego, Venice/IT
2008	Change the position I, Gallery artMbassy, Berlin/DE
2007	Drawing the Water’s Edge, Perimeter Gallery, Chicago, IL/USA Waterline, James Patrick Gallery, Wiscasset, ME/USA
2006	Land and Sea, Scuola Internazionale di Grafica, Venice/IT
2005	Hudson River Overview, Morgan Lehman Gallery, Lakeville, CT/USA
2004	Tropism; New Works on Paper, Scuola Internazionale di Grafica, Venice/IT
2003	New Drawings and Paintings, Perimeter Gallery, New York, NY/USA
2001	Recent Paintings, Turner Carroll Gallery, Santa Fe, NM/USA (also 2000, 1999, 1998)

   
Selected group exhibitions

2011	Ist Es Am Rhein So Schoen, 68elf Galerie, Cologne/DE Im Zeichen der Abstraktion, Ausstellungsraum Juergen Bahr, Cologne/DE The End of the Dream, MicaMoca & WHITECONCEPTS, Berlin/DE
2010	Advancing Tradition; 20 Years of Printmaking, Flatbed Press Museum of Austin/USA Bestiary, The Wassaic Project, Maxon Mills/ Wassaic, New York/USA Cities in flux, WHITECONCEPTS, Berlin/DE Abstraction, Perimeter Gallery, Chicago, IL/USA Gesture, Hopkins Hall Gallery, Ohio State University, Columbus, OH/USA
2009	Internal Compasses, Spaces Gallery, Cleveland/USA Space Matrix 01, WHITECONCEPTS, Berlin/DE Americana, The Front, New Orleans/USA
2008	Preview Artfair Berlin, Gallery artMbassy, Berlin/DE Visions: Contemporary Drawings from the Dyke Collection, Arkansas Art Center, Little Rock/USA and Naples Museum of Art, Naples, FL/USA
2006	Hot Picks/06, Katonah Museum of Art, Katonah, NY/USA    Fresh Ink; Flatbed Editions, Nancy Wilson Scanlan Gallery, Austin, TX/USA Greg Murr, Linda Plotkin, Paul Rinaldi, Perimeter Gallery, Chicago, IL/USA Premio Leonardo Sciascia, Centro per l´Incisione, Museo dell´Agro Veientano, Formello,Rome/IT
2005	Prints into Drawings, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY/USA          Fresh Ink: Prints from Flatbed Press, Salt Lake Arts Center, Salt lake City, UT/USA Unseen Forces; Greg Murr and Lana Bernberg, Perimeter Gallery, Chicago, IL/USA Views from Venice; the Collection of the Scuola di Grafica, The Center for Book Arts, New York, NY/USA Inaugural Exhibition, JET Artworks, Washington, D.C./USA
2004	Printed Matter, Morgan Lehman Gallery, Lakeville, CT/USA Chaos/Control, Perimeter Gallery, Chicago, IL/USA Emerging: Franklin Evans, Greg Murr, Ruby Palmer, Morgan Lehman Gallery, Lakeville, CT/USA

Public collections
Davis Museum, Wellesley College/USA
Museum of Fine Arts, Santa Fe, New Mexico/USA

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