Meg Lionel Murphy

Meg Lionel Murphy is a painter based in Madison, Wisconsin, and an MFA candidate in Painting at the University of Wisconsin–Madison. Her work draws from folklore, personal history, and the landscapes of the American Midwest. Working within an imagined world called Manica Deprica, she creates paintings about violence, transformation, and survival.

Recent solo exhibitions include Deliver Me at Law Warschaw Gallery (St. Paul), Ecstasy & Escape at the Museum of Wisconsin Art, Traumatica Dramatica at The Untitled Space (New York), and Interior Violence at CoExhibitions (Minneapolis). Her work has also been featured at Untitled Art Fair and SPRING/BREAK Art Show. Murphy is represented by Portrait Society Gallery, and her paintings are held in the collection of the Minnesota Museum of American Art. Her work has been featured in Hyperallergic, Artnet News, Forbes, New American Paintings, and Bitch Media.