Joanna Murphy

Joanna Murphy works in her New York City East Village neighborhood and, what she describes as her “transcendental” studio in the Catskill mountains. Now a studio painter, she began her career as an “en plain air” landscape painter and her inspirations remain the same: the land, nature, animals and poetry. She is an alumnus of the Swain School of Design in New Bedford Ma. where she received tuition from painter David L. Smith, himself a student of abstract expressionist Hans Hoffman. Murphy studied with Henry Hensche in Provincetown Ma. Hensche instilled in his students a profound appreciation for the beauty of nature’s light and color. Henry Hensche studied with George Bellows and Charles Hawthorne's Cape Cod School of Art.
She was awarded a grant from the Gotltlieb Foundation and a Residency at Vermont Studio Center.

Her work and landscape murals can be found in several towns in the Catskill region and her paintings in numerous Upstate homes and private collections.

Swain School of Design Ma.

Solo and Group Shows
2005-2022
Hawk and Hive Andes NY
198 Allen St. Gallery NYC NY
Albert Shahinian Fine Art Rhinebeck NY
Visual Aids  NY NY
The Miami Art Expo Miami FL
Wired Gallery Hudson Valley NY
Longyear Gallery Margaretville NY
George Billis Gallery LA CA
George Billis Gallery NY NY
Limner Gallery Hudson NY
Leo Koenig Inc. Contemporary, Andes, NY
Rachel Fine Art Delhi, Ny
Julie Heller Provincetown, Ma.
Morpho Gallery Chicago IL 2014 - 2015
61 Main Gallery, Andes, NY      
Smithy Pioneer Gallery, Cooperstown, NY
Art Essex Gallery, Essex, Ct
Roxbury Arts Group, Roxbury, NY
Cornell University, College of Veterinary Medicine Collection. Ithaca, N.Y