Shannon Alexander Murphy

Murphy is a rare contemporary artist because he`s concerned with society and creates significant paintings in relation to social and political contexts...- Time Magazine //


Continuing the historical tradition of painting as a medium of addressing the world, few contemporary artists have such a pronounced sense of art's duty to engage the past and the ethical questions of the present.

Most art is unconscious or self-conscious. Shannon Alexander Murphy takes it a step further – he engages self-awareness. It’s a powerful place to be and Murphy is a rare artist who wants to take us there.

Murphy’s latest series of paintings consequently explore the concepts of universal matter, chance and spontaneity.

Born in Australia, Shannon Alexander Murphy`s artistic career spans 17 years. He currently paints from his 19th century warehouse studio - an old bakery in inner city Berlin. When you are next in Berlin, book in for a studio tour and explore his warehouse.

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He was awarded the Master of Fine Arts from the seminal Bauhaus School in Germany (2011).
The Bauhaus School is where artists such as Wassily Kandinsky, Josef Albers, Laszlo Moholy-Nagy, Paul Klee and architects Walter Gropius and Ludwig Mies van der Rohe studied and taught.

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He also achieved the Master of Arts at The College Of Fine Arts, Sydney, Australia (2010).

Exhibitions Nationally and Internationally
Collectors worldwide

Most Recent Exhibition was for:
2016. The Australian Embassy in Berlin, Germany.
2017. The Natural History Museum, Chemnitz, Germany.

His artworks have been featured in significant publications such as; Time Magazine, The Financial Times New York, First Post Global News, The New York Observer, Celebrity Networth, Artforum Magazine, Australian Art Review, SbS Television, Architectural Digest International, The AGE, The Herald & Weekly Times & MX magazine.

He has exhibited extensively internationally. His first solo exhibition was at Deakin University, Melbourne in 1999 (Bed Relations), followed by, among others, Open Mind Gallery in Milan (Humans in Conflict, 2005), Barcelona (Landscape Interventions, 2006), at The Red Centre in Sydney (The Arms Race, 2010) and at The Natural History Museum in Jena, Germany (The Boat Exploration, 2010).
More recent exhibitions include; The Dinner Party Series – featuring Maggie Beer at Joni Waka`s A.R.T Dog House in Tokyo, Japan and his large scale painting series for The Australian Embassy in Berlin (2016).