Stephen Murphy is a visual artist. He holds a BFA with honors from the Pratt Institute in NYC and was ABT from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in Advanced Visual Studies before receiving his Master’s Degree from the University of Chicago. Murphy is the former chair of the art department of New Trier High School, where he taught darkroom and digital photography. After retiring and until the pandemic he was a visiting artist at Walter Payton College Prep for 3 years.
Murphy has exhibited his work nationally and internationally. Some of the venues include the SE Center for Photography in Greenville, SC, the Center for Photographic Arts in Carmel, CA, SOHO PHOTO in NYC, The International Center for Photography in NYC, The National Library of Lithuania, Museo Leone in Vercelli, Italy, and Perspective Gallery in Evanston.
His artist books, Error & Memento Mori, were juried into the 7th and 8th International Artist’s Book Triennials & exhibited in many venues throughout Europe and ultimately in the US at the Evanston Art Center.
In 2019 Murphy’s washboard assemblage work was selected for inclusion in the Evanston Art Center Biennial. Early in 2022 he was invited to be part of a curated, international mobile photography exhibit at Perspective Gallery. In March of ‘22 an image was juried into LENS, the annual international juried show also at Perspective Gallery.
He is currently working on a book of discarded covid masks.
