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Ruth Murray

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Artist Bio
Born in 1984, Birmingham, UK

Ruth graduated from the Royal College of Art in 2008 and was the Derek Hill Scholar at the British School at Rome. Her notable exhibitions include Northern Stars at the A Foundation, Saatchi's 4 New Sensations, The Creative Cities Collection at the Barbican and the BP Portrait Award. She was awarded an Elizabeth Greenshields grant in 2021, and a second grant in 2024. She won the Jackson’s Painting Prize in 2020, and she was shortlisted for the Contemporary British Painting Prize in 2019 (subsequently elected as a member in 2023). Ruth was the recipient of the International Women’s Residency, Barossa Valley, Australia in 2024. Her work is in private and public collections worldwide, including UNESCO’s Creative Cities Collection, Manchester Art Gallery, and The Whitaker Museum.


Exhibitions


2025


  • The Pearls - Manchester Contemporary, Manchester
  • Moss Worlds - National Trust Castlefield Viaduct, Manchester
  • Planted - The FG Gallery, nr.Knutsford
  • Small Horse (two-person show with Sarah F Grant) - The Birley, Preston
  • Byron’s Pond (solo) - Garden Museum, London
  • Medusa - Union Gallery, London
  • Darkness Visible - APT Gallery, London
  • Un Ouef is Un Ouef - TJ Boulting, London
  • Holding Time (two-person show with Linda Hemmersbach, touring) - ARB, Cambridge University , Cambridge


2024


  • More News About Flowers - Division of Labour, Manchester
  • Assembley - Rye Creative Centre, Sussex
  • Tree and Leaf - Division of Labout, Manchester
  • Rogue Women - Manchester Contemporary, Manchester
  • Today -  Curatorial Project in NW England, Preston
  • Shuffle - MAKE, Liverpool


2023


  • X, Contempoary British Painting, Newcastle Contemporary Art, Newcastle-Upon-Tyne
  • Pebble / Shoe, LLE Gallery and Kingsgate Project Space, London
  • Holding Time (two-person show with Linda Hemmersbach), Rogue Project Space, Manchester
  • London Art Fair, Second Act Gallery and A Modest Show, London Business and Design Centre
  • Cool, Warm, Hot!, with Division of Labour, Worcester
  • Art Market Hamptons: A Modest Show Booth, New York
  • Fayre Share Fayre, Whitworth Art Gallery, Manchester
  • Bankley: 30 Years of Artist Led, Bankley Gallery, Manchester
  • Jenny: Probably a Goddess, CRETA, Rome
  • Black Pond (solo), The Old School Gallery, Alnmouth
  • PULP, Pitt Studios in collaboration with Division of Labour, Worcester University
  • Everything is Green (solo), The Whitaker Museum, Rossendale
  • Habitat, Contemporary 6, Manchester
  • The Green Ray (solo), Bankley Gallery, Manchester


2022


  • Silent Disco, Greystone Industries, Suffolk
  • Without Borders, Elysium Gallery, Swansea
  • Northsea Woman, The Old School Gallery, Alnmouth

For a full CV please see www.ruthmurray.co.uk