American painter Liam Murphy-Torres (b. 2000) arrives at scenes of daily life by way of painterly abstraction. Working from lived experience, found media, and the art of the past, he makes paintings that read both as a visual diary and as pure painting in the modernist tradition. In his work, city streets, parks, and domestic spaces become transformed into pictorial artifacts.
Murphy-Torres is the recipient of an Elizabeth Greenshields Foundation grant. He had his debut solo show, A Dirty Arcadia, with Francis Cook Gallery in Berlin. He has participated in two and three person shows at JJ Murphy Gallery, Francis Cook Gallery, and the New York Studio School. His work has been exhibited in group shows in New York, London, Philadelphia, and Berlin.
He earned his MFA in Painting from the New York Studio School, and his BFA from the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, where he was honored with the Packard Drawing Prize, the Irma H. Cook Prize, the August Cook Prize, and the Daniel Garber Prize for Excellence in Drawing. He holds a Barnes-DeMazia Certificate in art history and aesthetics, and has studied at the Art Students League of New York and the Mount Gretna School of Art.