About
Brendan Murphy is an artist living and working in Milwaukee, he has shown work around the country and teaches art for Milwaukee Public Schools as well as continuing education and pre college programs at Milwaukee Institute of Art and Design.
Education
2014- University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee
2021-24 University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee Postbaccalaureate Art Education
Selected Group Exhibitions:
2024- Tenth Year Anniversary Exhibition, Var Gallery, Milwaukee WI.
2023- Wisconsin Visual Art Perspective, Thelma Sadoff Center for the Arts, Fond Du Lac, WI.
2022- Maria V. Howard Arts Center’s 64th National Juried Art Show, Maria V. Howard Arts Center, Rocky Mount, NC.
2022- 30x30x30 Exhibition, Var Gallery, Milwaukee WI.
2022- 49th Annual Juried Show, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee Union Art Gallery.
2021- 46th Annual Juried Exhibition, Miller Art Museum, Sturgeon Bay, WI.
2021- Before We Broke Up: An Intimate View at Love Lost, Var West Gallery, Milwaukee WI.
2021- 41st Annual SECURA Fine Arts Exhibition, Trout Museum of Art, Appleton WI.
2021- 48th Annual Juried Show, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee Union Art Gallery, WI.
2021- 30x30x30, Var Gallery, Milwaukee WI.
2021- Disrupted Realism, Buckham Gallery, Flint MI.
2020- Cover Show, Connect Gallery, Chicago IL.
2020- Chasing Ghosts, Verum Ultimum, Portland OR.
2020- MARN Mentor/Mentee Final Exhibition, Hawthorne Contemporary, Milwaukee WI.
2020- #Mke Movement Art, Walkers Point Center of the Arts, Milwaukee, WI.
2019- Var Collective Exhibition, Var Gallery, Milwaukee WI.
2019- On the Wing, Portrait Society, Milwaukee WI.
2019- 30x30x30, Var Gallery, Milwaukee WI.
2018- Inaugural Show, 5 Points Gallery and Studios, Milwaukee WI.
2018- Tiny Show, Art Bar, Milwaukee WI.
2018- Ghost Show VIII, Green Gallery West, Milwaukee WI.
2018- Abby Jeanne’s “Cosmic Weekend”, The Cooperage, Milwaukee WI.
2018- Featured Artist, Pizza Studio, Glendale WI.
2018- Figure and Form, Phillip Schalekamp’s Warehouse Gallery, Chicago IL.
2018- Bayview Gallery Night, Muse Gallery, Milwaukee WI.
2018- 30x30x30, Var Gallery, Milwaukee WI.
2017- 31 Emerge Walkers Point Center of the Arts, Milwaukee, Wisconsin
2017- Ghost Show VII, After School Special, Milwaukee WI.
2017- Figuration, Var Gallery, Milwaukee, WI
2017- I Am MKE: Culture and Unity Through Diversity, Canned Beatz (Alpha-Bang), Milwaukee, WI.
2016- Doors Open Milwaukee, Bayview Printing Gallery, Milwaukee, WI.
2014- Kenilworth Open Studios, University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee.
Activities:
2022- WMSE Presents: Art & Music, A Live Art Auction, Pritzlaff Building, Milwaukee WI.
2021- WMSE Presents: Art & Music, A Live Art Auction, Pritzlaff Building, Milwaukee WI.
2020- WMSE: Art & Music, Event Poster Design, Milwaukee WI.
2019-20- MARN Mentorship Program, Mentee of Della Wells, Milwaukee WI.
2019- Saint Kate Ballroom Opening, Saint Kate, Milwaukee WI.
2018- WMSE Presents: Art & Music, A Live Art Auction, Pritzlaff Building, Milwaukee WI.
