Maggie Murphy creates mixed-media sculptures, videos, and installations that bend and loop time, reanimating glitchy toys, defunct electronics, and reconstructed childhood interiors as portals for memory and dream. Her current work layers digitized home video, hand-drawn apparitions, vintage textiles, and sentimental decorative materials to produce shifting realities that hover between the familiar and the uncanny. She is a librarian and an MFA candidate at the University of North Carolina at Greensboro.
Selected Exhibitions & Screenings
2026
Video Art & Experimental Film Festival (screening) / Cinema Village, New York, NY (November 13 – 15)
Transfiguration Fest (screening) / Plum Gallery, Raleigh, NC (November 7 – 8)
Texas Inter-Media Experience (TIME) Fest (screening) / Queen Theatre, Bryan, TX (November 5 – 7)
Short Cuts presented by SHED Projects (screening) / Capitol Theater, Cleveland, OH (October 2 – 4)
CHROMA: Image & Sound (screening) / St. James Episcopal Church, Knoxville, TN (October 2 – 3)
MKE Short Film Festival (screening) / Milwaukee Independent Film Society, Milwaukee, WI (September 12)
Atlanta Experimental Fest (screening) / 7 Stages Theatre, Atlanta, GA (July 10)
Render Me Softly presents soft, sticky, sweet (screening) / Mason’s Creamery, Cleveland, OH (June 13)
Vending Machine (group show) / Peel Gallery, Carrboro, NC (June 12 – August 2)
Open Air Media Festival (screening) / FilmScene, Iowa City, IA; Tiger Strikes Asteroid, Greenville, SC; Waterfront Park, Louisville, KY (May 29 – June 13)
Soft Systems presents Data Translation Environment (group show) / Locker Room, Chicago, IL (May 16 – 26)
Render Me Softly presents Soft Becomings (screening) / Lake Affect Studio, Cleveland, OH (April 26)
Basement Tapes (screening) / Jacob Burns Film Center, Pleasantville, NY (April 23)
West Virginia Mountaineer Short Film Festival (screening) / West Virginia University, Morgantown, WV (March 6)
Free Family Day Screening (screening) / Rochester Art Center, Rochester, MN (February 22)
Scatterbrain Animation Screening (screening) / Artspace, Raleigh, NC (January 17)
2025
Toys in Scrapland (group show) / Cameron Gallery, Scrap Exchange, Durham, NC (November 14 – January 4)
Childish Work (group show) / Greensboro Project Space, Greensboro, NC (December 9 – 13)
Zines (group exhibition) / Special Collections, University of Sydney, Australia, (January)
2024
sea change (group show) / midwest nice art (summer 2024)
#Postmarked (group show) / Crafting the Future + Treats Studio, Spruce Pine, NC (July 15 – August 15)
Yart Sale (group show) / Greensboro Project Space, Greensboro, NC (July 9 – 13)
IYKYK! (group show) / Northside District x PEEL Gallery + Artstigators, Chapel Hill, NC (June 20 – August 20)
Worlds Collide vol. 2 (group show) / One Rep, Greensboro, NC (June – August)
Community Small Works (group show) / Greensboro Project Space, Greensboro, NC (March 12 – 16)
2023
Workshops and Residencies
2025
In Cahoots / Book Arts and Letterpress Artist Residency (March 3-8)
2024
Directangle Press / Risograph and Letterpress Artist Residency (January 21 – 27)
2023
Penland School of Craft / Pressing Pixels (Session 3 – Letterpress, June 18 – 30)
Artist’s Talks
2024
Print Futures Spring 2024 / hosted by Partners in Print and Letterpress Educators of Art & Design / Virtual (April 7)
Art Libraries Society of North America Annual Conference / hosted by the Stimulating Creativity in Practice Special Interest Group / Pittsburgh, PA (April 4)
Grants, Awards, and Fellowships
2026
Scholar’s Travel Fund / UNC Greensboro – $750 travel award
2024
Kate Cheney Chappell Fellowship / Haystack Mountain School of Crafts – full scholarship and $500 award (declined due to scheduling conflict)
Artist Support Grant / Arts Council of Greater Greensboro – $1320 award
Faculty Research Award / UNC Greensboro (co-PI: Kelley O’Brien) – $25,000 research grant
2023
Paul H. & Ginger S. Duensing Scholarship / Penland School of Craft – full scholarship
Press
2024
“Artist in Focus: Maggie Murphy” / Arts Council of Greater Greensboro Blog, May 31, 2024
“Making something good: Greensboro’s zine community is as vibrant as ever” / Triad City Beat, April 29, 2024
