In Ryder’s Eye, 1987
Oil and wax on linen
14 1/4 x 18 1/2 inches
CV
Born 1948, Fayetteville, North Carolina
Died 1993, New York City
Education
1986 M.F.A., Yale University School of Art, New Haven Connecticut
1978 Bennington College Summer Painting Workshop, Bennington, VT
1976 B.A., Sarah Lawrence College, Bronxville, New York
1973 American School, Florence, Italy
Solo Exhibitions
In Celebration of Black History Month - An Exhibition of Works by Jesse Murry, NYNEX Collection, White Plains, New York (1990)
Works on Paper, Sharpe Gallery, New York (1987)
Jesse Murry: M.F.A. Thesis Exhibition, Yale School of Art, New Haven, CT (February 2 - 13, 1986)
Approaching Magic, Houghton House Gallery, Hobart and William Smith Colleges, Geneva, NY (1984)
Group Exhibitions
Perhaps the Truth, Ballroom Marfa, Marfa, TX (October 4, 2023 - March 30, 2024)
Real Life, Gallery Sofie Van de Velde, Nieuw Zuid, Antwerp (February 25 - March 26, 2023)
Entre Centre et Absence, Loong Mah, New York, curated by Olivia Shao (April 5 - May 15, 2022)
Get Lifted!, Karma, New York, curated by Hilton Als (August 19 - October 2, 2021)
Old Friends, Part 2, Tibor de Nagy, New York (August 11 - September 13, 2020)
James Baldwin/ Jim Brown and the Children, Artist’s Institute, New York, curated by Hilton Als (May 2 - June 18, 2016)
you start to want to die, Doyers, New York, curated by Clay Hapaz (2013)
Painting in Poetry/Poetry in Painting: Wallace Stevens & Modern Art, Baruch College, New York (1995)
Abstract Places, Art in General, New York (1989)
Contemporary Environment, General Electric Corp., Fairfield, CT (1989)
Utopian Vision, Museum of Modern Art, traveling exhibitions, New York (1988)
Romance is Back, Lintas Worldwide Corp., New York (1988)
Vision and Visionaries: Contemporary Landscapes, Tavelli Gallery, Aspen, CO (1988)
Nightworks, Bronx Museum Satellite Gallery at Krasdale Foods, Bronx, New York (1987)
Homage to Arthur Dove: Eleven Abstract Painters, Houghton House Gallery, Hobart and William Smith Colleges, Geneva, New York (1983)
Invitational, Kent State University, Kent, OH (1982)
Monographs & Catalogues
Alex Fialho, “Painterly Expressions of Jesse Murry,” Jesse Murry - Radical Solitude. New York: Tibor de Nagy, 2020.
Selected Articles & Reviews
Max Blue, “Painting Toward Life: Jesse Murry at Reed College,” Variable West (September 19, 2023)
“USF Museum showcases work of Jesse Murry, Lisa Yuskavage,” Tampa Bay Newspaper (August 30, 2022)
D’Ann Lawrence White, “USF Contemporary Art Museum Presents 2 Exhibits,” Patch (September 23, 2022)
Jarrett Earnest, “Landscapes of the Imagination,” The New York Review of Books (December 12, 2021)
“Jesse Murry: Lisa Yuskavage and Jarrett Earnest,” Talk Art (September 16, 2021)
“Jesse Murry Expressionism: 1980,” The Brooklyn Rail (September 2021)
Balasz Takac, “The Responses to the Aids Crisis Explored at David Zwirner,” Widewalls (July 2, 2021)
Shaye Weaver, “The best things to do in NYC this week,” TimeOut (June 28, 2021)
Hilton Als, “Art: Jesse Murry,” The New Yorker (2020)
Lisa Yuskavage, “Jesse Murry, 1948-1993,” Art in America (October 2011)
Matt Parr, “Creating Contemporary Art: Three Graduate Perspectives,” Queue (December 1985)
Written by the Artist
Edited and with an Introduction by Jarrett Earnest, foreword by Hilton Als. Painting Is a Supreme Fiction: Writings by Jesse Murry 1980-1993. Chicago: Soberscove Press, 2021.
Reverend Howard Finster, exhibition brochure essay. New York: New Museum, 1982.
Color: Four Painters, exhibition catalogue essay. Malmo, Sweden: Galerie Nordenhake and Oscarsson Hood Gallery, 1982.
“Reflections on Howard Hodgkin’s Theater of Memory,” Arts Magazine (June 1981)
“Quintet: The Romance of Order and Tension in Five Paintings by Elizabeth Murray,” Arts Magazine (May 1981)
“Hans Hofmann’s Use of Nature as Aesthetic Norm,” cover feature, Arts Magazine (February 1981)
“Bill Conlon: The Blue’s Brothers Sam and Dave,” Arts Magazine (January 1981)
Paul Burlin: The Late Paintings, exhibition catalogue essay. New York: Grace Borgenicht Gallery, 1981.
“Phillip Wofford’s Evocative Abstraction,” Arts Magazine (December 1980)
“Reverend Howard Finster: Man of Vision,” Arts Magazine (October 1980)
Curated by the Artist
Homage to Arthur Dove: Eleven Abstract Painters, Houghton House Gallery, Hobart and William Smith Colleges, Geneva, New York (1983)
Reverend Howard Finster, New Museum, New York (1982)
Grants
1988 Pollock-Krasner Foundation Grant
1983 Mellon Individual Project Grant
Teaching
1985-86 Teaching Assistant to Professor Andrew Forge, Basic Drawing, Yale University
1982-84 Visiting Professor of Art History, Hobert and William Smith Colleges
Lectures and Panels
Artist Lecture, as part of In Celebration of Black History Month - An Exhibition of Works by Jesse Murry, NYNEX Collection, White Plains, New York (1990)
Artist Lecture, as part of Black Arts Festival, Dickinson College, Carlisle, PA (1985)
The Self, the World, and Art, part of the lecture series, Speaker’s Choice, New Museum, New York (1985)
The Education of the Artist in the Late 20th Century, Lecture, University of Delaware (1984)
The Artist as Critic, moderator Marcia Tucker for Art Search and New Museum at the Home of Holly and Horace Solomon, New York (1983)
The Challenge to Young Painters: The Search and the Making of a Meaningful Space, Lecture, Yale School of Art, New Haven, CT (1982)
Visiting Artist, Kent State University, Ohio (1981)
Art is You, Lecture, SUNY Purchase, New York (1981)
Expressionism: 1980, Moderator, Landmark Gallery, New York (1980)
New Critics, Panelist, Landmark Gallery, New York (1980)
Panels and Podcasts about the Artist
Jesse Murry: Lisa Yuskavage and Jarrett Earnest, Talk Art [podcast] (2021)