Margaret's profile
Margaret Murphy is an artist and educator who lives and works in Baltimore, MD. For the past four years she has maintained a studio at Area 405 in Station North.
Margaret received her MFA from Rutgers University, Mason Gross School of the Arts and her undergraduate degree from Towson University.
Margaret's work focuses on the commodification of gender and femininity. Beauty products, clothing, shapewear, figurines, and toys are what she sources to represent her feminist point of view.
Margaret has exhibited her paintings and works on paper internationally and has received awards and fellowships from the Pollock-Krasner Foundation, the State Arts Council of NJ, Puffin Foundation, Change Inc. and the McDowell Colony to name a few. She is included on the Elizabeth A. Sackler Center for Feminist Art: Feminist Art database of the Brooklyn Museum. Her work is in the collection of Deutsche Bank, Hudson County Community College Foundation, Jersey City Museum, Central Michigan University and many private collections.
