Baker Artist Portfolios

Margaret Murphy is an artist and educator who lives and works in Baltimore, MD. 

Margaret received her MFA in Painting from Rutgers University, Mason Gross School of the Arts.

Her paintings and mixed media work interrogate the complex interplay between gender and consumer culture. By examining how mass-produced beauty products, clothing and everyday decorative objects reinforce traditional gender roles, she exposes the subtle yet pervasive ways these cultural forces shape our identities.
 
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.

My practice is rooted in a fascination with the 2D surface and the potential for ideas to materialize within its boundaries. 

Margaret is the Director of the Center for Visual Arts at Johns Hopkins University.