#07 Karl Murphy, The Bearer, 2021. Giclée print. Original 1/1. 16x9.5cm

Karl Murphy is an Irish multi-disciplinary artist currently living in London. Murphy works across performance, painting, writing, installation, video, and digital formats. Their work uses different mediums to explore relationships between power, language, self, and audience. They often collaborate with other queer collectives. Their work can be seen in both live events and exhibition settings. Exhibition highlights include: (2021) Songs For Wild Boys (Residency) One Month Residency, Aplpip Arts Dorset. (2020) It’s been that way since. (Group show) Speaking In Tongues. (2020) The National Gallery 44 interrogations. (Online) Glastonbury Live Streams (2020). Commision for HE.SHE.THEY for Glastonbury festival online. (2020) Beware Our Idle Masters. (Online) The Lockdown Live Streams. The Institute of Contemporary Arts. (2020) Love and war in perpetual motion (Group Show) I.C.A. Inferno Takeover. Commision for The Institute of Contemporary Arts. (2020) Don’t leave me this way (Performance/Group Show) The TATE Exchange. TATE Modern. (2020) Men Explain Paintings (Performance/Group Show) Central Saint Martins Open Studios. (2019) Witch (Residency) Harpies LGBTQ Strip Club. Metropolis. (2019) The Thirteenth Station – Collaboration with Joseph Icaro (Live Show) Inferno. Commision for Inferno at The Yard Theatre London. (2019) They would eat you if they could. (Group Show) Curation and Solo Installation. The Junction. (2019) Destroy the Mundane Avert the Gaze (Live Show) Inferno Paris. La Java, Paris. (2019) Destroy the Mundane Avert the Gaze (Live Show) Commision for Inferno London at The Yard Theatre London. (2019) What’s the time Mr Wolf? (Performance/Group Show) The Tate Exchange. TATE Modern. (2018) These are things that kill people (Group Show) Collaboration with House of Health for Inferno at The Yard Theatre London. (2018) The terror of men. (Live Show) Commision for Inferno at The Yard Theatre London.