Emily Nicole Murray

Emily Nicole Murray is an artist living and working in Chicago. She received her MFA from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago and holds a BFA in Painting from Sonoma State University. Her work encompasses and exists in the tension, time, and layering between trauma, grief, and humor. She makes paintings and calls them writings before making writings and calling them paintings. Drawings are just drawings. Murray is interested in the point where nihilism becomes absurdism and the depth and simplicity of the phrase, “If I don’t laugh, I’ll cry.”