Nancy Murphy Spicer

Nancy Murphy Spicer’s work is centered in painting and drawing and its relationship to social, architectural, and geographic space. It takes the form of works on paper, paintings, installations, and performance.

Murphy Spicer has exhibited her work at galleries and museums in the US and in Europe. Her work has been reviewed and highlighted in Sculpture Magazine, Art New England, Der Tagesspiegel Berlin, and Art Papers. The Boston Globe has twice named her exhibitions among the top 10 shows in Boston.

Murphy Spicer teaches at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago in the Continuing Studies Department. She has also taught art at Virginia Commonwealth University and the University of the West of England. She has lectured at many art institutions including the Museum School Boston and Camberwell School of Art London.

She completed a mid-career MFA degree at SAIC with an exhibition of paintings and a written thesis entitled The New Brag: Erasure and Co-Constitution of Self. Paintings from The New Brag series were selected to be included in New American Paintings MFA Annual Vol 141. Her essay on the work of Cy Twombly is included in the book accompanying the Art Institute of Chicago exhibition entitled Material Meanings: Selections from the Constance R. Caplan Collection.

Murphy Spicer’s work is held in private collections in the US, UK, Germany, and Japan.

Murphy Spicer also coaches women artists and entrepreneurs and hosts Women Artists Connect, an online network where women artists meetup and share ideas and support.