Born in 1981 in Mount Kisco, NY
BA from Mount Holyoke College, 2003
MFA from Pratt Institute, 2006
Eileen Murphy has spent her life along the Hudson River and has lived in Brooklyn, NY for the last nineteen years. Her current paintings are based on the landscape of Columbia County, NY, where she and her dog Frito spend part of their time. Eileen has shown widely and has attended residencies to the Vermont Studio Center, Yaddo, and the High Line Nine. She received the Individual Artist Award from the Santo Foundation in 2017; in that same year, she was invited by the US Department of State to participate in the Art in the Embassies program, which sent her to Algeria. She is was the Lead Faculty in Drawing, Painting, and Printmaking in the MFA program at the Institute of Art and Design at New England College from 2020-23. Her most recent solo shows were at Gallery Afternoon in Seoul, South Korea in February 2024 and at Thomas VanDyke Gallery (Brooklyn) in April 2024.
