Ambrose Rhapsody Murray
Ambrose Rhapsody Murray (1996, Jacksnonville, Florida, USA) lives and works between North Carolina and Florida. They graduated from Yale College on African – American Studies in 2018 and studied Fine Art at Central Saint Martins, London, England in 2016.
Sewing, painting, collage and material experimentation, making home for Spirit and the mystical to reside has become the grounding force in their work. They especially currently practice on large scale textile collages with a process of exploration of our bodies and land as sites of historical memory and mystical/imaginative potential. Dedicated to the stories, lives and bodies of Black girls, women and queer people, their practice is rooted in ethics of care, reverence, intimacy, time-travel, healing, grief and attending to the stories of the dead.
Ambrose Murray has exhibited in museums and galleries such as: Nasher Museum of Art, Durham, North Caroline, USA (2022); Fridman Gallery, New York, New York, USA (2021); N’Namdi Contemporary, Miami, Florida, USA (2021); Jeffrey Deitch, Miami, Florida, USA (2021); Morán Morán Gallery, Mexico City, Mexico (2021); Yale Afro-American Cultural Center, New Haven, USA (2017).
They have received numerous grants and awards including Alternate ROOTS Project Development Awards (2020); SpiritHouse Inc. Sankofa Cultural Alchemist Award, Durham, North Carolina (2019); Gordon Grand and Cohen Public Service Fellowships (2018/2019); Yale Center for Collaborative Arts & Media Interdisciplinary Arts Award (2017); Tsai Center for Innovative Thinking Innovation Award (2017) and Presidential Scholar in the Arts (2014).
Ambrose Rhapsody Murray (1996, Jacksnonville, Florida, USA) lives and works between North Carolina and Florida. They graduated from Yale College on African – American Studies in 2018 and studied Fine Art at Central Saint Martins, London, England in 2016.
Sewing, painting, collage and material experimentation, making home for Spirit and the mystical to reside has become the grounding force in their work. They especially currently practice on large scale textile collages with a process of exploration of our bodies and land as sites of historical memory and mystical/imaginative potential. Dedicated to the stories, lives and bodies of Black girls, women and queer people, their practice is rooted in ethics of care, reverence, intimacy, time-travel, healing, grief and attending to the stories of the dead.
Ambrose Murray has exhibited in museums and galleries such as: Nasher Museum of Art, Durham, North Caroline, USA (2022); Fridman Gallery, New York, New York, USA (2021); N’Namdi Contemporary, Miami, Florida, USA (2021); Jeffrey Deitch, Miami, Florida, USA (2021); Morán Morán Gallery, Mexico City, Mexico (2021); Yale Afro-American Cultural Center, New Haven, USA (2017).
They have received numerous grants and awards including Alternate ROOTS Project Development Awards (2020); SpiritHouse Inc. Sankofa Cultural Alchemist Award, Durham, North Carolina (2019); Gordon Grand and Cohen Public Service Fellowships (2018/2019); Yale Center for Collaborative Arts & Media Interdisciplinary Arts Award (2017); Tsai Center for Innovative Thinking Innovation Award (2017) and Presidential Scholar in the Arts (2014).

- Ambrose Rhapsody Murray, Dismembered, Unburied, Remember? , 2021Woven tapestry, crochet, found fabrics (second-hand clothes and blankets sourced in North Carolina), digital print on velvet (archival photo).
246.4 x 218.4 cm
97 x 86 in - Ambrose Rhapsody Murray, Pressure, Gravity, Silence, Impossibility, The Act of Narration , 2022Woven tapestry, acrylic paint and digital print on netting
129.5 x 88.9 cm
51 x 35 in - Ambrose Rhapsody Murray, Fairy in a bottle, 2021Digital print on fabric, satin, vintage kantha quilt and synthetic fabric
330.2 x 152.4 cm
130 x 60 in
