2018
AMBROSE RHAPSODY MURRAY
Born in North Carolina (1996). Lives and works in Miami, Florida.




Ambrose Rhapsody Murrary is an emerging artist from Western North Carolina with roots in Florida. They are a self-taught painter and seamstress who received their BA in African-American Studies from Yale College in 2018, concentrating in arts and culture. Their experience in liberation movement and social justice spaces across the South continues to inform their praxis as a Black, queer, southern artist who strives to create work that heals, transforms and makes tangible impact. Their process is an exploration of our bodies and land as sites of historical memory and mystical/imaginative potential. The act of making through sewing, painting and assemblage becomes a process to imagine and visualize the complex layers and depth of story that live within our bodies, as well as to contemplate and imagine the thin veil that exists between the spirit world and the physical world.
Press
Editors’ Picks: 11 Events for Your Art
By Sarah Cascone
Artnet
December 14, 2021
Ambrose Rhapsody Murray: Within Listening Distance of the Sea...
By Charles Moore
The Brooklyn Rail
December 9, 2021
Representing Stories that Black Femmes Hold in Their Bodies
By Isis Davis-Marks
Hyperallergic
December 5, 2021
Next Big Things: Ambrose Rhapsody Murray
By Galerie
Galerie
December 3, 2021
Ambrose Murray: Veiling/Unveiling the Ancestral Realm
By Heike Dempster
Whitewall Magazine
June 8, 2021
Artist Ambrose Murray Is Working To Make Viewers Feel Seen
By Charles Moore
Cultured Magazine
March 15, 2021