About

CB Murphy is a novelist, painter, object maker, and rogue anthropologist. His work has been shown all over the world and he volunteers at a high security prison teaching art.

CB Murphy
  • EXHIBITIONS
    • 2019 Everyday Alchemy – Solo Show (25 paintings, 18 masks, 9 sculptures), Phipps Center, Hudson WI
    • 2019 Library Show – Assorted Paintings (5 pieces), Phipps Center, Hudson WI
    • 2019 Reclaimed! – Masks (3 pieces), Arts Council of Fayetteville, Fayetteville NC
    • 2019 Gender in The Balance – Hermaphrodite, Barrett Art Center, Poughkeepsie NY
    • 2019 State of The Arts – Window Face, Prairie Village Arts Council, Prairie Village KS
    • 2018 Through My Eyes – Adam and Eve, Fresco, ALA, Gallery by the Lake, Lake Charles LA
    • 2018 Outlaws – Kim Jong-Un’s Second Nightmare, Lexington Art League, Lexington KY
    • 2017 Galactic Pleasures – Mr. X, The Studio Door, San Diego CA
    • 2017 Creatures Re-Imagined – Paul Bunyan, Scary Tree, Greenman, Impasto Art Gallery, Longmont CO
    • 2016 Fun House: Surreal, Fantastic & Bizarre – State Fair, Alive, Barrett Art Center, Poughkeepsie NY
    • 2016 Real American Show – Four Horsemen, Ann Arbor Art Center, Ann Arbor MI
    • 2016 Savage Art Council’s 10th Annual Juried Art Competition – Crazy Deer, Savage MN
    • 2016 Art-A-Whirl’s Juried Show – The Science Fiction Series (7 Pieces), Minneapolis MN
    • 2016 Kitsch Show – Robot Monster of Love, K-Space, Corpus Christi TX
    • 2015 PopSurreal VII – The General, Baton Rouge Gallery Los Angeles CA
    • 2014 It Came from Building Q – The Day the World, Mr X, The General, Black Lagoon, Them, Altered Esthetics, Minneapolis MN
    • 2014 The 45th Parallel Group Show – Earth Kingdom, Phipps Gallery, Hudson WI
    • 2012 PopSurreal IV – Mr. X, Baton Rouge Gallery, Baton Rouge LA
    • 2010 MN State Fair’s Annual Fine Art Exhibition – Them, St Paul MN
    • 2009 Broken Show – Wall Street #1, Sixth Street Gallery, Vancouver WA
    • 2009 Image and Word – Lucha, TAC Art Center, Highland Park IL
    • 2008 Walker Art Center’s Access + ENGAGE Online Magazine – Lecture on Humans, curator Ken Bloom of the Tweed Museum, Duluth MN
    • 2007 Exploring Spirituality – Lecture on Humans, Jesus/Devil (2nd Place Best in Show), Fredericksburg Art Center, Fredericksburg VA
    • 2006 Gender and Identity – Hermaphrodite, Visual Arts Center of Boise State, Boise ID
    • 1993 Sans Brush or Paint – Computer Painting #5, Tubac Gallery, Tubac AZ
    • 1990 SIGGRAPH (Special Interest Group for Computer Graphics) – Self Portrait, Washington DC
    • 1989 Computer Art ’89 – Computer Painting #4, Shircliff Gallery of Art, Vincennes IN
    • 1988 National Computer Art Exhibition – Computer Painting #3, Spokane WA
    • 1988 The New Wave – Computer Painting #2, Intermedia Arts Gallery, Minneapolis MN
    • 1986 SIGGRAPH (Special Interest Group for Computer Graphics) – Computer Painting #1, Washington DC
    • 1985 University of Cincinnati Permanent Collection – Nuclear Pup (Artist Book), The Second Mongolian Invasion (Artist Book), Cincinnati OH
    • 1983 Chicago Museum of Contemporary Art Permanent Collection – January is Alien Registration Month (Artist Book), Chicago IL
    • 1983 Chicago Reader – C.B. Murphy (Running Cartoon Series), Chicago IL
    • 1982 MacWorld Magazine Contest Winner – “Godzilla and Volcano,” San Francisco CA
  • PUBLICATIONS
    • 2017 “Monkey Man” Short Story – Without Boundaries: 2017 Anthology of Speculative Fiction, Minneapolis MN
    • 2011 “Cute Eats Cute” Novel – Calumet Press, Reprint, Minneapolis MN
    • 2010 “End of Men” Novel – Calumet Press, Reprint, Minneapolis MN
    • 2009 “The Art of C. B. Murphy, Volume I” Artist Book – Zoographico Press, St Paul MN
    • 2009 “Cute Eats Cute” Novel – North Star Press, Minneapolis MN
    • 2005 Fiction First Prize – Southampton Writer’s Conference, Southampton NY
    • 2002 “Free The Deer” Short Story – Ellipsis Magazine, Liverpool UK
    • 2000 “The Ten Worlds of Pluto” Short Story – Pluto, Astronomy, Astrology & Mythology, editor Richard Grossinger, Berkley CA
    • 1991 “How To: PC Digital Composites, TARGA Board, and Scanners” – HOW Magazine, Cincinnati OH
    • 1985 “The Second Mongolian Invasion” Artist Book – Zoographico Press, Chicago IL
    • 1984 “GODZILLA” Mac Contest First Prize Winner – Macworld, San Francisco CA
    • 1984 “The Nuclear Pup” Artist Book – Zoographico Press, Chicago IL
    • 1983 “January is Alien Registration Month” Artist Book – Zoographico Press, Chicago IL
    • 1972 “Ten Notes on the Alaskan Antigravity Film” Essay – Io Magazine: Earth Geography Booklet #2, Amherst MA