Education

  • 2000-2001 MA Fine Art. Manchester Metropolitan University
  • 1997-2000 BA Sculpture. Manchester Metropolitan University
  • 1996-1997 Foundation in Art and Design. Manchester College of Arts & Technology
  • 1982-1983 National Centre for Orchestral Studies, Goldsmiths, London
  • 1979-1982 Fellowship, Trinity College of Music, London

Selected Solo and Group Exhibitions

2024

  • Suppose You Are Not - Arter Museum, Istanbul, Turkey
  • Royal Academy Summer Exhibition (invited work) – Royal Academy of the Arts, London, UK
  • Presence: The Figure in British Postwar & Contemporary Sculpture - Messums West, UK
  • Sculptors Drawings – Messums West, UK
  • Susie MacMurray: (upcoming solo exhibition Nov 2024) – Pangolin London, UK

2023

  • Rogue Women II - Rogue Studios Gallery Space, Manchester
  • Cure3 Fundraiser - UK

2021-2022

  • Drawn In – The Turnpike Gallery, Leigh, UK
  • Witness - site specific commission – National Justice Museum, Nottingham, UK

2020

  • Murmur (solo show) - Pangolin London
  • Cure3 Fundraiser - UK
  • Fabric: Touch and Identity - Compton Verney, Warwickshire, UK

2019

  • Gathering - site specific commission - Tatton Park Mansion, Cheshire, UK
  • Parallel Lines: Drawing & Sculpture – Royal Society of Sculptors, London, UK

2018

  • Strange Fruit (solo show) – Akbank Sanat, Istanbul Turkey
  • Doubt – site specific commission – Southwark Cathedral, London, UK
  • Masquerade (solo show) – St Albans Museum and Art Gallery, UK

2017

  • Susie MacMurray, Recent Work (solo show) – Mall Galleries, London, UK

2016

  • Hinterland (solo show)- Danese/Corey, New York, USA
  • Susie MacMurray, A Retrospective (solo show) – Atkinson Gallery, Somerset, UK
  • Dangerous Beauty – Maier Museum, Virginia, USA
  • Bedazzled – Lehman College Art Gallery, Bronx NYC, USA
  • Goodby To All That – Manchester Art Gallery

2015

  • Cloud - site specific commission - Winchester Great Hall
  • Halo - site specific commission - York Art Gallery
  • Watershed – Hall Place, Bexley, Kent

2014

  • Summer Exhibition – Danese Corey, New York
  • Finding the Value – York St. Mary’s, York, UK
  • Winfield House, (American Ambassadors Residence) Regent’s Park, London, UK

2013

  • Summer Exhibition – Royal Academy of Arts, London, UK
  • Beastly Hall – Hall Place, Bexley, Kent (Artwise Curators for Bexley Heritage Trust), UK
  • Walking on the Rim of Night (solo show) – Danese/Corey, New York, USA
  • Summer Exhibition – Royal Academy of Arts, London
  • Resonance – site specific commission – Fabrica, Brighton, UK
  • Siren (solo show) – Thomas Williams Gallery, London
  • Beastly Hall – Hall Place, Bexley, Kent – Artwise Curators for Bexley Heritage Trust

2012

  • Sculptors Drawings – Pangolin, London
  • Unnatural ‘Natural History’ – Coates & Scarry/RWA, Bristol
  • Resonance (solo show) – Rochester Art Gallery, Rochester
  • Pandamonium – Hyde Park, London – Artwise Curators for WWF
  • Stratum – site-specific commission - Islington Mill, Salford
  • House of Beasts – Meadow Arts – Attingham Park, Shropshire

2011

  • The Eyes of the Skin (solo show) – Agnew’s Gallery, London
  • The Power of Making – Victoria & Albert Museum, London
  • Compulsive Obsessive Repetitive – Towner Art Gallery, Eastbourne, UK
  • Wedded Perfection - Munson-Williams-Proctor Art Institute, Utica NY, USA
  • Stratum – site specific commission – Islington Mill, Salford, UK
  • Platform – Agnew’s Gallery, London
  • Aware: Art Fashion Identity – GSK Contemporary, Royal Academy, London

2010

  • Wedded Perfection – Cincinnati Art Museum, Ohio, USA
  • Promenade – site-specific commission – Keddleston Hall, Derbyshire, UK
  • Frangetta – site-specific commission (permanent) – Warehouse 112, Venetian Arsenale (Spazio Thetis) Italy
  • Repurpose, Reuse, Recycle – City of Brea Art Gallery, Los Angeles, USA
  • Dead or Alive – Museum of Art and Design, New York, USA
  • Widow – Platt Hall, Manchester Art Gallery, Gallery of Costume, UK

2009

  • Here Come the Girls – site-specific commission – Manchester Art Gallery
  • Widow (solo show) – Queens Hall, Hexham, Northumberland UK
  • Salon09 – Matt Roberts Arts, Vyner St, London
  • Re-Addressing Identities – Katonah Museum of Art, NY, USA
  • Lost & Found (solo show) – Islington Mill, Salford
  • Upcycling – Museum of Architecture & Design, Los Angeles, USA
  • Time/change – site-specific commission – Nottingham Castle

2008

  • Second Lives – Museum of Art and Design, New York, USA, September 2008/April 09
  • The Baltic frame – Arena Gallery, Liverpool
  • Drawn – (solo show) -UH Galleries, University of Hertfordshire, UK
  • Miasma -site-specific commission- Florence Nightingale Museum, London
  • Object as Muse – Crafts Council, Touring Exhibition 2008/09
  • Body Space – Tullie House Museum & Art Gallery, Carlisle

2007

  • Unbound – Turnpike Gallery, Leigh
  • Drop – commission for collection – Wolverhampton Art Gallery

2006

  • Shell – site-specific commission – Pallant House Gallery, Chichester – July 2006/July 2007
  • Echo – site-specific commission – York St Mary’s, York Museums Trust, UK

2005

  • Jerwood Drawing Prize Exhibition – Jerwood Space, London (touring exhibition)
  • Susie MacMurray, Garment Sculptures – Castle Gallery, Nottingham
  • Conversations on the Subject of Feminism – Cornerhouse, Manchester
  • Art Frankfurt – with Philips Contemporary Art Gallery
  • Flock – York Art Gallery, March 2005/Oct 2006
  • The Nestingbox Project – Borgloon, Belgium
  • Knit 2 Together – Crafts Council Galleries, London (touring exhibition)
  • International Open Exhibition – Ormeau Baths Gallery, Belfast, NI

2004

  • Air – Vespolate and Novara, Italy (touring exhibition)
  • Fili Spezzati – Como, Italy
  • Argus – Firstsite@the minories art gallery, Colchester, UK
  • Robe / Rêve : Rêve de Robe – Musee des Beaux-Arts, Calais, France
  • Caryatids – Whitworth Art Gallery, Manchester
  • Plastica d’Artista – Palazzo Mantica, Pordenone, Italy
  • Flock – Manchester Art Gallery, Manchester

2003

  • Bagutta Life – Manhattan, New York
  • Thermo 03 – The Lowry, Salford
  • Art 2003 – With Philips Gallery, London
  • Designersblock – Milan, Italy
  • 3 English Women in Paris – Maxalto, Paris

2002

  • Art Take Away – Cornerhouse, Manchester
  • Ladies Only – Liverpool Biennial, Collect Gallery, Brundel St Warehouse, Liverpool

2001

  • All Colours Will Agree In the Dark – Cornerhouse, Manchester

Awards

  • RIBA Regent Street Windows 2016 – People Choice award with Knox Bhavan Architects & Molton Brown
  • Shortlisted, NMWA – Women to Watch 2012, Washington DC
  • Nominated, Northern Art Prize 2011
  • British Council travel grant 2010
  • Professional Development Award, The Arts Council England, 2008
  • Nominated, Northern Art Prize, 2007
  • Abbey Harris Mural Fund Award, 2006
  • Shortlisted, Jerwood Drawing Prize. 2005
  • Research and Development Award, The Arts Council Eng land. 2004
  • Shortlisted, Bury St Edmunds Art Gallery, Textiles on Site Commission 2004
  • Shortlisted, Crosby Homes Art Prize, Manchester Art Gallery August 2003