EXHIBITIONS

Work on View Ongoing

Pierogi Flatfile, Pierogi Gallery, Brooklyn, NY, 2008-ongoing, curated by Joe Amrheim (drawings and videos)

The Drawing Center Viewing Program, New York, NY, 2006-ongoing, curated by Nina Katchadourian


Solo Exhibitions

UPCOMING:
Roos Arts, On Paper, Rosendale, New York, 2010
University of Maine Museum of Art, Hanging Drawings Shapes, Bangor, Maine, USA, 2011

Bernard Toale Gallery, Provisional, Boston, MA, September 2007

Boston Drawing Project, Bernard Toale Gallery, Poured Tape Drawings, Boston, MA 2007

Boston Drawing Project, Bernard Toale Gallery, Cardboard Actions, Boston, MA, 2006

Art Complex Museum, Nancy Murphy Spicer, Duxbury, MA, 2004

Boston Drawing Project, Bernard Toale Gallery, Nancy Murphy Spicer: New Drawings, Boston, MA, 2004


Curatorial Projects

Spike Island Open Studios 2009, For Real, Bristol, UK, 2009, exhibition of works by 5 US and 5 UK artists


Group Exhibitions

Boston University, 808 Gallery, Traces and Places, Boston, MA, 2010, curated by Lynne Cooney

VIVID, The Act of Drawing, Birmingham, UK, 2009, curated by Kaye Winwood

Mills Gallery, Boston Center for the Arts, Drawings That Work, Boston, MA, 2009, curated by Andrew Stein Raftery

Spike Island Open Studios, For Real, Bristol, UK, 2009, curated by Nancy Murphy Spicer

Kunstraum Kreuzberg/Bethanien, Anonymous Drawings #9, Berlin, Germany, 2008

Montserrat College of Art, Many Kinds of Nothing, Beverly, MA, 2008, curated by Shana Dumont

Mills Gallery, Boston Center for the Arts, 20th Drawing Show, Boston, MA, 2007, curated by M. M. Campos Pons

Gosia Koscielak Gallery, Bridge Art Fair, Chicago, IL, 2007

Barbara Krakow Gallery, Annual AIDS Benefit Exhibition, Boston, MA 2005, 2006

Bernard Toale Gallery, Chris Martin, Boston, MA, 2006, curated by Chris Martin

Nave Gallery, 2005 Somerville Arts Council Grant Winners Show, Somerville, MA, 2005

Green Street Gallery, 150 x 150, Jamaica Plain, MA, 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006

Memphis College of Art, Seamless, Memphis, TN, 2004, curated by Cynthia Thompson

Tufts University, Tufts First Annual, Medford, MA, 2004, curated by Amy Schlegel

Fitchburg Art Museum, New England/New Talent, Fitchburg, MA, 2004, curated by Kristina Durocher

Mills Gallery, Boston Center for the Arts, 18th Boston Drawing Show, Boston, MA, 2004, curated by Raphaela Platow

Forest Hills Educational Trust, The Four Elements, Boston, MA, 2003, curated by James Hull, Nick Capasso

New England Biolabs, Beverly, MA. Jan Arabas and Nancy Murphy Spicer, 2003

Atlanta College of Art Gallery, Flat Not Flat, Atlanta, GA, 2003, curated by Lisa Fischman

Brickbottom Gallery, Surrounded, Somerville, MA, 2003

Green Street Gallery, Chris Nau and Nancy Murphy Spicer, Jamaica Plain, MA, 2002, curated by James Hull

Boston Drawing Project, Bernard Toale Gallery, The Drawing Show, Boston, MA, 2001, curated by J. Hull & B. Toale

Mills Gallery, Boston Center for the Arts, 17th Boston Drawing Show, Boston, MA, 2001, curated by Bill Arning

Somerville Museum, 2001 Somerville Arts Council Grant Winners Show, Somerville, MA, 2001



SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY

“(Murphy) Spicer's work is low-key and delightful, as if she's showing you a treasure map of a place you thought you already knew.” – Cate McQuaid, Boston Globe


“Somewhere indefinable between painting, sculpture and drawing resides Nancy Murphy Spicer's Drawing Objects.” – Shawn Hill, South End News


Boston Globe, December 24, 2008, Top Ten Shows of 2008, Cate McQuaid

Art New England, December/January 2007/08, Spotlight Review, David Raymond

Boston Globe, October 25, 2008, 'Nothing is happening: Minimalist works help provoke a meditative state,' Cate McQuaid

bigredandshiny.com, December 23, 2007, Drawing the Line at Mills Gallery, David Avruch

Many Kinds of Nothing catalog, Montserrat College of Art, Beverly, Massachusset, 2008

Boston Globe, December 20, 2007, Drawing show works around the edges, Cate McQuaid

20th Drawing Show catalog, Mills Gallery, Boston Center for the Arts, essay by Maria Magdalena Campos Pons

meganandmurray.com, September 24, 2007, Nancy Murphy Spicer at Bernard Toale Gallery, Megan McMillan, http://www.meganandmurray.com/2007/09/nancy-murphy-sp.html

Boston Globe, September 13, 2007, A Touch with Abstraction, Cate McQuaid

Art Papers, January/February 2005, Review of ‘Seamless’, David Hall

Number Magazine, Winter 2005, ‘Seamless’, Paul Behnke

Memphis Commercial Appeal, October 15, 2004, ‘Seamless’ a model of beauty, Frederic Koeppel

Seamless brochure, Memphis College of Art, 2004, essay by Cynthia Thompson

Boston Globe, July 11, 2004, Pretty, vacant: High-quality local work gets showcase at Tufts, Cate McQuaid

Boston Phoenix, March 5, 2004, Goodies at the DeCordova and the Fitchburg, C. Millis

New England/New Talent catalog, Fitchburg Art Museum, February 2004

Boston Globe, February 1, 2004, At 'The Drawing Show,' works literally leap off the page, Cate McQuaid

South End News, January 22, 2004, A painterly touch in BCA’s Drawing Show, Shawn Hill

Art New England, November/December 2003, Regional Reviews, Lauren O’Neal

Art Papers, November/December 2003, Reviews, Robin Bernat

Sculpture Magazine, September/October 2003, Review, Marty Carlock

Art New England, June/July 2003, Regional Reviews, Shawn Hill

Flat Not Flat brochure, Atlanta College of Art, May 2003, essay by Lisa Fischman

Boston Globe, January, 2002, Critic’s Pick, Brickbottom Gallery show

Boston Globe, December 29, 2002, Best of 2002, Cate McQuaid

ArtsMedia, September 5, 2002, Gallery Section, Rachel Strutt

Boston Globe, August 23, 2002, Some Edgy Artists Play with Space, Cate McQuaid

Boston Globe, August, 2002, Critic’s Pick, Green Street Gallery show



GRANTS/AWARDS

Spike Associates, Travel Grant, Berlin, Germany, 2009

Spike Associates, Curatorial Project Funding, For Real exhibition, Bristol, UK, 2009

Ten Best Shows of 2008, Boston Globe, (Montserrat College of Art exhibition), 2008

Institute of Contemporary Art Boston Foster Prize, Finalist, 2008

Artist’s Resource Trust, Berkshire Taconic Community Foundation, 2006

Somerville Arts Council, Artists Fellowship, Somerville, MA, 2001 and 2005

International Art Critics Association, Second Place in the category of Best Show in an Alternative Space, 2004

Ten Best Shows of 2002, Boston Globe, (Green Street Gallery exhibition), 2002

Massachusetts Cultural Council, Professional Development Grant, Boston, MA, 2001



RESIDENCIES

Memphis College of Art Gallery, Memphis College of Art, Memphis, TN, 2004

Atlanta College of Art Gallery, Atlanta College of Art, Atlanta, GA, 2003



VISITING ARTIST/TEACHING/LECTURES

University of the West of England, Bristol, UK, 2010

Art Institute of Boston, Boston, MA, 2008

School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA, 2008

Memphis College of Art Gallery, Memphis College of Art, Memphis, TN, 2004

Atlanta College of Art Gallery, Atlanta College of Art, Atlanta, GA, 2003

New England School of Art and Design, Boston, MA, 2003

Institute of Contemporary Art Boston, Boston, MA, 2003

University of Massachusetts, Lowell, MA, 2002



EDUCATION

School of the Museum of Fine Arts, postgraduate study, Boston, MA, 1986 – 1991

St. Mary’s College, B.F.A., Notre Dame, IN, 1979