AUDIE MURRAY
(B. 1993, Regina, SK; Métis)
Audie Murray is a multi-disciplinary Métis artist from Saskatchewan currently based in Regina. Working with themes of contemporary Indigenous culture and ideas of duality and connectivity, Murray draws on time honoured techniques and contemporary concepts to inform her material choices. She often uses found objects from daily life in her work.
Murray completed a Diploma in Visual Arts at Camosun College in 2016, and a Bachelor of Fine Arts at the University of Regina in 2017. In 2018 she attended the Plug In ICA: Bush Gallery Summer Institute in Winnipeg. In the summer of 2017 she studied traditional tattoo practices with the Earth Line Tattoo Collective and continues to work with hand poke and skin stitching methods. Her BFA graduating work, Pair of Socks was selected as the Saskatchewan winner of the 2017 BMO 1st Art! Prize, and in 2018 she was the recipient of the William and Meredith Saunderson Prize through the Hnatyshyn Foundation. In 2019, she won the Juror's Award at the Salt Spring National Art Prize for her photograph for hambone, metis billy stick.
Murray's work was featured in Li Salay, a major survey of Métis art at the Art Gallery of Alberta in Edmonton (2018) curated by Amy Malbeuf and Jessie Ray Short. Her work has been shown in solo and group exhibitions at the Anchorage Museum, the Art Gallery of Greater Victoria, Open Space the fifty fifty arts collective, Victoria; Gam Gallery, Vancouver; the Mackenzie Art Gallery, Regina; the Clay and Glass Gallery, Waterloo; Hamilton Artist Inc; and the Justina M. Barnicke Gallery, Toronto. The Nanaimo Art Gallery presented Murray's solo exhibition, Pawatamihk, from October 22, 2021 to January 9, 2022. Most recently, her work has been featured in Indian Theater: Native Performance, Art, and Self-Determination since 1969, a large-scale exhibition curated by Candice Hopkins on view from June 24 - November 26, 2023 at the Hessel Museum of Art.
