Murray Guy was a contemporary

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specializing in emerging and mid-career contemporary artists. Founded by Margaret Murray and Janice Guy in 1998, the gallery was located in the Chelsea, Manhattan gallery district at 453 West 17th Street. It closed in early 2017 after eighteen years in business. The gallery covered contemporary photography, video,

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, sculpture, and painting.

Founders

Margaret Murray and Janice Guy. Janice Guy (born 1953 in London, UK) a photographer, produced much of her work while studying with Klaus Rinke and Bernd and Hilla Becher at the Kunstakademie Düsseldorf in Düsseldorf, Germany, during the 1970s.. Guy abandoned art-making in the early 1980s, however her photographs re-emerged in 2007 and have been shown in solo exhibitions at

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, New York (2008), The Apartment, Vancouver (2008 and 2013), Cleopatra's, New York (2015) and Higher Pictures, New York (2019).

Artists

Among the artists who exhibited at Murray Guy were the following: * Matthew Buckingham. *

Leidy Churchman Leidy Churchman (born 1979 in Villanova, PA) is an American painter who lives and works in New York. Early life and education Churchman received their M.F.A. from Columbia University in 2010 and B.A. from Hampshire College, Amherst, Massachus ...

Moyra Davey Moyra Davey (born 1958) is an artist based in New York City. Davey works across photography, video, and writing. Early life Moyra Davey was born in 1958 in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. She grew up in Montreal, where she studied photography and r ...

"Moyra Davey at Murray Guy." Contemporary Art Daily.
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* Zoe Leonard * Rosalind Nashashibi"Nashashibi/Skaer at Murray Guy New York."
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Barbara Probst Barbara Probst (born 1964) is a contemporary artist whose photographic work consists of multiple images of a single scene, shot simultaneously with several cameras via a radio-controlled system. Using a mix of color and black-and-white film, she p ...

* Lucy Skaer * Ann Lislegaard *

Kota Ezawa Kota Ezawa (born 1969, Cologne, West Germany) is a Japanese-German American artist and arts educator. His artwork usually responds to current events from sources in the news, pop culture, and art history. Ever since his debut 2002 video animation ...

Patricia Esquivias Patricia Esquivias is a Venezuelan-born Spanish artist who works primarily with video. She was born in 1979 in Caracas. Esquivias received her BA from Central Saint Martins College of Art and Design in London in 2001 and her MFA from California ...

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