AMBROSE RHAPSODY MURRAY

Born in 1996, Jacksonville and lives in New Orleans USA

Ambrose Rhapsody Murray is a self-taught artist with roots in Florida and Asheville, NC. Through sewing, painting, material experimentation, film and collaborative projects, they create stories to investigate our relationships to the colonial undercurrents of our lives, the charged symbology of black feminine bodies, and the ephemeral and layered qualities of memory and remembering. Ambrose received their Bachelor’s in Black Studies from Yale University and studied fine art abroad at Central Saint Martins in London. Their work lives in the permanent collection of The Studio Museum in Harlem, and has exhibited across the US and abroad.