Selected Solo Exhibitions (two-person noted)
2023 Sift/Shift, site-specific installation, 4 months, Whatcom Museum, Bellingham, WA, curated by Amy Chaloupka
2023 Flowstone, collaborative installation with Hannah Newman, Carnation Contemporary, Portland OR
2021 if water had its way, Klemm Gallery, Siena Heights University, Adrian MI
2021 if water had its way, Carnation Contemporary, Portland OR
2018 Outland About, two-person exhibition with Carl Diehl, Schneider Museum, Southern Oregon University, Ashland, OR: curated by Patrick Collier
2018 Absent Presence, Carnation Contemporary, Portland, OR
2018 Transitional Spaces, sabbatical exhibition, Nightingale Gallery, EOU, La Grande, OR
2017 we are all cosmic dust, site-specific installation, Autzen Gallery, Portland State University, Portland, OR
2016 Talking About the Obvious, two-person exhibition with Molly Alloy, Cascade Gallery, Portland Community College, Portland, OR: curated by Sandy Sampson
2014 Embedded, site-specific installation, Pendleton Center for the Arts, Pendleton, OR
2013 - 2014 Areal Density, site-specific installation, Portland International Airport, Portland, OR - 12 month installation
2013 The Matter, site-specific installation, International Gallery of Contemporary Art, Anchorage, AK
2013 Here: recent paintings by Susan Murrell, Art Center East, La Grande, OR
2012 Shell, site-specific installation, Sheehan Gallery, Whitman College, Walla Walla, WA: curated by D. M. Forbes
2011 Substance and Circumstance, site-specific installation, Clark College, Vancouver WA: curated by Jenene Nagy
2011 Subduction, Portland Building Installation Space, Regional Arts and Culture Council, Portland, Oregon
2008 . . . arising from natural inclination, Sheppard Fine Arts Gallery, University of Nevada, Reno, NV: curated by Marjorie Vecchio
2008 Instinctive Inquiry, Gallery Homeland, Portland, OR: curated by Paul Middendorf
2008 Hour After Hour of Thought and Analysis, The Las Cruces Museum of Art, Las Cruces, NM
2007 Contrive + Classify, UC Gallery, The University of Montana, Missoula, MT
2006 Open Studio: curious yet familiar things, New York Workspace, New York, NY
Selected Group Exhibitions
2023 It’s Complicated, Carnation Contemporary, Portland, OR
2022 The Nexus of Here, Wave Contemporary
2021 Atlas, Carnation Contemporary, Portland, OR
2021 Exquisite Scrolls: Collaborative Drawings for PNCA, Upfor Gallery, Portland, OR
2021 Biennial Faculty Exhibition, Nightingale Gallery, Eastern Oregon University, La Grande, OR
2020 Low Boil, member exhibition, Carnation Contemporary
2020 Organic, Columbia Center for the Arts, Hood River, OR
2020 Making A Better Painting: Thinking Through Practice, Ronna and Eric Hoffman Gallery, Lewis and Clark College, Lake Oswego, OR
2020 IF/THEN, Carnation Contemporary exhibition at Tropical Contemporary, Eugene, OR
2019 INTERSTATE: Where I-90 meets I-82, Sarah Spurgeon Gallery, Central Washington University, Ellensburg, WA: juried by Grace Kook-Anderson
2019 Edge and Mirror: Landscape in the Anthropocene, Center for the Visual Arts, Boise State University: curated by Kirsten Furlong
2019 Crow’s Shadow Institute for the Arts at 24, traveling group exhibition, The Boise Art Museum, Boise, ID, (March-June 2019) Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art at WSU, Pullman, WA, (Sept-Dec 2018) The Whatcom Museum, Bellingham, WA (May-Aug 2018) The Hailie Ford Museum of Art at Willamette University, (Sept- Dec 2017)
2018 First Date, Carnation Contemporary, Portland, OR
2018 Mentor my Mentor, South Santiam Hall Gallery, Linn Benton Community College, Albany, Oregon: curated by Anne Magratten
2018 Biennial Faculty Exhibition, Nightingale Gallery, Eastern Oregon University, La Grande, OR
2016 Contemporary Prints from Crow's Shadow, Hoffman Gallery, Oregon College of Art and Craft, Portland, Oregon
2015 Rural, Umpqua Valley Arts Association, Red Gallery, Roseberg, OR: curated by Renee Couture and Sandee McGee
2015 Crow's Shadow Institute of the Arts, Jacobs Gallery at the Hult Center, Eugene, OR, 3 month exhibition
2015 Biennial Faculty Exhibition, Nightingale Gallery, Eastern Oregon University, La Grande, OR
2014-2015 NEW ART 2.0, Eitelijorg Museum, Indianapolis, IN, 3 month exhibition
2014 Accreted Terrane, Museum of Northwest Art, La Conner WA, 3 month exhibition: curated by David Francis
2014 Art in the Post-Digital Landscape: Artists in Conversation, Art and Design Gallery, Southern Illinois University Edwardsville, Edwardsville IL: curated by Laura Strand
2013 Oregon Golden Spot Awards, Crow's Shadow Institute Print Release, Traveling exhibition - PDX Gallery, Portland, OR, Pendleton Center for the Arts, Pendleton, OR, Carnegie Art Center, Baker, OR, Boise Art Museum, Boise, ID
2013 Biennial Faculty Exhibition, Nightingale Gallery, Eastern Oregon University, La Grande, OR
2012 EOU Faculty Exhibition, Linn-Benton Community College, Albany, OR 2011 The Art of the Print, Columbia Art Gallery, Hood River, Oregon
2011 Biennial Faculty Exhibition, Nightingale Gallery, Eastern Oregon University, La Grande, OR
2009 Environs, Nightingale Gallery, Eastern Oregon University, La Grande, OR: curated by Cory Peeke
2009 Alex Hirsch, Joan McGuire, Susan Murrell, Gallery 114, Portland, OR: curated by Pat Barrett
2009 Dip/triptychs, Columbia Arts Gallery, Hood River, OR: curated by Jim Diem and CJ Rench
2008 Gen X: Post Boomers and the New South, Mobile Museum of Art, Mobile, AL: curated by Donan Klooz
2007 Faculty Exhibition, Mt. Hood Community College, Gresham, OR
2007 21st International Juried Show, Visual Arts Center of New Jersey, Summit, NJ: juried by Laura Hoptman
2006 Anti-Thesis, Rogue Artist Squadron Collective, performance and video, Starland Center for Contemporary Arts, Savannah, GA: curated by Joel Jonientz
Residencies
2019 Ayatana Submerge, Artist Research Program, Gatineau National Park, Canada
2017 Arteles Back-to-Basics Residency, four weeks, Haukijärvi, Finland
2017 Westfjords Residency May Group Program, Thingeyri, Iceland
2017 Caldera, Golden Spot residency, two weeks,Sisters, OR
2016 Playa, four weeks, Summer Lake - Paisley, OR
2016 Artist-in-Residence Portland State University MFA Program, fall term, Portland, OR
2016 Signal Fire, "unwalking the west" Green River Canoe trip, Canyonlands NP, UT
2012 Golden Spot, collaborative residency with master printmaker Frank Janzen Crow's Shadow Institute for the Arts, funded by the Ford Foundation, two weeks, Pendelton, OR (stipend)
2011 Ragdale Foundation, four weeks, Lake Forest, IL
2009 Yaddo, eight weeks, Saratoga Springs, NY
2007 Kimmel Harding Nelson Center for the Arts Residency, four weeks, Nebraska City, NE
2006 New York Workspace Residency Program, ten weeks, Savannah College of Art and Design, New York, NY
Awards
2022 Individual Artist Fellowship, Oregon Arts Commission, Salem, OR
2021 Nominated for the Joan Mitchell Fellowship, Joan Mitchell Foundation, New York, NY
2021 Connective Conversations / The Curator and Critic Tour, visit with Hamza Walker, The Ford Family Foundation and The University of Oregon School of Architecture and Allied Arts
2019 Second Place awarded to Four Cracked Spheres in group exhibition, INTERSTATE: Where I-90 meets I-82, juried by Grace Kook-Anderson
2019 Connective Conversations / The Curator and Critic Tour, The Ford Family Foundation and The University of Oregon School of Architecture and Allied Arts
2019 Full Summer Faculty Scholars Research Stipend, Eastern Oregon University, La Grande, OR
2017 Career Opportunity Grant, Oregon Arts Commission, Salem, OR
2017 Career Opportunity Grant, Ford Family Foundation
2017 Ford Family Foundation's Golden Spot Award, Caldera
2016 Mid-career Oregon Artist Residency Award, PLAYA, Ford Family Foundation
2016-2017 Full Sabbatical, Eastern Oregon University, La Grande, OR
2016 Full Summer Faculty Scholars Research Stipend, Eastern Oregon University, La Grande, OR
2012 Connective Conversations / The Curator and Critic Tour, sponsored through a partnership between The Ford Family Foundation and The University of Oregon School of Architecture and Allied Arts
2012 Faculty Scholars Research Stipend, Eastern Oregon University, La Grande, OR
2007 Merit Award, 21st International Juried Show, Visual Arts Center of New Jersey, Summit, NJ: juried by Laura Hoptman
2006 The Drawing Center Artist Registry, juried, New York, NY
Notable Collections
United States Library of Congress, Prints & Photographs Division, Washington, D.C.
Whitman College, Walla Walla, WA
University of Oregon, Chapman Hall, OAC Portable Works Collection, Eugene, OR
Hallie Ford Museum Print Collection, Willamette University, Salem, OR
Crow's Shadow Institute of Art, Pendleton, OR
Portable Works Collection, Regional Arts and Culture Council, Portland, OR
King County Public Works Collection, WA
Bibliography
2021 Community Connection: Karl Davis and Roberta Lavadour in conversation with Susan Murrell published interview in issue #17 titled “YOU ARE HERE” in SFMOMA’s OpenSpace Magazine, edited by Bean Gilsdorf
2020 Curated Conversation and Demonstrations, featured portfolio and cover art, The Schneider Museum of Art, SOU and The Ford Family Foundation
2020 The Storyteller Issue, Leaf Litter No. 8., featured artwork, Signal Fire Arts publication
2020 To Make Room for the Sea, poems by Adam Clay, published by Milkweed Press, a way out lithograph cover art
2020 Connective Conversations Curator/Critic Tours and Lectures 2015-2019, featured artwork, The Ford Family Foundation and The University of Oregon
2018 Outland About, exhibition essay by Patrick Collier, published by the Schneider Museum, Southern Oregon University, Ashland, OR
2018 Transitional Spaces featured portfolio in Basalt Literary Magazine, with accompanying essay Our Infant Eyes by Amy Harwood
2017 we are all cosmic dust interview with PSU Studio MFA students
2017 Crow’s Shadow Institute of the Arts at 25, featured artwork
2016 "Junk Ocean" - Art project featured in Drain Magazine http://drainmag.com/junk-ocean/
2015 Curator and Critic Tours Connective Conversations: Inside Oregon Art 2011-14, The Ford Family Foundation and The University of Oregon
2012 “Shell," exhibition brochure produced by the Sheehan Gallery, Whitman College, essay by D. M. Forbes
2008 ". . . arising from natural inclination," exhibition brochure produced by The University of Nevada, Reno, essay by Marjorie Vecchio
Speaking Appearances
2023 Making and Exhibition, a gallery conversation with curator Amy Chaloupka at the Lightcatcher Building, event sponsored by Paper Whale in collaboration with the Whatcom Museum of Art
2023 Sift/Shift artist lecture, at Old City Hall, Whatcom Museum of Art
2021 if water had its way: a conversation between Maria Lux and Susan Murrell, interview / artist talk in conjunction with exhibition at Carnation Contemporary
2021 Vital Matter: Landscape Painting in the Anthropocene, presentation and panel participant, College Art Association Annual Conference, chaired by Cara Tomlinson and Tia Factor
2020 Vital Matter: Painting in the Anthropocene presentation and panel participant, during Making A Better Painting: Thinking Through Practice symposium at Lewis and Clark College, chaired by Cara Tomlinson and Tia Factor
2018 Transitional Spaces: painting as a meditation on change, sabbatical colloquium, EOU, La Grande, OR
2016 Visiting Artist Lecture, Portland State University, Portland, OR
2016 Talking About the Obvious, gallery talk, PCC Cascade, Portland, OR
2012 Artist Talk and Presentation of New Prints in conjunction with the Oregon Golden Spot residency, Crow's Shadow Institute of Art, Pendleton OR
2012 Visiting Artist Lecture, Whitman College, Walla Walla WA
2011 Visiting Artist Lecture, Clark College, Vancouver WA
2011 Beyond the Gallery Walls, Artist-2-Artist Symposium, Panel Discussion, Columbia Center for the Arts, Hood River, OR
2010 Biennial Faculty Art Exhibition Gallery Talk, Nightingale Gallery, Eastern Oregon University, La Grande, OR
2010 Curriculum Connections, Arts in Education Advocates Meeting, Columbia Gorge Arts in Education, Hood River, OR
2009 Visiting Artist Lecture, Eastern Oregon University, La Grande, OR
2009 Four Artists, Gallery 114, Portland, OR
2008 Visiting Artist Lecture, The University of Nevada, Reno, NV