Margaret E. Murray is a printmaker and photographer living in San Francisco. An artist in residence at KALA Art Institute in Berkeley, California since 2023, she has also been awarded The Arctic Circle, Artica, and In Cahoots artists’ residencies. Her work is exhibited nationally.
Murray holds a BA in semiotics from Brown University and a JD from the University of California Hastings College of the Law (now UC Law SF). She learned film photography from Time-Life books and an older brother who was unable to shoo her out of his darkroom. As for printmaking, pressing ink into paper is a thrill hard-wired into her by her great-grandfather, a Scottish letterpress man.
SELECTED EXHIBITIONS
2026
The Boston Printmakers, 2026 North American Print Biennial
Intention and Process, Diablo Valley College Art Gallery
KALA Art Institute, Art KALA 2026 Auction Benefit
Gallery Obscura, City College of San Francisco, Portfolio Production
Tint Gallery, Entropic Landscapes (three-person show)
Gallery Route One, Forces of Nature (five-person show)
California Society of Printmakers, 111th Annual Membership Exhibition
Mercury 20 Gallery, Mapping Time
2025
Polar Artists Collective, Showcase Exhibitions, Autumn-Winter 2025, January 2025
Washington Printmakers Gallery, 2025 Peggy Doole National Small Works Competition & Exhibition (Margaret Winslow, curator)
Atlanta Printmakers Studio, Atlanta Print Biennial
KALA Art Institute, Art KALA 2025 Auction Benefit
Blue Line Arts, Crocker-Kingsley Exhibition
Print Austin, The Contemporary Print 2025
Sebastopol Center for the Arts, Impressions in Ink: Celebrating Printmaking in All Forms
Arts Benicia, Forma Natura: Nature as Source
Photo Artfolio, Nocturne: Photographs After Dark
2024
Noddy Holga 2024
The Daily Holga, November 16, 2024 feature
Marin Society of Artists, Through the Lens 2024
O’Hanlon Center for the Arts, Blue
Studio Gallery, Tiny
ODC, 4 Printmakers from Graphic Arts Workshop
Image Flow Photography Center, 24 Months – Photo of The Month Exhibition
California Society of Printmakers, 110th Annual Membership Exhibition, Santa Rosa Junior College
Decode Gallery, Square VIII
O’Hanlon Center for the Arts, Women Artists Making Their Mark 2024
Washington Printmakers Gallery, 2024 Peggy Doole National Small Works Competition & Exhibition
Arts Benicia, Explorations in Monochromatic Work
2023
California Society of Printmakers, 109th Annual Exhibition, Piedmont Center for the Arts
Studio Gallery, Tiny
San Francisco ArtSpan, Annual Auction (juried)
PUBLICATIONS
Flare Journal, vol. 1, no. 1, April 2026.
Plastic Perspectives, Issue 10, April 2026.
ARTISTS’ RESIDENCIES
KALA Art Institute (2023-present)
In Cahoots (2025, 2026)
The Arctic Circle (2025, 2027)
AWARDS
The Image Flow, San Anselmo, California: Image of the Month, May 2023
Sheridan Prize for Art: Honorable Mention, Artist’s Choice Award
EDUCATION
PRINTMAKING STUDIES, Crown Point Press, Moonlight Press, KALA Art Institute.
CITY COLLEGE OF SAN FRANCISCO, studies in printmaking and photography.
UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA HASTINGS COLLEGE OF THE LAW, San Francisco, California. Juris Doctor.
BROWN UNIVERSITY, Providence, Rhode Island. Bachelor of Arts with honors in Semiotics.