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 from Yale University, and was recently selected as Forbes 30 under 30 in the 2024 Art section. Their work lives in the permanent collection of The Studio Museum in Harlem and The Montclair Art Museum, and has exhibited across the US and abroad.
(Pronouns: She/They)
Working Artist Statement
I aim to visualize the ephemerality and nuance of memory — to contend with the idea that our bodies, brains and sense of reality are “not containers for memory, but are memory themselves” (quoted from Alok Vaid-Menon). My practice becomes a place to contemplate and imagine the thin veil that exists between the spirit world and the physical world, and to make visible the slipperiness between memory/remembering, spirit, imagination and one’s sense of self.
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