CURRICULUM VITAE
Book Publications
The U.N. Building. Photographs by Ben Murphy. (2005) UK/USA Thames and Hudson/ Norton
Ai Wei Wei at Blenheim Palace. Photographs by Ben Murphy. (2015). UK. Blenheim Art Foundation.
The Riverbed. Ben Murphy (2017) UK. Phenomenology
Permanent Collections
The Victoria and Albert Museum, London, UK
The National Portrait Gallery, London, UK
The Archive of Modern Conflict, London and Toronto, UK / Canada
Lambert Art Collection, Geneva, Switzerland
The Architectural Association, London, UK
Exhibitions
The Architectural Association Gallery, London, UK, ( Solo show ) 2012
Steiglitz 19 Gallery, Antwerp, Belgium, ( Solo show ) 2012
Sunderland Art Gallery, UK 2011
Plymouth Art Gallery and Museum, UK, 2010
Steiglitz 19 Gallery, Antwerp, Belgium, ( Solo show ) 2008
Victoria and Albert Museum, London, UK, 2008/9
Courtauld Institute, Somerset House, London, UK, 2008
Four Corners, National Portrait Gallery, London, UK, 2007
National Portrait Gallery at Bodelwyddan Castle, St Asaph, UK 2007
National Portrait Gallery, London, UK, 2003/4/5
Public space permanent exhibition: Battersea Gas Holders, Wall of Prince of Wales Drive, Battersea, London 2016-
Awards
PhD. Thesis title 'Constructing a Countercultural Self: A Photographic Exploration of Countercultural Identity Through Place and Space'. Royal Holloway, University of London, 2020. Examiners Professor David Bate (University of Westminster) and Professor John Wylie (University of Exeter).
Graham Foundation for Advanced Studies in FIne Art, Chicago, USA, 2010
The Sovereign Art Prize ( Shortlisted ) 2009
Reviews/Essays
Art World China: Art and Waste Issue 223. Dwelling: The Riverbed. (Griffiths, R.) February 2018 pp. 58-67.
Creative Boom Photographing the makeshift homes of neo nomadic punks hippies anarchists and ravers in rural Spain.14.03.2017 http://www.creativeboom.com/inspiration/ben-murphy/
Lens Culture
https://www.lensculture.com/projects/370196-the-riverbed
Riba Journal online
2 March 2017
Counter culture in Almeria
By Jan-Carlos Kucharek
https://www.ribaj.com/buildings/crusty-mark-2006
Diseño Interior
March 2017
pp.49-50, ‘Vivir en los márgenes’
By Pilar Marcos
http://www.revistadisenointerior.es/ben-murphy-vivir-los-margenes/
British Journal of Photography
February 2017
pp. 26-29, ‘The Riverbed’
By Tom Seymour
No online link
GUP Magazine online
27 February 2017
‘The Riverbed’
Not credited
http://www.gupmagazine.com/portfolios/ben-murphy/the-riverbed
Something Curated
14 February 2017
‘Interview: Ben Murphy, Photographer’
By Ella Bucknall
http://somethingcurated.com/2017/02/14/interview-ben-murphy-photographer/
Wallpaper* online
9 February 2017
‘Alternative living’
By Rosie Mackay
http://www.wallpaper.com/gallery/art/inspiring-photography-from-the-wallpaper-picture-desk-2017#187865
Dezeen
22 January 2017
‘Ben Murphy photographs makeshift architecture in the mountains of southeast Spain’
By Amy Frearson
https://www.dezeen.com/2017/01/22/riverbed-photography-ben-murphy-makeshift-temporary-architecture-spain-mountains/
Plus Paper (Online) Spotlight on Neo Nomadic Architecture 15.03.2017
Portfolio Journal (no. 46 ). Warburton, N. 2007. This is Paradise
L'Oeil de la Photographie (France) Ben Murphy: The Riverbed.22.03.2017
The Observer Magazine Communal Tales from the Riverbed. (Seymour, T.) 19.03.2017
Extra Journal (Foto Museum, Antwerp, Belgium 2009 )
Saturday Telegraph Magazine
Wallpaper Magazine Alternative Living (Mackay, R.) Online 09.02.2017
Blueprint Magazine
Financial Times Magazine
Design Observer
The Drawbridge
The Architects Newspaper (USA)
The Architects Journal
Riba Journal
Collect Magazine
Domus
Fomu Magazine
Undo Magazine
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