Bill Murphy was born on Staten Island, New York, in 1952. He attended public school there, and later, Brooklyn College, the School of Visual Arts (BFA), The Art Students League, and Vermont College (MFA).

At the School of Visual Arts he studied with, among others, Jim Kearns, Herb Katzman, Marshall Arisman, Louise Bourgoise and the   illustrator Robert Weaver.


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Bill Murphy's work is included in the following collections:
The British Museum, The Brooklyn Museum, The National Baseball Hall of Fame in Cooperstown,  The New York Public Library, The Staten Island Institute of Arts and Sciences, The Parkersburgh Arts Center (West Virginia), The Newark Public Library, The New York Transit Museum, Westinghouse Corporation, Nassau Community College (Long Island, New York), The Denver Art  Museum,Hofstra University and the New York Historical Society

He has taught at Wagner College on Staten Island, New York since 1984, and is currently an Associate Professor of Art.

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my studio, located at Wagner College



...with one of my heroes, the painter Jerome Witkin