Elizabeth Murray (b. 1940, Chicago, Illinois) and took an early interest in making and studying art. While attending the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, she was deeply influenced by the work of Paul Cézanne, which inspired her to pursue a degree in painting. Following her education, Murray moved to New York, where she developed a unique approach to art-making and honed her intuitive ability to masterfully combine shapes and colors in both two- and three-dimensional realms.

Her work has been the subject of numerous institutional exhibitions, including the Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh; Contemporary Arts Museum, Houston; University at Buffalo Art Galleries, New York; The Museum of Modern Art, New York; the Dallas Museum of Art; the Albert and Vera List Visual Arts Center, MIT, Cambridge, Massachusetts; Museum of Fine Arts, Boston; The Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles; Des Moines Art Center, South Dakota; Walker Art Center, Minneapolis; and the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York. Her work is included in public collections worldwide, including Art Institute of Chicago; Brooklyn Museum, New York; Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C.; Los Angeles County Museum of Art, California; The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York; The Morgan Library & Museum, New York; The Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles; Museum of Contemporary Art, Tokyo; Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, Massachusetts; Museum of Fine Arts, Houston; The Museum of Modern Art, New York; National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.; Philadelphia Museum of Art; Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York; Walker Art Center, Minneapolis; Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; and Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, Connecticut. The Elizabeth Murray Estate is run by Elizabeth’s daughter Daisy Holman.