Ambrose Rhapsody Murray

is a self-taught artist, born in Jacksonville, Florida and raised in 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 was transformed by Black Studies while at Yale College where they received their BA.

Through their work, Ambrose seeks to bring physical form to the ideas and theories they have been struck by from Black feminist writers and visionaries. Their work and practice are rooted in ethea of care, reverence, intimacy, time-travel, healing, grief and attending to the stories of the dead. Their work has exhibited across the US as well as abroad in Berlin, Mexico City, London, Marrakech and more.

Ambrose recently participated in Kehinde Wiley’s BLACKROCK Residency in Senegal for their 2023 season.