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 Library of Congress, 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), Syracuse University Museum, 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.
