Born 1984 in Denver, Colorado, Joel Murray’s mixed-media drawings depict myriad figurative interactions working to satirize ideological constructs such as race, news media and westernized religion. Murray activates fictional characters in an array of visual narratives describing meditative yet abstruse and ridiculous happenings where cultural critique and humor take precedence. Murray is a museum educator, a devoted Professor of Art at Richland College in Dallas, TX and has an MFA in drawing from Clemson University.