Kevin M. Murphy

Kevin M. Murphy is the Eugénie Prendergast Senior Curator of American and European Art at the Williams College Museum of Art in Williamstown, Massachusetts. He is also Affiliate Faculty in the Graduate Program in the History of Art and in American Studies at Williams. Murphy is originally from southern California, he did his BA at Pitzer College of the Claremont Colleges and received his PhD from the University of California, Santa Barbara. His forthcoming book is on modern dance pioneers Ruth St. Denis and Ted Shawn, part of a collaboration between WCMA and Jacob's Pillow Dance Festival. Murphy's research and personal interests include the art market, car accidents in American visual culture, ballet, trade in human remains, the goth subculture, dark music, true crime, and Rick Owens. He currently resides in western Massachusetts.