Jamie McMurry

Jamie McMurry has been creating original works of performance art and presenting them all over the world for more than 10 years. He co-founded and directed the Rite! Performance Art Troupe (Seattle) and Powderkeg Contemporary Performance (Seattle and Los Angeles) from 1992-1997 and then continued with an already established yet stronger focus on solo works. McMurry has also organized and produced extensively in the field, staging major regional and international performance art exhibitions in Seattle, Los Angeles and Boston including the world-renowned Full Nelson Festival.

He most recently served as a full time visiting faculty member in the Performance Area at the School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston and has also had visiting artist/guest lecturer positions at the University of Northern Iowa, Turku Art Academy Finland, University of Vina Del Mar Chile, Hildesheim Art Academy Germany and as part of the Satu Kali Performance Art Conference in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia