Alexis Murray (born 1998, Smithtown, New York) is a contemporary papermaker and printmaker currently based in Ronkonkoma, New York. Working primarily with handmade paper, pulp painting, and sculptural paper processes, Murray is best known for layered paper compositions that blur the boundaries between painting, sculpture, and textile. Her practice is distinguished by its exploration of material transformation, fragility, and surface depth, achieved through heavily textured formations, embedded fibers, and tactile relief structures. Employing muted, earthy palettes alongside intermittent luminous chromatic shifts, her works construct abstract spatial environments that evoke associations with landscape, architecture, and the body.

Murray’s work is characterized by a sustained investigation into impermanence, decay, and processes of material becoming. Through layered pulp applications and the integration of recycled and botanical fibers, she constructs abstract surfaces that emphasize both structural tension and visual fragility. Her practice often evokes fragmented landscapes and corporeal presence, where surface irregularities and embedded matter function as traces of transformation and time. Across her ongoing body of work, Murray develops material-driven compositions that foreground the expressive potential of handmade paper as both image and object, situating her practice within contemporary discourses on expanded painting and sculptural printmaking.

Alexis Murray has participated in selected group exhibitions including the 2025 Maurice N. Flecker Juried Show in Selden, USA, and exhibitions at Lyceum Gallery, Riverhead, USA. Her work has also been featured in Perspectives Literary Magazine, including the “Verse & Visuals” group exhibition in 2025. Murray’s work is held in private collections.