Experience

Education

2009 B.A. Interdisciplinary Arts & Sciences, University of Washington Tacoma

Exhibitions

2026

Creatures Among Us, Vashon Center for the Arts, Vashon Island

Mary Bridge Children's Hospital permanent collection

2025

GRIT group show with Shutter and Light Co., Manuscript, Tacoma

Resistance and Resilience, Global Nurses Solidarity Assembly, San Francisco and Oakland

2024

Matriarch, Washington State History Museum, Tacoma

Matriarch, Tacoma Public Library Moore Branch, Tacoma

2023

Community and Spaces, Kaleidoscope opening of Tacoma Arts Month, STAR Center, Tacoma

Honor: People and Salmon, University of Puget Sound’s Kittredge Gallery, Tacoma

The First 50 Years of the Seattle Civic Art Collection, Arts at King Street Station, Seattle

2022

iJusticia!: Social Justice, Nepantla Cultural Art Gallery, Seattle

A Clearer View: The Last Days of the Alaskan Way Viaduct, Arts at King Street Station, Seattle

Indigenous Artists of the Americas, City of Seattle's Civic Art Collection

Central Waterfront Alaskan Way Viaduct Photography Purchase, City of Seattle's Civic Art Collection

2021

Modern Margins: An Exploration on Gender, Alma Mater, Tacoma

Submergence, Jack Straw New Media Gallery, Seattle

2019

Tacoma Studio Tours, Tacoma

Yəhaw̓ Show, Arts at King Street Station, Seattle

2018

Tacoma Studio Tours, Tacoma

Awards and Recognitions

2025

Artscapes Roster Artist, Spaceworks Tacoma

Change Leader Institute, ArtsWA

Indigenous Creatives Collective Roster Artist

ArtsWA Roster Artist

City of Seattle Roster Artist

Rauschenberg Medical Emergency Grants, New York Foundation for the Arts

Amocat arts awards nominee

2024

South Sound Business 40 Under 40 Honoree

City of Seattle Public Artist Roster

Yəhaw̓ Public Artist Roster

2023

Tacoma Artists Initiative Program grant recipient

ArtsWA Public Artist Roster

2020

Guest artist on hitRECord's Live Labs with Joseph Gordon-Levitt at Sundance Film Festival

Emmy award in Outstanding Creative Achievement in Interactive Media in the category of Social TV Experience

2019

Featured image curator on hitRECord.org

Publications

2025

Kresge, Joanna. “Wayzgoose Tacoma Just Keeps (Steam) Rolling On”. South Sound Magazine. 28 April, 2025

2024

“Meet Roxann Murray”. Bold Journey. 17 December 2024.

Battersby, Burl. Voices of Tacoma: a Gathering of Poets. Tacoma: Blue Cactus Press, 2024.

Kresge, Joanna. “40 Under 40: 2024.” South Sound Business. 1 June 2024.

“The Matriarch Project.” CityLine. 12 TV Tacoma. 2 May 2024.

“The Healing Power of Matriarchs.” Yes! Magazine. 22 April 2024

Rector, Tracy. “Matriarch photography exhibition at History Museum.” Tacoma Weekly. 13 February 2024.

Wylie-Eggert, Lucia. “Will These Bones Live? Collective Hopes for the Future.” Geez Magazine. Winter 2024.

2022

Miller, Madison. “The List". South Sound Magazine. March/April 2022.

2021

Gordon-Levitt, Joseph. Create Together: Season 2, hitRECord/YouTube, 2021.

Chatwin Books. Viral Murals: Seattle artists, storefront murals, and the power of art during crisis. Chatwin Books, 2021.

2020

Weaver, Jennifer. "Actor, filmmaker Joseph Gordon-Levitt seeks photos of Utah." 2KUTV, 7 Sept 2020.

Gordon-Levitt, Joseph. The Art of Breaking Up. hitRECord.org. New York: Harper Collins, 2020.

2019

Sillman, Marcie. “Elk and the Big Dipper." Indigenous artists lift the sky at a new Seattle gallery. KUOW. 21 March 2019.

Indigenous Showcase. Yəhaw̓ Zine. Seattle: Paper Press Punch, 2019

2018

Nauman, Talli. “Record number of Indian women running for office.” Native Sun News Today, 4 April 2018.

2017

“Puyallup tribal members want justice for the police killing of Jackie Salyers”. Bound (music video). Champagne Sunday, 2017.

2016

Gordon-Levitt, Joseph. “Frozen Water". The Patterns Book. hitRECord, 2016.

Roxann delivers photographic prints to the City of Seattle's Department of Arts and Culture