Bill Murphy was born 1946 in Hartford, Connecticut, USA and raised on the East Coast. Murphy has studied art at the University of Massachusetts and at community colleges in California and Hawaii. For him, learning is an ongoing process, the product of daily experience and years of practice. Murphy served in the US Army as a Green Beret officer in the 70's. He has lived in Central America, Europe, Ukraine, the Northeast US, California and Hawaii. Murphy has traveled extensively. Today, Murphy works from a studio in the USA. He began signing his work i. Murphy in the year 2000.

He moved to Ercé-en-Lamée, France from California in the spring of 1999 and remained there until the beginning of 2003 when he returned to the USA. In 2000-1, Murphy traveled to Eastern Europe and the Mideast. He spent a year in Ukraine meeting artists in Kiev, Lviv, Lugansk and Yalta. Presently, Murphy is working on two film projects, one a collaborative film, Project W from Moscow.

Murphy has displayed his works at festivals in Laguna Beach and at the Scottsdale Celebration of Fine Art in Arizona. His work is displayed in several museums in USA and Europe. Murphy has exhibited his work at art galleries in New York, Massachusetts and California. His work has been registered in Los Angeles, NYC and Hartford, CT. His painting and sculptures were accepted in the 1999 City of Los Angeles Juried Art Show. Murphy is listed with the International Registry of Art and Artists, a Getty Foundation-sourced artists' database. He has appeared on ABC and NBC; his works have appeared in several national publications, including Maxim Magazine. He is an art and design consultant and has participated in the implementation of important digital color assurance technology for the Internet.

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