Tracy Murrell is a visual artist, art consultant, and curator. A graduate of Centenary College, Murrell served as resident curator for Hammonds House Museum; curated "The Soul of Philanthropy" exhibitions in Atlanta and Charlotte; the traveling exhibition for the "Gone Home: Race and Roots through Appalachia project" and "Black Money: The Exhibit". Atlanta Magazine voted Murrell “Rising Curator” in its 2017 Best of ATL issue.
Murrell has exhibited in numerous group, solo, and juried exhibitions and her work has been featured in art publications including Create! Magazine, ArtVoices Magazine, Studio Visit Magazine, New American Paintings, and Atlanta Magazine's Home. Her painting “Walk Alone | We Will Follow” was selected for the cover of "Witnessing Girlhood Toward An Intersectional Tradition of Life Writing" by Fordham University Press. In 2020, Georgia Tech University unveiled two paintings by Murrell commissioned by the Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority for the Dorothy M. Crosland Tower library. In 2021, Microsoft acquired 4 works from the Sumaya series for its new office in Atlantic Yards, Atlanta, GA; and FrameBridge selected 2 works from the Torchy series for The Black Artists Print Shop.
Murrell has been awarded artist's residencies at The Hambidge Center for the Arts in Rabun Gap, Georgia; Atlanta Printmakers Studio in Atlanta, Georgia; Atlanta Contemporary Art Center's Nexus Fund; and Green Olive Arts in Tetouan, Morocco. Recently she was awarded a Brown University's Center for the Study of Race and Ethnicity in America (CSREA) Practitioner Fellowship for Spring 2022.
Currently, she is working on her first museum solo exhibition, "Dans l'espoir d'un Avenir Meilleur (In Hope for a Better Future) ... Exploring Haitian Migration" opening in 2022 at Hammonds House Museum. With funding from the National Performance Network, Murrell has been commissioned to explore contemporary Haitian migration and produce new artistic works with the intention of offering a counter-narrative to the immigration story and bringing to light the universality of migration as a shared experience through the female lens.