Selected Shows & Screenings
Screen Portraits 2, Whitechapel Gallery, 2026
123movies, 243 Luz, Margate, 2026
The Shoe Museum, Outhouse Gallery, London, 2024
Principal Boy, Focal Point Gallery, Southend, 2024 (solo)
Poppets + Laindon, Turner Contemporary, Margate, 2023
KinoKraat, Nicole, Amsterdam, 2022
Precarious Straits, TOMA project space, Southend, 2021
New Moving Image, Caraboo Projects, Bristol, 2021
Club de Femmes, Rio Cinema, 2021
Mascara Film Club, London, 2021
QueerCircles TV, 2020
24 hours Bent (after Derek Jarman), SAFA, London, 2020
Maz, externalpages, 2019 (solo)
New Town Sounds, Towngate Theatre, Basildon, 2019
Lavender Lounge, London, 2019
Artists' Film Club, ICA, London, 2018
CAMPerVAN, Art Licks Weekend, 2018
FOff, Limbo Limbo, London, 2018
Womxn in Film 2018, Genesis Cinema, London, 2018
EYECATCHER, Focal Point Gallery, Southend, 2017
Playback Festival, touring various venues, 2017
Panorama, University of Guadalajara, Guadalajara, 2015
Look Fine on the Picket Line, Temporary Arts Project, 2014 (solo)
Education
Chelsea College of Arts, BA Fine Art, 2017
Press
States of Being - Grace Byron & Charlie Markbreiter
The Melodrama of Maz Murray, Juliet Jacques, Frieze, 2024
The White Pube: What I Saw This Week
Laindon review, Club de Femmes shorts programme
FINDING SUBURBAN QUEERNESS IN ESSEX, Martin Essemann, AICA, 2021
Commissions
Tender Living Artist Moving Image, Studio Voltaire, 2026
BFI Network, Short Film Fund, 2022-23
Desperate Living, Studio Voltaire, 2020-2022
ICA Artist Film Commission, 2018
Stop Play Record – short film commission in association with ICA, Channel 4 and Dazed & Confused, 2016-2017
Awards
Holder Prize 2026
LOEWE x Studio Voltaire Studio Award 2023-25
Residencies
Studio 459, Tomar, Portugal, 2023
UKNA The Coast is Queer, Blackpool, 2021
Metal Southend Remote Residency, 2021
The Other MA x Southend Festival Artist Residency 2018
Estuary Fringe Festival Artist in Residence, Southend, 2017
Panorama, University of Guadalajara, Guadalajara, 2015
Publications
CLOWNS anthology, Cipher Press, 2026
Jaw Filler, Montez Press, 2025
The Bittersweet Review, 2023
Parody, Sticky Fingers, 2022
RAT zine, 2022
Archiving Joy, Grrl Zine, 2022
Chump Change, Unbound Books, 2020
Interjection Calendar, Montez Press, 2020
Extraordinary Acts, 2020
Basildon Tenant’s Handbook, Essex Cultural Diversity Project commission, 2019
Maz Murray (b. 1995, Basildon ) uses satire, surrealism and melodrama to talk about queer and trans identity, class, and the complexities of public life.