Keavy Murphree is a Nashville-based sculptor and ceramic artist whose work explores identity, perception, emotional expression, and human connection through playful, highly stylized forms. Drawing from a background in industrial design, Murphree creates sculptural works that balance whimsy with restraint, combining organic shapes, graphic composition, texture, and simplified figurative elements into pieces that feel both contemporary and personal.

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Working across ceramic, mixed media, and large-scale installation. Her sculptures examine how emotion, identity, and perception can feel both intimate and universally understood. Faces, body forms, gestures, and modular compositions appear throughout her work as a way of exploring how people see themselves and one another. Influenced by folk art, ancient sculpture, psychology, and modern design, her work often invites viewers to project their own narratives, relationships, and emotions onto the forms she creates.

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In recent years, Murphree has expanded her practice into large-scale public art and interactive installation. Her award-winning public works encourage participation, thoughtful contemplation, and communal engagement, transforming viewers from passive observers into collaborators within the work itself. These projects explore themes of transformation, shared identity, and collective storytelling through tactile interaction, movement, and reconfiguration.

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Before establishing her studio practice, Murphree spent more than a decade working in industrial design and product development, an experience that continues to inform her sensitivity to proportion, material, spatial balance, and user interaction. Though rooted in ceramics, her work increasingly moves fluidly between fine art, functional object, furniture, and immersive public installation.

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Murphree’s work has been featured in LUXE Interiors & Design, Nashville PBS, Nashville Interiors, StyleBlueprint, and other publications. She has received recognition for her public art installations through Nashville’s Artville festival, where her large-scale interactive sculptures were awarded for community engagement and public impact. She lives and works in Nashville, Tennessee.