Daria Murphy

Daria Murphy is a Canadian craft historian and PhD student at Queen’s University in Kingston, ON. Her doctoral research examines skill acquisition and knowledge exchange in ceramic programs in East Asia at the turn of the twentieth century. Her doctoral research is funded by the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada (SSHRC) and the Tanaka Fund from Universities Canada. In 2024, she was the curator of Liu Shiming: Spirit of Daily Life at the Isabel Bader Centre in Kingston, ON. She was the inaugural 2024 Liu Shiming Research Fellow at the Liu Shiming Art Foundation archive in Beijing, where she investigated Liu Shiming’s informal teaching with clay at the Central Academy of Fine Arts in Beijing during the 1980s and 1990s. Daria has served as the Guest Editor for Ornamentum magazine’s fall/winter 2024 issue titled Activating the Senses, as a 2023 Research Fellow for the Global Legacies of Arts and Crafts project, and, in 2022, as the Mimi Fullerton Intern for Global Fashion and Textiles at the Royal Ontario Museum for the forthcoming exhibition Indian Ocean: Monsoon Worlds.