Chad Murray is a Vancouver-based painter, sculptor and installation artist. His work is infused with humour and he recently crowdfunded a skydiving trip to inspire a series of skydiving paintings. He has shown locally and internationally in a number of group and solo exhibitions. Murray was also the winner of the 2014 Frontlines Competition for emerging artists. He is also one of the founding members of Sunset Terrace, an innovative art collective and gallery located in East Vancouver.

While Murray thinks the idea of slowness is often romanticized — like in his hometown of Chilliwack, B.C., where he says the small town aesthetic is used as "a way to sell condos" — painting and making art allows him to find a sense of calm that feels more genuine.

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