JL Murtaugh (Liam)

JL MURTAUGH (Liam) is the curator of residencies and public programmes at the Rupert Centre for Art, Residencies, and Education. An artist, curator, writer, and consultant originally from Chicago, he is now based in Vilnius.

Recent projects with Rupert include Wherever we are We are what is missing (with Goda Palekaitė), Redux codex, Earth Bonds II (with Viktorija Šiaulytė), Mutual Empathies (with Goethe-Institut Vilnius and Akademie der Künste der Welt, Cologne (DE)), and the Articulations programming series.

Since 2014, he has also organised more than sixty international projects under the alias of Syndicate, a liquid, nomadic contemporary art platform. Formerly headquartered in London, Cologne, and Los Angeles, Syndicate produces exhibitions, events, and publications with its long-term collaborators throughout Europe and North America. Liam was formerly the artistic director of Autarkia, Vilnius from 2020-23, and director of Tenderpixel, London from 2012-14.