 |
Biography |
|
|
|
|
Sarah Morris was born in America and participated in the Whitney Independent Study Programme and divides her time between New York and London. Morris is principally a painter but she also makes films, photographs and drawings and has curated a number of exhibitions including the critically acclaimed Hospital. |
|
|
|
|
In the mid 1990s, Morris made text paintings, translating the iconic vocabulary of the media headline into visual statements in a bright pop palette. She recast the emotive power of words such as ‘insane’, ‘guilty’ and ‘liar’ in the same colour and sans serif typeface that she also used for words such as ‘Johnny’, ‘sugar’ and ‘donuts’. These text paintings evoke urban America filtered through a blank Warholian aesthetic. Her later Midtown and Neon series paintings took urban architecture as their starting point, fragmenting the facades of Manhattan skyscrapers or the anonymous hotel architecture of Las Vegas as their starting points. The paintings present graphically reduced details of the building facades as structural all-over linear grids. Whilst these paintings resonate formally with the rationalist modernist strategies running from Piet Mondrian to Peter Halley, for Morris their formal reduction is the product of a semiotically distilled reference to the urban world. Morris studied semantics at Brown University and her work is informed by an interest in signs and the de-coding of the built environment. |
|
|
|
|
In the Neon series, the grids are dramatically pushed on to the diagonal, making the images incredibly dynamic with multiple and overlapping vanishing points that seem to convey a sense of speed. The paintings are meticulously executed in gleaming household gloss paint and the reserved areas of the grids read as both the actual glazing of the building as well as compact fields of vibrant unmodulated colour. Each painting repeats particular colour modules and orchestrates their accelerated interaction in various sequences that discharge both glamour and the magnetic pull of the city with its constant circulation and neon lights. These radiant hard-edged paintings with their looming vertiginous planes that seem to be viewed from above, below and even mid-air as if flying by in a helicopter, act like stimulants conveying a filmic sense of urban spectacle. |
|
|
|
|
Morris has also made a series of portraits, abstracted and codified into flat blocks of colour. She has made two films that explore passage through the city. Her mesmeric second film AM/PM was shot on location in Las Vegas. |
|
|
|
|
Sarah Morris has had numerous group and solo exhibitions. In 2000 she has had solo shows at MOMA, Oxford, Galerie fur Zeitgennosiche Kunst, Leipzig and the Kunsthalle, Zurich. |
|
|
Exhibitions |
|
|
2008 |
|
White Cube, London (solo) |
|
|
2008 |
|
Galleria d’Arte Moderna, Bologna (solo) |
|
|
2007 |
|
Sarah Morris, Whitechapel Laboratory, London (solo) |
|
|
2007 |
|
Chinatowns, Max Hetzler Gallery, Berlin (solo) |
|
|
2007 |
|
The Towne Index, Galerie Air de Paris, Paris (solo) |
|
|
2007 |
|
Robert Towne, Ring Paintings, and Origami, Fredrich Petzel gallery, New York (solo) |
|
|
2007 |
|
When We Build, Let Us Think That We Build Forever, BALTIC The Centre for Contemporary Art, Gateshead -UK |
|
|
2007 |
|
Soufflé, eien Massenausstellung, curated by Franz West, Kunstraum, Innsbruck |
|
|
2007 |
|
Perspektiv 07, Lenbachhaus, Munich |
|
|
2007 |
|
Contemporary Galleries Collection, San Antonio Museum of Art, San Antonio |
|
|
2007 |
|
Reflection, Pinchuk Art Centre, Kiev |
|
|
2006 |
|
A Severe Insult to the Brain, Meyer Kainer gallery, Wien (solo) |
|
|
2006 |
|
Midtown, Milton Keynes gallery, London (solo) |
|
|
2006 |
|
Artist in Focus, program in conjunction with Rotterdam Film Festival, Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen, Rotterdam (solo) |
|
|
2006 |
|
Carbonic Anhydride, Galerie Max Hetzler, Berlin |
|
|
2006 |
|
Busy Going Crazy, La Maison Rouge, Paris |
|
|
2006 |
|
This is America, Centraal Museum, Utrecht |
|
|
2006 |
|
Intouchable, l’idéal transparence, curated by Guillaume Désanges et François Piron, Villa Arson, Nice |
|
|
2006 |
|
All Hawaii Entrées/Lunar Reggae, curated by Philippe Parreno, Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin |
|
|
2006 |
|
Nouvelles acquisitions, Musée d’Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris, Paris |
|
|
2005 |
|
Ambiance, K21 Kunstsammlung NRW, Düsseldorf |
|
|
2005 |
|
Big Bang, Centre Pompidou, Paris |
|
|
2005 |
|
Architecture Invisible, Centre Culturel Suisse, Paris |
|
|
2005 |
|
Present perfect, Friedrich Petzel Gallery, New York |
|
|
2005 |
|
Los Angeles, Kestner Gesellschaft, Hannover (solo) |
|
|
2005 |
|
Los Angeles, Aldrich Museum, Ridgefield, Connecticut (solo) |
|
|
2005 |
|
Endeavor, Palais de Tokyo, Paris (solo) |
|
|
2005 |
|
Los Angeles, Friedrich Petzel gallery, New York (solo) |
|
|
2005 |
|
To Film a Though in Action, Moderna Musseet, Stockholm (solo) |
|
|
2005 |
|
Los Angeles Drawings, Galerie Aurel Scheibler, Köln (solo) |
|
|
2004 |
|
'Treasure Island' Kunstmuseum Wolfsburg (group) |
|
|
2004 |
|
'Heißkalt - Sammlung Scharpff' Kunsthalle Hamburg, Staatsgalerie Stuttgart (group) |
|
|
2004 |
|
'Bar Nothing' Galerie Max Hetzler, Berlin (solo) |
|
|
2004 |
|
White Cube, London (solo) |
|
|
2003 |
|
'Lost Weekend' Friedrich Petzel Gallery, New York (solo) |
|
|
2003 |
|
'Miami - Film Installation' with Darren Almond, Paul Morrison, Craig Kalpalkjian and Haluk Akakçe (solo) |
|
|
2003 |
|
'Adorno-zum 100. Geburtstag' Kunstverein Frankfurt (group) |
|
|
2003 |
|
'Einbildung – Das Wahrnehmen in der Kunst'; steirischer herbst 2003 Kunsthaus Graz (group) |
|
|
2003 |
|
'fast forward.Media Art/ Sammlung Goetz' ZKM, Karlsruhe (group) |
|
|
2003 |
|
'New abstract painting - painting abstract now - Abstraktion in der neuen Malerei' Museum Morsbroich, Leverkusen (group) |
|
|
2003 |
|
'Architecture Schmarchitecture' Kerlin Gallery, Dublin (group) |
|
|
2003 |
|
'Painting Pictures, Painting and Media in the Digital Age' Kunstmuseum Wolfsburg, Wolfsburg (group) |
|
|
2003 |
|
'Days like These: The Tate Triennal Exhibtion of Contemporary British Art' Tate Britain, London (group) |
|
|
2003 |
|
'La Question' Magasin Centre d'art contemporain, Grenoble (group) |
|
|
2003 |
|
'Abstraction Now ' Künstlerhaus Wien (group) |
|
|
2002 |
|
Palais de Tokyo, Paris (solo) |
|
|
2002 |
|
'Capital' Site Santa Fe (solo) |
|
|
2002 |
|
'Cinecity: The Films of Sarah Morris' Hirshhorn Museum, Washington, D.C. (solo) |
|
|
2002 |
|
'Project #77' MOMA, New York (solo) |
|
|
2002 |
|
Sarah Morris, Galerie Meyer Kainer, Vienna (solo) |
|
|
2002 |
|
'At Speed' (with Darren Almond), Galerie Max Hetzler, Berlin |
|
|
2002 |
|
Public Affairs Von Beuys bis Zittel: Das Öffentliche in der Kunst Kunsthaus Zürich, Zürich (group) |
|
|
2002 |
|
Le Paysage dans l'art d'aujourd'hui Maison de la culture de Bourges, France (group) |
|
|
2002 |
|
Centre of Attraction 8th Baltic Triennial of International Art, Vilnius (group) |
|
|
2002 |
|
Dressing Down Barbican Art Gallery, London (group) |
|
|
2002 |
|
Painting on the Move Kunstmuseum Basel, Museum für Gegenwartskunst Basel, Kunsthalle Basel (group) |
|
|
2002 |
|
Ruina e Utopia Centro Cultural Banco do Brasil, Brasilia (group) |
|
|
2002 |
|
Busan Biennale Busan, Korea (group) |
|
|
2002 |
|
Rapture: Art's Seduction by Fashion since 1970 Barbican Art Gallery, London (group) |
|
|
2002 |
|
Sao Paolo Biennial, Sao Paolo (group) |
|
|
2002 |
|
Kunstnernes Hus, Oslo (group) |
|
|
2002 |
|
Urgent Painting Musee d"Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris, Paris (catalogue) |
|
|
2002 |
|
Embracing the Present: The UBS Paine Webber Art Collection The Portland Musem, Portland (group) |
|
|
2001 |
|
Das Lied von der Erde Museum Fridericianum, Kassel (group) |
|
|
2001 |
|
Berlin/Los Angeles Film Festival of Architecture and Urbanism, MAK
Center for Art and Architecture, L.A. at the Schindler House School of Architecture, University of Southern California (group) |
|
|
2001 |
|
Die Sammlung Olbricht Teil 2. Without Hesitation Gesellschartf für Aktuelle Kunst & Neues Museum Weserburg, Bremen (group) |
|
|
2001 |
|
Geometric & Gestus Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac, Salzburg (group) |
|
|
2001 |
|
Beautiful Productions. Art to play, art to wear, art to own Whitechapel, London (group) |
|
|
2001 |
|
c/o Atle Gerhardsen, Berlin (group) |
|
|
2001 |
|
Art Transplant British Consul, New York (catalogue) |
|
|
2001 |
|
Wild Walls MAK Center, Schindler House, Los Angeles (group) |
|
|
2001 |
|
Casino Stedelijk Museum Veer Actuele Kunst, Ghent (catalogue) |
|
|
2001 |
|
The Mystery of Painting Sammlung Goetz, Munich (catalogue) |
|
|
2001 |
|
Beautiful Productions Whitechapel Art Gallery, London (group) |
|
|
2001 |
|
Beau Monde: Toward a Redeemed Cosmopolitanism (curated by Dave Hickey) Site Santa Fe, Santa Fe, New Mexico (catalogue) |
|
|
2001 |
|
Hybrids International Contemporary Painting, Tate Liverpool (catalogue) |
|
|
2001 |
|
Comfort, Reclaiming Place in a Virtual World Cleveland Center for Contemporary Art, Ohio (catalogue) |
|
|
2001 |
|
A Pied D'Oeuvre Bibliotheque Nationale de France, Paris (group) |
|
|
2001 |
|
Playing Amongst the Ruins Royal College of Art, London (catalogue) |
|
|
2001 |
|
Shopping Generali Foundation, Vienna (catalogue) |
|
|
2001 |
|
'Crystal' Friedrich Petzel Gallery, New York (solo) |
|
|
2001 |
|
'Dulles' Galerie Aurel Scheibler, Cologne (solo) |
|
|
2001 |
|
'Correspondence' Nationalgalerie im Hamburger Bahnhof, Museum fur Gegenwartskunst, Berlin (catalogue) (solo) |
|
|
2000 |
|
Kunsthalle, Zürich (catalogue) (solo) |
|
|
2000 |
|
Philadelphia Museum of Art (solo) |
|
|
2000 |
|
Galerie für Zeitgenössische Kunst, Leipzig (catalogue) (solo) |
|
|
2000 |
|
'Rumjungle' White Cube, London (solo) |
|
|
2000 |
|
Hyper Mental Kunsthaus Zurich/Hamburger Kunsthalle, Berlin (group) |
|
|
2000 |
|
AM/PM Neue Nationalgalerie, Museum fur Gegenwart, Berlin (group) |
|
|
2000 |
|
Drawings and Photographs Matthew Marks Gallery, New York (group) |
|
|
2000 |
|
Project 0004 Friedrich Petzel, New York (group) |
|
|
2000 |
|
Projections FRAC Bourgogne, Dijon (group) |
|
|
2000 |
|
Glee: Painting Now
The Aldrich Museum of Contemporary Art, Ridgefield, Conneticut; Palm Beach Institute of Contemporary Art, Florida (catalogue) |
|
|
2000 |
|
Twisted: Urban and Visionary Landscapes in Contemporary Painting Van AbbeMuseum, Eindhoven (catalogue) |
|
|
2000 |
|
The Song of the Earth Museum Fridericianum, Kassel (catalogue) |
|
|
2000 |
|
Confusion Nationalgalerie im Hamburger Bahnhof, Museum für Gegenwart, Berlin (group) |
|
|
2000 |
|
What If: Art on the Verge of Architecture and Design Moderna Museet, Stockholm (catalogue) |
|
|
2000 |
|
Flakk The Nordic House, Reykjavik (catalogue) |
|
|
2000 |
|
Homes Art Gallery of Western Australia, Perth (catalogue) |
|
|
1999 |
|
This is Yesterday Centro Andaluz de Arte Contemporaneo, Spain (group) |
|
|
1999 |
|
post-hypnotic University Galleries of Illinois State University, Illinois, (catalogue) |
|
|
1999 |
|
MAC Dallas, Chicago Cultural Center (group) |
|
|
1999 |
|
Painting Lab Entwistle, London (group) |
|
|
1999 |
|
Dumbpop Jerwood Foundation, London, Leeds Metropolitan University Gallery, Leeds (group) |
|
|
1999 |
|
Friedrich Petzel Gallery, New York (solo) |
|
|
1999 |
|
Museum of Modern Art, Oxford (catalogue) |
|
|
1999 |
|
Malerei INIT Kunsthalle, Berlin (group) |
|
|
1999 |
|
Concrete Ashtray Friedrich Petzel Gallery, New York (group) |
|
|
1999 |
|
Art Lovers Liverpool Biennial, Liverpool (catalogue) |
|
|
1999 |
|
Frieze ICA Boston (catalogue) (group) |
|
|
1999 |
|
Between London and New York Taché-Lévy Gallery, Brussels (group) |
|
|
1999 |
|
Trans-Sphere FRAC Poitou-Charentes, Angoulême (group) |
|
|
1999 |
|
Le Capital Contemporary Art Center, Sete (catalogue) (group) |
|
|
1999 |
|
Tang Turner & Runyon, Dallas (group) |
|
|
1999 |
|
Plug In Salon 3, London (group) |
|
|
1999 |
|
Two Doors - True Value Mai 36/ Annemarie Verna, Zurich (group) |
|
|
1999 |
|
Aufnahmen Osterreichische Galerie Belvedere, Vienna (group) |
|
|
1998 |
|
I Love New York: Crossover der Aktuellen Kunst Museum Ludwig, Cologne (catalogue) (group) |
|
|
1998 |
|
dijon/le consortium Centres Georges Pompidou, Paris (catalogue) (group) |
|
|
1998 |
|
VideoStore!, Bricks and Kicks, Vienna (group) |
|
|
1998 |
|
Young Americans 2 Saatchi Collection, London (catalogue) (group) |
|
|
1998 |
|
Weather Everything (curated by Eric Troncy) Galerie fur Zeitgenossische Kunst Leipzig, Leipzig, Germany (catalogue) (group) |
|
|
1998 |
|
Deep Thought Basilico Fine Arts, New York (group) |
|
|
1998 |
|
La Table Air de Paris, Paris (group) |
|
|
1998 |
|
Dumbpop Jerwood Gallery,Jerwood Foundation, London (group) |
|
|
1998 |
|
Cluster Bomb Morrison Judd, London (group) |
|
|
1998 |
|
Mostrato (group) |
|
|
1998 |
|
Fuori Uso 98, Pescara, Italy (catalogue) (group) |
|
|
1998 |
|
Narrative Urge (curated by Catsou Roberts) Uppsala Konstmuseum, Sweden (group) |
|
|
1998 |
|
Galerie Max Hetzler, Berlin (solo) |
|
|
1998 |
|
Le Consortium, Centre d'Art Contemporain, Dijon (catalogue) |
|
|
1997 |
|
Hospital (organized by Sarah Morris), Galerie Max Hetzler, Berlin (catalogue) (group) |
|
|
1997 |
|
Dramatically Different (curated by Eric Troncy) Centre National D'Art Contemporain De Grenoble, Grenoble (catalogue) (group) |
|
|
1997 |
|
Group Show: Miltos Manetas, Florence Manlik, Sarah Morris, Jack Pierson, Gary Simmons, Laurie Simmons, Georgina Starr,Galerie Philippe Rizzo, Paris (group) |
|
|
1997 |
|
Posture: A Survey of Contemporary Figuration (group) |
|
|
1997 |
|
David Klein Gallery, Michigan (group) |
|
|
1997 |
|
Painting, Photography, Drawing Anton Kern Gallery, New York (group) |
|
|
1996 |
|
Found Footage Klemens Gasser and Tanya Grunert, Cologne (group) |
|
|
1996 |
|
Pop Planet Theoretical events, Naples (group) |
|
|
1996 |
|
One False Move White Cube, London (solo) |
|
|
1996 |
|
Sugar Galerie Philippe Rizzo, Paris (catalogue) |
|
|
1996 |
|
Drawings Anton Kern, New York (solo) |
|
|
1995 |
|
Group Show (organized by Jeff Koons), Nicole Klagsbrun, New York (group) |
|
|
1995 |
|
B - Movie (organized by Sarah Morris), San Francisco Art Fair, Phoenix Hotel, San Francisco (group) |
|
|
1995 |
|
More Than Real Gallery 400, School of Art and Architecture, University of Chicago (group) |
|
|
1994 |
|
Summer Group Show Nicole Klagsbrun, New York (group) |
|
|
1994 |
|
Please Don't Hurt Me Galerie Snoie, Rotterdam; Cabinet Gallery, London (catalogue) (group) |
|
|
1994 |
|
Try God Nicole Klagsburn, New York (solo) |
|
|
1993 |
|
Sarah Morris,Close-Up, New York (solo) |
|
|
1993 |
|
Lucky Kunst 2 Silver Place, London (group) |
|
|
1993 |
|
Home Alone (organized by Sarah Morris and Ricardo de Oliveira), 211 East 10, New York (group) |
|
|
1993 |
|
Evidently, 1993 Dooley Le Capellaine Gallery, New York (group) |
|
|
1993 |
|
More Than Real Gallery 400, School of Art and Architecture, University of Chicago (group) |
|
|
1992 |
|
Curio Shop Thread Waxing Space, New York (group) |
|
|
1992 |
|
CitizensKunsthall, New York (solo) |
|
|
1991 |
|
Group Show P.P.O.W., New York (group) |
|
|
1991 |
|
Group Show Postmasters Gallery, New York (group) |
|
|
1990 |
|
Series Postmasters Gallery, New York (group) |
|
|
1990 |
|
Open Studio Whitney Museum of American Art Independent Study Program, New York (group) |
|
|
Literature |
|
|
|
|
Art Lovers
Liverpool Biennial, Liverpool, 1999 |
|
|
|
|
Le Capital
Contemporary Art Center, Sete, 1999 |
|
|
|
|
Frieze
Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston, 1999 |
|
|
|
|
Post-Hypnotic
University Galleries of Illinois State University; MAC, Dallas; Chicago:Cultural Center, Chicago, 1999 |
|
|
|
|
Le Consortium, Centre d'Art Contemporain, Dijon, 1998 |
|
|
|
|
I Love New York: Crossover der Aktuellen Kunst
Museum Ludwig, Cologne, 1998 |
|
|
|
|
Dijon/Le Consortium, Centre Geroges Pompidou, Paris, 1998 |
|
|
|
|
Young Americans 2
Saatchi Collection, London, 1998 |
|
|
|
|
Weather Everything
Galerie für Zeitgenossische Kunst Leipzig, 1998 |
|
|
|
|
Mostrato F
uori Uso 98, Pescara, 1998 |
|
|
|
|
Hospital
Galerie Max Hetzler, Berlin, 1997 |
|
|
|
|
Dramatically Different
Centre National d'Art Contemporain de Grenoble, Grenoble, 1997 |
|
|
|
|
Sugar
Galerie Philippe Rizzo, Paris, 1996 |
|
|
|
|
Please Don't Hurt Me
Galerie Snoie, Rotterdam; Cabinet Gallery, London, 1994 |
|
|
|
|
Bar Nothing
Galerie Max Hetzler, Berlin 2004 |
|
|
|
|
Bar Nothing
Jay Jopling / White Cube, London 2004 |
|
|
|
|
The Mystery of Painting
Sammlung Goetz, Munich, 2001 |
|
|
|
|
Art Transplant
British Consul, New York, 2001 |
|
|
|
|
Capital
Nationalgalerie im Hamburger Bahnhof, Museum fur Gegenwart, Berlin, 2001 |
|
|
|
|
Beau Monde: Toward a Redeemed Cosmopolitanism (curated by Dave Hickey)
Site Santa Fe, Santa Fe, New Mexico, 2001 |
|
|
|
|
Hybrids: International Contemporary Painting
Tate Liverpool, 2001 |
|
|
|
|
Comfort: Reclaiming Place in a Virtual World
CCA Cleveland 2001 |
|
|
|
|
Site Santa Fe, Santa Fe, 2001 |
|
|
|
|
Playing Amongst the Ruins
Royal College of Art, London, 2001 |
|
|
|
|
Shopping
Generali Foundation, Vienna, 2001 |
|
|
|
|
Casino
Stedelijk Museum Veer Actuele Kunst, Gent, 2001 |
|
|
|
|
Kunsthalle Zurich, Zurich, 2000 |
|
|
|
|
Galerie für Zeitgenössische Kunst, Leipzig, 2000 |
|
|
|
|
Twisted: Urban and Visionary Landscapes in Contemporary Painting
Stedelijk Van Abbemuseum, Eindhoven, 2000 |
|
|
|
|
The Song of the Earth
Museum Fridericanum, Kassel, 2000 |
|
|
|
|
What If: Art on the Verge of Architechture and Design
Moderna Museet, Stockholm, 2000 |
|
|
|
|
Flakk
Nordic House, Reykjavik, 2000 |
|
|
|
|
Homes
Art Gallery of Western Australia, Perth, 2000 |
|
|
|
|
Museum of Modern Art, Oxford, 1999 |
|
|
|
|
return to artnet.com