Sarah Morris

 

Selected Works
Biography
Exhibitions


BIOGRAPHY


1967  Born in UK (American)
1985–1989  Brown University, B.A
1989–1990  Whitney Museum of American Art Independent Study Program
1999–2000  American Academy – Philip Morris Award, Berlin Prize Fellow.
2001–2002  Joan Mitchell Painting Award
Currently lives and works in London and New York

 

Solo Exhibitions

 

2010
It's All True, Galerie Meyer Kainer, Vienna.

 

2009
General Control, Friedrich Petzel Gallery, New York.
Gemini Dressage, Museum für Moderne Kunst, Frankfurt am Main.
China 9, Liberty 37, Istituzione Galleria d'Arte Moderna di Bologna / GAM, Bologna.

 

2008
Sarah Morris, Beyeler Foundation, Basel.
1972, Städtische Galerie im Lenbachhaus, Munich.
Lesser Panda, White Cube, London.

 

2007
Chinatowns, Galerie Max Hetzler, Berlin.
Sarah Morris, Whitechapel Laboratory, London.
The Towne Index, Air de Paris, Paris.
Robert Towne, Ring Paintings, and Origami, Friedrich Petzel Gallery, New York.

 

2006
Monaco Reflecting Pools, Civic Centre Oval, Village of Key Biscayne.
Sarah Morris, Robert Towne at Lever House, Public Art Fund, New York.
A Severe Insult to the Brain, Galerie Meyer Kainer, Vienna.
Sarah Morris – Artist in Focus, Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen, Rotterdam.

 

2005
The 1st At Moderna, Moderna Museet, Sweden.
Endeavor (Los Angeles), Palais De Tokyo, Paris.
Los Angeles, Kestner Gesellschaft, Hannover.
Los Angeles Drawings, Galerie Aurel Scheibler, Cologne.
Sarah Morris, Friedrich Petzel Gallery, New York.

 

2004
If Direction, If A Look, Javier Lopez, Madrid.
Bar Nothing, Galerie Max Hetzler, Berlin.
Los Angeles, White Cube, London.
Sarah Morris, Kunstforeningen, Copenhagen.

 

2003
Lost Weekend, Friedrich Petzel Gallery, New York.
Orchid Lounge, Air de Paris, Paris.

 

2002
Sarah Morris, Miami MOCA, Miami.
Capital, Site Santa Fe, Santa Fe.
Cinecity: The Films of Sarah Morris, Hirshhorn Museum, Washington, D.C.
Rock Creek, Galerie Meyer Kainer, Vienna.
At Speed, Galerie Max Hetzler, Berlin.

 

2001
Crystal, Friedrich Petzel Gallery, New York.
Dulles, Galerie Aurel Scheibler, Cologne.
Correspondence, Nationalgalerie im Hamburger Bahnhof, Museum für Gegenwart, Berlin.

 

2000
Rumjungle, White Cube², London.
Sarah Morris, Kunsthalle Zürich, Zurich.
Sarah Morris, Galerie für Zeitgenössische, Leipzig.
Sarah Morris, Philadelphia Museum of Art, Pennsylvania.

 

1999
Sarah Morris, Friedrich Petzel Gallery, New York.
Sarah Morris, Museum of Modern Art, Oxford.

 

1998
Sarah Morris, Galerie Max Hetzler, Berlin.
Sarah Morris, Le Consortium, Centre d'Art Contemporain, Dijon.

 

1996
Sugar, Gallery Philippe Rizzo, Paris.
Sarah Morris: Drawings, Anton Kern Gallery, New York.
One False Move, White Cube, London.

 

1994
Try God, Nicole Klagsbrun, New York.

 

1993
Sarah Morris, Close–Up, New York.

 

1992
Citizens, Kunsthall, New York.

 

 

Group Exhibitions

 

2010
Contemplating the Void, Guggenheim, New York.

 

2009
Morality: Act I: Beautiful from Every Point of View , Witte de With, Rotterdam.
15 Years of Collecting: Against the Grain, Kunstmuseum Wolfsburg, Wolfsburg.
Supernova, Glynn Vivian Gallery, Swansea.
The Power of Ornament, Belvedere, Vienna.
Invisible Cities, Jerwood Space, London.
The Kaleidoscopic Eye. Thyssen–Bornemisza Art Contemporary Collection, Mori Art Museum, Tokyo.

 

2008
Pintura Abstracta, Galeria Javier López, Madrid.
Peter Saville Accessories to an Artwork, Paul Stolper, London.
Always There. Part 1, Galerie Max Hetzler, Berlin.
Not So Subtle Subtitle, Casey Kaplan Gallery, New York.
Art Is For The Spirit: Works From the UBS Art Collection, Mori Art Museum, Tokyo.
Delirious Beijing, PKM GALLERY – Beijing, Beijing.
Bad Planet, Gary Tatintsian Gallery Inc, Moscow, Russia.

 

2007
Tomorrow, Kumho Museum of Art, Seoul.
Everstill, Philip De Lorca House, Granada.
What is Painting?, Museum Of Modern Art, New York.
Rockers Island: Olbricht Collection, Museum Folkwang, Essen, Germany.
Out of Time: A Contemporary View, Museum of Modern Art, New York.
Permanent Collection, Tate Modern, London.
Scape, Mongin Art Center, Seoul.
Contemporary Galleries Collection, San Antonio Museum of Art, San Antonio.
Create Your Own Museum, Gary Tatintsian Gallery, Inc., Moscow.
MAM Collectors Council Acquisitions, New Work Gallery, Miami.
An Exhibition From the Collection, Galerie für Zeitgenössische Kunst Leipzig.
Untitled, Whitechapel Gallery, London.
Perspektive 07, Lenbachhaus, Munich.
Door Cycle, Friedrich Petzel Gallery, New York.
New York: State of Mind, Haus der Kulturen der Welt, Berlin.
An Incomplete World: Works from the UBS Art Collection, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney.
Shapes of Space, Guggenheim Museum, New York.
Very Abstract and Hyper Figurative, Thomas Dane, London.
Mapping the City, Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam.
Abstraction: extracting from the world, Sheffield Galleries & Museums Trust, Sheffield.

 

2006
All Hawaii entrées ⁄ Lunar Reggae, Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin.
This is America, Centraal Museum, Utrecht.
Utopia⁄Dystopia, Bangkok International Art Festival,Chulalongkorn University Gallery, Bangkok.
Nach Rokytnik, Museum Moderner Kunst Stiftung Ludwig Wien, Vienna.
Stage of Life – Rhetorics of Emotion, Lenbachhaus, Munich.
New Order, Haus Konstruktiv, Zurich.
Modern Times, Museo d'Arte Provincia di Nuoro, Italy.

 

2005
11th Biennale of Moving Images, Centre pour l'Image Contemporaine, Geneva.
On Both Sides of the Rhine#150;Ambiance, K21, Dusseldorf.
Superstar! The Celebrity Factor. From Warhol to Madonna, Kunsthalle Wien, Vienna.
Extreme Abstraction, Albright Knox Gallery, Buffalo, New York.
Summer Exhibition 2005, Royal Academy, London.
Vanishing Point, Wexner Centre for the Arts, Columbus, Ohio.
Populism, Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam ⁄ Frankfurter Kunstverein, Frankfurt.
Supernova, Bunkier Sztuki, Krakow; Tallinn Kunstihoone, Estonia; CAC, Vilnius; City Gallery, Prague; Jan Koniarek Gallery, Trnava.
Critic's Choice, FACT, Liverpool.
Contemporary Voices: Works from the UBS Art Collection, MOMA, New York.
Present Perfect, Friedrich Petzel Gallery, New York.
La Perspective Du Cavalier, Parc Saint Legér Centre D'Art Contemporain, Pougues–les–Eaux.

 

2004
Bazar de Verão, Galeria Fortes Vilaça, São Paulo.
Vision Einer Sammlung, Museum der Moderne, Salzburg.
Somewhere, Everywhere, Nowhere, The Fruitmarket Gallery, Edinburgh / DCA, Dundee.
3, Schirn Kunsthalle, Frankfurt ⁄ Centro Galego de Arte Contemporanea, Santiago de Compostela.
Treasure Island, 10 Jahre Sammlung Kunstmuseum Wolfsburg, Wolfsburg.
In Print: Contemporary British Art from the Paragon Press, Singapore Tyler Print Institute, Singapore.
One Channel Only, The Contemporary Art Galleries, University of Connecticut, Storrs.

 

2003
A Nova Geometria, Galeria Fortes Vilaça, São Paulo.
Adorno, Kunstverein Frankfurter, Frankfurt.
Imagination. Perception in Art, Kunsthaus Graz, Graz.
Hotel Hotel, Landesgalerie, Linz.
Urban Dramas, deSingel, International Arts Centre, Antwerp.
Fast Forward – Media Art, ZKM, Karlsruhe.
Sodium Dreams, Center for Curatorial Studies Museum, Bard College, Annandale–on–Hudson, New York.
Coollustre, Collection Lambert en Avignon, Avignon.
Architecture Schmarchitecture, Kerlin Gallery, Dublin.
Go to the gallery, Platform for Art, London Underground, London.
Nation, Frankfurter Kunstverein, Frankfurt.
Heisskalt, Hamburger Kunsthalle, Hamburg ⁄ Staatsgalerie, Stuttgart.
3–D, Friedrich Petzel Gallery, New York.
Open Art At Regent's Place, British Land, London.
Up to Now: Treasures from the Collection, Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam.
Berlin 1994–2003, Galerie Max Hetzler, Berlin.
Painting Pictures, Painting and Media in the Digital Age, Kunstmuseum Wolfsburg, Wolfsburg.
Days Like These: The Tate Triennial Exhibition of Contemporary British Art, Tate Britain, London.
Site Specific, MCA, Chicago.
Form–Specific, Moderna Galerija Ljubljana, Slovenia.
New Abstract Painting, Museum Morsbroich, Leverkusen.
In Print: Contemporary British Art from the Paragon Press, International Graphic Arts Centre, Ljubljana; Hakodate Museum, Hakodate; Marugame Museum of Contemporary Art, Marugame.
Question, Magasin Centre National d'art Contemporain, Grenoble.

 

2002
Premio Bella Incisione, Biella Print Biennale, Biella.
Le Paysage dans L'Art D'Aujourd'Hui, La Maison de la Culture de Bourges, Bourges.
Culture meets culture, Busan Biennale 2002, Busan.
Iconografias Metropolitanas, 25th São Paulo Biennal, Centro Cultural Banco do Brasil, São Paulo.
Rapture: Art's Seduction by Fashion since 1970, Barbican Art Gallery, London.
Centre of Attraction, 8th Baltic Triennial of International Art, Vilnius, Lithuania.
Thinknot, Christopher Farr Gallery, London.
Embracing the Present: The UBS Paine Webber Art Collection, The Portland Art Museum, Portland, Oregon.
Public Affairs. Von Beuys bis Zittel: Das Öffentliche in der Kunst, Kunsthaus Zürich, Zurich.
Ruina e Utopia, Centro Cultural Banco do Brasil, Brasil.
Minimalism and After, Sammlung Daimler Chrysler, Berlin.
Video Works. International Video Art, Kunstnerneshus, Oslo.
Supernova. Art of the Nineties from the Logan Collection, San Francisco MOMA, San Francisco.
Quivid, Demokratie als Auftraggeber ⁄ Kunstwettbewerbe der Landeshauptstadt München, Munich.
Projects 77, The Museum of Modern Art, New York.
Dressing Down, Barbican Art Gallery, London and Kunsterne Hus, Oslo.
In Print: Contemporary British Art from the Paragon Press, Art Pavilion Cvijeta Zuzoric, Belgrade; Museum of Fine Arts, Yaroslavl; The Urals Museum of Youth, Yekaterinburg; Centre of Graphics and Printmaking and Akhmatova Museum, St. Petersburg; Fine Art Gallery, Novosibirsk; Musuem of Art, Tel–Aviv.
Painting on the Move, Kunstmuseum Basel, Kunsthalle Basel & Museum für Gegenwartskunst Basel.
Urgent Painting, ARC Musée d'Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris, Paris.

 

2001
Complementary Studies. Recent Abstract Painting, Harris Museum and Art Gallery, Preston.
Wild Walls: 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, California.
Casino 2001 (curated by Jeanne Greenberg Rohatyn), Stedelijk Museum Veer Actuele Kunste, Gent.
Geometric & Gestus, Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac, Salzburg.
Beau Monde: Towards a Redeemed Cosmopolitanism. Fourth International Biennale (curated by David Hickey), SITE Santa Fe, New Mexico.
Beautiful Productions, Whitechapel Art Gallery, London.
Hybrids, International Contemporary Painting, Tate Liverpool, Liverpool.
Comfort: Reclaiming Place in a Virtual World, Cleveland Center for Contemporary Art, Ohio.
Playing Amongst the Ruins, Royal College of Art Galleries, London.
Die Sammlung Olbricht Teil 2. Without Hesitation, Gesellschaft für Aktuelle Kunst & Neues Museum Weserburg, Bremen.
A pied d'oeuvre, Bibliothéque National de France, Paris.
Shopping, Generali Foundation, Vienna.
The Mystery of Painting, Sammlung Goetz, Munich.
Art Transplant, British Consulate, New York.

 

2000
Drawings and Photographs, Matthew Marks Gallery, New York.
Twisted, Urban and Visionary Landscapes in Contemporary Painting, Stedelijk vanAbbeMuseum, Eindhoven.
British Short Film festival, UCI Cinema, Leicester Square, London.
Das Lied von der Erde, Museum Fridericianum, Kassel.
Zeitgenossen⁄Contemporarians: Malerei⁄Paintings, Galerie Editions Kunsthandel GmbH, Essen.
Girlfriend, Galerie für Zeitgenössische Kunst, Leipzig.
Flakk, Nordic House, Rekjavik.
Public Culture, Private Nature, Sommer Contemporary Art, Tel–Aviv.
Confusion, Neue Nationalgalerie im Hamburger Bahnhof, Museum für Gegenwart, Berlin.
AM ⁄ PM, Neue National Galerie im Hamburger Bahnhof, Berlin.
What If: Art on The Verge of Architecture and Design, Moderna Museet, Stockholm.
Home, Art Gallery of Western Australia, Perth Cultural Centre, Perth.
Landels⁄Zanotta, Galerie für Zeitgenössische Kunst, Leipzig.
Glee: Painting Now, Aldrich Museum of Contemporary Art, Ridgefield, Connecticut.
Project 0004, Friedrich Petzel Gallery, New York.
The Song of the Earth, Museum Fridericianum, Kassel.
Projections, Museum Fridericanum, Kassel.
Projection, FRAC Bourgogne, Dijon.

 

1999
Sans Reserve 1, Musée d'Art Moderne et Contemporain, Strasbourg.
Between London and New York, Taché–Lévy Gallery, Brussels.
Le Capital, Contemporary Art Centre, Sete.
Malerie, INIT Kunsthalle, Berlin.
Tang, Turner & Runyon, Dallas.
Plug In, Salon 3, London.
Aufnahmen, Österreichische Galerie Belvedere, Vienna.
Trans–sphere, FRAC Poitou–Charentes, Angoulême.
Two Doors – True Value, Annemarie Verna Galerie, Zurich.
Art Lovers, Liverpool Biennial, Compton House, Liverpool.
This is Yesterday, Centro Andaluz de Arte Contemporaneo, Seville.
Fotografische Recherchen in der Stadt, Österreichische Galerie Belvedere, Vienna.
Concrete Ashtray, Friedrich Petzel Gallery, New York.
Painting Lab, Entwistle, London.
Frieze, Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston.
Post–hypnotic, University Galleries, Illinois State University, Illinois ⁄ MAC, Dallas ⁄ Chicago Cultural Center and Atlanta College of Art Gallery, Atlanta.

 

1998
Cluster Bomb, Morrison Judd, London.
Dumbpop, Jerwood Gallery, Jerwood Foundation, London; Leeds Metropolitan University Gallery, Leeds.
Dijon⁄Le Consortium, Centres Georges Pompidou, Paris.
I Love New York: Corssover der aktuellen Kunst, Museum Ludwig, Cologne.
VideoStore!, Bricks and Kicks, Vienna.
Deep Thought, Basilico Fine Arts, New York.
Young Americans 2, Saatchi Gallery, London.
Weather Everything (curated by Eric Troncy), Galerie für Zeitgenössische Kunst Leipzig, Leipzig.
La Table, Air de Paris, Paris.
Mostrato, Fuori Uso 98, Pescara.
Narrative Urge (curated by Catsou Roberts), Uppsala Konstmuseum, Uppsala.

 

1997
Hospital (curated by Sarah Morris), Galerie Max Hetzler, Berlin.
Dramatically Different (curated by Eric Troncy), Centre National d'Art Contemporain de Grenoble, Grenoble .
Group show: Miltos Manetas, Florence Manlik, Sarah Morris, Jack Pierson, Gary Simmons, Laurie Simmons, Georgina Starr, Galerie Philippe Rizzo, Paris.
Posture: A Survey of Contemporary Figuration, David Klein Gallery, Michigan.
Painting, Photography, Drawing, Anton Kern Gallery, New York.

 

1996
Found Footage, Klemens Gasser & Tanja Grunert, Cologne.
Pop Planet, Theoretical Events, Naples.

 

1995
Group show (curated by Jeff Koons), Nicole Klagsbrun, New York.
B–Movie (curated by Sarah Morris), San Francisco Art Fair, Phoenix Hotel, San Francisco.
More Than Real, Gallery 400, School of Art and Architecture, University of Chicago, Chicago.

 

1994
Summer Group Show, Nicole Klagsbrun, New York.
Please Don't Hurt Me, Galerie Snoie (Rotterdam) ⁄ Cabinet Gallery, London.

 

1993
Lucky Kunst, Silver Place, London.
Home Alone (curated by Sarah Morris and Ricardo de Oliveira), 211 East 10, New York.
Evidently 1993, Dooley Le Capellaine Gallery, New York.
I Am the Annuniciator, Thread Waxing Space, New York.

 

1992
Curio Shop, Thread Waxing Space, New York.

 

1991
Group show, P.P.O.W, New York.
Group show, Postmasters Gallery, New York.

 

1990
Series, Postmasters Gallery, New York.
Open Studio, Whitney Museum of Art Independent Study Program, New York.

 

 

Public Film Screenings

 

2007
Robert Towne, Whitechapel Gallery, London.
International Film Festival, Rotterdam.

 

2006
Screening of Los Angeles, Impakt Foundation, Utrecht.
Prospectif cinéma 2006, Centre Pompidou, Paris.
Sunday Film Screenings. Sarah Morris: Midtown, Milton Keynes Gallery.
Videoex Festival, Kunstraum Walcheturm, Zurich.
La Casa Encendida, Madrid.

 

2005
Time and Place, Bloomberg Space, London.
Los Angeles: A Film by Sarah Morris, CAA 9830 Wilshire Boulevard, Los Angeles.

 

2004
Films by Sarah Morris, NFT, London.
Los Angeles, Anthology Film Archives, New York.
Sarah Morris: A Survey of Film Projects, Ballroom Marfa, Texas.
Treasure Island, 10 Jahre Sammlung Kunstmuseum Wolfsburg, Wolfsburg.
Landsgalerie, Linz.
Los Angeles, Prince Charles Cinema, London.

 

2003
Sodium Dreams, Center for Curatorial Studies, Bard College, Annandale–on–Hudson, New York ⁄ Museum of Modern Art, New York.
Mediascape, Museum of Modern Art, Grammercy Theater, New York.
Question, Magasin – Centre National d'Art Contemporain, Grenoble.
Urban Dramas, deSingel, International Art Centre, Antwerp.
Form-Specific, Moderna Galerija, Ljubljana.
Days like These. The Tate Triennial Exhibition of Contemporary British Art 2003, Tate Britain, London.
Painting Pictures: Painting and Media in the Digital Age, Kunstmuseum Wolfsburg, Wolfsburg.

 

2002
Sarah Morris, Miami MOCA, Miami.
Capital, Site Santa Fe, Santa Fe.
Cinecity: The Films of Sarah Morris, Hirshhorn Museum, Washington D.C.
Paysage dans L'Art D'Aujourd'Hui, La Maison de la Culture de Bourges, Bourges.
Public Affairs, Zürich Kunsthaus, Zurich.
Painting on the Move, Kunsthalle Basel, Basel.
São Paulo Biennial, São Paulo, Brazil.
Kunstnernes Hus, Oslo.
Urgent Painting, ARC Musée d'Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris, Paris.

 

2001
Correspondence, Neue Nationalgalerie im Hamburger Bahnhof, Berlin.
Wild Walls, MAK Center, Schindler House, Los Angeles.
Casino 2001, Stedelijk Museum Veer Actuele Kunst, Ghent.
The Mystery of Painting, Sammlung Goetz, Munich.
Hybrids, International Contemporary Painting, Tate Liverpool, Liverpool.
Comfort, Reclaiming Place in a Virtual World, Cleveland Center for Contemporary Art, Ohio.
Playing Amongst the Ruins, Royal College of Art Galleries, London.

 

2000
Sarah Morris, Kunsthalle Zürich, Zurich.
AM ⁄ PM, Zurich Kosmos Building, Vienna.
Sarah Morris: In the Video Gallery, Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia.
Sarah Morris, Galerie für Zeitgenössische Kunst, Leipzig.
AM ⁄ PM, Neue Nationalgalerie im Hamburger Bahnhof, Berlin.
The Song of the Earth, Museum Fridericianum, Kassel.
Projections, FRAC Bourgogne, Dijon.
What If: Art on the Verge of Architecture and Design, Moderna Museet, Stockholm.
Flakk, Nordic House, Reyjavik.
Home, Art Gallery of Western Australia, Perth Cultural Centre, Perth.

 

1999
Sarah Morris, Museum of Modern Art, Oxford.
Le Capital, Contemporary Art Center, Sete.
Aufnahmen, Österreichische Galerie Belvedere, Vienna.

 

1998
I Love New York: Crossover der aktuellen Kunst, Museum Ludwig, Cologne.

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