John Morris

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By working with the forgotten and found, I try to test boundaries between art/non art; beauty/ugliness; original/readymade; loved/unloved; precious object and worthless trash. The act of making helps me value and seek possibility in almost everything.
John Morris

ONE PERSON EXHIBITIONS

2011
D’Amelio Terras Gallery, New York
2008
D'Amelio Terras, New York
2003
Anthony Meier Fine Arts, San Francisco
2002
D’Amelio Terras, New York
2001
Works On Paper, Los Angeles, CA
2000
D’Amelio Terras Gallery, New York
Anthony Meier Fine Arts, San Francisco
1998
D’Amelio Terras Gallery, New York

GROUP EXHIBITIONS

2007
D'Amelio Terras Gallery, New York, NY

2006
Hot Picks: Pittsburgh Abstraction Now, Mendelson Gallery, Pittsburgh, PA

2004
G-Module, Paris, France, Drawing II
Frith Street Gallery, London, England, Aligned
The 179th Annual: An Invitational Exhibition of Contemporary American Art, National Academy Museum, New York, NY
Gallery Joe, Philadelphia, PA, Accretions

2003
James Kelly Contemporary, Santa Fe, NM, Works on Paper: A Fifth Anniversary Show
Santa Barbara Contemporary Arts Forum, Santa Barbara, CA, Fine Lines: From the Collection of Wynn Kramarsky
Axel Raben Gallery, New York, NY, Microcosm/Macrocosm

2002
Open Studios Press Gallery, Boston, MA, The Fall Line: Intuition and Necessity in Contemporary Abstract Drawing, curated by Steven Zevitas
Weatherspoon Art Museum, University of North Carolina-Greensboro, Greensboro, North Carolina, Art on Paper 2002
Queens Museum of Art, Queens, NY, Queens International

2001
Museum of Modern Art, New York. New to the Modern: Recent Acquisitions from the Department of Drawings
Kent State University School of Art, Kent, OH. Accumulations
University Art Museum, California State University at Long Beach, Long Beach, CA. By Hand
American Academy of Arts and Letters, New York. Invitational Exhibition
Wake Forest University Gallery, Wake Forest, NC. Mind Fields

2000
D’Amelio Terras, New York. Summer Group Show
Islip Art Museum, Islip, NY. Millenium Bug
John Michael Kohler Arts Center, Sheboygan, WI. FIXATIONS: The Obsessional in Contemporary Art

1999
123 Watts Gallery, New York. Microwave
James Graham & Sons, New York. Pattern
Hallwalls, Buffalo, New York. Phenotypology

1997
Brooklyn Museum of Art, New York. Current Undercurrent
Brooklyn Museum of Art, New York. The Pierogi 2000 Flat Files
Gasworks Gallery, London, England
Courthouse Gallery, Manchester, England
Weatherspoon Art Gallery, University of North Carolina, Greensboro, NC
Jim Bergeson Gallery, New York. 12 x 12

1996
450 Gallery, New York. Line
Caelum Gallery, New York. Summer Group Show

SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY

2003
Sherman, Mary. “Open Studios Press tries new ‘Line’ of work,” The Boston Herald.
McQuaid, Kate. “Meticulous meditations on the abstract,” The Boston Globe, January 3.
Doherty, Brian. “When Ludwig Met Chelsea,” Reason, January, pp. 64-65.

2002
Richard, Frances. “John Morris ‘Drawings for the Austrian School,’” Artforum, December, pp. 136-137.
Glueck, Grace. “John Morris ‘Drawings for the Austrian School,’” The New York Times, October 4, p. E33.
Dannatt, Adrian. “John Morris,” The Art Newspaper, September, p. 3, illus.

2000
Johnson, Ken. “John Morris,” The New York Times, September 15, p. E33
Zerega, Blaise. Modem Art, Red Herring, July, p. 60.

1999
Volk, Gregory. John Morris at D’Amelio Terras, Art in America, March.

1998
Fuss, Adam. An Appreciation of the Art of John Morris. Bomb, Winter, pp.106-7.
Smith, Roberta. Art in Review: John Morris, The New York Times, September 25, p. n.
Camhi, Leslie. Drawing Room, (Voice Choices) The Village Voice, September 23-29.
Galleries Gazette: John Morris at D’Amelio Terras. The Art Newspaper, No.84, September , p. 59.

PUBLIC COLLECTIONS
Bohen Foundation, New York
Fogg Art Museum, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA
Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Texas
Museum of Modern Art, New York
Old Jail Art Center, Albany, Texas
Queens Museum of Art, New York
San Diego Art Museum, San Diego, CA
The Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York
Whitney Museum of American Art, New York

John Morris Biography
Born 1965
Lives and works in Pittsburgh
2005-2008  Founder and Director of Digging Pitt Gallery, Pittsburgh