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SARAH MORRIS
Born 1967 [American]
Lives in New York & London

1985-89 Brown University, B.A.
1987-88 Jesus College, Cambridge University
1989-90 Whitney Museum of American Art Independent Study Program

AWARDS
1999-00 American Academy in Berlin, Berlin Prize Fellow
2001 Joan Mitchell Painting Award

Exhibitions

SOLO EXHIBITIONS

2011 Two Erasing Principles, Dirimart Gallery, Istanbul
John Hancock, Capitain Petzel, Berlin
Personal Best, Air de Paris, Paris


2010 It’s All True, Galerie Meyer Kainer, Vienna
Hornet, K20 Kunstsammlung Nordrhein-Westfalen Museum, Düsseldorf
Gateway, Gateway School for Sciences, Queens, New York
Clips, Knots, and 1972, Gallery Hyundai, Seoul

2009 General Control, Friedrich Petzel, New York
China 9, Liberty 7, Museo d’Arte Moderna di Bologna
Gemini Dressage, Museum für Moderne Kunst, Frankfurt

2008 Black Beetle, Fondation Beyeler, Riehan/Basel
1972, Städtische Galerie im Lenbachhaus, Munchen
Lesser Panda, White Cube, London

2007 The Towne Index, Air de Paris, Paris
Robert Towne, Ring Paintings, and Origami, Friedrich Petzel, New York
Chinatowns, Galerie Max Hetzler, Berlin


2006 Robert Towne, Lever House, New York
A severe Insult to the Brain, Galerie Meyer-Kainer, Vienna
Sarah Morris, Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen, Rotterdam

2005 Endeavor, Palais de Tokyo, Paris
To Film a Thought In Action, Moderna Museet, Stockholm
Los Angeles, Kestner Gesellschaft, Hannover
Sarah Morris, Aldrich Museum, Connecticut
Los Angeles, Friedrich Petzel, New York
Sarah Morris, New Works on Paper, Galerie Aurel Scheibler, Berlin

2004 If Direction is a Look (with Matthew Brannon), Galerie Javier Lopez, Madrid
Bar Nothing, Galerie Max Hetzler, Berlin
Los Angeles, White Cube, London
Sarah Morris, The Ballroom, Marfa
Sarah Morris, Kunstforeningen, Copenhagen, Denmark
Department of Water and Power [Los Angeles], Museum der Moderne, Salzburg

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

2002 Sarah Morris: Miami, Miami MOCA
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 (with Darren Almond), Galerie Max Hetzler, Berlin

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

2000 Sarah Morris, Kunsthalle Zürich, Zurich
Sarah Morris, Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia
Sarah Morris, Galerie für Zeitgenossische Kunst, Leipzig
Rumjungle, White Cube, London

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

1998 Galerie Max Hetzler, Berlin
Le Consortium, Centre D’Art Contemporain, Dijon

1996 One False Move, White Cube, London
Sugar, Galerie Philippe Rizzo, Paris
Drawings, Anton Kern, New York

1994 Try God, Nicole Klagsbrun, New York

1993 Sarah Morris, Close-Up, New York

1992 Citizens, Kunsthalle, New York

SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS



2011 Art & Stars & Cars, Mercedes-Benz Museum Stuttgart, Stuttgart
Internal/External Affairs, Residence of the Ambassador of the United States of America to Germany, Berlin
MMK 1991–2011: 20 Years of Presence, MMK Museum für Moderne Kunst, Frankfurt am Main
Videosphere: A New Generation, Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo
Art and Context, Berezdivin Collection: Espacio 1414, Santurce


2010 Contemplating the Void: Interventions at the Guggenheim Museum, Guggenheim Museum, New York
Funktionen auf Papier, Museum fur Moderne Kunst, Frankfurt
Pictures about Pictures. Discursive painting from Albers to Zobernig, MUMOK, Vienna
Los Angeles, Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofia, Madrid
Where Do We Go From Here? Selections from La Colección Jumex, Bass Museum of Art, Miami
Nether Land, Dutch Culture Center, Shanghai
Kupferstichkabinett: Between Thought and Action, White Cube, London
Trust, Media City, Seoul
Architecture on Film, Barbican Centre, London
Sin Techo Esta Pelon, University of Guanajuato, Mexico City


2009 The Kaleidoscopic Eye: Thyssen-Bornemizsa Art Contemporary Collection,
Mori Art Museum, Tokyo 

Director’s Choice, Essl Museum, Vienna
Mit dem Fahrrad zur Milchstraße. Werke zeitgenössischer Kunst aus der Sammlung Hoffmann, Kunsthalle im Lipsiusbau, Dresden
20th Anniversary Show, Nicole Klagsbrun Gallery, New York
Morality, Witte de With Center for Contemporary Art, Rotterdam
KunstFilmBiennale, KOMED Mediapark, Cologne
KunstFilmBiennale, Center Pompidou, Paris
KunstFilmBiennale, Kunstwerke, Berlin
Friends of Friends, SCI-Arc, Los Angeles
15 Years Kunstmuseum Wolfsburg, Wolfsburg


2008 Pintura Abstracta Colectiva, Galeria Javier Lopez, Madrid
Jahresgaben, Kunstverein München, München
Peter Saville, Accessories to An Artwork, Paul Stolper Gallery, London
As Long as it Lasts, Mai 36 Galerie, Zurich
Walls in the Street, Museum of Contemporary Art, Belgrade
Delirious Beijing, PKM Gallery, Beijing
The Enterprise of Art, PAN Palazzo delle Arti Napoli, Naples
Beyond Measure: Conversations Across Art and Science, University of Cambridge, Cambridge
Here and Now, Regina Gallery, Moscow
Not So Subtle Subtitle, Casey Kaplan, New York
Rhythmus 21 – Position Des Abstrakten, Städtische Galerie im Lenbachhaus, Munich
KunstFilmBiennale, Cologne
Always There, Max Hetzler Gallery, Berlin
Moscow on the Move, the Garage Centre for Contemporary Art, Moscow Worlds on Video, La Fondazione Palazzo Strozzi, Florence


2007 Franz West: Souffle, Kunstraum Innsbruck, Innsbruck
Intocable, Patio Herreriano Valladolod, Valladolid
Rockers Island, Olbricht Collection, Museum Folkwang, Essen
German Histories, Galerie für Zeitgenossische Kunst, Leipzig
Abstract Art Now 2, Wilhelm Hack-Museum, Ludwigshafen

Very Abstract and Hyper Figurative, Museum of Modern Art and Western Antiquities, London
Generational Issue, Centro Galego de Arte Contemporanea, Santiago de Compostela
When We Build Let Us Think That We Build Forever, BALTIC Centre for Contemporary Art, Gateshead
Tomorrow, Kumho Museum of Art, Seoul
Everstill, Philip De Lorca House, Granada
New York States of Mind, House of World Cultures, Berlin
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 Zeitgenossische Kunst, Leipzig
What is Painting?, Museum of Modern Art, New York
The Shapes of Space, Guggenheim Museum, New York
Perspektiv 07, Städtische Galerie im Lenbachhaus, Munich
Abstraction: Extracting From Reality, Sheffield Galleries & Museums Trust,
Sheffield
An Incomplete World: Works from the UBS Art Collection, Art Gallery of New South Wales
Urban Portraits, Cinema Arenberg, Argos
KunstFIlmBiennale 2005 Touring Program, Istanbul Museum of Modern Art, Istanbul
Mapping the City, Stedelijk Museum, Berlin
Carte Blanche, Cinematheque Ontario, Toronto
Contrechamp, le Cinématographe, Nantes
Films of Sarah Morris, Guggenheim Museum, New York


2006 IDYLLE, Sammlung Falckenberg, Hamburg; Narodni Galerie v Praze, Prague; Domus Artium 2002, Salamanca
Abstract Art Now 2, Wilhelm Hack-Museum, Ludwigshafen
Untouchable, Villa Arson, Nizza
Since 2000: Printmaking Now, MoMA, New York
Ordnung und Verführung, Haus Konstruktiv, Zurich
Full House, Kunsthalle Mannheim, Mannheim
Supernova, Galeria Jana Koniarka, Trnava
11ème Biennale de l´Image en Mouvement, GenCentre pour l'image contemporaine, Paris
Out of Time: A Contemporary View, MoMA, New York
Busy going Crazy: The Sylvio Perlstein Collection, Art and Photography
from Dada to the Present Day, La Maison Rouge, Paris
.all hawaii eNtrées / luNar reggae, Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin
Carbonic Anhydride, Galerie Max Hetzler, Berlin
This is America, Centraal Museum, Utrecht
Art and Football at the German Bundestag, Deutschen Bundestag, Berlin
Le Parcours Contemporain, Musée d’Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris, Paris
Stage of Life: Rhetorics of Emotion, Städtische Galerie im Lenbachhaus, Munich
Ordering and Seduction, Haus Konstructiv, Zurich
Urban Studies, Norwegian Short Film Festival, Oslo
Highlights from the KunstFilmBiennale, Köln in Berlin, Kunst-werke, Berlin 

Artist In Focus, International Film Festival of Rotterdam, Rotterdam
Video Ex Festival, Zurich


2005 En/Of, Museum Kurhaus Kleve, Kleve
Print Projects, Houldsworth Gallery, London
Generation X, Kunstmuseum, Wolfsburg
Los Angeles Drawings, Galerie Aurel Scheibler, Berlin
Goetz Meets Falckenberg, Sammlung Falckenberg, Hamburg
Nach Rokytnik, Museum Moderner Kunst Stiftung Ludwig, Vienna
Minimalism and After IV, DaimlerChrysler Contemporary, Berlin
In Print: British Contemporary Art from the Paragon Press, National Art Gallery, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
Wittgenstein in New York, Kupferstichkabinett Kulturforum Potsdamer Platz, Berlin
Commotion/Scriptless Utopia, 2005 – 2006, Arnolfini, Bristol; Chapter, Cardiff
Kunst Film Biennale, Museum Ludwig Cinema, Cologne
Ambiance - Auf beiden Seiten des Rheins, K21 Düsseldorf, Germany
The Mind is a Horse (Part 2), Gallery Bloomberg, London
Extreme Abstraction, Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo
Big Bang, Centre Pompidou, Paris
Radiodays, Bandes Originales, De Appel, Amsterdam
U_MOVE Utopia e imagine in movimento, Galleria Comunale d’Arte Contemporanea, Monfalcone
Contemporary Voices: Works from the UBS Art Collection, MoMA, New York
Now’s the Time, Kunsthaus Graz, Graz
Present Perfect, Friedrich Petzel Gallery, New York
Supernova, Bunkier Sztuki, Poland; Tallin Kunstihoone, Estonia; ESPOO, Finland; CAC, Vilnius
Vanishing Point, Wexner Center for the Arts, Columbus, Ohio
Populism, Contemporary Art Centre, Vilnius; National Museum, Oslo; Frankfurter Kunstverein, Frankfurt; Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam
Graz Biennial of Media and Architecture, Graz
Biennale of the Moving Image, Geneva; Centre Pompidou, Paris
Scriptless Utopia, Arnolfini, Bristol
May You Live in Interesting Times, Chapter, Cardiff
Frieze Projects: Artist’s Cinema, Frieze Art Fair, London
KunstFilmBienale, Cologne


2004 The Pattern Playback, The Moore Space, Miami
La Lettre Volée, FRAC, Dijon
Somwhere Collections sans Frontières III, The Fruitmarket Gallery, Edinburgh
Portrat ohne Antlitz, Kunsthalle zu Kiel, Kiel
3’, Schirn Kunsthalle Frankfurt, Frankfurt am Main
Off the Record – Sound Arc, Arc/Musée d’Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris, Paris
Heisskalt, Staatsgalerie, Stuttgart
Framing Spatial Experiences, San Francisco Cinemateque, San Francisco
Treasure Island, 10 Jahre Sammlung Kunstmuseum, Kunstmuseum Wolfsburg, Wolfsburg
One Channel Only, The Contemporary Art Galleries, University of Connecticut,
Storrs
The Films of Sarah Morris, National Film Theatre, London
Canarias Media Fest 2004, Canary Islands

2003 8. Baltic Triennial, Vilniusz
Abstraction Now, Kunstlerhaus, Vienna
Embracing the Present, Phoenix Art Museum, Phoenix
Fast Forward, Sammlung Goetz, ZKM, Center for Art and Media, Karlsruhe
Adorno, The Possibility of the Impossible, Frankfurt Kunstverein, Frankfurt
Platform for Art, London Underground, London
Novageometria, Galeria FortesVillaca, Sao Paolo
Imagination –Perception in Art, Kunsthaus Graz an Landesmuseum Joanneum, Graz
Nation, Frankfurter Kunstverein, Frankfurt
Heisskalt – Aktuelle Malerei aus der Sammlung Scharpff, HamburgerKunsthalle, Hamburg
Hotel Hotel, Landesgalerie, Linz
Urban Dramas, deSingel, Antwerp
Open Art At Regent’s Place, British Land, London
Up to Now: Treasures from the Collection, Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam
3-D, Friedrich Petzel Gallery, New York
Sodium Dreams, Bard College, Annandale on Hudson, New York
Berlin 1994-2003, Galerie Max Hetzler, Berlin
Abstract Painting, Staedtisches Museum Leverkusen Schloss Morsbroich,Leverkusen
Question, Magasin, Centre National d'Art Contemporain, Grenoble and
Galerie Max Hetzler, Berlin
Site Specific, MCA, Chicago
Cool Lustre, Collection Lambert, Avignon
Form-Specific, Moderna Galerija, Ljubljana
Days like These: The Tate Triennial Exhibition of Contemporary British Art, Tate Britain, London
Architecture Schmarchitecture, Kerlin Gallery, Dublin
Painting Pictures: Painting and Media in the Digital Age, Kunstmuseum Wolfsburg, Wolfsburg
Ice Hot – Recent Painting from the Scharpff Collection, Hamburger Kunsthalle
Mediascape, MoMA, Gramercy Theater, New York


2002 That Place, The Moore Space, Miami
Premio Bella Incisione, Bella Print Bienalle, Biella
Culture meets culture, Busan Biennale 2002, Busan
Thinknot, Christopher Farr Gallery, London
Urgent Painting, ARC Musée d’Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris, Paris
Painting on the Move, Kunstmuseum Basel, Museum für Gegenwartskunst Basel
Ruina e Utopia, Centro Cultural Banco do Brasil, Brasilia
Iconografias Metropolitanas, 25th Sao Paulo Biennal Centro Cultural Banco do Brasil, Brasilia
Rapture: Art’s Seduction by Fashion since 1970, Barbican Art Gallery, London
Center of Attraction, 8th Baltic Triennale of Contemporary Art, Vilnius, Lithuania
Supernova Art of the Nineties from the Logan Collection, SF MOMA, San Francisco
Le Paysage dans L'Art D'Aujourd'Hui, La Maison de la Culture de Bourges, Bourges
Quivid, Demokratie als Auftraggeber/Kunstwettbewerbe der Landeshauptstadt Munchen, Munich
Public Affairs, Zurich Kunsthaus, Zurich
Projects 77, MoMA, New York
Minimalism and After, Sammlung Daimler Chrysler, Berlin


2001 Beau Monde: Toward a Redeemed Cosmopolitan, Site Santa Fe Fourth Annual Biennial, Santa Fe
Wild Walls, MAK Center, Schindler House, Los Angeles
Hybrids, Tate Liverpool, Liverpool
UK in NY, British-Consul General, New York
Within/Without, Kunstmuseum Bern, Bern
Comfort: Reclaiming Place in a Virtual World, Cleveland Center for Contemporary Art, Cleveland
Casino 2001: Ist Quadrennial of Contemporary Art, Stedelijk Museum Voor
Actuele Kunst and Bijloke, Gent
Playing Amongst the Ruins, Royal College of Art, London
Shopping, Generali Foundation, Vienna
The Mystery of Painting, Sammlung Goetz, Munich
Beautiful Productions, Whitechapel Art Gallery, London
A Pied D’Oeuvre, Bibliothèque Nationale de France, Paris
Die Sammlung Olbricht Jeil 2, Ohne Zögern, Gesellschaft für Aktuelle Kunst Bremen
Olav Chr. Jenssen, Sarah Morris, Carroll Dunham, Atle Gerhardsen, Berlin


2000 Glee: Painting Now, Aldrich Museum of Contemporary Art, Palm Beach Institute of Contemporary Art, Palm Beach
Twisted, Van Abbemuseum, Eindhoven
What If: Art on the Verge of Architecture and Design, Moderna Museet, Stockholm
Homes, Art Gallery of Western Australia, Perth
Public Culture, Private Nature, Sommer Contemporary Art, Tel Aviv
The City, Nicole Klagsbrun Gallery, New York
Drawings and Photographs, Matthew Marks Gallery, New York
Projections, FRAC Bourgogne, Dijon
Robert Pearre Gallery, Tucson
Confusion, Nationalgalerie im Hamburger Bahnhof, Museum für Gegenwart Berlin
The Song of the Earth, Museum Fridericianum, Kassel
Girlfriend, Galerie für Zeitgenössische Kunst, Leipzig
AM/PM, Neue Nationalgalerie, Museum fur Gegenwart, Berlin
Flakk or that extraordinary sensation of being abroad, even when at home, Nordic House, Reykjavik
Twisted: Urban and Visionary Landscapes in Contemporary Painting, Van Abbemuseum, Eindhoven
Project 004, Friedrich Petzel Gallery, New York

Public Collections

Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo
American Express
Berardo Collection, Sintra, Portugal
British Council, London
Centre dʼArt Contemporain, Le Consortium, Dijon
Centre Pompidou, Paris
Collection La Gaia, Busca
Dallas Museum of Art, Dallas
DekaBank, Frankfurt
Fondazione Prada, Milan
F.R.A.C. Bourgone, Dijon
F.R.A.C. Poitou-Charentes
Galerie fur Zeitgenossiche Kunst, Leipzig
Government Art Collection, London
Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York
Hamburger Bahnhof, Berlin
Kunstmuseum Wolfsburg, Wolfsburg
Städtische Galerie im Lenbachhaus, Munich
Luma Foundation, Arles
Miami Art Museum
Mora Foundation, London
Musee dʼArt Moderne de la Ville de Paris
Museum of Modern Art, New York
Museum fur Moderne Kunst, Frankfurt
Neue Nationalgalerie im Hamburger Bahnhof, Berlin
New Orleans Museum, New Orleans
Paine Webber Collection, New York
Museum of Contemporary Art of San Diego
Sammlung DaimlerChrysler, Berlin
Sammlung Goetz, Munich
Sammlung Hoffmann, Berlin
Saatchi Collection, London
Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam
Tate Modern, London
Yale Center for British Art, New Haven
Victoria and Albert Museum, London