English painterFor other people named Sarah Morris, see Sarah Morris (disambiguation).

Sarah Morris (born 20 June 1967 in Sevenoaks, Kent, England) is an American and British artist. She lives in New York City in the United States.

Contents

• 1 Personal life and education
• 2 Work
  • 2.1 Exhibitions
• 3 Public collections
• 4 Filmography
• 5 Other activities
• 6 Origami lawsuit
• 7 Publications
• 8 Notes
• 9 References
• 10 Further reading
• 11 External links

Personal life and education

Morris was born in Sevenoaks, Kent, in south-east England, on 20 June 1967. She attended Brown University from 1985 to 1989, Cambridge University, and the Independent Study Program of the Whitney Museum of American Art in 1989–90. She was a Berlin Prize fellow at the American Academy in Berlin in 1999–2000; in 2001 she received a Joan Mitchell Foundation painting award. She was married to Liam Gillick.

Work

Morris works in both painting and film, and considers the two to be interconnected.

From about 1997 her paintings were geometric Modernist grid designs with flat planes of colour; a related series was of gl*-faced skyscrapers with geometric landscape designs reflected in their façades. Among her earlier painting styles were screen-prints reminiscent of Andy Warhol, word-paintings, and paintings of shoes.

Morris' films have been characterized as portraits that focus on the psychology of individuals or cities. Her films about cities, like Midtown, Chicago, Los Angeles, and Rio depict urban scenes, capturing the architecture, politics, industry and leisure which define a specific place. Other films describe a place through the viewpoint of an individual, like psychologist Dr. George Sieber describing the terrorist event at the Olympic Stadium in Munich in the film 1972 or the industry politics of Hollywood from the viewpoint of screenwriter and producer in the eponymous film Robert Towne.

Exhibitions

She has shown internationally, with solo exhibitions at Hamburger Bahnhof in Berlin (2001), Palais de Tokyo in Paris (2005), Fondation Beyeler in Basel (2008), Museum für Moderne Kunst in Frankfurt (2009), Museo d’Arte Moderna di Bologna (2009), and Musée National Fernand Léger in Biot (2012).

She has created site-specific works for various ins*utions including the Lever House, Kunsthalle Bremen in Germany, Kunstsammlung Nordrhein-Westfalen Museum, Düsseldorf, Germany, the lobby of UBS in New York City and the Gloucester Road tube station in London.

Robert Towne, 2006. Lever House, Manhattan

Morris' films have been featured at the following:

• Ullens Center for Contemporary Art in Beijing (Entire filmography),
• Fondation Louis Vuitton in Paris (Strange Magic),
• Museum of Contemporary Art in Chicago (Chicago),
• Sotheby's in New York (Points on a Line),
• Barbican Centre in London (Beijing, Midtown),
• Guggenheim in New York (Midtown, AM/PM, Capital, Miami, Los Angeles)
• Centre Pompidou (Midtown, AM/PM, Capital, Miami, Los Angeles).

Public collections

• Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo
• Berardo Collection, Sintra, Portugal
• British Council, London
• Centre d’Art Contemporain, Le Consortium, Dijon
• Centre Pompidou, Paris
• Cooper Hewitt Smithsonian Design Museum, New York
• Dallas Museum of Art, Dallas
• Fondation Louis Vuitton, Paris
• F.R.A.C. Bourgogne, Dijon
• F.R.A.C. Poitou-Charentes
• Government Art Collection, London
• Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York
• Kunsthalle Bremen, Bremen
• Kunstmuseum Wolfsburg, Wolfsburg
• Städtische Galerie im Lenbachhaus, Munich
• Miami Art Museum
• Musee d’Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris
• Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles
• Museum of Modern Art, New York
• Museum fur Moderne Kunst, Frankfurt
• Sammlung DaimlerChrysler, Berlin
• Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam
• Tate Modern, London
• UBS Art Collection, New York
• Yale Center for British Art, New Haven
• Victoria and Albert Museum, London

Filmography

• Midtown (1998)
• AM/PM (1999)
• Capital (2000)
• Miami (2002)
• Los Angeles (2004)
• Robert Towne (2006)
• 1972 (2008)
• Beijing (2008)
• Points on a Line (2010)
• Chicago (2011)
• Rio (2012)
• Strange Magic (2014)
• Abu Dhabi (2016)
• Finite and Infinite Games (2017)
• Sakura (2019)

Other activities

• Americans for the Arts, Member of the Artists Committee

Origami lawsuit

In 2011 Morris was sued by a group of six origami artists, including American Robert J. Lang. They alleged that in 24 works (eventually discovered to be 33 or more) in her "Origami" series of paintings Morris had without permission or credit copied their original crease patterns, coloured them, and sold them as "found" or "traditional" designs.The case was settled out of court early in 2013; under the terms of the settlement, the creators of the crease patterns are to be given credit when the works are displayed.

Publications

• Modern Worlds, 1999 ISBN:1-901-352-05-6
• Capital, 2001 ISBN:3-89611-098-5
• Sarah Morris: Bar Nothing, 2004 ISBN:0-9546501-1-5
• Los Angeles, 2005 ISBN:3-00-016363-8
• 1972, 2008 ISBN:978-3-86560-460-6
• Sarah Morris: Lesser Panda, 2008 ISBN:978-1-906072-16-2
• Beijing, 2009 ISBN:978-3-86560-646-4
• Sarah Morris: Clips, Knots, and 1972, 2010 ISBN:978-89-92819-55-8
• You Cannot Trust A Surface, 2011 ISBN:978-3-86984-054-3
• An Open System Meets an Open System: Sarah Morris and Hans Ulrich Obrist in Conversation, 2013 ISBN:978-3-7091-1031-7
• Sarah Morris: Bye Bye Brazil, 2013 ISBN:978-1-906072-82-7
• Sarah Morris: Mechanical Ballet, 2014 ISBN:978-2-36380-065-7
• Frédéric Paul, Sarah Morris: Capital Letters Rear Better for Initials. S.l.: Verlag der Buchhandlung Walther Konig. 5 November 2015. ISBN:978-3-941360-46-4.
• Morris, Sarah (2015). Crease Folds. Sarah Morris (ed.). Ivorypress LiberArs. ISBN:978-84-942820-7-2.
• Two Erasing Principles, 2016 ISBN:6055815370
• Sarah Morris, 2018 ISBN:978-952-5509-58-8

Notes

References

Further reading

• Michael Archer. "Sarah Morris", Artforum, May 2009, p.:170
• Nick Haymes, "Sarah Morris", Art Review, May 2009, pp.:70–7
• Hans Ulrich Obrist, "Sarah Morris", Adam & Eve, March/April/May 2009, pp.:78–91
• Eric Banks, "Seeing Red", Men's Vogue, August 2008, pp.:114–119
• Adrian Searle, "Dazzled by the Rings", The Guardian, 30 July 2008
• Christopher Turner, "Beijing City Symphony", Modern Painters, July/August 2008, pp.:56–59
• Marcus Verhagen, "Nomadism", Art Monthly October 2006
• Tanja Widmann, "To Offer You Something", Texte Zur Kunst, September 2006, pp.:248–251
• Ezra Petronio and Stephanie Moisdon, "Bar Nothing by Sarah Morris", Self Service, Issue No.21, Fall/Winter 2004, pp.:302–315
• Art Now (25th Anniversary Edition), edited by Uta Grosenick, Burkhard Riemschneider, Taschen, pp.:196–199, 2005

External links

• Sarah Morris at IMDb
• Official website