PROVENANCE: Asprey Jacques Gallery, London, UK; Private Collection, New York, NY.
Paul Morrison is an English painter. He was born in Liverpool UK in 1966, and received a BA in fine art from Sheffield City Polytechnic. He then continued his studies at Goldsmiths College of Art in London, UK, where he with an MA in 1998. He also spent two years (1983-5) studying at Hugh Baird College. His first one-person show was in London in 1996 and since then he has displayed his work in various locations across the UK, Europe and America.
In 2002 he was included in the Jerwood Painting Prize exhibition, and he has also exhibited at the Hammer Museum in Los Angeles, CA, in 2000 and at the Royal Academy in London in 2002.Morrison lives and works in Sheffield, UK. He is best known for his large monochromatic botanical landscapes.
All his images are painted in two coats of acrylic paint. They are then scanned into a computer, manipulated and projected onto the canvas. The different elements tend to be disproportionate in size: tiny plants become huge, while massive trees shrink. This is called 'cognitive landscape'.
Paul Morrison is represented in several respected collections worldwide, including the Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY; Fogg Art Museum at Harvard University, Cambridge, MA; Victoria & Albert Museum, London, UK; Zabludowicz Collection, London, UK; Museum of Contemporary Art, Denver, CO; and Städel Museum, Frankfurt, Germany.
Morrison is represented by Cheim & Read Gallery, New York, NY, Allision Jacques Gallery, London, UK and Galerie Michael Janssen, Cologne, Germany.
SELECT RECENT SOLO EXHIBITIONS:
2023
'Dutch Flower Paintings' (group exhibition), Museums Sheffield, Millennium Gallery, Sheffield, UK
2022
'Paul Morrison: Catalpa', Knust Kunz Gallery Editions, Munich
'Paul Morrison: Mystacidium', VAN HORN
'Abrasive Paradise' (group exhibition), Kunsthal KAdE, Amersfoort, Netherlands
2021
'The Help Portfolio' (group exhibition), Jealous Gallery North, London, UK
'Some Versions of Landscape' (group exhibition), Paul Petro Contemporary Art, Toronto, Canada
'The Help Portfolio' (group exhibition), Jealous Gallery East, London, UK
'Hammer Projects: Paul Morrison', Hammer Museum, Los Angeles, CA
2019
'Paul Morrison: Dahlia', Knust Kunz Gallery Editions, Munich
'Paul Morrison: Dandelion', VAN HORN
2018
'Heads Roll' (group exhibition), Graves Gallery, Sheffield, UK
'Superimposition: Paul Morrison, Barry Reigate, Michael Stubbs, Mark Titchner', Partners & Mucciaccia, London, UK
2017
'Paul Morrison: Black Grass', Stadtgalerie Saarbrücken Saarbrücken, Germany
2015
'British Landscape: George Shaw, Paul Morrison and Nina Murdoch', Maruani Mercier Gallery, Knokke, Belgium
2013
'Paul Morrison: Black Light', Dirimart, Istanbul, Turkey
2012
'Paul Morrison: Auctorum', Millennium Gallery, Sheffield, UK
2011
'Paul Morrison', Florigen, Fondazione Volume, Rome, Italy
'Paul Morrison', Alison Jacques Gallery, London, UK
2010
'Paul Morrison', Galerie Bob van Orsouw, Zurich, Switzerland
'Seduction: The Allure of Flowers' (group exhibition), Galerie Maximillian, Aspen, CO
'Nothing is Forever' (group exhibition), South London Gallery (SLG), London, UK
'The Graphic Unconscious' (group exhibition), The Galleries at Moore College of Art & Design, Philadelphia, PA
2009
'Paul Morrison: Drawings', Tanja Pol Galerie, Munich, Germany
'Wonderland: Through the Looking Glass' (group exhibition), KAdE Kunsthal, Amersfoort, The Netherlands
'Paul Morrison: Calathidium', Horticultural Society of New York, NY
'Paul Morrison', Manchester Art Gallery, Manchester, UK
'Paul Morrison', Cheim & Read, New York, NY
'The Garden at 4AM' (group exhibition), Gana Art, New York, NY
2008
'Take Me There Show Me the Way' (group exhibition), Haunch of Venison, New York, NY
'Paul Morrison: Exine', Rhode Island School of Design (RISD) Museum of Art, Providence, RI
'Paul Morrison', Galerie Emmanuel Perrotin, Miami, FL
'Paul Morrison', Alison Jacques Gallery, London, UK
'Paul Morrison / Donald Baechler: Black & White Paintings', Galerie Alain Noirhomme, Brussels, Belgium
'Now Then' (group exhibition), Bluecoat, Liverpool, UK
'Paul Morrison', Las Vegas Art Museum (LVAM), Las Vegas, NV
2007
'Door Cycle' (group exhibition), Friedrich Petzel Gallery, New York, NY
'Paul Morrison', Bloomberg SPACE, London, UK
'Kit Bashing' (group exhibition), Western Bridge, Seattle, WA
2006
'Into Black' (group exhibition), Western Bridge, Seattle, WA
'Paul Morrison: gamodeme' (O2art artist project series), The Contemporary Museum (TCMHI), Honolulu, HI
'Paul Morrison: Cognitive Landscapes', Galerie Maximillian, Aspen, CO
'Boys and Flowers' (group exhibition), Western Bridge, Seattle, WA
2005
'Painting the Edge: Michael Craig-Martin, Julian Opie, Lisa Ruyter and Paul Morrison' (group exhibition), Gallery HYUNDAI, Seoul, Korea
'Paul Morrison', Sprüth Magers Projekte, Munich, Germany
2004
'Paul Morrison', Cheim & Read, New York, NY
'Paul Morrison', Galleria Franco Noero, Turin, Italy
'Paul Morrison', Kunstverein, Heilbronn, Germany
2003
'Phenotype', Galerie Michael Janssen, Cologne, Germany
'Brake', Sprüth Magers Projekte, Munich, Germany
'Saxifraga, Galleria d'Arte Moderna e Contemporanea, Bergamo, Italy
'Haematoxylon', Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin, Ireland
'Forest', 34th Art Basel / Art Unlimited, Basel, Switzerland
'Fell' (recent works on paper), PS Gallery, Amsterdam, Netherlands
2002
'Mesophyll', Magasin, Grenoble, France
'Corymb', Kunstverein Ulm, Germany
'Cambium', Asprey Jacques, London, UK
'Bast', Art & Public, Geneva, Switzerland
'Chloroplast', Southampton City Art Gallery, UK; Kunsthalle Nürnberg, Germany
'Paul Morrison', Galleria Franco Noero, Turin, Italy
2001
'Paul Morrison', Karyn Lovegrove Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
'Paul Morrison', Taro Nasu Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
'Paul Morrison', Tomio Koyama Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
'Wallworks: Ingrid Calame/Paul Morrison', Aspen Art Museum, CO
'Paul Morrison', Galerie Emmanuel Perrotin, Paris, France
'Scape', Dunedin Public Art Gallery, New Zealand
'Bright Paradise', Artspace, Auckland, New Zealand
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