Redruth, UK b. 1971
Education
Victoria College of Art and Design
Ontario College of Art and Design
Nova Scotia College of Art and Design
Klasse Lucy Mckenzie, Kunst Akademie, Düsseldorf
Select Solo Exhibitions
2022 — Hunt Gallery, Toronto ON
2021 — Contemporary Art Gallery, Vancouver BC
2019 — Monte Clark Gallery, Vancouver BC
2017 — White Columns solo booth, Independent, Brussels
2017 — L’innconue, NADA, New York, NY
2016 — Furniture and Collectibles, La Plage, Paris
2016 — Komplot, Galerie De La Reine, Brussels
2015 — Up The Wooden Hill to Bedfordshire, Mélange, Cologne
2015 — Phantoms of a Utopic Will, SFU Art Gallery, Vancouver BC
2015 — Like most follies, more than a joke, more than a whim, Burnaby Art Gallery, Burnaby BC
2012 — Kölnischer Kunstverein (project space), Cologne Germany
2011 — Catriona Jeffries Gallery, Vancouver BC
2010 — Making Beer More Expensive, Artspeak, Vancouver BC
2010 — Every Letter in the Alphabet, Vancouver BC
Select Group Exhibitions
2020 — Mushrooms: The Art, Design, and Future of Fungi, Somerset House, London UK
2019 — Laure Genillard Gallery, “Out of Eye”, London, UK
2018 — L’inconnue, Body, Montreal (curated by Domenico De Chirico)
2018 — Palais Des Beaux Arts Bruxelles, “Somewhere in Between”, Brussels
2018 — The Poetics of Space, Nanaimo Art Gallery, Nanaimo, British Columbia
2018 — Longevity or Lack Thereof, MacLaren Art Centre, Barrie, Canada
2018 — The Poetics of Space, Kamloops Art Gallery, Kamloops, British Columbia
2018 — L’idee Normale, Levy Delval Gallery, Brussels, Belgium
2017 — LMAK Gallery, Loin Avec Moi, New York, New York
2017 — Galerie PCP, Champingons, Paris, France
2017 — The Living Room, Magical Wand and Granular Cloud, Antwerp, Belgium (curated by Xavier Mary)
2016 — L’inconnue, Hybrid Objects, Montreal
2016 — Nanaimo Art Gallery, Trusses, Nanaimo, Canada
2016 — The Société, Catherine Vertige Collection, Brussels, curated by Sonia Dermience
2016 — Central Art Garage, Objectional Practices, Ottawa, Canada
2016 — Clint Roenisch Gallery, Cut The World Until It Fits On The Back Of Your Hand, Toronto
2015 — Stopping The Sun In It’s Course, Francois Ghebaly Gallery, Los Angeles
2015 — The Poetics of Space, Vancouver Art Gallery, Vancouver, Canada
2014 — Blue Times, Kunsthalle Wien, Vienna
2014 — Be Mysterious, Walter Phillips Gallery, Banff
2013 — Ein ahnungsloser Traum vom Park, Museum Abteiberg, Mönchengladbach, Germany
2013 — Full Frontal, Belkin Satellite Gallery, Vancouver, Canada
2012 — Material Information, Museum Industrie, Bergen, Norway (curated by Juan Gaitan)
2012 — Through A Glass, Darkly, Vancouver Art Gallery, Canada
2011 — Melanchotopia, Witte de With, Rotterdam
2011 — Domestic Lives:Works from the Permanent Collection, Surrey Art Gallery, Canada
2011 — Cul de Sac, Varley Art Gallery, Markham, Ontario
2010 — Contemporary Art Gallery, Following a Line, Vancouver, British Columbia
2010 — National Gallery of Canada, It Is What It Is, Ottawa, Ontario
2010 — 17th Sydney Biennale, Sydney, Australia, curated by David Elliot
2009 — Musée d’art Contemporain de Montréal, Cubes, Blocks and Other Spaces, Montreal, Quebec
2009 — Trinity Square Video, Bred In At Least Modest Comfort, curated by Jean-Paul Kelly, Toronto
2009 — Catriona Jeffries Gallery, Loaded, Vancouver
2009 — Hannover Kunstverein, Getting Even?Oppositions + Dialogues in Contemporary Art, curated by Matt Packer, Hannover, Germany
2008 — Lewis Glucksman Gallery, Getting Even?Oppositions + Dialogues in Contemporary Art, curated by Matt Packer, Cork, Ireland
2008 — Morris and Helen Belkin Art Gallery, Exponential Future, curated by Scott Watson and Juan Gaitán, Vancouver
2008 — Burnaby Art Gallery, Our Changing Landscape: Perspectives on and Interpretations of British Columbia (series III), Burnaby, British Columbia
2008 — Art Gallery of Alberta, Generation, curated by Catherine Crowston, Edmonton, Alberta
2007 — European Kunsthalle, Modelle für Morgen: Köln, Köln, Germany
2006 — The Open Eye Club, Totally P.C., Glasgow International, Glasgow, Scotland
2006 — Royal College of Art, Again for Tomorrow, London, UK
2006 — Schirn Kunsthalle Frankfurt, Die Jugend von heute/Youth of Today, Frankfurt, Germany
2006 — Kunsthaus Kaufbeuren, Unheimlich Jung, Kaufbeuren, Germany
2006 — Witte de With, Street: Behind the Cliché, Rotterdam, The Netherlands
2005 — Edmonton Art Gallery, Re: Building the World, Edmonton, Alberta
2005 — Confederation Centre Art Gallery, Curb Appeal, Charlottetown, Prince Edward Island
2005 — White Columns, Post No Bills, New York, New York? (curated by Matthew Higgs)
2005 — Catriona Jeffries Gallery, Mix With Care, Vancouver, British Columbia
2005 — Musée d’art contemporain de Montréal, Projections, Montréal
2005 — Städtische Galerie Waldkraiburg,Unheimlich Jung, Waldkraiburg, Germany
2005 — Kunsthaus Kaufbeuren, Unheimlich Jung, Kaufbeuren, Germany
2004 — Champion Fine Art, #15, New York, New York curated by Mai-Thu Perret
2004 — Palm Beach Institute of Contemporary Art, I feel mysterious today, Palm Beach Institute of Contemporary Art, Lake Worth, Florida
2003 — Aspex, Homemade, Portsmouth, UK
2003 — Vancouver Art Gallery, Drawing the World: Masters to Hipsters, Vancouver, British Columbia
2003 — Platform Garanti Contemporary Art Center, Making Space, curated by November Paynter, Beyoglu, Istanbul
2003 — Platform Gallery, Group of Seven, London, England
2002 — Nylon Gallery, Geometers, London, UK
2002 — Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions, Das Spyder Män, Los Angeles, California
2002 — Catriona Jeffries Gallery, Signage, Vancouver, British Columbia
2002 — Contemporary Art Gallery, Satan Oscillate My Metallic Sonatas, curated by Reid Shier, Vancouver
2001 — Tracy Lawrence Gallery, A Drawing Show, Vancouver, British Columbia
2001 — Charles H. Scott Gallery, Surround, Vancouver, British Columbia
2001 — Kabinett Gallerie, Mobile Homes, Bern, Switzerland
2001 — John Hansard Gallery, Liminal/ Minimal/ Nominal.Architectural Traces, Southampton, UK
2001 — Vancouver Art Gallery, These Days, Vancouver, British Columbia
2000 — Henry Moore Institute, Belvedere, Leeds, UK
Select Bibliography
2015 — Jacquelyn Ross, ‘Alex Morrison’ Art Forum critic’s pick
2013 — Janssen Renske “My House Is My World” Frieze online
2012 — Rosales, Esperanza “Melanchotopia” Frieze, January/February 2012: 145-146
2012 — Petra Halkes “Melanchotpia” C Magazine, Spring 2012
2009 — Connolly, Maeve “Getting Even: Oppositions + Dialogues in Contemporary Art”, Art Monthly, February 09, No. 323
2008 — Gaitàn, Juan A. “By the End of this Decade.” Exponential Future. Vancouver: Morris and Helen Belkin Art Gallery, 2008: 16–22.
2008 — Kiendl, Anthony. “Informal Architectures: Space in Contemporary Culture.” London: Black Dog Publishing, 2008: 8–29.
2008 — Watson, Scott. “Exponential Future.” Exponential Future. Vancouver: Morris and Helen Belkin Art Gallery, 2008: 6–15.
2007 — Szewczyk, Monica. “Open Letter December 2007.”Exponential Future. Vancouver: Morris and Helen Belkin Art Gallery, 2008: 23–33.
2007 — Zaslove, Jerry. “Silence, Counterfeit and Aesthetic Act in Alex Morrison’s Vision of ‘Academic Freedom as Academic’ – Installations of the Phantoms of a Utopian Will.” Anthology of Exhibition Essays 2006/2007, CJ Press, Vancouver, British Columbia, 2008: 95–111.
2007 — Lorch, Catrin. “Models for Tomorrow,” frieze June-July-August 2007, p. 258. January 11, 2003
2006 — Burnham, Clint, “Artworks challenge and intrigue,” The Vancouver Sun, Saturday, June 3, 2006
2006 — “Canada Dreaming” Fish, Marz, 2006
2006 — “Canada Dreaming”: eine neue Ausstellung im Kunstverein,” Wolfsburger Kurier, Sonntag, 5 Marz 2006
2006 — Dault, Julia. “A Room of One’s Own,” The National Post, Thursday, June 15, 2006. B6
2006 — Hastings, Sascha. “Postmark Berlin.” Canadian Art, Spring 2006, p. 62-67. -Karweik, Hans-Adelbert. “Kanadische Träume in Wolfsburg,” Braunschweiger Zeitung. Freitag, 7 April 2006.
2006 — Koh, Germaine. “Prototype,” Prototype: Contemporary Art from Joe Friday’s Collection, Carleton University Art Gallery, Ottawa, 2006. 25-44.
2006 — Low, Anne. “Alex Morrison.” Again for Tomorrow, Royal College of Art, London, 2006. p. 37.
2005 — Harris, Michael. “Mix with care.” Canadian Art, Winter 2005. p. 103-3
2005 — Molon, Dominic. “Mysteriously Yours ”, I Feel Mysterious Today, Palm Beach Institute of Contemporary Art, 2005
2005 — Nielsen, Henrikke. “Alex Morrison; Buro Friedrich”, Flash Art, Vol. XXXVIII, No.243, July-September 2005, p.130
2005 — Wallace, Ian. “The Frontier of the Avant-Garde”, Intertidal: Vancouver Art and Artists. Muhka, Antwerp and Morris and Helen Belkin Art Gallery, Vancouver, 2005. 51-62.
2004 — Heather, Rosemary. “Skateboard Modernism”, Canadian Art, Winter 2004, Vol.21. No. 4, p. 42-47
2004 — Rieber, Christopher J. “Alex Morrison: Every House I’ve Ever Lived In ” artdish, Wednesday August 25, 2004. 2003
2003 — Augaitis, Daina. “For the Record: Drawing Contemporary Life”, For the Record: Drawing Contemporary Life, exhibition catalogue, Vancouver Art Gallery, Vancouver, British
Columbia, 2003
2003 — Huester, Wiebke. “Da ist die junge Kunst, die sich der Natur zuwendet”, Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, 4 Oct, 2003
2003 — Hierholzer, Michael. “Mit dem Skateboard durch die Wohnung”, Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, 12 October, 2003
2003 — Scott, Michael. “Following the Lines”, Vancouver Sun, June 26 – July 3, 2003
2002 — Buck, Luisa. “London, Contemporary gallery shows”, The Art Newspaper, No. 122, February 2002
2002 — Burnham, Clint. “Cat Fries”, exhibition essay, Signage, Catriona Jeffries Gallery, Vancouver, British Columbia, 2002
2002 — Currah, Mark. “Geometers”, Time Out, p. 48, January 23-30, 2002
2002 — Kitamura, Katie. “Geometers”, Contemporary, March 2002 (photo)
2002 — Meyers, Holly. “Turning Impulses into Works of Art”, Los Angeles Times, August 16, 2002
2002 — Pence, Elizabeth. “Das Spyder-Man’ at LACE” Artweek, October 2002
2001 — Milroy, Sarah. “Masters of the Art”, The Globe and Mail, Saturday, December 1, 2001
2001 — Roy, Marina. “These Days”, Last Call, Fall 2001(photo)
2001 — Schlup, Murielle. “Mobile Home als Lebensstil”, Berner Woche , # 160, July 18 2001 — Turner, Michael. “These Days”, Art/Text, #75, November 2001-January 2002
2000 — Diviney, David. Space Invaders, exhibition companion, Mercer Union, July
2000 — Hirschmann, Thomas. “Mercer Union/ Alex Morrison”, National Post, July 29
2000 — Meir, Franziska. “Konzeptionelle Kunst im Kabinett”, Zuger Presse, 6 Dec
2000 — Robertson, Mitch. “Toronto Review”, Log Illustrated, New Zealand, Winter 2000
2000 — Schultz, Deborah. “Belvedere”, Art Monthly, April 2000, issue 235 (photo)
2000 — Taylor, John Russell. “ The Big Show-Belvedere”, Times. ‘Metro’, 5-11 Feb 2000
1999 — Fulcher, Dawn. “Previews: From Memory”, Contemporary Visual Arts, issue 23, Summer 1999
1999 — Kent, Sarah. “From Memory”, Time Out: London’s Living Guide, July 21-28 1999 no.1509(photo)
Collections
National Gallery of Canada
Art Gallery of Ontario
Musée d’art contemporain de Montréal
Vancouver Art Gallery
Burnaby Art Gallery
Art Gallery of Surrey, Canada
Helen Belkin Gallery, Vancouver
Zabludowicz Collection, London
Julia Stoschek Collection, Düsseldorf
Museum Abteiberg, Mönchengladbach, Germany
Residencies
Kunstlerhaus Bethanien, Berlin
Embassy of Foreign Artists, Geneva
Bonnie McCombe Kreye Residency, Victoria, British Columbia