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Morgan Fisher

(American, born 1942)

Morgan Fisher

( ), 2003

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Morgan Fisher

Ilford Selochrome 120 September 1954, 2014

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Adox R14 120 July 1958, 2014

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Gevaert Microgran Panchro 24 x 36 October 1951, 2014

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The Wilson Color Chart I, 2022

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Colour Harmony for Beginners, 2022

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Biography

Timeline

1942: Born in Washington, D.C., USA
1960 - 1964: Harvard College
1964 - 1965: University of Southern California, work toward M.A. in Cinema
1965 - 1966: University of California, Los Angeles, work toward M.F.A. in Motion Picture Division, Department of Theater Arts
1965: B.A. in Fine Art
1978: Contemporary Art Survey (lecture series), Art Department, UCLA
: College of Creative Studies, University of California at Santa Barbara (Visiting artist)
1980: Media Arts Program, National Endowment for the Arts
: Member of Evaluation Committee for The George A. and Eliza Gardner Howard Foundation
1981: Member of the Board of Advisors, The Foundation for Art Resources
1986: Art Center College of Design, Pasadena (Visiting artist)
1987: Guggenheim Fellowship for Film
1988: California Arts Council
1989: Media Arts Program, National Endowment for the Arts
1992: Art Center College of Design, Pasadena (Visiting artist)
1995: California Institute of the Arts (Visiting artist)
1996: Art Department, University of California at Riverside (Visiting artist)
: Occidental College, Los Angeles (Visiting artist)
1997: Otis College of Art and Design, Los Angeles (Visiting artist)
: Art Center College of Design, Pasadena, California (Visiting artist)
: School of Film/Video, California Institute of the Arts, Valencia, California (Visiting artist)
2007: École Nationale des Beaux-Arts, Lyon (Visiting artist)
: Lives and works in Santa Monica, California, USA

Exhibitions

2014: Morgan Fisher Exhibitions in 2014:

International Art Objects, Los Angeles, California, USA (solo exhibition)

Whitney Biennial, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, New York, USA
2013: Morgan Fisher Exhibitions in 2013:

Interior Color Beauty, Bortolami Gallery, New York, New York, USA (solo exhibition)

T.J. Wilcox: In the Air, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, New York, USA
2012: Morgan Fisher Exhibitions in 2012:

Conversations, Aspen Art Museum, Aspen, Colorado, USA (solo exhibition)
The Frame Beyond, Generali Foundation, Vienna, AUSTRIA (solo exhibition)

Made in L.A 2012, Hammer Museum, Los Angeles, California, USA
2011: Morgan Fisher Exhibitions in 2011:

Museum Abteiberg, Mönchengladbach, GERMANY (solo exhibition)
Morgan Fisher: Films and Paintings and In Between and Nearby, Raven Row, London, UK (solo exhibition)

New Works: Photographs and Works on Paper, Bortolami Gallery, New York, New York, USA (solo exhibition)

Films by Richard Serra, Morgan Fisher, and Anthony McCall, The Artist’s Institute, New York, New York, USA
2010: Morgan Fisher Exhibitions in 2010:

Missing – An Evening with Morgan Fisher, Piet Zwart Institute, Rotterdam, NETHERLANDS (solo echibition)

Works on Paper 1968 – 2008, Galerie Daniel Buchholz, Cologne, GERMANY (solo exhibition)

Richard Telles Fine Art, Los Angeles, California, USA

Monochrome Reflections, haubrokshows, Berlin, GERMANY

rogalski, Haubrok Shows, Berlin, GERMANY
2009: Morgan Fisher Exhibitions in 2009:

Portikus Looks at Itself, curated by Melanie Ohnemu Portikus, Frankfurt am Main, GERMANY (solo exhibition)

Aspect Ratio, TENT, section of Size Matters, curated by Edwin Carels, Rotterdam International Film Festival, Rotterdam, NETHERLANDS

Protective Coloration, curated by Niko Vicario, Center for Curatorial Studies, Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson, New York, USA

See This Sound, Lentos Kunstmuseum Linz, Linz, AUSTRIA

Quodlibet II, Galerie Daniel Buchholz, Cologne, GERMANY

38th International Film Festival Rotterdam, Rotterdam, NETHERLANDS

Fax, The Drawing Center, New York, New York, USA

1999, China Art Objects Gallery, Los Angeles, California, USA

Restoring the Los Angeles Avant-Garde, La Filmforum, Los Angeles, California, USA

Collecting History: Highlighting Recent Acquisitions, curated by Bennett Simpson, Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, California, USA

Daily Film Program in conjunction with See This Sound; Promises in Sound and Vision, curated by Cosima Rainer, Lentos Kunstmuseum Linz, Linz, AUSTRIA

Artists’ Cinema, in conjunction with But what of Frances Stark, standing by itself, a naked name, bare as a ghost to whom one would like to lend a sheet? and David Hockney, 1960–1968: A Marriage of Styles, curated by Alex Farquharson, Nottingham Contemporary, Nottingham, UK
2008: Morgan Fisher Exhibitions in 2008:

Alien Pendant Pair Paintings, China Art Objects Galleries, Los Angeles, California, USA
Art Unlimited, Galerie Daniel Buchholz, Art Basel, Basel, SWITZERLAND (solo exhibition)

Neutre Intense-Mitim, Maison populaire-Centre d’art Mira Phalaina, Montreuil, FRANCE

You, Whose Beauty Was Famous in Rome, Mandarin Gallery, Los Angeles, California, USA

To Square Light, Signal–Center for Contemporary Art, Malmö, SWEDEN

Zuordnungsprobleme, Johann König, Berlin, GERMANY

Standard Sizes, Andrew Kreps Gallery, New York, New York, USA

Please Stay Out, We’re Open Redling Fine Art, Los Angeles, California, USA

Haubroksshow, Sammlung Haubrok, Berlin, GERMANY

>Neutre Intense-( ), Carl Freedman Gallery, London, UK

Index: Conceptualism in California from the Permanent Collection, curated by Phillip Kaiser and Corrina Peipon, Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, California, USA

California Biennial, curated by Lauri Firstenberg, Orange County Museum of Art, Newport Beach, California, USA
2007: Morgan Fisher Exhibitions in 2007:

Pendant Pair Paintings, Galerie Daniel Buchholz, Cologne, GERMANY (solo exhibition)

Internationale Kurzfilmtage Oberhausen, Oberhausen, GERMANY

Monochrome Painting, Cardwell Jimmerson, Culver City, California, USA
2006: Morgan Fisher Exhibitions in 2006:

Standard Gauge: Film Works by Morgan Fisher, 1968 – 2003, curated by Chrissie Ile, Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, California, USA (solo exhibition)

Galerie Daniel Buchholz Cologne at Metro Pictures, Metro Pictures, New York, New York, USA

Los Angeles 1955-1985, Centre Pompidou, Paris, FRANCE

Program of films presented by Christopher Williams as an artist in the Whitney Biennial, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, New York, USA

Blows into Microphone, curated by Achim Lengerer, presented at Wiener Votivkino, Kunsthalle Exnergasse, Vienna, AUSTRIA; later presented at the Deutsches Filmmuseum, Frankfurt, GERMANY

The Artists Cinema, Frieze Art Fair, Regent’s Park, London, UK

Expanded Cinema I, film program curated by Patrick Huber and Fred Truniger in conjunction with the show The Expanded Eye, curated by Bice Curiger, Kunsthaus Zürich, Zürich, SWITZERLAND
,br />Bunch Alliance and Dissolve, curated by Public-Holiday Project, Contemporary Arts Center, Cincinnati, Ohio, USA
2005: Morgan Fisher Exhibitions in 2005:

Standard Gauge: Film Works by Morgan Fisher, 1968 – 2003, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, New York, USA (solo exhibition)

Scratched Aspect Ratio Pieces, China Art Objects Galleries, Los Angeles, California, USA (solo exhibition)

Standard Gauge: The Films of Morgan Fisher, film screening, Tate Modern, London, UK (solo exhibition)

Edge and Corner Paintings, Adamski Galerie, Aachen, GERMANY (solo exhibition)

Morgan Fisher / Thom Andersen, film screening, Kölnischer Kunstverein, Cologne, GERMANY (solo exhibition)

Beside the Dream Machine, Museum Moderner Kunst, Vienna, AUSTRIA

A Walk to Remember, curated by Jens Hoffman, LACE (Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions), Los Angeles, California, USA

Old News, curated by Jacob Fabricius LACE, Los Angeles, California, USA

Gallery exchange, China Art Objects Galleries and Bowie Van Valen, Amsterdam, NETHERLANDS

Bienal de Lisboa, curated by Ricardo Matos Cabo, Lisbon, PORTUGAL
2004: Morgan Fisher Exhibitions in 2004:

( ) / Film Cans and Film Boxes, Galerie Daniel Buchholz, Cologne, GERMANY (solo exhibition)

Aspect Ratio Pieces, ( ), Greene Naftali, New York, New York, USA (solo exhibition)

( ), Cubitt, London, UK (solo exhibition)

( ), film screening (with Sharon Lockhart), Kino Arsenal, Internationales Forum des jungen Films / Berlinale, Berlin, GERMANY (solo exhibition)

Filmforum, Los Angeles, California, USA (solo exhibition)

Städelschule, Frankfurt, GERMANY (solo exhibition)

Whitney Biennial, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, New York, USA
2003: Morgan Fisher Exhibitions in 2003:

Turbulent Screen, Edith-Ruß-Haus für Medienkunst, Oldenburg, GERMANY

Fate of Alien Modes, Secession, Vienna, AUSTRIA

Morgan Fisher and Mason Cooley, China Art Objects Galleries, Los Angeles, California, USA

Sandwiched, curated by Jacob Fabricius, Los Angeles, California, USA

Conceptualisms: Zeitgenössische Tendenzen in Musik, Kunst und Film, curated by Christoph Metzger, Akademie de Künste, Berlin, GERMANY
2002: Morgan Fisher Exhibitions in 2002:

To See Seeing, NAK - Neuer Aachener Kunstverein, Aachen, GERMANY (solo exhibition)

Photogenic Drawings / Color Balance, Galerie Daniel Buchholz, Cologne, GERMANY (solo exhibition)

The Italian Paintings, Self – Portraits, China Art Objects Galleries, Los Angeles, California, USA (solo exhibition)

Pacific Title and Art Studio, Hollywood; presented by China Art Objects Galleries, Los Angeles, California, USA (solo exhibition)

Sie träumt von ihrem Lieblingsstar. Er spricht mit einer fremden Sprache. Vier Räume aus der Sammlung Schürmann, Sammlung Schürmann, K21 Kunstsammlung im Ständehaus, Düsseldorf, GERMANY

Morgan Fisher, Tomma Abts, Leica Dole-Recio, James Hayward, curated by Richard Hawkins, Galerie Daniel Buchholz, Cologne, GERMANY

A Show That Will Show That a Show Is Not Only a Show, curated by Jens Hoffman, The Project, Los Angeles, Calfornia, USA
2001: Morgan Fisher Exhibitions in 2001:

Frances Stark meets Morgan Fisher, Klosterfelde, Berlin, GERMANY
2000: Morgan Fisher Exhibitions in 2000:

Kunstverein Hamburg, Hamburg, GERMANY (solo exhibition)

The Italian Paintings, presented by Dave Muller, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, California, USA (solo exhibition)

The Italian Paintings, Dave Muller/Three Day Weekend, in Made in California: Now, LACMA, Los Angeles, California, USA

Galerie Daniel Buchholz at Jürgen Becker, Hamburg, GERMANY

Not Coming, produced by Side Street Projects, Laemmle Grande Theaters, Los Angeles, California, USA
1999: Morgan Fisher Exhibitions in 1999:

Afterimage: Drawing Through Process, Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, California, USA
A History of European Cinema through Technical Evolution, Festival dei Popoli, Florence, ITALY

The American Century: Art and Culture 1950-2000; The Cool World: Film and Video in America 1950-2000, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, New York, USA
Thanks, visiting faculty show, School of Art, California Institute of the Art, Valencia, California, USA
1998: Morgan Fisher Exhibitions in 1998:

Künstlerhaus Stuttgart, Stuttgart, GERMANY (solo exhibition)

Galerie Daniel Buchholz, film screening at the cinema of the British Council, Cologne, GERMANY (solo exhibition)

Österreichisches Filmmuseum, Vienna, AUSTRIA (solo exhibition)

Time Dilates, Dave Muller/Three Day Weekend, The Downtown Arts Festival, New York, New York, USA
1997: Morgan Fisher Exhibitions in 1997:

Threshold Side Street Projects, Santa Monica, California, USA
1996: Morgan Fisher Exhibitions in 1996:

Projections, produced by Side Street Projects, AMC Old Pasadena Theaters, Pasadena, California, USA
1995: Morgan Fisher Exhibitions in 1995:

Inaugural Film Screening, ACME. Gallery, Santa Monica, California, USA

Reconsidering the Object of Art: 1965-1975, The Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, California, USA

23 Short Films / 23 Film Posters, a show of and by Maria Eichhorn, Galerie Eva Presenhuber, Zürich, SWITZERLAND
1994: Morgan Fisher Exhibitions in 1994:

Scratching the Belly of the Beast; Cutting-Edge Media in Los Angeles, 1922-1994, Filmforum, Los Angeles, California, USA

Detours, Side Street Projects, Santa Monica, California, USA

Color This!, coloring book with drawings by Los Angeles artists, Foundation for Art Resources, Los Angeles, California, USA
1993: Morgan Fisher Exhibitions in 1993:

Fade to Black, Eldorado Centrum voor Beeldcultuur, Antwerpe, BELGIUM

Robert Flaherty Seminar, Ithaca, New York, USA

Stichting Amsterdams Filmhuis, Amsterdam, NETHERLANDS
1991: Morgan Fisher Exhibitions in 1991:

Faculty show, School of Art, California Institute of the Art, Valencia, California, USA
1990: Morgan Fisher Exhibitions in 1990:

Mostra internazionale del nuovo cinema, retrospective of American Independent Films of the 1980s, Pesaro, ITALY

Beyond Illusion: American Film and Video Art, 1965-1975, in conjunction with The New Sculpture, 1965-1975: Between Geometry and Gesture, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, New York, USA

Metamedia, in conjunction with Image World: Art and Media Culture, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, New York, USA
1989: Morgan Fisher Exhibitions in 1989:

In the series The New Avant-Garde, University of Rochester, Rochester, New York, USA (solo exhibition)

What’s Wrong with These Pictures?, retrospective (with George Landow), The American Museum of the Moving Image, New York, New York, USA
1988: Morgan Fisher Exhibitions in 1988:

mot:dites, image, Musée National dʼArt Moderne, Centre Pompidou, Paris, FRANCE

Independent America; New Film 1978-1988, American Museum of the Moving Image, New York, New York, USA
1987: Morgan Fisher Exhibitions in 1987:

Text as Image, Pacific Film Archive, Berkeley, California, USA
1986: Morgan Fisher Exhibitions in 1986:

International Forum of Young Cinema, Berlin International Film Festival, Berlin, GERMANY (solo exhibition)

University Gallery of Fine Art, Ohio State University, Ohio, USA (solo exhibition)
1985: Morgan Fisher Exhibitions in 1985:

The Collective for Living Cinema, New York, New York, USA (solo exhibition)

San Francisco Cinematheque, San Francisco, California, USA (solo exhibition)

Pacific Film Archive, Berkeley, California, USA (solo exhibition)

Biennial Exhibition, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, New York, USA

New York Film Festival, New York, New York, USA
1983: Morgan Fisher Exhibitions in 1983:

Word Works, Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, Michigan, USA

Film as Installation II, The Clocktower, New York, New York, USA
1982: Morgan Fisher Exhibitions in 1982:

Ten Years of Living Cinema, Collective for Living Cinema, New York, New York, USA
1981: Morgan Fisher Exhibitions in 1981:

Color Balance, P.S. 1, Long Island City, New York, USA (solo exhibition)

West Coast, Anthology Film Archives, New York, New York, USA

American and French Independent Cinema, Padiglione d'arte contemporanea/Cinetecaitaliana, Milan, ITALY

P.S. 1, Long Island City, New York, New York, USA
1980: Morgan Fisher Exhibitions in 1980:

Color Balance, Media Study/Buffalo, New York, USA (solo exhibition)

Film as Installation, The Clocktower, New York, New York, USA (solo exhibition)

’The Pleasure Dome’, American Experimental Film, 1939-1979, Moderna Museet, Stockholm, SWEDEN
1979: Morgan Fisher Exhibitions in 1979:

Boston Film/Video Foundation, Boston, Massachusetts, USA (solo exhibition)

Art School, California Institute of the Arts, Valencia, California, USA (solo exhibition)

Department of Photography and Film, Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio, USA (solo exhibition)

Art Program, School of Art, California Institute of the Arts, Valencia, California, USA (solo exhibition)

The New West, curated by Jack Goldstein, The Kitchen, New York, New York, USA

Re-Visions, curated by John G. Hanhardt, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, New York, USA
1978: Morgan Fisher Exhibitions in 1978:

Collective for Living Cinema, New York, New York, USA (solo exhibition)

International Forum of Young Cinema, curated by John G. Hanhardt, Berlin International Film Festival, Berlin, GERMANY

Frameworks, Water Street Branch, Whitney Museum of American Art Artists' Film, Artists Space, New York
1976: Morgan Fisher Exhibitions in 1976:

Museum of Art, Carnegie Institute, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA (solo exhibiton)

Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, New York, USA (solo exhibition)

San Francisco Museum of Art, San Francisco, California, USA (solo exhibition)

Anthology Film Archives, New York, New York, USA (solo exhibition)

Museum of Modern Art, New York, New York, USA (solo exhibition)
1975: Morgan Fisher Exhibitions in 1975:

Pacific Film Archive; Berkeley, California, USA (solo exhibition)

San Francisco Art Institute, San Francisco, California, USA (solo exhibition)

The Very Eye of Light. A Primer in the Experimental Film, Pacific Cinematheque in collaboration with the Vancouver Art Gallery, Vancouver, British Columbia, CANADA (solo exhibition)

Canyon Cinematheque, San Francisco, California, USA (solo exhibition)

Stills, New American Filmmakers Series, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, New York, USA

Institute of Contemporary Art, London, UK
1974: Morgan Fisher Exhibitions in 1974:

Pratt Institute, Brooklyn, New York, USA (solo exhibition)

Thom Andersen / Morgan Fisher, Theatre Vanguard, Los Angeles, California, USA
1973: Morgan Fisher Exhibitions in 1973:

Millennium Film Workshop, New York, New York, USA (solo exhibition)

School of the Art Institute, Chicago, Illinois, USA (solo exhibition)

Independent Film Festival, National Film Theater, London, UK (solo exhibition)

Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA

Independent Film Festival, National Film Theatre, London, UK
1972: Morgan Fisher Exhibitions in 1972:

Film Section, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Boston, Massachusetts, USA (solo exhibition)
1970: Morgan Fisher Exhibitions in 1970:

Department of Theater Arts, UCLA, Los Angeles, California, USA (solo exhibition)

Information, Museum of Modern Art, New York, New York, USA

North American Filmmakers: At Home and Abroad, Tour program organized by the Film Department, Museum of Modern Art, New York, New York, USA

Public Collections

: Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, USA
: FRAC Ile-de-France, Paris, France
: Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, USA
: Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, USA
: Museum of Modern Art, New York, USA
: Moderna Museet, Stockholm, Sweden
: Deutsche Kinemathek, Berlin, Germany

Morgan Fisher

(American, born 1942)

Morgan Fisher

Morgan Fisher

Morgan Fisher

Morgan Fisher

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