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Sarah Morris

For 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.[2][3][4][5][a][8] She lives in New York City in the United States.[9]

Sarah Morris
Born20 June 1967
Sevenoaks, Kent, England
NationalityAmerican,[1] British[2][3][4][5]
EducationBrown University
Cambridge University
Known forpainting, film
AwardsBerlin Prize Fellow (1999–2000)
Joan Mitchell Foundation Award (2001)

Omaggio in Histoire(s) du cinéma at the Locarno Film Festival (2012) [6]

Artist in Focus at the Rotterdam International Film Festival[7]

Personal life and education

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Morris was born in Sevenoaks, Kent, in south-east England, on 20 June 1967.[4] She attended Brown University from 1985 to 1989, Cambridge University,[10] and the Independent Study Program of the Whitney Museum of American Art in 1989–90.[4] 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.[11] She was married to Liam Gillick.[10]

Work

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Morris works in both painting and film, and considers the two to be interconnected.[12]

From about 1997 her paintings were geometric Modernist grid designs with flat planes of colour; a related series was of glass-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.[4]

 
Robert Towne, 2006. Lever House, Manhattan

Morris's 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.[13] 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.[13][14]

Exhibitions

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She has shown internationally, with solo exhibitions at Hamburger Bahnhof in Berlin (2001),[15] Palais de Tokyo in Paris (2005),[16] Fondation Beyeler in Basel (2008),[17] Museum für Moderne Kunst in Frankfurt (2009),[18] Museo d’Arte Moderna di Bologna (2009),[19] and Musée National Fernand Léger in Biot (2012).[20]

She has created site-specific works for various institutions including the Lever House,[21] Kunsthalle Bremen in Germany,[22] Kunstsammlung Nordrhein-Westfalen Museum, Düsseldorf, Germany,[23] the lobby of UBS in New York City and the Gloucester Road tube station in London.[24]

Morris's films have been featured at the following:

Public collections

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Kennedy Center (Capital) (2001), National Museum of Women in the Arts, Washington, D.C.

Filmography

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  • Midtown (1998)[58]
  • AM/PM (1999)[58]
  • Capital (2000)[58]
  • Miami (2002)[58]
  • Los Angeles (2004)[58]
  • Robert Towne (2006)[58]
  • 1972 (2008)[58]
  • Beijing (2008)[59]
  • Points on a Line (2010)[60]
  • Chicago (2011)[61]
  • Rio (2012)[62]
  • Strange Magic (2014)[63]
  • Abu Dhabi (2016)[64]
  • Finite and Infinite Games (2017)[65]
  • Sakura (2019)

Other activities

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Origami lawsuit

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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. [67] 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.[68][69]

List of affected paintings/models
Painting title Year painted Square painting edge sizes Model title Model composer
Angel 2009 214 cm Harpy Jason Ku
Bat 2007 214 cm Bat Noboru Miyajima
Black Ant 2009 214 cm Harvestman (Phalangium) Manuel Sirgo
Calypte Anna 2007 214 cm Ruby-throated Hummingbird, opus 389 Robert J. Lang
2008 289 cm
Cat 2007 53.5 cm Cat Noboru Miyajima
214 cm
Chaser 2008 214 cm Dragonfly, opus 369 Robert J. Lang
Clerid Beetle 2009 214 cm Scorpion (Buthus) Manuel Sirgo
Crane 2008 214 cm Dancing Crane, opus 460 Robert J. Lang
Cuttlefish 2009 214 cm Sepia Manuel Sirgo
Dragon 2007 214 cm KNL Dragon, opus 132 Robert J. Lang
Falcon 2007 214 cm Cooper’s Hawk, opus 464 Robert J. Lang
2008 53.5 cm
Goatfish 2007 152.5 cm Goatfish, opus 202 Robert J. Lang
Grasshopper 2007 76.6 cm Grasshopper, opus 83 Robert J. Lang
289 cm
Hercules Beetle 2007 214 cm Hercules Beetle, opus 271 Robert J. Lang
June Beetle 2009 214 cm Cyclommatus metallifer Nicola Bandoni
Kawasaki Cube 2008 53.5 cm Kawasaki Cube #1 Toshikazu Kawasaki
53.5 cm
214 cm
2009 289 cm
Leaf Mantis 2009 214 cm Leaf Mantis Manuel Sirgo
Lion 2007 214 cm Lion Noboru Miyajima
Mommoth 2007 53.5 cm Mommoth Noboru Miyajima
214 cm
Mouse 2007 122 cm Rat, opus 159 Robert J. Lang
Night Hawk 2008 214 cm Stealth Fighter, opus 324 Robert J. Lang
Night Hunter 2007 214 cm Night Hunter, opus 469 Robert J. Lang
Orchis 2008 214 cm Orchid, opus 392 Robert J. Lang
Parrot 2009 214 cm Macaw Manuel Sirgo
Pegasus 2007 53.5 cm Pegasus, opus 325 Robert J. Lang
214 cm
Praying Mantis 2007 214 cm Praying Mantis, opus 246 Robert J. Lang
Rabbit 2007 122 cm Rabbit, opus 186 Robert J. Lang
Raccoon Dog 2007 122 cm Raccoon Dog Noboru Miyajima
Rhino Beetle 2008 214 cm Eupatorus gracilicornus, opus 476 Robert J. Lang
Rockhopper 2007 20.8 cm Penguin Noboru Miyajima
122 cm
2009 289 cm
Swan 2007 122 cm Swan Noboru Miyajima
214 cm
289 cm
2008 53.5 cm
Tarantula 2008 53.5 cm Tarantula Robert J. Lang
214 cm
Weasel 2007 76.6 cm Weasel Noboru Miyajima
214 cm
2008 122 cm
289 cm
Wolf 2007 289 cm Wolf Noboru Miyajima

Notes

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  1. ^ Sources are mixed in reporting her nationality[9][67]; Grove Art says that she is "American ... of English birth".[4]

References

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  5. ^ a b c "MoMA". MoMA.org. Retrieved 26 March 2015.
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  8. ^ "College of Fine Arts at the University of Texas". Landmarks. Retrieved 15 April 2021.
  9. ^ a b Alison Cuddy (17 December 2013). City Self exhibition attempts a portrait of Chicago. WBEZ91.5. Accessed April 2015.
  10. ^ a b Gaby Wood (23 May 2004). "Cinéma vérité". The Observer. Accessed March 2014.
  11. ^ Werner Miester (27 March 2010). Best Works by Sarah Morris on View at Gallery Meyer Kainer. Art Knowledge News. Archived 30 March 2010.
  12. ^ Holzwarth, Hans W. (2009). 100 Contemporary Artists A-Z (Taschen's 25th anniversary special ed.). Köln: Taschen. pp. 392–397. ISBN 978-3-8365-1490-3.
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  14. ^ Erskine Design. "Frieze Magazine - Archive - Archive - Sarah Morris". frieze.com. Archived from the original on 18 December 2008. Retrieved 26 March 2015.
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  16. ^ "Tokyonews 76". palaisdetokyo.com. Retrieved 26 March 2015.
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  18. ^ Erhard Metz (3 June 2009). Sarah Morris: Gemini Dressage. Feuilleton Frankfurt. Accessed May 2015.
  19. ^ D-sign.it. "Sarah Morris "China 9, Liberty 37"". mambo-bologna.org. Retrieved 26 March 2015.
  20. ^ Sarah Morris: Mechanical Ballet; November 17, 2012 - March 4, 2013 Archived April 29, 2014, at the Wayback Machine
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  65. ^ Briegleb, Till. "Wo Gretel herrscht". sueddeutsche.de (in German). ISSN 0174-4917. Retrieved 24 March 2017.
  66. ^ Artists Committee Americans for the Arts.
  67. ^ a b Dalya Alberge (5 June 2011). Tate artist Sarah Morris 'unfolded' our works, claim leading origami designers. The Observer. Accessed March 2018.
  68. ^ Dan Duray (28 May 2013). Beneath the Fold: The Twisted Tale of Origami v. Sarah Morris. New York: Observer. Accessed March 2018.
  69. ^ Sarah Morris Works Attribution. Robert J. Lang origami. Accessed March 2018.

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