Statement
I am interested in what happens when a familiar image is rebuilt. In the Art History works, I return to well-known paintings and reinterpret them through my own material vocabulary. Acrylic and layered paint let images shift between control and accident; drips can obscure a face, sharpen a gesture, or turn a historic composition into something immediate.
Across portraits, geometric paintings, rock paintings, neon pieces, and installations, I am looking for tension between the inherited and the present, the pictorial and the physical. I want the work to feel recognizable but unsettled: an encounter with an image you may know, transformed through movement and color.
For all inquiries, contact me at morgan.sims@gmail.com.
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Education
2010 — Master of Fine Arts, University of Wisconsin, Madison, Madison, WI/USA
2004 — Bachelor of Fine Arts, University of Washington, Seattle, WA/USA
Selected exhibitions
2024 — Heavy Drip, Bertrand Productions, Philadelphia, PA/USA (solo)
2023 — Prism, Bertrand Productions, Philadelphia, PA/USA (solo)
2023 — Art on Paper, Bertrand Productions, New York, NY/USA (group)
2021 — Untitled Art Fair, Bertrand Productions, Miami, FL/USA (group)
2020 — Camouflage for Earth, Bert Green Fine Art, Chicago, IL/USA (solo)
2017 — Magnet Dust, Bert Green Fine Art, Chicago, IL/USA (solo)
2015 — Metropolis, Bert Green Fine Art, Chicago, IL/USA (solo)
Collections & commissions
2024 — Private commissions, Brooklyn, NY/USA and Boston, MA/USA
2022 — Private commission, Dallas, TX/USA
2021 — Private commissions, Riyadh/Saudi Arabia and Gainesville, FL/USA
2020 — Private commissions, Chicago, IL/USA
2017 — Neiman Marcus, Paramus, NJ/USA & MIN Art Collection, Mexico City/Mexico
2016 — Neiman Marcus, White Plains, NY/USA
2015 — BMO Harris Bank, Chicago, IL/USA
2014 — Neiman Marcus, Dallas,TX/USA
2012 — Neiman Marcus, Chicago, IL/USA
2006 — Seattle Portable Works, Seattle, WA/USA
Press
2024 — https://shoutoutla.com/meet-morgan-sims-artist
2024 — https://www.axios.com/local/philadelphia/2024/02/16/artist-morgan-sims-drip-philly-art
2013 — https://art.newcity.com/2013/07/30/portrait-of-the-artist-morgan-sims/