Biography
EDUCATION |
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| 1984 | BA (Hons) Birmingham College of Art (now UCE) |
| 1991 | MA Goldsmiths College, University of London |
| 1998 - 2000 | Goldsmiths' College, University of London (Two year research bursary with studio) |
| 2007 | PhD, University of the Arts, London (Three-year full time studentship) |
EXHIBITIONS |
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| 2018 | Reflex II, Group Show, Bartha Contemporary, London |
| 2017 | For Eternity: Archival Strategies in Art, Group Show, Kunstraum Alexander Bürkle, Germany Intuition, Group Show, Palazzo Fortuny, Venice* En l’occurrence, Group Show, CEAAC, Strasbourg, France* No Secrets, Group Show, ERES-Stiftung Munich, Germany* Real Print, Group Show, Valentines, Los Angeles, USA Drawing Biennial (Fundraising exhibition), Group Show, Drawing Room London.* |
| 2016 | Self Moderation, Solo show, CentrePasquArt, Biel, Switzerland* Thinking in Algorithms, Group show, Scheublein + Bak, Zürich, Switzerland ...und eine welt noch, Group show, Kunsthaus Hamburg, Germany No Fun Without EU, Group Show, One-day protest event, London |
| 2015 | Compression, Group show, Ormston House, Ireland* Drawing Biennial (Fundraising exhibition), Group Show, Drawing Room London.* |
| 2014 | A Work in Progress, Solo Show, Stags Head Public House, London La Collection Impossible, Group Show, Fondation Fernet-Branca à Saint-Louis, France* |
| 2013 | Whisper Down the Lane, Group Show, Gallery 400, University of Illinois at Chicago, USA.* Lumin, Group Show, Old St. Clements Hospital, London. Drawing Biennial (Fundraising exhibition), Group Show, Drawing Room London.* |
| 2012 | Motion Capture: Drawing and the Moving Image in Contemporary Art, Group Show, Lewis Glucksman Gallery, Cork. Toured to the Regional Cultural Centre, Letterkenny, Ireland.* Susan Morris: Untitled Motion Capture Drawings, Solo Show, Art Exchange, University of Essex. Sun Dial: Night Watch, Solo Show: Permanent installation of tapestries at the John Radcliffe Hospital, Oxford. Susan Morris: Untitled Motion Capture Drawings, Solo Show, London Gallery West, London.* |
| 2011 | BRC Open Day, (Solo Exhibition of posters and tapestry) John Radcliffe Hospital, Oxford. Sun Dial: Night Watch, Solo Show: Exhibition of Jacquard tapestry, Cheltenham Science festival. Drawing Biennial (Fundraising exhibition), Group Show, Drawing Room London.* Tracing a Bodily Unconscious, Solo Show, Examination Rooms, Oxford University. |
| 2009 | Sontag Montag: Drawings, Recordings and Diagrams by Susan Morris, Solo Show, Five Years, London.* Timewarp, Group Show, CRAC, Alsace, France.* Free Association, Group Show, Area 53, Vienna. Biennial Fundraising exhibition, Group Show, Drawing Room, London.* |
| 2008 | False Friends, with Clive Hodgson, Five Years, London. Academics Find Formula for 14 Extra Years of Life, Solo Show, Clockwork Gallery, Berlin. Betseyʼs Salon, Group Show, Presentation of video work to live audience, London. Honey Honig, Group Show, AutoItalia, London. Underwood, Group Show, Ballhaus Ost, Berlin.* |
| 2007 | Video Art Festival, Group Show, Prague, Czechoslovakia. Our Period, with Mathew Hale, Five Years, London. On My Nervous Illness, Solo Show: PhD Viva Exhibition, CSM College, University of the Arts, London. |
| 2006 | Always on My Mind, Solo Show, Platform Gallery, London. Arts Council funded. Frenzy, Group Show, The Metropole Galleries, Folkestone.* The Society of London Ladies, Group Show, Paris. Outdoors, Group Show, Danielle Arnaud Gallery, London. |
| 2003 | Adddiction, Co-curator and exhibitor, Group Show, London. Sense and Nonsense, Group Show, Danielle Arnaud Gallery, London. Tender Prey, Group Show, Arti et Amicitiae, Amsterdam.* The Group of Seven, Group Show, Platform Gallery, London. |
| 2002 | Silence and Darkness, (Co-curator and exhibitor), Group Show, Outline, Amsterdam. Between Two Deaths, Solo Show, Museum Van Nagsael, Rotterdam. Two Step, Group Show, CCNOA, Brussels. |
| 2001 | Eat. Fuck. Die., Group Show, Platform Gallery, London. Starring, Group Show, Five Years, London. The Difference Between You and Us, Group Show, Five Years, London. |
| 2000 | Perspective 2000, Group Show, Ormeau Baths, Belfast.* The Haunting, Solo Show, Five Years Gallery, London. For Your Eyes Only, Group Show, London and Essex. Dark Pop, Group Show, London. John, I'm Only Dancing, Group Show, London and Edinburgh.* |
| 1999 | Desire, Solo Show, Project 304, Bangkok.* Project for Make Magazine, (Solo) Issue no. 84, June 1999. * Ritual, Group Show, Danielle Arnaud Gallery, London. Interior/Interior, Group Show, A Five Years Project at Danielle Arnaud Gallery, London. Resolute, Group Show, Platform Gallery, London. |
| 1998 | Silent Movies, Group Show, Co-curator and exhibitor, Five Years Gallery, London. Playing And Reality, Group Show, Curator and exhibitor, Salon II, London. What Is A Photograph?, Group Show, Co-curator and exhibitor, Five Years, London. Whitechapel Open, Group Show, Whitechapel Art Gallery, London. United in Death, Group Show, Curator and exhibitor: Exhibition on C.D. and Gallery Installation, Cambridge Darkroom.* The School of Beautiful Art, Group Show, Curator and exhibitor, Tower Hamlets College, London |
| 1997 | On Boredom, Group Show, Curator and exhibitor. Exhibition on C.D. Distributed by post. Launch party and screening, I.C.A., London* Between Hits, Solo Show, Accident Gallery, London Accident, Group show, Accident Gallery, London |
| *Indicates catalogue/publication | |
SELECT BIBLIOGRAPHY |
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| 2018 | (Forthcoming) ‘Fortuna: Drawing, Materiality and Contingency in a Digital Age’ by Ed Krcma in O Que Nos Faz Pensar, Journal of the Philosophy Department of PUC-Rio, Brazil. (Forthcoming) ‘Towards a History of the Portrait, the Anti-portrait, and What Comes After’, by Michael Newman, in Anti-Portraiture: Challenging the Limits of the Portrait, edited by Christie Imber & Fiona Johnstone, IB Tauris, London |
| 2017 | Photography, Trace and Trauma, Margaret Iversen, University of Chicago Press |
| 2016 | ‘One-Twenty-Two’ by Briony Fer, and ‘Compelled to Count’ by Sadie Plant, both in Self Moderation, Verlag für Moderne Kunst. |
| 2015 | ‘Marking Time: Susan Morris’s Tapestries and Diaries’ by Margaret Iversen, in SunDial:NightWatch_Tapestry Dossier, Drawing Room London. |
| 2012 | ‘Index, Diagram, Graphic Trace’ by Margaret Iversen and ‘Lightning and Rain: Phenomenology, Psychoanalysis and Matisse’s Hand’ in Tate Papers, No. 18; Special Issue on Involuntary Drawing edited by Margaret Iversen. ‘Time Held Up’ by Ed Krčma, and ‘Some Notes on Seeing Ghosts’ by Matthew Packer, in Motion Capture: Drawing and the Moving Image, edited by Matt Packer & Fiona Kearney, Lewis Glucksman Gallery, Ireland. |
| 2009 | ‘Kafka’s Ear’ by Briony Fer; ‘Figuring Futility’ by Ed Krčma and ‘On Susan Morris, or, The Shadow of the Object’ by Margaret Iversen; in Sontag Montag, Five Years, London. |
PUBLIC PAPERS |
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| 2017 | Twenty Years of Boredom, Symposium, UCL, London Inarticulations, Public Lecture, HdK, Zürich, Switzerland Diary as Novel: The writing of the Neutral? Lifework Symposium, UCL, London |
| 2015 | Standard Deviation: Time and the Body, Symposium, Drawing Room London |
| 2013 | The Body That Goes Its Own Way: Involuntary Drawing as Displaced Self-Portraiture, Anti-Portraiture Symposium, Birkbeck College, University of London. Keynote Speaker. |
| 2012 | Drawing in the Dark, ʻInvoluntary Drawingʼ symposium, University of Westminster. (Accompanying solo exhibition of my Motion Capture Drawings, London Gallery West.) Expanding Drawing, ‘Lines of Thought’ symposium, Lewis Glucksman Gallery, Cork. Susan Morris: Presentation of Motion Capture Drawings, ʻThe Art, Theory and Practice of Movement Capture', Symposium, London Knowledge Lab, University of London |
| 2011 | I Dream of Deluge, Presentation of Motion Capture Drawings at Ideas Sharing Forum, The Drawing Room, London |
| 2010 | Drawing on the Index, ʻMaking in Two Modesʼ Conference, University of Cork, Ireland. Da... Dada... Da, Da, Da. Paper presented at the 25th Anniversary Conference, Centre for Freudian Analysis and Research: 'Lacan in the UK: Art, Clinic, Feminism, Literature'. |
| I Keep a Close Watch on this Heart of Mine, Seminar, UCL, London | |
| 2003 - 2006 | Annual presentation of PhD research. University of the Arts, London. |
| 2002 | On The Blank, ‘Psychoanalysis and Art’, Tate Modern. With Victor Burgin, Sharon Morris and Clare Bishop. |
AWARDS FOR INDIVIDUAL PROJECTS |
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| 2015 | Wellcome Trust grant to produce artist’s book documenting the production of a series of Jacquard tapestries, with concurrent diary notations. |
| 2015 | Arts Council grant to produce new Jacquard tapestry derived directly from data recording sleep/wake patterns, over a continuous period of five years. |
| 2010 | Wellcome Trust grant to produce large tapestries from sleep/wake patterns. Collaboration with the Nuffield Laboratory of Ophthalmology, University of Oxford. |
| 2009 | Arts Council Grant to produce automatic drawings using Motion Capture Studio at Culture Lab, Newcastle University. |
| 2006 | Arts Council Grant to produce new text-based work using 'Concordance' software. Collaboration with neurologist Dr Peter Garrard, University of London. |
| 2005 | Funding from the University of the Arts London, plus sponsorship from Cambridge Neurotechnology, Cambridge, and Imperial College, London, to produce automatic drawings generated by the body using medical-scientific devices such as an 'Actiwatch' and 'Actiheart'. |
| 2003 | Travel Grant from British Council to perform a reading of essay Tender Prey. |
| 1999 | Travel Grant from British Council to install exhibition Desire in Bangkok, Thailand. |
PUBLICATIONS, ARTICLES, PROJECTS |
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| 2014 | 'The Penguin Freud Library', Susan Morris, in All the Libraries in London (website project). |
| 2013 | 'Drawing a Blank', Susan Morris, in Journal of the Centre for Freudian Analysis and Research, Issue 20 |
| 2012 | Drawing in the Dark, Article published by Tate Papers, November 2012 (Issue 18). Part of a special edition on Involuntary Drawing, edited by Professor Margaret Iversen. |
| 2010 | Drawing a Blank, Illustrated essay for JCFAR, Vol 20. (Journal of the Centre for Freudian Research and Analysis) Book cover (detail of Motion Capture Drawing) for Writing Art History, Disciplinary Departures, Margaret Iversen and Stephen Melville, University of Chicago Press. |
| 2009 | Sontag Montag: Drawings, Recordings and Diagrams by Susan Morris. Exhibition catalogue, with essays by Ed Krčma, Margaret Iversen and Briony Fer. Edited by Deirdre OʼDwyer. Published by Five Years. |
| 2008 | Our Periodical ('Combination Piece No. 2'), with Mathew Hale. Inset page for Five Years Periodical, vol 1, number 2. |
| 2007 | Museum Van Nagsael : Celebrating 11 years. Contributor (photo-essay). Launched January 2007, Museum Boijmans-Van Beuningen, Rotterdam. On My Nervous Illness, Artistsʼ Book. PhD submission, University of the Arts, London. |
| 2006 | Platform 1998–2006. Gallery Retrospective Catalogue. Contributor (Documentation of three exhibitions). Launched June 2006, Platform Gallery, London. Frenzy, Text for catalogue accompanying exhibition ʻFrenzyʼ, Metropole Galleries, Folkestone. Supported by the Arts Council. Published by Five Years. |
| 2003 | Tender Prey, Text for catalogue of exhibition ʻTender Preyʼ, Arti et Amicitiae, Amsterdam. Supported by the British Council. Published by Marc Hulson and Mariette Rensen, Amsterdam. |
| 2002 | On The Blank, Essay for Filmwaves Magazine, Guest Editor. Contributors: Lucy Steeds on Marcel Broodthaers, Lucy Reynolds on Stan Douglas, Marc Hulson on Edward Dorrian, Malcolm Le Grice on ʻShoot, Shoot, Shootʼ and Ruth Blue on Robert Bresson. |
| 2000 | Experience (Editor/ Contributor) 'Four essays on Experience'. Contributions from cultural theorist Kate Love, psychoanalyst Darian Leader, barristers Anthony Heaton Armstrong and David Wolchover. With my artwork and writing. Supported by Goldsmithsʼ College and CSM School of Art and Design. Book published by Looseleaf. Make Magazine: 'Surveillance Issue'. Artistsʼ project. Centre-page spread of art work. |
| 1998 | United In Death. (Editor/ Curator). A collection of artworks produced and exhibited on computer. Published as a book with C.D. Texts by David Kirkup and Marc Hulson. Computer-based art works also exhibited at Cambridge Darkroom Gallery, March-April 1998. Contributing artists: Alan Ball, Edward Dorrian, Mathew Hale, Marc Hulson, Patrick McBride, Catherine Yass and myself. Supported by Eastern Arts (Winning an Award for Development of New Work) and the Cambridge Interactive T.V. project (Anglia Telematics Research). Published by Cambridge Darkroom Gallery. Designed by Barnbrook Studios. |
| 1997 | On Boredom (Editor/Curator.) C.D. Rom and paper publication of artworks produced on computer. Contributing artists: Jeremy Akerman, Alan Ball, Edward Dorrian, Mathew Hale, Robert Mabb, Anna Mossman, Mariele Neudecker and myself. Introductory essay by myself. Main catalogue essays by David Bate and Andrew Benjamin. Supported by the Arts Council of England and Studio Fish. C.D with fold-up catalogue distributed by post by the Institute of Contemporary Arts, London. Launched at the ICA, in the Nash and Brandon rooms, on 17th December 1997. Published by Cambridge Darkroom Gallery and the ICA. Designed by Jonathan Barnbrook. |