Simon Morris
CURRICULUM VITAE SIMON MORRIS
Selected Solo Exhibitions
2022 Room of Time. City Gallery Wellington.
2021 When each action opens. Jhana Millers Gallery, Wellington
2020 Colour follows light, ight follows colour. Two Room Auckland
2019 When Light Meets Surface, Shibukawa, Japan.
2018 Falling Light. Two Rooms, Auckland
2017 Simon Morris. Alcove Space. Amsterdam.
2017 A whole and Two Halves. PS Project Space. Amsterdam.
2017 A Whole and Two Halves. Milford Gallery. Dunedin
2017 A Whole and Two Halves. Two Rooms, Auckland.
2015 Yellow Ochre Room. Christchurch Art Gallery.
2015 Black Water Colour Painting. Ilam School of Fine Arts, Christchurch.
2013 Water Colour Painting Two Rooms, Auckland.
2011 Blue Water Colour. The Dowse Art Museum.
2010 Black Water Colour, Dunedin Public Art Gallery
2010 Daily Paintings, Two Rooms, Auckland
2009 Folding Water, Two Rooms, Auckland
2009 Coloured Water March 2009. Lesley Kreisler Gallery, New Plymouth
2007 Coloured Water August 2007. 64Zero3, Christchurch
2007 Coloured Water July 2007. Roger Williams Contemporary, Auckland
2007 Homemade Mathematics The New Dowse, Lower Hutt
2006 Simon Morris: Coloured Time Drawing and a Pause. Lesley Kreisler Gallery, New Plymouth.
2005 Simon Morris: Painting Project 2000‐2005 Physics Room, Christchurch
2005 Sit Talk Look Write Litmus Research project. Massey university Wellington
2004 Three Orange Lines SHOW, Wellington
2002 Wall of Edges, Somewhere to sit, accumulation, and the time. Bartleynees Gallery, Wellington.
2002 Accumulations, and A List Lesley Kreisler Gallery
2002 Accumulations, The Time, and a Loop Anna Bibby Gallery, Auckland
2000 Loop Geometry Anna Bibby Gallery, Auckland
1998 Blink Anna Bibby Gallery, Auckland
1996 Structures Waikato Museum of Art and History, Hamilton
1994 Choice of Chance. University of Canterbury
1993 Options and Operations Centre For Contemporary Arts, Hamilton.
Selected Group Exhibitions
2022 Abstract Realities:The MAG&M Project. Manly Art Gallery and Museum. Sydney.
2022 Future Memory. Kaunas, Lithuania. Curated Sebastian Freytag, Lars Breuer and and Guido Munch.
2022 On The Line. Auckland Art Gallery. Curated by Julia Waite from the gallery collection.
2021 TRUE LOVE: A Tribute to Grant Lingard. Ilam Campus Gallery, School of Fine Arts Canterbury University.
2019 #01 Biennale of International Reductive and Non-Objective Art. The Stores building, Parramatta, Sydney
2019 #Migrating #Cookies&#Company,.! Kreisler Gallery, New Plymouth.
2019 Act of Reversal: Some Abstraction from China, New Zealand and Australia. Five Walls, Melbourne Australia.
2019 3CM Museum. Chi K11 Art Space. Shengyang, China
2018 Infinite Worlds / Infinite Probabilities. University of Southern Queensland Art Gallery, Australia
2017 Painting as Model. Two Rooms, Auckland.
2017 Table Manners. Play Station, Wellington
2016 Painting – A Transitive Practice. St. Paul St. Three. Auckland.
2016 Wallace Art Awards. Pah Homestead, Auckland.
2016 WestFarbe: Painting v’s Colour. Bonn and Gelsenkirrchen, Germany.
2016 Accumulations. Two Rooms.
2015 OP + Pop. Christchurch Art Gallery Te Puna o Waiwhetu.
2015 The Smoothing of things. Two Rooms.
2015 Colour and Line Are Not Lies. West Project, Sydney and Red Door Gallery, Toowoomba, Australia.
2014 Christoph Viral. Kunstmuseum Ahlen,Germany.
2014 SNO 108. Sydney Non Object. Sydney
2014 Frieze. Gow Langsfors Gallery, Auckland.
2014 Unstuck in Time. Te Tuhi Centre for the Arts. Auckland
2013 Living Space: Simon Morris and Brenda Sulivan. Enjoy Public Art Gallery, Wellington
2013 The Bold and the Beautiful. Two Rooms
2012 CONTACT. ARTISTS FROM AOTEAROA NEW ZEALAND. Frankfurter Kunstverein. Germany.
2012 El Retorno del Barrocco, Embassy of Mexico, Wellington.
2012 Gallery Abstract, Two Rooms, Auckland
2011 Rhyme and Reason, Gertrude Contemporary Melbourne, and St Paul Street Gallery, Auckland
2011 ROOTMEANSQUARE, Te Tuhi Centre for the Arts, Auckland.
2011 Aotearoa Baroque, MUCA Roma. Mexico City.
2011 Collecting Contemporary, Te Papa, Wellington
2011 Un-sited City Gallery Wellington
2011 Colour Light Time, Nellie Casten Gallery, Melbourne
2010 Colour Light Time, Two Rooms, Auckland
2010 Diagram. The Engine Room, Wellington. And The Project Space, RMIT, Melbourne
2009 Wall Works Adam Art Gallery, Wellington.
2009 SNO 50 Sydney Non Object, Sydney.
2009 Select Effect Export Te Tuhi Centre For the Arts, Auckland.
2009 Abstract Realities University of South Queensland, Toowoomba.
2009 Paper Works. Two Rooms, Auckland.
2009 Pour Faire Simple. Paris Concret, Paris.
2008 My Eyes Keep Me in Trouble. Sydney College of Arts Gallery, Sydney. The Physics Room, Chch
2008 Gesellschaft für Kunst und Gestaltung e.V.(GKG), Bonn
2008 Yo Mo Modernism. CCNOA Brussels.
2008 Are you Right Not to Like Modrn Art? Manawatu Public Art Gallery, Palmerston North.
2008 Crosstalk, Two Room, Auckland
2007 SOFA125, Christchurch Art Gallery. Christchurch
2007 Abstraction Roger Williams Contemporary, Auckland.
2007 Telecom Prospect 2007 City Gallery, Wellington.
2007 SNO 32. Shifting Trends: transitions in intuitive abstraction. Sydney.
2006 Summer Show Roger Williams Contemporary, Auckland
2006 Satellite New Zealand Pavillion Shanghai, China.
2006 SNO 14 Collected Uncollected. Sydney
2005 SNO 12 Sydney
2005 Transmission Craig Easton Simon Morris Jeena Shin 64zero3,Chch
2005 minimal approach…concrete tendencies Tin shed Gallery, University of Sydney.
2005 SNO 2 (Sydney Non Object), Sydney
2004 Sara Hughes and Simon Morris Bartley Nees Gallery, Wellington
2004 International Concrete Constructivist Art Connie Dietzschold Gallery, Sydney
2004 Abstract Realities MOP, Sydney
2004 Constructed Colour 4 Artspace, Sydney
2003 Living Room The Suter Gallery, Nelson
2003 Changing Times in Painting Connie Dietzschold Gallery, Sydney
2003 Past and Present Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongawera, Wellington
2003 Wall drawings Multiple box, Sydney
2002 Scape Art & Industry Biennale, Christchurch
2001 Prospect – New Art From New Zealand. City Gallery Wellington
2000 The Crystal Chain Gang New Gallery Auckland
2000 The Numbers Game Adam Art Gallery Victoria University Wellington
2000 Painted Spaces Australian Centre For Contemporary Art Melbourne,
New Gallery Auckland, Talbot Rice Gallery, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh
2000 Eloquent Polarites New Gallery, Auckland
1999 Jim Allen and Simon Morris Lesley Kreisler Gallery New Plymouth
1997 Signs of The times City Gallery, Wellington
1997 White Out New Gallery, Auckland
1997 In and Out of Place 101 Collin St Gallery Annex, Melbourne
1996 Lesley Kreisler Gallery
1995 A Very Perculiar Practice City Gallery, Wellington
1994 Parallel Lines - Gordon Walters in Context, ACAG Auckland
1994 Prototypes Linden Gallery, Melbourne
Architectural project / Collaborations / Commissions
2008 Measurement Level 5. Wall Drawing. Phillips Fox. Tower Building, Wellington
2007 Rainscreen The New Dowse. Collaboration with Athfield Architects Ltd,
The New Dowse, and Fraser engineering.
2007 Space in light / light in Space. Commission from Otago University School of Medicine and Health Science. Wellington, in collaboration with Athfield Architects
2000 Measurement Commission from Phillips Fox in conjunction with Architecture +. Tower Building, Wellington.
Awards
2016 Fulbright Wallace Trust Art Award, Including a Fulbright Scholarship and residency at Headland centre for the Arts, San Francisco USA.
2012 Deutsche Borse Residency. Frankfuter Kunstverein.
2008 Massey University College of Creative Arts. Mid-Career research award
2006 Creative New Zealand Grant for The Dowse Art Gallery Façade project
2005 Research Grant Simon Morris: Painting Projects 2000-2005. Massey School Of Fine Arts.
2003 Research grant for Painting, Dispacement, and somewhere to sit Massey University
1998 Research Grant for Wonder Wall, Waikato Polytechnic
1994 Research Grant for Structures, Waikato Polytechnic
Publications
2019 Easton.C, Acts of Reversal. Pub. Five Walls, Melbourne. Australia.
2018 Westfarbe. Kunstmuseum, Gelsenkirchen, Germany
2017 Painting: A transitive space. Pub. St Paul St. Gallery, Auckland
2017 Patrick, M, The Painting That Made Itself. Pub in Art News New New Zealand (Issue Autumn 2017)
2016 Painting: A Transitive Space. Pub. St Paul St Gallery, AUT, Auckland.
2015 Hall. K. OP + Pop, in Christchurch Art Gallery Te Puna o Waiwhetu. Pub. Christchurch Art Gallery.
2015 Patrick. M. Black Water Colour Painting 2015. Pub. Ilam School of Fine Arts. Christchurch.
2015 Phillips. Bruce E. Unstuck in Time. Pub. Te Tuhi Auckland.
2014 Reddaway R. El Barroco De Aotearoa. In Memorias 2009-2013. Pub. MUCA Roma. Mexico.
2012 Emmerling, L. and Kreisler, A. CONTACT. ARTISTS FROM AOTEAROA .
NEW ZEALAND. Pub. Frankfurter Kunstverein, Germany.
2011 Reddaway, R. El Barroco de Aotearoa. Pub. MUCA Roma, Mexico City
2011 Thomas, D. A Mid Point in Reason and Rhyme. Pub. Gertrude Contemporary,
Melbourne and St Paul St Gallery, AUT University Auckland.
2009 Hurrel, J. Folding Water. Pub. Australian Art Collector # 50.
2009 Rouse. J. Spatial Planes: Wall Works Marks a decade of Adam Art Gallery.
Pub. Art New Zealand #132.
2009 Jennings, N. Are You Right to Not Like Modern art. Pub. Te Manawa Public Art Gallery.
2009 Patrick.M Folding Water. Pub Two Rooms.
2009 Hoepfl, T. My Eyes Keep Me in Trouble. Pub. The Physics Room. Christchurch.
2007 Kreisler, A. Works Well With Others. Pub. New Zealand Listener
2007 Hurrell,J. Watching Time, Tracing Time, (Tracking Morris’s Coloured Line). Pub. 64Zero3 Gallery, Christchurch.
2007 Galbraith, H. Telecom Prospect 2007 Pub. City Gallery, Wellington.
2006 Jenkins, K. Constructed Colour. Co-Pub. University of South
Queensland, Artspace Sydney, Sydney Non Object Group.
2006 Kreisler, A. Painting Projects 2000 – 2005. Pub The Physics Room Annual Review.
2005 McAloon, W. Simon Morris: painting projects 2000 – 2005 Pub. The Physics Room, Christchurch.
2004 Curnow, B. New New Zealand Art Pub. Canary Gallery, Auckland
2003 McAloon. W. Living Room. Pub. The Suter, Nelson
2003 Thomas.D. Changing Times in Painting. Melbourne.
2001 Lara Strongman, prospect 2001 New Art From New Zealand. Pub. City
Gallery Wellington. www.newartnewzealand.org.nz
2001 Pat Fisher, Painted Spaces. Pub. The University of Edinburgh
2000 William McAloon, text Loop Geometry. Pub Simon Morris
2000 Allan Smith, The Crystal Chain Gang. Pub Auckland City Art Gallery
2000 Zara Stanhope, The Numbers Game. Pub. Victoria University Wellington
2000 Allan Smith, Painted Spaces. Pub David Thomas. Melbourne
2000 Allan Smith, Eloquent Polarities. Pub. Auckland City Art Gallery
1998 David Cross, Beyond Standard Issue Abstraction: The Art of Simon Morris, Pub. Waikato Polytechnic
1997 David Cross, Abstraction After Appropriation, in Signs of The Times, Pub. City Gallery, Wellington
1996 Lara Strongman, Ambience and Association in Structures, Pub. Waikato Museum of Art and History
1995 Warwick Brown, 100 New Zealand Painters Godwit Publishing, Auckland
1995 Allan Smith A Very Peculiar Practice Pub. City Gallery Wellington
1994 William McAloon Parallel Lines: Gordon Walters in Context Pub. Auckland Art Gallery
1998 Ben Curnow Prototypes Pub Linden Gallery, Melbourne
Collections
Chartwell Collection
Christchurch Art Gallery
Fletcher Collection, Auckland.
Kunstmuseum Ahlen, Germany
The Dowse Art Museum, Lower Hutt.
Te Papa Tongawera Museum of New Zealand
The Suter Art Gallery, Nelson.
Victoria University, Wellington.
Waikato Museum of Art and History
Wellington City Council Art Collection
Education and Employment and Service
1985 BFA Canterbury, Christchurch
1997 MFA RMIT, Melbourne
1999- Associate Professor, School of Art. Massey University. Wellington
2003-2005 Programme Leader School of Fine Arts.
2006-2008 Subject Director, School of Fine Arts
2009-2011 Director The Engine Room Art Gallery, SOA
2008-9 Creative New Zealand Visual arts assessment panel
Wellington City Council art collection committee
Hirchsfield Art Gallery Advisory committee
Massey University Art Committee.
Trustee C Art Trust.
Simon Morris was born in Kirikiriroa New Zealand 1963. Currently an artist and Associate Professor in the School of Art Whiti o Rehua, Massey University Wellington New Zealand.
