Morgan Fisher (b. 1942) lives and works in Los Angeles, California. Fisher completed his studies for a B.A. in Fine Arts at Harvard College in 1964, then went to Los Angeles to pursue a graduate degree in film, first at USC and then at UCLA. Fisher has been the subject of solo exhibitions and screenings at REDCAT, Los Angeles; Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; Tate Modern, London; Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles; Museum of Modern Art, New York; Portikus, Frankfurt am Main, Germany; Raven Row, London; Museum Abteilberg, Mönchengladbach, Germany; Generali Foundation, Vienna; and the Aspen Art Museum.
Exhibitions
Three New Paintings, I Mean Six
3 May – 8 Jun 2024
Bortolami Office
New Paintings
9 Sep – 29 Oct 2022
The Upstairs at 39 Walker
Morgan Fisher: Passing Time
25 Oct 2018 – 16 Feb 2019
RedCat
6 x 6 x 6 x 2
19 Oct – 20 Dec 2018
39 Walker
In Awe
13 Sep – 25 Oct 2017
Kunsthalle Exnergasse
Screening Room
10 Nov – 22 Dec 2016
Bortolami
Past Future Housing
21 Apr – 25 Jun 2016
MAK Center, Mackey Garage Top
Ordinary Pictures
27 Feb – 2 Oct 2016
Walker Art Center
Negative Film Boxes
10 Sep – 24 Oct 2015
Bortolami
Apparitions: Frottages and Rubbings from 1860 to Now
7 Feb – 31 May 2015
Hammer Museum
Interior Color Beauty
12 Sep – 19 Oct 2013
Bortolami
The Frame and Beyond
2 Mar – 29 Jul 2012
Generali Foundation, Wien
Translations
23 Oct 2011 – 5 Feb 2012
Museum Abteiberg, Mönchengladbach
New Work: Photographs and Works on Paper
7 Apr – 7 May 2011
Bortolami
Films and Paintings and In Between and Nearby
24 Feb – 24 Apr 2011
Raven Row, London
Portikus Looks at Itself
30 Jan – 15 Mar 2009
Portikus, Frankfurt
Press
Marjorie Welish Morgan Fisher’s non-conformity: Measured and potent Two Coats of Paint Oct 2022Tim Schneider 6 Dazzling Works at the ADAA’s Art Show, From Maira Kalman’s Gertrude Stein Portraits to Art Made Out of Saran Wrap Artnet News Feb 2019Christopher Knight Review: For Morgan Fisher, 50 years of ‘PassingTime’ in a vanishing world Los Angeles Times Jan 2019Christina Catherine Martinez Morgan Fisher Artforum Jan 2019Bert Rebhandl Highlights from the 2018 Berlinale Film Festival Frieze Feb 2018Morgan Fisher and Barshee Tenzing The Value of Rage Terremoto Feb 2017— Michel François, Liz Larner, Tony Lewis, Virgina Overton | Morgan Fisher: Screening Room GalleriesNow.net Nov 2016Drew Sawyer Morgan Fisher’s Melancholic Modernism Aperture Dec 2014Helen Molesworth Whitney Biennial Artforum May 2014Hrag Vartanian Whitney Biennial 2014: Stuart Comer on the Third Floor Hyperallergic Mar 2014Carol Vogel State of Our Art, According to Whitney The New York Times Feb 2014Christopher Knight Review: Morgan Fisher gets contemplative over color Los Angeles Times Jan 2014Valentina S Non ti Scordar di me | 01: Interior Color Beauty Cosebelle Dec 2013Blake Gopnik The Daily Pic: 1930s paint samples help Morgan Fisher get at abstraction’s heft The Daily Beast Oct 2013Caroline Elbaor Exhibition of new paintings by Morgan Fisher opens at Bortolami Gallery in New York Artdaily Sept 2013Jose Villareal Morgan Fisher: The Frame and Beyond opens at the Generali Foundation in Vienna Artdaily Jul 2012Christopher Knight Art review: The Hammer biennial 'Made in L.A. 2012' succeeds Los Angeles Times Jun 2012Simone Menegoi Displaced Reflections Kaleidoscope Sept 2011Jim Supanick Rules of Engagement: Morgan Fisher’s cinema of refusal and re- flexivity Film Comment May 2011Benjamin Richardson Bortolami Gallery: Addiction & The 50s Opening Ceremony News Apr 2011Jose Villareal Morgan Fisher's New Works, Photographs and Works on Paper at Bortolami Art Daily Apr 2011Tom Watson Monochrome: the color of funny Los Angeles Times Nov 2008P Adams Sitney Medium Shots: The Films of Morgan Fisher Artforum Jan 2006Bruce Hainley The Bigger Picture Frieze Oct 2005Christopher Knight Finding Conceptual Pleasure in Monochromes Los Angeles Times Jan 2002Writings
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“Morgan Fisher in conversation with Walead Beshty”
33 Texts: 93,614 Words: 581,035 Characters: Selected Writings (2003–2015) By Walead Beshty
December 2015 -
“Walead Beshty, Introduction: Morgan Fisher, Art Center College of Design, March 25, 2014”
33 Texts: 93,614 Words: 581,035 Characters: Selected Writings (2003–2015) By Walead Beshty
December 2015 -
“Passing Time and Untitled Statement”
Mousse Issue #46
December 2013 -
“Aspect Ratio Pieces”
Writings on Paintings, Works on Paper, Photographs, and Installations
2005 -
“Object Lessons: Morgan Fisher on Blinky Palermo”
Artforum
March 2011 -
“An Introduction to some of the works in the exhibition”
Films and Paintings and In Between And Nearby
2011 -
“Photographs of Old Boxes of Film”
2011 -
“Pendant Pair Paintings”
2007 -
“The Director and His Actor Look At Footage Showing Preparations For An Unmade Film (2)”
2005 -
“Door and Window Paintings”
2002 -
“Production Stills”
First published as a program note for a screening at The Collective For Living Cinema
1985 -
“()”
2004 -
“Standard Guage in Three Parts”
First published as a program note for a screening at The Collective For Living Cinema
1985