Rebecca Morris (b.1969 Honolulu, Hawaii, lives and works in Los Angeles, CA) is known for her large-scale abstractions and an inventive approach to composition, color, and gesture. Working primarily with thin, matte washes of color juxtaposed with shimmering, metallic impasto, Morris’ practice demonstrates a rigorous commitment to experimentation, combining seemingly disparate patterns and motifs to generate exciting new outcomes and possibilities.

Morris was recently the subject of a solo exhibition at the Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago. The exhibition, curated by Jamillah James, traveled from the Institute of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, where it first opened in the Fall of 2022. The 21-year survey of Morris’ practice is the artist’s first major museum survey since 2005. Accompanying the exhibition is a new monograph on Morris; a 288-page catalogue featuring essays by Jamillah James, Anthony Elms, Alex Jen, Camila McHugh, and Hamza Walker, published by Institute of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles and DelMonico Books.

Other significant solo exhibitions of Morris’ work have been held at the Blaffer Art Museum, (2019); Bonnefanten Museum, Maastricht, Holland (2014); and The Renaissance Society, (2005). Her work has been included in numerous group exhibitions, including Inherent Structure, Wexner Center for the Arts (2018); Made in L.A. 2016: a , the, though, Hammer Museum, Los Angeles (2016); and the 2014 Whitney Biennial, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York. Other solo presentations include those at 356 Mission and LAXART, both in Los Angeles.

Her work can be found in various, esteemed public collections, including the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington, DC; Hammer Museum, Los Angeles; Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles; Museum of Contemporary Art, San Diego; Art Institute of Chicago; Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago; Sammlung Goetz, Munich, Germany; Bonnefanten Museum, Maastricht, Netherlands; and DePaul Art Museum, Chicago. She is the recipient of awards and fellowships from The John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation, Louis Comfort Tiffany Foundation, California Community Foundation Fellowship for Visual Art, and Art Matters Inc., among others.