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Sarah Morris, Detector [Spiderweb]

Sarah Morris

Detector [Spiderweb]

2022

Household gloss paint on canvas

114 1/8 x 84 1/4 inches

290 x 214 cm

(SM 24/005)

I see the paintings as a sort of a modality of how you think about the perception of time, the city, and the disorientation all around us. Typically, I’m looking at the macro—New York, Las Vegas, Miami, Beijing—and how these chains of cities are interconnected. Places are linked to other places and it’s impossible to isolate them, not because of globalization, but just because of the history of civilization.

Sarah Morris, Artnet News, 2022

Sarah Morris -  - Viewing Room - Petzel Gallery

Sarah Morris was born in 1967 in Sevenoaks, United Kingdom and now lives and works in New York. Since the mid-1990s she has reinvigorated painting with her abstracted geometric snapshots of urban environments. Often working in distinct series that are created in conjunction with a film, she has explored the psychological typologies of Midtown Manhattan, Las Vegas, Paris, Rio de Janeiro, Abu Dhabi, and Osaka, among others.

Morris studied at Brown University and Cambridge University, and was a participant in the Whitney Independent Study Program. She received the Joan Mitchell Foundation Painting Award in 2001 and in 1999-2000 was an American Academy Award Berlin Prize Fellow.

In 2024, Morris’s new film ETC premiered on the façade of M+ and was screened nightly for two months. Jointly commissioned by M+ and Tai Kwun Contemporary, the ode to Hong Kong was subsequently featured in a Morris exhibition at the latter institution. In 2023, the Deichtorhallen Hamburg opened All Systems Fail, a major retrospective of Morris’s work. The exhibition traveled to the Kunstmuseen Krefeld, Germany; Zentrum Paul Klee, Bern; and Kunstmuseum Stuttgart.

Other major Morris solo exhibitions have taken place at the Fondation Beyeler, Basel; Fondation Louis Vuitton, Paris; Hamburger Bahnhof, Berlin; Hirshhorn Museum, Washington D.C.; LUMA Foundation, Zurich; Moderna Museet, Stockholm; Museum Boijmans van Beuningen, Rotterdam; Museum für Moderne Kunst, Frankfurt; Palais de Tokyo, Paris; UCCA, Beijing; and Wexner Center for the Arts, Columbus, Ohio, among others.

Morris has participated in the Baltic Triennial, Vilnius; Bienal de São Paulo; Busan Biennale; Liverpool Biennial; and Tate Triennial, London. Her films have been screened at the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, Los Angeles; Anthology Film Archive, New York; International Film Festival Rotterdam; Kino International, Berlin; Locarno Film Festival, Switzerland; and Rio de Janeiro International Film Festival, among others.

Her work is included in the collections of the Centre Pompidou, Paris; Fondation Louis Vuitton, Paris; Government Art Collection, London; Guggenheim Abu Dhabi; Guggenheim Museum, New York; Istanbul Museum of Modern Art; Jumex Collection, Mexico City; Kunsthaus Zürich; LUMA Foundation, Zurich & Arles, France; Museo de Arte Contemporáneo Buenos Aires; Museum fur Moderne Kunst, Frankfurt; Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles; Museum of Modern Art, New York; National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.; National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne; Pérez Art Museum Miami; San Francisco Museum of Modern Art; Schaulager, Basel; Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam; Tate Collection, London; and Victoria and Albert Museum, London, among others.

Installation view, Sarah Morris, All Systems Fail, Zentrum Paul Klee, Bern, 2024

Installation view, Sarah Morris, All Systems Fail, Zentrum Paul Klee, Bern, 2024

Installation view, Sarah Morris, All Systems Fail, Zentrum Paul Klee, Bern, 2024

Installation view, Sarah Morris, All Systems Fail, Zentrum Paul Klee, Bern, 2024

Installation view, Sarah Morris, Who is Who, Tai Kwun, Hong Kong, 2024

Installation view, Sarah Morris, Who is Who, Tai Kwun, Hong Kong, 2024

Installation view, Sarah Morris, Who is Who, Tai Kwun, Hong Kong, 2024

Installation view, Sarah Morris, Who is Who, Tai Kwun, Hong Kong, 2024

Installation view, Sarah Morris, ETC, M+, Hong Kong, 2024

Installation view, Sarah Morris, ETC, M+, Hong Kong, 2024

Installation view, Sarah Morris, ETC, M+, Hong Kong, 2024

Installation view, Sarah Morris, ETC, M+, Hong Kong, 2024

Installation view, Sarah Morris, All Systems Fail, Kunstmuseen Krefeld, 2024

Installation view, Sarah Morris, All Systems Fail, Kunstmuseen Krefeld, 2024

Installation view, Sarah Morris, All Systems Fail, Kunstmuseen Krefeld, 2024

Installation view, Sarah Morris, All Systems Fail, Kunstmuseen Krefeld, 2024

Installation view, Sarah Morris, All Systems Fail, Deichtorhallen Hamburg, 2023

Installation view, Sarah Morris, All Systems Fail, Deichtorhallen Hamburg, 2023

Installation view, Sarah Morris, All Systems Fail, Deichtorhallen Hamburg, 2023

Installation view, Sarah Morris, All Systems Fail, Deichtorhallen Hamburg, 2023

Odysseus Factor, Ullens Contemporary Center for the Arts, 2018 , Installation view 

Odysseus Factor, Ullens Contemporary Center for the Arts, 2018 

Installation view 

Odysseus Factor, Ullens Contemporary Center for the Arts, 2018 , Installation view 

Odysseus Factor, Ullens Contemporary Center for the Arts, 2018 

Installation view 

Odysseus Factor, Ullens Contemporary Center for the Arts, 2018 , Installation view 

Odysseus Factor, Ullens Contemporary Center for the Arts, 2018 

Installation view 

Sawdust and Tinsel, Contemporary Arts Center, 2018, Installation view

Sawdust and Tinsel, Contemporary Arts Center, 2018

Installation view

Machines do not make us into machines, White Cube, 2018, Installation view

Machines do not make us into machines, White Cube, 2018

Installation view

Hellion Equilibrium, 39 Av - Dutch Kills station, 2018, Installation view

Hellion Equilibrium, 39 Av - Dutch Kills station, 2018

Installation view

Monarch, 2017, Installation view

Monarch, 2017

Installation view

Finite and Infinite Games, Petzel Gallery 2017 , Installation view

Finite and Infinite Games, Petzel Gallery 2017 

Installation view

Finite and Infinite Games, Petzel Gallery, 2017, Installation view

Finite and Infinite Games, Petzel Gallery, 2017

Installation view

Video

Clip from:

Sarah Morris

Finite and Infinite Games

2017

Film

Length:

40:16

Edition of 5, 2AP