About
Residency Dates
  • July 2009 – July 2009
Region
USA

Morgan Fisher is a filmmaker and visual
artist working mostly in painting. His films have shown at the New
York, Rotterdam, and Berlin Film Festivals. A retrospective of his
films was at Tate Modern, The Whitney Museum of American Art, and the
Museum of Contemporary Art (MoCA), Los Angeles. He exhibited
paintings at Galerie Daniel Buchholz, Cologne, in 2007 and in 2008 at
Art Unlimited at Art Basel and at China Art Objects Galleries, Los
Angeles. His most recent show was an architectural installation at
Portikus in Frankfurt. He was in the 1985 and 2004 Whitney Biennials.
He is the recipient of two grants from the National Endowment for the
Arts and a Guggenheim Fellowship. In 2007 he had a residency at
IASPIS (International Artists Studio Program in Sweden). His work is
in private collections in the United States and Europe, and in the
permanent collections of the Centre Georges Pompidou, the Moderna
Museet, the Museum of Modern Art, New York, The Whitney, and MoCA.
While at Montalvo he will prepare some writings for a book.