Paul Morrison was born in 1966 in Liverpool, UK. He obtained his BA in Fine Art at the Sheffield City Polytechnic, Sheffield. He then attended Goldsmiths College, London for a PG DIP in Fine Art, an MA in Fine Art and a PhD Program.
Paul Morrison is internationally renowned for his bold graphic-style monochrome paintings, site-specific wall paintings, sculptures and films. His work is constructed from a wide array of disparate found imagery scanned into a computer and then modified before being realised in different formats. About these dramatic scale shifts and uncanny juxtapositions Paul Morrison says: ‘I’m interested in cognitive landscape, the terrain that one sees, somewhere behind the eyes’.
Paul Morrison's works are included in major public and private collections, including the British Council collection, London; Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge; Fogg Art Museum, Harvard; Government Art Collection, London; RISD Museum, Rhode Island School of Design; Museum of Contemporary Art Denver, Denver; Museum of Modern Art, New York; Norton Collection, Santa Monica; The Victoria and Albert Museum, London.
Paul Morrison lives and works in Yorkshire, UK.
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2017
- Stadt Galerie, Saarbrücken, Germany
2015
- Tanja Pol Galerie, Munich, Germany
- Galerie Sabine Knust, Munich, Germany
2014
- Open Eye Gallery, Liverpool, UK
- Eclipse, PS, Amsterdam, Netherlands
2013
- Paul Morrison: Black Light, Dirimart, Istanbul, Turkey
- Florigen, Fondazione Volume, Rome, Italy
COLLECTIONS
- British Council Collection, London, UK
- Cranford Collection, London, UK
- Deutsche Bank, Germany
- Elgiz Museum, Istanbul, Turkey
- Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge, UK
- Fogg Art Museum, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA
- Government Art Collection, London, UK
- Graves Art Gallery, Sheffield, UK
- Invisible Museum, New York, USA
- Manchester City Art Gallery, Manchester, UK
- The Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY
- Museum of Contemporary Art, Denver, CO
- Museum of Art, Rhode Island School of Design, Providence, RI
- Norton Collection, Santa Monica, USA
- Phoenix Art Museum, Arizona, USA
- Rubell Collection, Miami, FL
- Simmons & Simmons, London, UK
- Southampton City Art Gallery, Hampshire, UK
- South London Gallery, London, UK
- Städel Museum, Frankfurt, Germany
- The Victoria and Albert Museum, London, UK
- Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool, UK
- Worcester City Art Gallery and Museum, Worcester, UK
- Zabludowicz Collection, London,
