Born in Brunswick, GA, 1968
Lives and works in Los Angeles, CA
Education
1997 MFA, Alfred University, School of Ceramics, Alfred, NY
1993 BA, California State University, Hayward, CA
Solo Exhibitions
2019 Jennifer Aniston’s Used Book Sale, Felix Art Fair, Los Angeles, CA
2017 There’s No Need to Fear, Marc Selwyn Fine Art, Beverly Hills, CA
2016 Kristen Morgin: My Best to You, Little Girl – Boy, Anthony Meier Fine Arts, San Francisco, CA
Kristen Morgin: SO IT GOES, A-B Projects, Scripps College, Claremont, CA
2015 Kristen Morgin: Messages to My Twenty Year Old Self, Marc Selwyn Fine Art, Beverly Hills, CA
2014 Kristen Morgin: The Super Can Man and Other Illustrated Classics, Zach Feuer, New York, NY
Kristen Morgin: Things I Learned from Comic Books and Bumper Stickers, GHP Exhibition, Jane Hartsook
Gallery at Greenwich House Pottery, New York, NY
2013 Kristen Morgin New Work, Anthony Meier Fine ArtcPark Avenue ADAA, New York, NY
2012 The 21 Days Show, University of Georgia, Lamar Dodd School of Art, Gallery 101, Athens, GA
Snow White in Evening Wear and Other Works, Marc Selwyn Fine Art, Los Angeles, CA
2010 New York Be Nice, Zach Feuer Gallery, New York, NY
Huckleberry Finn, Wattis Institute, San Francisco, CA
2009 Cellos, Marc Selwyn Fine Art, Los Angeles, CA
The Exhibition Formerly Known as Passengers, CCA Wattis Institute for Contemporary Art, Kent and Vicky Logan Galleries, California College of the Arts, San Francisco, CA
2008 objects for everyone I have ever known, Marc Selwyn Fine Art, Los Angeles, CA
2006 Untitled Exhibition, Marc Selwyn Fine Art, Los Angeles, CA
2004 The Third Movement, Viento y Agua Gallery, Long Beach, CA
2001 The Ticking Elephant and Other Surviving Excerpts of the Hope Symphony, Cuesta College Art Gallery, San Luis Obispo, CA
Group Exhibitions
2021 Felix Art Fair 2021, Hollywood Roosevelt Hotel, Los Angeles, CA
A Dead Reckoning: Navigating Contemporary Ceramics, Pensacola Museum of Art, Pensacola, FL
Psychosomatic, Various Small Fires, Los Angeles, CA
Possibility Made Real, Drawing and Clay, 12.26 Gallery, Dallas, TX
2020 Total Collapse: Clay in the Contemporary Past, Arizona State University Art Museum, Tempe, AZ
Have to Hold, LAUNCH LA, Los Angeles, CA
2019 Total Collapse: Clay in the Contemporary Past, The Rubin Arts Center at the University of Texas at El Paso, El Paso, TX
2018 I Love to Ride My Bicycle, San Diego State University Downtown Gallery, San Diego, CA
The Incongruous Body, American Museum of Ceramic Art, Pomona, CA
Conceptual Craft II, DENK Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
Melting Point: Movements in Contemporary Clay, Craft and Folk Art Museum, Los Angeles, CA
2017 Interstitial, Pasadena Museum of California Art, Pasadena, CA
2016 Visions and Revisions: Renwick Invitational 2016, Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington, DC
The Treachery of Objects, Fine Arts Center Gallery at the University of Arkansas, Fayetteville, AR
2015 Walkers: Hollywood Afterlives in Art and Artifact, Museum of the Moving Image, Astoria, NY
2013 Reverberation, Huntington Beach Art Center, Huntington Beach, CA
2012 Our Cups Runneth Over, The Society of Arts and Crafts, Boston, MA
The Stumbling Present: Ruins in Contemporary Art, UCSB Art, Design & Architecture Museum, Santa Barbara, CA
Under the Table, Fort Worth Contemporary Arts, Fort Worth, TX
Fragile, Seattle Design Center, Seattle, WA
2011 Untitled (12 TH Istanbul Biennial), Antrepo 3 & 5, Meclis-I Mebusan Caddesi, Liman Isletmeleri Sahasi, Istanbul, Turkey
Overthrown: Clay Without Limits, Denver Art Museum, Denver, CO
Breakdown, Chapman University, Guggenheim Gallery, Orange, CA
Exposed, American Museum of Ceramic Art, Pomona, CA
2010 Huckleberry Finn, CCA Wattis Institute for Contemporary Arts, San Francisco, CA
Underground Pop, Parrish Art Museum, Southampton, NY
Even Better Than the Real Thing; The Art of the Uncanny, Wignall Museum of Contemporary Art, Chaffey College, Rancho Cucamonga, CA
The End of The World, Biola University Art Gallery, La Mirada, CA
2009 Wet and Letherhard, Larimore Projects, Seattle, WA
Wide Angle 3: Discovered / Undiscovered, The Smog Shoppe and The University Art Museum, Long Beach, CA
An Expanded Field of Possibilities, Santa Barbara Contemporary Arts Forum, Santa Barbara, CA
2008 At The Brewery Project, 1993 – 2007: The Finale, Armory Center for the Arts, Pasadena, CA
LA Now, Las Vegas Art Museum, Las Vegas, NV
The Exhibition Formerly Known as Passengers, CCA Wattis Institute for Contemporary Art, Kent and Vicky Logan Galleries, California College of the Arts, San Francisco, CA
2007 Unmonumental: The object in the 21st Century, The New Museum, New York, NY
Sculptors’ Drawings: Ideas, Studies, Sketches, Proposals, and More, Angles Gallery, Santa Monica, CA
Hammer Contemporary Collection: Part II, Hammer Museum, Los Angeles, CA
Red Eye: LA Artists from the Rubell Family Collection, Rubell Family Collection, Miami, FL
2006 RAW, Northern Clay Center, Minneapolis, MN
2005 The 3RD World Ceramic Biennale: Trans-Ceramic-Art: Beyond Medium, Icheon World Ceramic Center, Icheon, Korea
Thing: New Sculpture from Los Angeles, Hammer Museum, Los Angeles, CA
61st Ceramic Annual, Ruth Chandler Williamson Gallery, Scripps College, Claremont, CA
2004 Unscenery, Raid Projects, Los Angeles, CA
Now Here, The Brewery Project, Los Angeles, CA
Because the EARTH IS 1/3 DIRT, Colorado University Art Museum & The Colorado Collection, Boulder, CO
Play Pause, SCA Gallery, Pomona, CA
2003 Unscenery, Cypress College Art Gallery, Cypress, CA
2002 Faculty Biennial: Who Inspired You?, University Art Museum, Long Beach, CA
The Body: Minded Problem in the 21ST Century, Max L. Gatov Gallery, Long Beach, CA
New Territory, Belger Art District, Kansas City, MO
2001 To Be Continued, Cerritos College Art Gallery, Cerritos, CA
Menagerie at NCECA 2001, Gaston College Galleries, Dallas, NC
Menagerie: Animal Imagery in Contemporary Ceramics, Covivant Gallery, Tampa, FL
2000 Long Beach 2000, Faculty Biennial, University Art Museum, Long Beach, CA
Menagerie, Kirkland Arts Center, Kirkland, WA
1999 Common Threads, Diane Nelson Fine Art Gallery, Laguna Beach, CA
1998 Five Sculptors / Figurative Work, Diane Nelson Fine Art Gallery, Laguna Beach, CA
International Contemporary Ceramics: From the Igal and Diane Silber Collection, Laguna Art Museum, Laguna, CA
1997 MFA Thesis Exhibition, Fosdick-Nelson Gallery, Alfred, NY
AWARDS & ARTIST RESIDENCIES
2017 Voulkos Visiting Artist Fellowship, Helena, MT
2011 Lamar Dodd Professorship of Art, University of Georgia
2005 Joan Mitchell Award
COLLECTIONS
Alfred University, Alfred, NY
Dean Valentine
Diane and Igal Silber
Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, CA
Lowell and Lucille Morgin
Rubell Family Collection
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, CA
Hammer Museum, Los Angeles, CA
Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington D.C.
PUBLICATIONS AND EXHIBITION CATALOGUES
Overthrown: Clay Without Limits., Published by Overseas Printing Corporation, San Francisco, CA, Copyright 2011 by the Denver Art Museum
Underground Pop., Published in conjunction with the exhibition by the Parrish Art Museum, Southampton, NY, Copyright 2010 by DigiLink, Inc.
500 Ceramic Sculptures., Published at 387 Park Avenue South, New York, NY 10016, Copyright 2009 by Lark Books
a Division of Sterling Publishing Co., Inc.
Unmonumental : The Object in the 21st Century., In association with The New Museum, 235 Bowery, New York, NY, Copyright 2007 by Phaidon Press Limited, London , N1 9PA
Breaking the Mould: New Approaches to Ceramics., Copyright 2007 by Black Dog Publishing Limited,
Unit 4,4 Tea Building, 56 Shoreditch High St.London, E1 6JJ
World Contemporary Ceramics: Trans-Ceramic-Art The 3rd World Ceramic Biennale 2005., Korea, Copyright 2005 by the World Ceramic Exposition Foundation
Thing: New Sculpture from Los Angeles., Published by the Armand Hammer Museum of Art and Cultural Center, Copyright 2005 by the Trustees of Scripps College
because the EARTH IS 1/3 DIRT, Published by the CU Art Museum., University of Colorado at Boulder, Copyright 2004 by the Regents of the University of Colorado / CU Art Museum
ARTICLES AND EXHIBITION REVIEWS
Kogei - Seika Vol.14., SHINCHOSHA Publishing Co.,Ltd. June 10, 2020
The Underdog on Post-it notes and other nostalgic bits, revived with a twist., Los Angeles Times, June 29, 2017
KRISTEN MORGIN., Alyssa Cordova, Artillery, June 21, 2017
Works of Painting and Sculpture at The Biennial of Cuenca., El Tiempo Ecuador, December 2, 2016
PMCA Presents the Exhibition Interstitial., Pasadena Independent. November21, 2016
This Game of Monopoly Is Made Entirely of Clay., Palmer, Alex. Smithsonian, October 4, 2016.
Books Made of Clay! And Lots More., Elizalde Molly, Sweet, February, 2016.
Conjuring Hazy Memories with Kristen Morgin’s Trompe L’oeil Clay Sculptures., Artsy, May, 2016.
Kristen Morgin., Helmke, Juliet. Modern Painters, February
Kristen Morgin’s ‘My Best To You, Little Girl-Boy’ at Anthony Meier Fine Arts., Graver David. Cool Hunting, February 25, 2016.
Hollywood’s ‘Walkers’: A Museum Show on How Movies Make Us Zombies., Robinson, Walter. The New York Observer, December 2, 2015
Kristen Morgin:Messages to my Twenty Year Old Self., George Melrod, WHITHOUT MAGAZINE, August, 2015
Kristen Morgin's personal inventory., David Pagel, The Los Angeles Times, 2015
Kristen Morgin: 'The Super Can Man and Other Illustrated Classics., Johnson Ken, The New York Times, April, 2014
Going Solo Has Its Day, in a Hodgepodge of Styles., Johnson Ken, The New York Times, March 7, 2013.
Kristen Morgin, 'New York Be Nice., Kerr, Merrily, TimeOut New York, November, 2010
A Show at Queens’ Museum of the Moving Image Considers Hollywood’s ‘Walkers’., Walter Robinson, Janurary 15, 2012
Art Review: Kristen Morgin’s ‘Snow White’ at Marc Selwyn Fine Art., Pagel David, The Los Angeles Times, February 9, 2012
Kristen Morgin: New York Be Nice., Stern, Melissa. cityARTS, December 14, 2010 - January 11, 2011, p. 11
Artists to Watch., Helander Bruce, The Art Economist, January 2011, p. 68-70
Nothing Outlives Mortality: A Conversation with Kristen Morgin., Amy Michael, April 2011, p. 46- 51
Interview with Kristen Morgin., Mangiardi, Katherine. Whitehot Magazine, November, 2010
Interview with Kristen Morgin., Katherine Mangiardi, WHITHOUT MAGAZINE, November, 2010
Kristen Morgin., Wagley, Catherine. Ceramic Arts Daily, September 15, 2010
Kristen Morgin at Marc Selwyn Fine Art., Miles Christopher, LA Weekly, December 30, 2009.
Looking at Los Angeles: Against the Deluge., Wagley Catherine, Art: 21, December 30, 2009.
The Exhibition Formerly Known as Passengers: 2.7 Kristen Morgin., Hoffman, Jens.Wattis, March, 2009.
EXHIBITION REVIEWS., Leah Ollman, Art In America, Februray, 2009
Kristen Morgin at Marc Selwyn., The Los Angeles Times, December 19, 2009
Objects for Everyone I have Ever Known., Machida Nico, ARTslanT, July, 2008
Kristen Morgin at Marc Selwyn Fine Art, Pagel David, The Los Angeles Times,
There’s no glamour, just deep themes., Pagel David, The Los Angeles Times, July 4, 2008
This Mortal Coil., Shana Nys Dambrot, art ltd., July, 2007
Kristen Morgin at Marc Selwyn., Ollman, Leah. Art in America, October, 2006
The Idolaters’ Revenge; New Los Angeles Sculpture., Miles Christopher, Flash Art. Vol. XXXVIII. No. 242, May-June 2005 pp.104-10
Maybe the next big thing., Chang, Richard.The Orange County Register, March 6, 2005. pp. 1, 4
The next big ‘Thing’ in L.A., Knight Christopher, The Los Angeles Times, February 9, 2005. pp. E1, E6.
Good Thing., Harvey Doug, LA Weekly. February 4-10, 2005, p 32-33.
The (quirky) object’s the thing for a fresh crop of sculptors., Roug Louise, The Los Angeles Times, January 2, 2005. pp. E41, E48-E49
Where clay gets a chance to make a big impression., Brumer Andy, The Los Angeles Times, January 27, 2005, pp. E21
World Contemporary Ceramics: Trans-Ceramic-Art., The 3 rd World Ceramic Biennale, Korea, 2005
Scripps College 61st Annual Ceramics Exhibition., Ruth Chandler Williamson Gallery, 2005.
because the EARTH IS 1/3 DIRT., CU Art Museum, University of Colorado at Boulder, 2004