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Aaron Morse Kingdom of Nature

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BORN
1974, Tucson, AZ
Lives and works in Los Angeles, CA

EDUCATION
1998 MFA, The University of Cincinnati, Cincinnati, OH
1996 BFA, The University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ

 

  • “Kingdom of Nature”, Country Club, Cincinnati, OH
  • ACME., Los Angeles, CA
  • “Story of Man”, Guild and Greyshkul, New York, NY
  • “Timeline”, Hammer Museum of Art, University of California, Los Angeles, CA (catalogue)
  • “The City on a Hill”, ACME., Los Angeles, CA
  • “The War is Over”, Guild and Greyshkul, New York, NY
  • ACME., Los Angeles, CA
  • “Origins”, ACME., Los Angeles, CA
  • “Tangeman Gallery”, University of Cincinnati, Cincinnati, OH
  • “Designs for Storybook, Film, Animation”, 840 Gallery, The University of Cincinnati, Cincinnati, OH
  • “Tyrant Figures”, Union Gallery, The University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ

 

  • “On From Here”, Guild and Greyshkul, New York, NY
  • “The Old, Weird America”, curated by Toby Kamps, DeCordova Museum and Sculpture Park, Lincoln, MA (catalogue)
  • “Glue, Paper, Scissors”, Luckman Gallery, Cal State, Los Angeles, CA
  • “Prescriptions”, ACME., Los Angeles, CA
  • “The Old, Weird America”, curated by Toby Kamps, Contemporary Arts Museum, Houston, TX (catalogue)
  • “Oppenheimer Collection”, Nerman Museum of Contemporary Art, Overland Park, KS
  • “Fata Morgana”, Galerie Schmidt Maczollek, Cologne, Germany
  • “Promised Land”, curated by Elizabeth M. Grady, Morgan Lehman, New York, NY
  • “Kairos”, Kantor/Feuer Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
  • “I will be alright”, Country Club, Cincinnati, OH
  • “Twice Drawn”, The Frances Young Tang Teaching Museum and Art, Gallery at Skidmore College, Saratoga Springs, NY
  • “The General’s Jamboree”, Guild and Greyshkul, New York, NY
  • “Liquid Los Angeles: Currents of Contemporary Watercolor Painting”, Pasadena Museum of California Art, Pasadena, CA
  • “L.A. Times”, Bernard Toale Gallery, Boston, MA
  • “Art on Paper”, Weatherspoon Art Museum, University of North Carolina, Greensboro, NC
  • “American Stars n’ Bars”, Chapman University, Orange, CA
  • “Some Forgotten Place”, Matrix 213, UC Berkeley Art Museum & Pacific Film Archive, Berkeley, CA
  • “Nature”, Mark Moore Gallery, Santa Monica, CA
  • “Women Beware Women”, Curated by David Rimanelli, Deitch Projects, New York, NY
  • “ACME. @ Inman”, Inman Gallery, Houston, TX
  • “Inside Scoop”, Geoffrey Young Gallery, Great Barrington, MA
  • “Miles Coolidge, Kevin Hanley, Darcy Huebler, & Aaron Morse”, ACME., Los Angeles, CA
  • “California 10 Contemporary”, Judy Saslow Gallery, Chicago, IL
  • “International Paper”, UCLA Armand Hammer Museum of Art, Los Angeles, CA
  • “Papers”, ACME., Los Angeles, CA
  • “New Art from L.A.”, Marvelli Gallery, New York, NY
  • “Alice Doesn’t Live Here Anymore – New Art from L.A.”, Marvelli Gallery, New York, NY
  • “Sail”, ACME., Los Angeles, CA
  • “Strolling Through An Ancient Shrine and Garden”, ACME., Los Angeles, CA
  • “Stacked”, Weston Art Gallery, Aronoff Center for the Arts, Cincinnati, OH
  • “Faster Than A Speeding Bullet: Superheroes in Contemporary Art”, The Cleveland Center for Contemporary Art, Cleveland, OH
  • “Built”, University of Dayton, Dayton, OH
  • “Chicago Underground Film Festival”, Belmont Theatre, Chicago, IL
  • “Scope2”, Artists Space, New York, NY
  • “Interactive Media Exhibition”, 840 Gallery, University of Cincinnati, Cincinnati, OH
  • “The Performance and Time Arts Series”, Dance Hall, Cincinnati, OH
  • “Copyright Infringements Video Festival”, DiLeia Contemporary Gallery, Cincinnati, OH
  • “This Is...”, Machine Shop Gallery, Cincinnati, OH
  • “Chaperone”, DiLeia Contemporary Gallery, Cincinnati, OH
  • “Art Tees”, Gallery Ten, Rockford, IL
  • “Mimesis II”, Central Arts Collective, Tucson, AZ
  • “Death Matters”, Joseph Gross Gallery, The University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ

 

  • Knight, Christopher. "Culture Monster. Art Review: Aaron Morse at ACME". Los Angeles Times. August 7.
  • Ward, Allie. "Aaron Morse's artistic jumble of the deep". BrandX. July 14.
  • Carlin, T.J. “Aaron Morse, ‘Story of Man,’ Timeout New York, November 2 - December 3.
  • Kamps, Toby. “The Old, Weird America”, Houston, TX: Contemporary Arts Museum Houston. pp.20, 100 105, 152.
  • Kukielski, Tina. “Aaron Morse,” Hammer Projects (exhibition brochure), Los Angeles, CA: Hammer Museum of Art.
  • Satorius, Katherine. “Aaron Morse at the Hammer Museum,” Artweek, vol. 39,issue 5, June, pp.19-20.
  • Ehrenreich, Ben, “Fata Morgana: Watercolors by Tomory Dodge, Portia Hein, Monica Majoli, Aaron Morse, Melissa Thorne, and Tam Van Tran,” Los Angeles: Galerie Schmidt Maczollek.
  • Schwendener, Martha, “Promised Land,” New York Times, July 20, 2007, B25.
  • Wood, Eve, “Aaron Morse,” Artillery, May 2007, p. 34.
  • Kahlenberg, Sara, “Working for the Man?” Artslant, February 19, 2007.
  • “Aaron Morse,” Flaunt, October, No. 78, pp. 74-77.
  • Wood, Eve, “Aaron Morse,” Art Papers, July-August, p. 55.
  • Zuckerman Jacobson, Heidi, Matrix 213: Some Forgotten Place, Exhibition
  • Catalogue Berkeley Art Museum, University of California, Berkeley, CA
  • Jones, Leslie, “Step into Liquid: Contemporary Watercolor Painting in Los Angeles,” Art on Paper, July-August, p. 40-45, illus. p.44.
  • Rimanelli, David, Women Beware Women, New York: Deitch Projects, 2003.
  • Pagel, David, “The Past’s View of the Past Made New: Aaron Morse at ACME.,” Los Angeles Times, October 24, p. E28.
  • Martin, Philip, “international paper,” tema celeste, number 97, p. 83.
  • Morse, Aaron, “Self-portrait,” tema celeste, number 96, Summer, p. 80-81, illus.
  • Knight, Christopher, “Drawing, Not Toeing, the Line,” Los Angeles Times, February 7, p. E30.
  • Featured Artist, “Big Bang: When Science & Poetry Collide,” Conduit, Fall.

 

  • Selected Artist, Limited Edition print for Prints & Drawings Council of Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, CA

 

  • Henry Art Gallery, University of Washington, Seattle, WA
  • Hammer Museum of Art, University of California, Los Angeles, CA
  • Johnson County Community College, Overland Park, KS
  • University of California at Berkeley Art Museum, Berkeley, CA
  • Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, CA
  • The Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY
  • Nerman Museum of Contemporary Art, Overland Park, KS
  • University of California at Berkeley Art Museum, Berkeley, CA
  • Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY

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