ALEXANDER MORRIS

Rhode Island, USA

Tel.:  401.408.6087  |  alexandermorrisart@gmail.com 

www.alexandermorrisart.com  |  Instagram:  @alexandermorrisart

​Born:  Salt Lake City, Utah, 1978.

Selected Exhibitions (*Solo Show)

2024

Riverside Under Five; producer, curator, artist; Luminist Photography Studio, Riverside, Rhode Island.

2023   

Collaborative Art Show with Erin Spencer; Luminist Photography Studio, Riverside, Rhode Island.

Abstractions:  Interpretations of Time, Place, and Memory; Morini Gallery, Mass Arts Center; Mansfield, Massachusetts. Juried by Amalia Tagaris.

2022

*Connecting Two Spaces; artist's talk; Monument Square Arts; Woonsocket, Rhode Island.

*Open Studio, Rumford, Rhode Island, produced and curated by Alexander Morris.

Community Invitational Exhibition; Providence Art Club; Providence, Rhode Island. Curated by Michael Rose. Invitational.

Below the Surface / Synergy II; Art League of Rhode Island; Pawtucket, Rhode Island. Juried by Michael Rose, Heather E. Stivison, and Steven Pennell.

91st Annual Online Juried Open Exhibition; National Art League; Douglaston, New York, 2022. Juried by Mary S. Cantone.

2021

Touch Our Eyes (That We May See); Harold B. Lee Library; Brigham Young University, Provo, Utah. Curated by Melanie Allred and Christiane Ramsey. Invitational.

8 Visions, Attleboro Arts Museum; Attleboro, Massachusetts. Juried by Anne Corso and Lauren Riviello.

Elected Artists Exhibit; West Hartford Art League; West Hartford, Connecticut. Not juried.

Diverse Voices (virtual exhibition). Curated by Jerry Hardesty.

2020

On the Surface; Attleboro Arts Museum; Attleboro, Massachusetts. Juried by Neal Walsh.

Listen; AS220 main gallery; Providence, Rhode Island. Invitational.

Social Distancing International Virtual Exhibition; Michael Rose Fine Art; Providence, Rhode Island. Juried by Michael Rose.

2019

89th Annual Juried Open Exhibition; National Art League; Douglaston, New York. Juried by Mitchell Goldberg.

CT+6; West Hartford Art League; West Hartford, Connecticut. Juried.

Neoteric Abstract VII; Limner Gallery; Hudson, New York. Juried.

Hidden Voices:  From the Outside; Woodbury Art Museum; Orem, Utah. Juried.

2018

The Winter Gathering; Woods-Gerry Gallery, Rhode Island School of Design; Providence, Rhode Island. Juried.

88th Annual Juried Open Exhibition; National Art League; Douglaston, New York. Juried Lauren Argentina Zelaya.

CT+6; West Hartford Art League; West Hartford Connecticut. Juried.

Coalesce:  Art of Our Century; Woodbury Art Museum, Utah Valley University; Orem, Utah. Juried by Chauncey Secrist and Mark Slusser.

2017

The Winter Gathering; Woods-Gerry Gallery, Rhode Island School of Design; Providence, Rhode Island. Juried.

Muse, Alpine Art and Frame; Salt Lake City, Utah. Juried by Chauncey Secrist.

Interpretation Thereof, BYU Museum of Fine Art; Provo, Utah. Invitational.

Sacred Spaces:  Archetypes and Symbols; Springville Museum of Art; Springville, Utah. Invitational.

*Refrain of Entropy; Howa Gallery; Bountiful, Utah.

2016

31st Annual Spiritual and Religious Art of Utah; Springville Museum of Art; Springville, Utah. Juried.

92nd Annual Spring Salon; Springville Museum of Art; Springville, Utah. Juried.

2015

Untitled; Alpine Art & Frame; Salt Lake City, Utah. Juried.

Tell Me The Stories Of Jesus, 10th International Art Competition of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints; Church History Museum; Salt Lake City, Utah. Juried.

300 Plates, Fundraiser & Exhibition; Art Access; Salt Lake City, Utah. 

91st Annual Spring Salon; Springville Museum of Art; Springville, Utah. [note:  Mr. Morris has been consistently juried in Springville Museum of Fine Art’s (Utah) Annual Spring Salon in consecutive years from 2014-present. All exhibits not fully listed herein.]

*Conspiracy In The Sky; Alderwood Fine Art; Salt Lake City, Utah.

2014

29th Annual Spiritual & Religious Art of Utah; Springville Museum of Art; Springville, Utah. Juried. [note:  Mr. Morris has been juried in Springville Museum of Fine Art’s (Utah) spiritual and religious exhibitions for 2014-2017 and 2019 years. All exhibits not fully listed herein.]

Honoring Utah Artists: 12x12; Alpine Art, Inc.; Salt Lake City, Utah. Invitational.

Gallery at Library Square; artist’s talk; Salt Lake City Library; Salt Lake City, Utah.

Selected Collections

Yorkshire, United Kingdom

Jones Waldo; Salt Lake City, Utah.

University of Utah President residence ballroom; Salt Lake City, Utah.

Commissions

Salt Lake City, Utah. 

Washington, Utah.

Selected Bibliography (*reviews)

Rose, Michael. “Lifestyle: Artist to Know: Alexander Morris - Inside Art with Michael Rose.” GoLocalProv, GoLocalProv, 28 Oct. 2022, www.golocalprov.com/lifestyle/artist-to-know-alexander-morris-inside-art-with-michael-rose. Accessed 12 Nov. 2022.

Coates, Jennifer. “Alexander Morris, Artist.” Shop in RI, September 2021, pp. 54-55. Accessed 12 Nov. 2022.

*Rose, Michael. “Attleboro Arts Museum Presents Eight Compelling Visions.” Michael Rose Fine Art, 9 Aug. 2021. www.michaelrosefineart.com/blog/2021/8/9/attleboro-arts-museum-presents-eight-compelling-visions. Accessed 12 Nov. 2022.

Morris, Alexander. Spotlighting Exhibiting Artist Alexander Morris, AS220, 12 June 2020. as220.org/spotlighting-exhibiting-artist-alexander-morris/. Accessed 12 Nov. 2022.

​Interview by Jerry Hardesty. The Artist’s Voice, 22 Jan. 2020, www.audible.com/pd/item_name-Podcast/episodes/B08JJRCHK7?ref=a_pd_Podcas_c3_episodes_view_all&pf_rd_p=625c212d-b95a-47db-8d56-d35a359de6e9&pf_rd_r=MNDY2V8S76T0KPM7EH0P. Accessed 12 Nov. 2022. 

*Clark, Ehren. “Less is More:  Alexander Morris at Alderwood Fine Art.” 15Bytes, 24 Feb. 2015. http://artistsofutah.org/15Bytes/index.php/less-is-more-alexander-morris-at-alderwood-fine-art/. Accessed 12 Nov. 2022.

Selected Awards and Honors 

Best Abstract:  ‘Tidal Surge,’ Members’ Exhibition; Attleboro Arts Museum; Attleboro, Massachusetts, 2022. 

Third Place:  ‘Of Ocean and Sky No. 2,’ Below the Surface / Synergy II; Art League of Rhode Island; Pawtucket, Rhode Island, 2022.

Elected Artist; West Hartford Art League; West Hartford, Connecticut, 2021.

Juror’s Choice:  ‘Voyage No. 1,’ Members’ Exhibition; Attleboro Arts Museum; Attleboro, Massachusetts, 2020.

Honorable Mention Award:  ’Father No. 2,’ 90th Annual Juried Open Show; National Art League; Douglaston, New York, 2020.

Honorable Mention:  ‘Of,’ 29th Annual Spiritual & Religious Art of Utah; Springville Museum of Art; Springville, Utah, 2014.

Education

Mentee of John O’Connell, Associate Professor, Department of Art & Art History at University of Utah.

Bachelor of Fine Arts, Painting and Drawing; University of Utah, Salt Lake City, Utah. Recipient of Howard Clark Scholarship.