Career
Morrison has exhibited his work internationally, including exhibitions at the Venice Biennale, Museums of Contemporary Art (MARCA) of Monterrey Mexico, Art Institute of Chicago, the Smithsonian Institution, the Caribbean Biennale in Santo Domingo; the Cuban Biennale in Havana; the Cincinnati Museum, the Corcoran Gallery of Art; and the High Museum. He has also exhibited in numerous art galleries across the world, including US solo shows in New York, Boston, Detroit, Chicago, Philadelphia, Washington DC and San Francisco.
Morrison has curated many exhibitions, including The Curators Eye III, Multimedia and Performance Art in Jamaica, National Gallery of Art, Kingston, Jamaica, 2008; Art in Washington and Its African American Presence: 1940-1970; Prints at the Brandywine Workshop; Jacob Lawrence’s Toussaint L’Ouverture Series; and Contemporary Art in Cuba at San Francisco State University. He has served as art consultant for many state arts agencies in the United States, and is a former commentator for a weekly program broadcast by WETA-TV in Washington DC. He was one of five international artists featured in the PBS film Free Within Ourselves.
Morrison has lectured in China, Cuba, Canada, Japan, Liberia, Taiwan and across the US in institutions such as the San Francisco Art Institute, Metropolitan Museum of Art, Getty Museum; Art Institute of Chicago; and Cooper Union Institute. Morrison gave the 50th Anniversary address for the Edna Manley School of Art,Jamaica; and presented a keynote address at the Ludwig Foundation of Havana, Cuba.
As a writer and critic, Morrison has published articles, essays, catalogs, and reviews in periodicals, newspapers and museum catalogs, and was an editor for the New Art Examiner. He is author of Art in Washington and Its Afro-American Presenece: 1940-1970, WPA, 1985 ______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Distinctions
Morrison has earned several awards and distinctions, including a Ford Foundation award; Danforth Foundation award; Bi-Centennial Award for Painting in Chicago; Award for Painting from the Organization of African States; Venice Biennale; US Representative to the Shanghai Biennale; Fulbright award.
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Bibliography
McGee, Julie: "Keith Morrison: The Middle Passage," University of Delaware Museums, September 7, 2011
Chen-Young, Leisha: “An Artistic Eye,” Jamaica Observer, June 15, 2008
Ater, Rene: Keith Morrison, Pomegranate Press, 2005
Driskell, David C: The Other Side of Color San Francisco: Pomegranate Press, 2001
Amidon, Catherine: "Migration, Transition, and Change" New York: Venice Biennale, 2001
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Morrison." p. 43-48 The International Review of African American Art, 1998, Vol. 15 No. 3
Burgard, Timothy Anglin. Art and Ethnography San Francisco: M.H. de Young Memorial Museum, 1998
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