Richard Allen Morris

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1961 / Oil on canvas / 33 × 32 cm

Red Sails

1967 / Enamel on canvas / 41 × 41 cm

Juggler

1988 / Acrylic on canvas / 23 × 30 cm

Mentalist

1970 / Acrylic on canvas / 46 × 35,5 cm

Mirror

1967/ Laquer on canvas / 61 × 61 cm

Flip

1968 / Oil on wood / 20 × 18 cm

Leg Up

1965 / Oil on canvas / 20 × 30 cm

Untitled

1986 / Mixed media assemblage / 73,66 × 50,8 × 69,85 cm

Pharaoh

1970 / Acrylic on canvas / 41,91 × 41 cm

Untitled-Gun

1966 / Acrylic and pencil on paper / 45 × 60 cm

Jay

1969 / Acrylic on canvas / 152 × 61 cm

Plane

1964 / Oil on heavy paper / 51 × 66 cm

Zen Bone Morris

Richard Allen Morris CV

born 1933 in Longbeach, CA (USA);
lives and works in San Diego, CA (USA)

Solo Exhibitions

2023 I am not a camera, Galerie Anke Schmidt, Cologne (Germany)

2021 Multiple Identities, Häusler Contemporary, Zurich (Switzerland)

2019 More like a forest: Paintings and Sculptures by Richard Allen Morris / Museum of Contemporary Art / San Diego, CA (USA)

2018 R.A.Morris - This & That / R.B.Stevenson Gallery / La Jolla, CA (USA)

2018-2017 Mix & Match / Galerie Anke Schmidt / Cologne (Germany)

2017 Trouvailles / Häusler Contemporary / Zurich ( Switzerland) / with David Reed

2016 From the Studio / Häusler Contemporary / Munich (Germany) / with David Reed

2015 IN THE ABSTRACT: Midcentury San Diego Painting and Sculpture / Oceanside Museum of Art / Oceanside (USA)

2014 Mixed Bag / Galerie Anke Schmidt / Cologne (Germany)

 Work from the 60's / R. B. Stevenson Gallery / La Jolla, CA (USA)

2013 Quick Draw / R.B. Stevenson Gallery / La Jolla, CA (USA)

2012 This and That / Galerie Schmidt Maczollek / Cologne (Germany)

2010 Peter Blum Gallery / New York, NY (USA)

 Boxer / Häusler Contemporary / Zurich (Switzerland)

 Patch and Paint / R.B. Stevenson Gallery / La Jolla, CA (USA)

2009 Morris Code – work from 1957 – 2007 / Peter Blum Chelsea Gallery / New York, NY (USA)

 Three Decades of Contemporary Art / California Center for the Arts Museum / Escondido (USA)

 Richard Allen Morris Small Ones / R.B. Stevenson Gallery / La Jolla, CA (USA)

2009-2008 Painter's Room / Häusler Contemporary / Munic (Germany)

2008 Insight into Sight / Galerie Schmidt Maczollek / Cologne (Germany)

 Paintings / Galerie les Filles du Calvaire / Paris (France)

 Richard Allen Morris / R.B. Stevenson Gallery / La Jolla, CA (USA)

2007 Crossing Edge / Häusler Contemporary / Zurich (Switzerland) / cat.

 In the Thick of It / Mandarin Gallery / Los Angeles, CA (USA)

2006 Body and Soul / Mandarin Gallery / Los Angeles, CA (USA)

 Guns – 110 Arbeiten auf Papier / Häusler Contemporary / Munich (Germany)

2005 Through Thick and Thin, 1962–2005 / Galerie Schmidt Maczollek / Cologne (Germany)

 Retrospective 1958–2005 / Museum of Contemporary Art / San Diego, CA (USA) / cat.

2004 Retrospective 1958–2004 / Museum Haus Lange / Krefeld (Germany)

 Selections from the Studio R.B. / Stevenson Gallery / La Jolla, CA (USA)

 Richard Allen Morris / Que Art Foundation / New York, NY (USA)

2000 Through Thick and Thin / R.B. Stevenson Gallery / San Diego, CA (USA)

1999 Richard Allen Morris at Chac-Mool / West Hollywod, CA (USA)

1997 Almost an Apple / Mesa College Art Gallery / San Diego, CA (USA)

1996 Jaws / Rita Dean Gallery / San Diego, CA (USA)

1988 A Sense of Place / Mandeville Gallery / University of California San Diego / San Diego, CA (USA)

 Sculpture / La Jolla Museum of Contemporary Art / La Jolla, CA (USA)

1984 439 Works 1958–1984 / Santa Barbara Contemporary Art Forum / Santa Barbara, CA (USA)

 Abstractions / Quint Gallery / La Jolla, CA (USA)

1983 Guns and Heads / Quint Gallery / La Jolla, CA (USA)

1980 Recent Works / Southwestern College Art Gallery / Chula Vista, CA (USA)

 40 Recent Works / 552 Gallery / San Diego, CA (USA)

1979 Aspects of a Retrospective / Boehm Gallery / Palomar College / San Marcos, CA (USA)

1978 Recent Work / University of California / Santa Barbara, CA (USA)

1972 Things on Paper / University of West Florida / Pensacola, Florida (USA)

1971 Heads / San Diego Fine Arts Gallery / San Diego, CA (USA)

1970 Sculpture California Institute of Arts / Los Angeles, CA (USA)

 Richard Allen Morris / Hyde Gallery / Grossmont College / San Diego, CA (USA)

1969 Paintings / Bardhall Gallery / Unitarian Church / San Diego, CA (USA)

1965 Gun Room – 56 Works / Art Center in La Jolla / La Jolla, CA (USA)

1960 Richard Allen Morris / Art Center in La Jolla / La Jolla, CA (USA)

1959 Dada comes to San Diego beginning at $ 1,98 / Vroman’s / San Diego, CA (USA)

Group Exhibitions

2023 Paper Pulp / Galerie Anke Schmidt / Cologne (Germany)

 Legacy: 25 Years of Art and Community / Oceanside Museum / Oceanside, CA (USA)

 A Large Group of Small Artworks / Quint Gallery / La Jolla, CA (USA)

2019 20/20 / Peter Blum Gallery / New York, NY (USA)

2018 And The Stars Look Very Different Today / Häusler Contemporary / Zurich (Switzerland)

2016 Richard Allen Morris/David Reed – From the Studio / Häusler Contemporary München / Munic (Germany)

 DRAWINGS / Galerie Anke Schmidt / Cologne (Germany)

2015 Verkeherte Welt / Häusler Contemporary / Zurich (Switzerland)

 Visual Language / R. B. Stevenson Gallery / La Jolla, CA (USA)

 IN THE ABSTRACT: Midcentury San Diego Painting and Sculpture / Oceanside Museum of Art / Oceanside, CA (USA)

2014 Spitting in the Wind: Art From the End of the Line by John Baldessari, Richard Allen Morris, Bob Matheny and Russel Baldwin / Oceanside Museum of Art / Oceanside, CA (USA) / curated by Dave Hampton

 Eccentric Abstraction / Frosch Portmann Gallery / New York, NY (USA)

 Sie griff in den Tomatensalat und schob sich ein Stück Rot in den Mund / Häusler Contemporary / Munich (Germany)

 Green Heaven / R.B. Stevenson Gallery / La Jolla, CA (USA)

 Works on Paper 1963-2013 / Galerie Anke Schmidt / Cologne (Germany)

2013 Spectra / SDSU Downtown Gallery / San Diego, CA (USA) / with John Baldessari, Gisela Colon, Jeff Jamieson and others

 Das kleine Schwarze / Häusler Contemporary / Munich (Germany)

 Quick Draw / R. B. Stevenson Gallery / La Jolla, CA (USA)

 My kind of Disneyland / Märkisches Museum Witten / Witten (Germany)

 Sweet Home - Reloaded / Häusler Contemporary / Munich (Germany)

2012 It's only Malerei but I like it / an exhibition curated by Steffen Lenk with Jo Dickreiter, Tatjana Doll, Fabian Marcaccio, Pia Fries, Richard Allen Morris, David Reed, Gert and Uwe Tobias, Stephan Zaech / Kunstverein Offenburg / Offenburg (Germany)

 Trip / Häusler Contemporary / Munich (Germany) / with Peter Young, Michael Venezia

2011 If we cannot free ourselves, we can free our mind oqbo / Berlin (Germany)

 Itsy Bitsy Spider / Elizabeth Cooper, Alika Herreshoff, Steffen Lenk, Richard Allen Morris, Carl Ostendarp, David Reed, Galerie Schmidt Maczollek / Cologne (Germany)

2010 BIWAK III: Eli Cortiñas, Jürgen von Dückerhoff, Diango Hernandez, Alexander Lieck, Anthony McCall, Thom Merrick, Richard Allen Morris, Trevor Paglen, Peter Piller / Galerie Michael Wiesehöfer, Galerie Thomas Zander and Galerie Schmidt Maczollek / Cologne (Germany)

 Paintings: Richard Allen Morris, John Zurier, Jason Fox / Peter Blum Gallery / New York, NY (USA)

 Apartment Museum / Collector’s Choice: From private – to public – to private / Häusler Contemporary / Zurich (Switzerland)

 35 Annual Image Small Show / Spanish Village Art Center, Balboa Park / San Diego, California, USA (USA)

2009 Raum.inhalt (1) – The Big Exploration / im Tal – Stiftung Wortelkamp / Hasselbach (Germany)

 Double Header / San Diego Art Prize / San Diego, CA (USA)

 Quint – Three Decades of Contemporary Art / California Center for the Arts / Escondido Museum / Escondido, CA (USA)

2008 Painted! – Recent Acquisitions of the Daros Collections / Daros / Zurich (Switzerland)

 Untitled / Museum of Contemporary Art La Jolla / La Jolla, CA (USA)

 Loveparade 2 / Häusler Contemporary / Munich (Germany)

2007 There is Desire Left / Knock, Knock. – 40 Jahre Bildende Kunst aus der Sammlung Mondstudio / Kunstmuseum Bern / Bern (Switzerland)

2006 Clear Cuts / Sammlung Wolkenlos - Die Privatsammlung von Michael Stankiewicz / Schloss Raabs / Raabs a.d.Thaya (Austria)

 Releasers / Wetering Galerie / Amsterdam (The Netherlands)

2005 Triple Play: Richard Allen Morris, James Hayward, Ed Moses / R.B. Stevenson Gallery / La Jolla, CA (USA)

 The Dazzling Show: Richard Allen Morris, John McCracken, Lydia Dona, Pamela Fraser, Robert Acuna, Hanspeter Hofmann / Galerie Roellin Duerr / St. Gallen (Switzerland) / curated by Rolf Ricke

2004 White on White / Patricia Faure Gallery / Santa Monica, CA (USA)

2003 R.B. Stevenson Gallery Selections / R.B. Stevenson Gallery / San Diego, CA (USA)

 Not the Usual Suspects / Manny Silverman Gallery / Los Angeles, CA (USA)

 Charlotte Jackson Fine Art Inc. / Santa Fe, NM (USA)

 Extreme Paint / Peter Blake Gallery / Laguna Beach, CA (USA)

2002 Big and Blurry / Flux Gallery / San Diego, CA (USA)

 5 Times 4 Modernism / San Francisco, CA (USA)

 Group Show / R.B. Stevenson Gallery / San Diego, CA (USA)

2001 The Necessary Beauty / R.B. Stevenson Gallery / San Diego, CA (USA)

 Mass Appeal / R.B. Stevenson Gallery / San Diego, CA (USA)

2000 The New Wave – New Paintings in Southern California / California Center for the Arts / Escondido, CA (USA)

1999 Four by Four / Boehm Gallery / Palomar College / San Marcos, CA (USA)

1996 Field Days – Cerulean Embankments / Geoffrey Young Gallery / Great Barrington, MA (USA)

 96 Works on Paper / Geoffrey Young Gallery / Great Barrington, MA (USA)

1992 Local Production: San Diego Area Artists / Center For the Arts / Escondido, CA (USA)

1989 No Stomach, Installations Gallery, San Diego, CA (USA)

1988 Midwinter Award Show / San Diego Art Institute / San Diego, CA (USA)

1987 Black Lines / Gwydion Gallery / La Jolla, CA (USA)

1986 Southern California Assemblage: Past and Present / Santa Barbara, CA (USA)

 Art Furniture: 98 Artists / Installations Gallery / San Diego, CA (USA)

 Drawings Rogue / Graphics Gallery / San Diego, CA (USA)

1985 Masters Show / San Diego Arts Institute / San Diego, CA (USA)

 Wood / Quint Gallery / San Diego, CAv (USA)

 Sixteen X Twenty-six / Quint Gallery / San Diego, CA (USA)

1984 Parts of a World / Santa Barbara Contemporary Arts Forum / Santa Barbara, CA (USA)

1982 10 against the Wall / San Diego, CA (USA)

1981 A California Summer / Thomas Babeor Gallery / La Jolla, CA (USA)

1979 San Diego Art – Guild All Media Membership Exhibition / San Diego Museum of Art / San Diego, CA (USA)

1978 Big San Diego Show / Newspace / Los Angeles, CA (USA)

1977 24th Annual Art Exhibition / San Diego Art Institute / San Diego, CA (USA)

1976 California Hawaii Biennal / Fine Art Gallery of San Diego / San Diego, CA (USA)

1975 Collage and Assamblage Exhibition / Los Angeles Institute of Contemporary Art / Los Angeles, CA (USA)

1974 Blazing Brushes and Flying Clay: Artists of the 1950’s and 1960’s The Artists Co-op Gallery / San Diego, CA (USA)

1973 19th Annual All California Purchase Prize Competition Laguna Beach Museum of Art / Laguna Beach, CA (USA)

1972 San Diego Art Guild All Media Show / Fine Arts Gallery / San Diego, CA (USA)

1971 Top Box Art Spring Invitational Exhibition of Painting Illinois State University / Bloomington/Normal, IL (USA)

1970 An Assamblage of Assamblage / Dwight Boehm Gallery / Palomar College / San Marcos, CA (USA)

 Jewish Community Center / Annual Award Show / San Diego, CA (USA)

 17th Annual Art Exhibition / San Diego Art Institute / San Diego, CA (USA)

1968 15th Annual Art Exhibition / San Diego Art Institute / San Diego, CA (USA)

 San Diego Art Guild All Media Exhibition / San Diego Art Institute / San Diego, CA (USA)

1967 Found Object Exhibition / Gallery 25, Balboa Park / San Diego, CA (USA)

1966 San Diego Art Guild All Media Show / Fine Arts Gallery / San Diego, CA (USA)

1965 Some Aspects of California Painting and Sculpture / La Jolla Museum of Art / La Jolla, CA (USA)

 The Box Show / New York, NY (USA)

 Invitational Sculpture Exhibition / San Diego State Art Gallery / San Diego, CA (USA)

1963 4th Annual Painting and Sculpture / Art Center La Jolla / La Jolla, CA (USA)

1962 81st Annual Painting Exhibition / San Francisco, CA (USA)

 1st Annual Southern California Exhibition / Long Beach Museum of Art / Long Beach, CA (USA)

1961 80th Annual Painting Exhibition / San Francisco, CA (USA)

 24th Annual Drawing – Print and Sculpture Exhibition / San Francisco Art Association / San Francisco, CA (USA)

 6 La Jolla Artists / Comara Gallery / Los Angeles, CA (USA)

1960 The Fine Arts Gallery / All Media Country-Wide Exhibition / San Diego, CA (USA)

 1st Annual Painting and Sculpture Exhibit / Art Center La Jolla / La Jolla, CA (USA)

 40th National Exhibition / Los Angeles County Art Museum / Los Angeles, CA (USA)