born 1933 in Longbeach, CA (USA);
lives and works in San Diego, CA (USA)
Richard Allen Morris
Richard Allen Morris CV
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)