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Morgan Fisher
Morgan Fisher
Born 1942, Washington, D.C. Lives and works in Los Angeles, CA
Education
1964
Harvard College, A.B. (1965) in Fine Arts; specialization in the history of 19th and 20th century art.1965
University of Southern California; work toward M.A. in Cinema.1966
University of California, Los Angeles; work toward M.F.A. in Motion Picture Division, Department of Theater Arts.
Selected Solo Exhibitions/Screenings
2012
The Frame Beyond, Generali Foundation, Vienna
2011
Raven Row, London, England
BFI Southbank Gallery, London, England
Abteiberg Museum, Monchengladbach, Germany2010
"The Artist's Museum" at MOCA Grand Avenue and The Geffen Contemporary at MOCA, Los Angeles, CA
Inauguration of China Art Objects in Culver City. China Art Objects, Los Angeles, CA2009
Portikus, Frankfurt, Germany
2008
China Art Objects Galleries, Los Angeles, CA2007
Galerie Daniel Buchholz, Cologne, Germany2005
China Art Objects Galleries, Los Angeles, CA
“Standard Gauge: Film Works by Morgan Fisher”, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY
“Edge and Corner paintings,” Adamski, Gallery for Contemporary Art, Aachen, Germany
The Films by Morgan Fisher, Tate Modern, London, England2004
Galerie Daniel Buchholz, Cologne, Germany Städelschule, Frankfurt, Germany
San Francisco Cinematheque, San Francisco, CA; films and lecture
Cubitt, London, England
Pacific Film Archive, Berkeley, CA
Filmforum, Los Angeles, CA
Greene Naftali, New York, NY2002
“To See Seeing,” Neuer Aachener Kunstverein, Aachen, Germany (catalogue)
China Art Objects Galleries, Los Angeles, CA
Pacific Title and Art Studio, China Art Objects Galleries, Los Angeles, CA
Color Balance Galerie Daniel Buchholz, Cologne, Germany2000
Kunstverein in Hamburg, Hamburg, Germany
The Italian Paintings, Presented by Dave Muller/Three Day Weekend, in “Made in California: Now,” LACMA, Los Angeles, CA1999
Künstlerhaus Stuttgart, Germany (co-sponsored by Stuttgart Filmwinter) Merz Akademie, Stuttgart, Germany
Galerie Daniel Buchholz, Cologne, Germany
Städel Schule, Frankfurt, Germany
Austrian Film Museum, Vienna, Austria1989
The New Avant-Garde, University of Rochester, NY1986
International Forum of Young Cinema, Berlin International Film Festival, Berlin, Germany
University Gallery of Fine Art, Ohio State University1985
The Collective for Living Cinema, New York, NY
San Francisco Cinematheque, San Francisco, CA
Pacific Film Archive, Berkeley, CA1980
Philadelphia College of Art, Philadelphia, PA1979
Boston Film/Video Foundation, Boston, MA
Department of Photography and Film, Ohio State University1978
Collective for Living Cinema
1977
Otis Art Institute, Los Angeles, CA1976
Museum of Art, Carnegie Institute, Pittsburgh, PA
Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, NY
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, CA
Anthology Film Archives, New York, NY
Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY
1975
Pacific Film Archive, Berkeley, CA
San Francisco Art Institute, San Francisco, CA
The Very Eye of Light; A Primer in the Experimental Film, Vancouver Art Gallery, Vancouver, BC, Canada
Canyon Cinematheque, San Francisco, CA; films
1974
Pratt Institute, Brooklyn, NY
1973
Millennium Film Workshop, New York, NY
School of the Art Institute, Chicago, IL
Independent Film Festival, National Film Theater, London, England
1972
Film Section, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Boston, MASelected Group Exhibitions / Screenings
2012
Stand still like the hummingbird, David Zwirner, New York, NY
Made in L.A., Hammer Museum, Los Angeles, CA
L.A. Filmforum presents Moving Pictures: Painting, Photography, Film, Echo Park Film Center, Los Angeles, CA
Shelf Life, Kunsthalle am Hamburger Platz, Berlin, Germany
Material Concerns (Alternative Projections: Experimental Film in L.A., Screening 20), Spielberg Theatre at the Egyptian, Los Angeles, CA2011
Lonely at the Top: Graphology Chapter 4, MuHKA Museum of Contemporary Art Antwerp
The Unfinished Film, Gladstone Gallery, New York, NY
Mind Games, China Art Objects Galleries, Los Angeles, CA
New Work: Photographs and Works on Paper, Bortolami Gallery, New York, New York2010
"The Artist's Museum" at MOCA Grand Avenue and The Geffen Contemporary at MOCA, Los Angeles, CA
Inauguration of China Art Objects in Culver City. China Art Objects, Los Angeles, CA2009
1999, China Art Objects at Cottage Home, Los Angeles, CA2008
2008 California Biennial, curated by Lauri Firstenberg, Orange County Museum of Art, Newport Beach, CA
You, whose beauty was famous in Rome, curated by Andrew Berardini & Sarah Lehrer-Graiwer,
Mandarin Gallery, Los Angeles, CA, (Catalogue)
2006
“Los Angeles, 1955 - 1985”, Centre Pompidou, France (Catalogue)2004
Rotterdam International Film Festival
International Forum of Young Cinema, Berlin International Film Festival, Berlin, Germany
Biennial Exhibition, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York (catalogue)
2003
“Sandwiched,” Los Angeles, CA (publication); curated by Jacob Fabricius; sandwich boards designed and fabricated by the artists;
the curator stood on a street corner wearing each sandwich board for two days
Morgan Fisher/Mason Cooley, China Art Objects Galleries, Los Angeles, CA
Fate of Alien Modes, Curated by Constanze Ruhm, Secession, Vienna (catalogue)
Views from the Avant-Garde, New York Film Festival, New York, NY
2002
Startkapital, Ständehaus (K21), Kunstsammlung Nordrhein-Westfalen, Düsseldorf, Germany (catalogue)
A Show That Will Show That a Show Is Not Only a Show, curated by Jens Hoffman,
The Project, Los Angeles, CA (catalogue)
Richard Hawkins & Tomma Abts, Lecia Dole-Recio, Morgan Fisher, James Hayward,
Galerie Daniel Buchholz, Cologne; paintings
2001
In Between Art and Architecture, Two Film Screenings Organized by Christopher Williams, Silver Screen Theater, Pacific Design Center/MAK Center for Art and Architecture, Los Angeles, CA
Frances Stark Meets Morgan Fisher, Klosterfelde, Berlin; Standard Gauge
2000
Not Coming, Produced by Side Street Projects (collaboration with JP Munro, D’Ette
Nogle, Ramona Trent); Laemmle Grande Theaters, Los Angeles, CA
Galerie Jürgen Becker, Curated by Daniel Buchholz and Christopher Müller, Hamburg, Germany
1999
Thanks, California Institute of the Arts, Valencia, CA
Afterimage: Drawing Through Process, Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, CA
A History of European Cinema through Technical Evolution, Festival dei Popoli, Florence, Italy
The American Century: Art and Culture 1950–2000, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY
1998
Time Dilates, Presented by Dave Muller/Three Day Weekend, The Downtown Arts Festival, New York, NY
1997
Threshold, Side Street Projects, Santa Monica, CA
1996
Projections, Produced by Side Street Projects AMC Old Pasadena 8 Theaters, Pasadena, CA (catalogue)
1995
Inaugural Film Screening, ACME, Santa Monica, CA
Reconsidering the Object of Art: 1965–1975, Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, CA (catalogue)
1994
Scratching the Belly of the Beast; Cutting-Edge Media in Los Angeles, 1922-1994,
Filmforum, Los Angeles, CA (catalogue)
Detours, Side Street Projects, Santa Monica, CA
Color This!, Foundation for Art Resources, Los Angeles, CA
1993
Fade to Black, Eldorado Centrum voor Beeldcultuur, Antwerp, Belgium
Robert Flaherty Seminar, Ithaca, New York
Stichting Amsterdams Filmhuis, Amsterdam, Netherlands
1991
Faculty Show, California Institute of the Arts, Valencia, CA
1990
Mostra internazionale del nuovo cinema, Pesaro, Italy
Beyond Illusion: American Film and Video Art, 1965-1975, in conjunction with The
New Sculpture, 1965-1975: Between Geometry and Gesture, Whitney Museum of American Art; catalogue essay by John G. Hanhardt, Curator of Film and Video; Production Stills, Cue
Rolls, Metamedia, in conjunction with “Image World: Art and Media Culture,” Whitney Museum of
American Art; catalogue essay by John G. Hanhardt, Curator of Film and Video; Cue Rolls, Projection Instructions, Standard Gauge
1989
What’s Wrong with These Pictures?,” retrospective (shared with George Landow),
The American Museum of the Moving Image, New York; films
1988
mot:dites,image, Musée Nationale d’Art Moderne, Centre Pompidou, Paris, France (catalogue)
1987
Text as Image, Pacific Film Archive, Berkeley, CA
1985 Biennial Exhibition, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY (catalogue)
New York Film Festival, New York, NY
1983
Word Works, Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, MN
Film as Installation II, The Clocktower, New York, NY (catalogue)
1982
Ten Years of Living Cinema, Collective for Living Cinema, New York, NY (catalogue)
1981
West Coast, Anthology Film Archives, New York, NY (catalogue)
American and French Independent Cinema, Padiglione d'arte contemporanea
/Cineteca italiana, Milan, Italy (catalogue)
Color Balance, P.S. 1 Contemporary Art Center, Long Island City, NY
1980
Color Balance, Media Study / Buffalo, NY
Film as Installation, The Clocktower, New York, NY
“The Pleasure Dome,” American Experimental Film, 1939-1979, Moderna Museet,
Stockholm, Swedan (catalogue)
1979
Passing Time, “The New West,” The Kitchen, New York, NY
North Light, “Re-Visions,” Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY
1978
International Forum of Young Cinema, curated by John G. Hanhardt, Berlin International Film Festival
Frameworks, Water Street Branch, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY
Artists' Film, Artists Space, New York, NY1977 The Poetic Eye: Perspectives on the American Independent Film, 1923-1977, LACMA, Los Angeles, CA
Time, Philadelphia College of Art, Philadelphia, PA (catalogue)
Southern Exposure, “Film Spaces,” Art Gallery, Mount San Antonio College, Walnut Creek, CA
1976
Text and Image, New American Filmmakers Series. Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY
Fisher/Serra/Shulman, New American Filmmakers Series, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY
Neue Avantgardefilme aus den USA, Werkstattkino, Munich, Germany1975
Stills, New American Filmmakers Series, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY
Institute of Contemporary Art, London, England
1974 Thom Andersen/Morgan Fisher, Theatre Vanguard, Los Angeles, CA
1973 Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, MN
1970 Information, Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY (catalogue)
Selected Bibliography
2004
Paul Arthur, “( ),” Film Comment, January-February
2002
Christopher Knight, “Finding Conceptual Pleasures in Monochromes,” Los Angeles Times, January 25
Catrin Backhaus, “Morgan Fisher,” Frieze, Issue 68, June/July/August
Hans-Christian Dany, “Morgan Fisher,” Springerin, Vol. VIII, Issue 2/02, June– August
Frank Frangenberg, “Morgan Fisher – To See Seeing,” Kunstforum International, Volume 162, November-December
Vanessa Joan Müller, “Gemälde über Bücher,” Texte zur Kunst, Issue 48, December
2001
Rainer Unruh, “Junge Kunst aus Kalifornien,” Kunstforum International, Volume 154, April-May
1999
David E. James, “Hollywood Extras: One Tradition of ‘Avant-Garde’ Film in Los Angeles,” October 90, Fall
1995
Scott MacDonald, ed., “Morgan Fisher: Script of Standard Gauge,” Screen Writings: Scripts and Texts by
Independent Filmmakers, University of California Press, Berkeley/Los Angeles/London
1994
Kristine McKenna, “Filmforum Tackles the ‘Beast,’” Los Angeles Times, February 14, 1994.
Jesse Lerner, “Independents in L.A.– Scratching the Belly of the Beast,” The Independent, July
1993
Scott MacDonald, Avant-Garde Film: Motion Studies, Cambridge University Press
1992
David Sterritt, “Avant-Garde Films: Recent Trends and Key Works,” and Steve Anker,
“Testament to an Orphaned Art”; Blimp, Issue No. 20, Summer; texts in German and English; special issue
devoted to the series “Unknown Territories: American Independent Film” presented at the Vienna Film
Theater by Sixpack Film, Vienna Willem de Greef, “The Found Footage Film as an Art of Reproduction,” and Peter Tscherkassky, “The Analogies of the Avant-Garde,” Found Footage Film, edited by Cecelia Hausheer and Christoph Settele, VIPER/zyclop verlag, Lucerne.
1991
“Off Hollywood”, Nuovocinema/Pesaro No. 38, Quaderni della Mostra Internazionale
del Nuovo Cinema, Marsilio Editori, Venezia; translations of Scott MacDonald’s introduction to
A Critical Cinema (1988), and Steve Anker’s essay “The Avant-Garde; Into the Eighties” (1988).
Indipendenti USA, Charles Burnett, Stan Brakhage, Quaderno Informativo, XXVII Mostra
Internazionale del Nuovo Cinema, Pesaro; excerpts from MF’s note on Standard
Gauge and J. Hoberman’s 1985 review
1990
John G. Hanhardt, “Beyond Illusion: American Film and Video Art, 1965-75,” catalogue essay for The New
Sculpture 1965-1975: Between Geometry and Gesture, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY.
Erik Saks, “20 Best Films of the Decade,” Modern Times, Issue No. 4, April.
Andy Klein, “Standard Gauge,” The Hollywood Reporter, October 8.
John G. Hanhardt, “Film and Video in the Age of Television,” catalogue essay for “Image World,” Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY.
1989
Scott MacDonald, “Morgan Fisher: Film on Film,” Cinema Journal, Vol. 28, No. 2, Winter
Scott MacDonald, “Putting All Your Eggs in One Basket: A Survey of Single-Shot Films,”
Afterimage, Vol. 16, No. 8, March.
David James, Allegories of Cinema: American Film of the Sixties, Princeton University Press.
David Schwartz, “Morgan Fisher,” program note for retrospective at The American Museum of the
Moving Image, New York, May 12-May 19
1988
Steve Anker, “The Avant-Garde; Into the Eighties,” from the catalogue for “Independent
America; New Film 1978-1988,” American Museum of the Moving Image, New York.
Scott MacDonald, A Critical Cinema; Interviews with Independent Filmmakers, University of California
Press; introduction and 1987 interview.
Roger Simon, “At the Boundaries: Standard Gauge, The Avant-Garde, and
Postmodernism,” Spectator, Vol. 9, No. 1, Fall 1988.
Yann Beauvais, “Des mots encore des mots” and Scott MacDonald, “Le texte comme image” (translation of
1986 essay); catalogue essays for mot:dites,image, Musée National d’Art Moderne, Centre National Georges Pompidou, Paris, October-November 1988.
1987Scott MacDonald, “Morgan Fisher: An Interview,” Film Quarterly, Spring 1987.
J. Hoberman, “Ten the Hard Way — The 10 Best Films of 1985,” The Village Voice, January 7, 1986.
1986
Scott MacDonald, “Text as Image in Some Recent North American Avant-Garde Films,”
Afterimage, March 1986.
Alan Williams, “Standard Gauge,” Film Quarterly, Fall 1986.
1985
John G. Hanhardt, “The Passion for Perceiving: Expanded Forms of Film and Video Art,” Art Journal, Fall 1985.
J. Hoberman, review of Standard Gauge, The Village Voice, April 30, 1985.
P. Adams Sitney, “Rear-Guard,” American Film, July-August 1985.
1984
J. Hoberman, “After Avant-Garde Film,” Art After Modernism: Rethinking Representation,
Edited by Brian Wallis, The New Museum of Contemporary Art, New York, 1984.
1982
J. Hoberman, “Vulgar Modernism,” Artforum, February 1982.
1980
Zeno Birolli and Franco Ghielmetti, catalogue entry, “American and French Independent Cinema,” Padiglione d’arte contemporanea - Cineteca Italiana, Milano, September 1981.
P. Adams Sitney, “The Achievement of the American Avant-Garde Cinema 1960- 1970,” catalogue essay, “‘The Pleasure Dome,’ American Experimental Film 1939-
1979,” Moderna Museet, Stockholm, 1980.
1979
Jonathan Crary, “Revisions: Whitney Museum,” Flash Art, October-November 1979.
Peter Frank, “Guerrilla Gallerizing,” The Village Voice, May 7, 1979.
J. Hoberman, review of Protective Coloration, The Village Voice, October 15, 1979.
Trent Myers, “Re-Visions,” Arts Magazine, September 1979.
Lawrence Van Gelder, “New Film Series Opening at the Modern,” New York Times, April 20, 1979.
Thom Andersen, “Morgan Fisher,” program note for showing in series “Independent Film Makers in Columbus,” Department of Photography and Cinema, The Ohio State University,
May 4, 1979; mimeograph.
John G. Hanhardt, “Re-Visions: Projects and Proposals in Film and Video,” gallery
brochure, Whitney Museum of American Art, April 19-May 13, 1979.
1978
James Welling, “Pat O’Neill and Morgan Fisher — ‘Film Spaces,’” Artweek, January 14, 1978.
1976
Linda Gross, “The ‘Eastern Influence’ in Film Series,” Los Angeles Times, June 11, 1976.
J. Hoberman, “Secrets of the Hand-Held Camera: Films Hollywood Won’t Allow,” The Village Voice, April 5, 1976.
Graham Weinbren, “Morgan Fisher — Filming the Process,” Los Angeles Vanguard, June 11-18, 1976.
Alan Williams, “Evenings for New Film: Morgan Fisher,” program note for showing at
Albright-Knox Art Gallery, presented in collaboration with Media Study/Buffalo and the
Center for Media Study, SUNY/Buffalo, January 15, 1976
1975
Regina Cornwell, Recent Radical Film, Art Information Distribution, New York, 1975.
John Dorr, “FILMEX Shorts,” The Hollywood Reporter, March 27, 1975.
1974
Tony Rayns, “Reflected Light: Independent Avant-Garde Festival,” Sight and Sound, Winter 1973/74.
Thom Andersen, “Films by Morgan Fisher,” program note for screening at Theatre Vanguard, Los Angeles, February 12, 1974
Kevin Thomas, “Phenomenon of Film Explored,” Los Angeles Times, February 12
1973
Donald Skoller, “The Fisher Phenomenon,” Film Comment, Vol. 9, No. 2, March-April
Jonas Mekas, “Movie Journal,” The Village Voice, October 25, 1973.
1972
Donald Skoller, “Aspects of Cinematic Consciousness,” Film Comment, Vol. 8, No. 3, September-October 1972.
1969
P. Adams Sitney, “Structural Film,” Film Culture, No. 47, Summer 1969. - Exhibitions
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