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  • :: Aaron Morse
  • i: <div style="margin-top:-3px; margin-left:14px;"> Born 1974 in Tucson, AZ<br/> MFA, The University of Cincinnati, Cincinnati, OH, 1998<br/> BFA, The University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ, 1996<br/> Lives and works in Los Angeles, CA <br/> </div>

SOLO EXHIBITIONS

2011

I-20, New York

ACME., Los Angeles, CA

2009

ACME. Los Angeles, CA

Country Club, Cincinnati, OH

2008

Story of Man, Guild and Greyshkul, New York, NY

Timeline, Hammer Museum of Art, University of California, Los Angeles

2007

The City on a Hill, ACME., Los Angeles, CA

2006

The War is Over, Guild and Greyshkul, New York, NY

2005

ACME., Los Angeles, CA

2003

Origins, ACME., Los Angeles, CA

GROUP EXHIBITIONS

2011

Works of Paper, ACME., Los Angeles, CA

2010

Personal Freedom, Portugal Arte, Lisbon, Portugal

Stranger Than Fiction, Santa Barbara Museum of Art, Santa Barbara, CA

Lost At Sea, Heather James Fine Art, Palm Desert, CA

2009

California Calling: Works from Santa Barbara Collections, 1948 – 2008, Santa Barbara Museum of Art, Santa Barbara, CA

On From Here, Guild and Greyshkul, New York, NY

Glue, Paper, Scissors, Luckman Gallery, Cal State Los Angeles, CA

Prescriptions, ACME., Los Angeles, CA

2008

The Old, Weird America, Contemporary Arts Museum, Houston, TX

2007

Oppenheimer Collection, Nerman Museum of Contemporary Art

Overland Park, KS Fata Morgana, Galerie Schmidt Maczollek, Cologne, Germany

Promised Land, curated by Elizabeth M. Grady, Morgan Lehman, New York, NY

Kairos, Kantor/Feuer Gallery, Los Angeles, CA

2006

Twice Drawn, The Frances Young Tang Teaching Museum and Art Gallery at Skidmore College, Saratoga Springs, New York

2005

The General’s Jamboree, Guild and Greyshkul, New York, NY

Liquid Los Angeles: Currents of Contemporary Watercolor Painting, Pasadena

Museum of California Art, Pasadena, CA

L.A. Times, Bernard Toale Gallery, Boston, MA

2004

Art on Paper, Weatherspoon Art Museum, University of North Carolina, Greensboro, NC

American Stars n’ Bars, Chapman University, Orange, CA

Some Forgotten Place, Matrix 213, UC Berkeley Art Museum & Pacific Film

Archive, Berkeley, CA Nature, Mark Moore Gallery, Santa Monica, CA

2003

Women Beware Women, curated by David Rimanelli, Deitch Projects, New York, NY

ACME. @ Inman, Inman Gallery, Houston, TX

Inside Scoop, Geoffrey Young Gallery, Great Barrington, MA

Miles Coolidge, Kevin Hanley, Darcy Huebler, & Aaron Morse, ACME., Los Angeles, CA

California 10 Contemporary, Judy Saslow Gallery, Chicago, IL

International Paper, UCLA Armand Hammer Museum of Art, Los Angeles, CA

Papers, ACME., Los Angeles, CA

2002

New Art from L.A., Marvelli Gallery, New York, NY

Alice Doesn’t Live Here Anymore – New Art from L.A., Marvelli Gallery, New York, NY

Sail, ACME., Los Angeles, CA

Strolling Through An Ancient Shrine and Garden, ACME., Los Angeles, CA

2000

Stacked, Weston Art Gallery, Aronoff Center for the Arts, Cincinnati, OH

1999

Faster Than A Speeding Bullet: Superheroes in Contemporary Art, The Cleveland Center for Contemporary Art, Cleveland, OH

Built, University of Dayton, Dayton, OH

Chicago Underground Film Festival, Belmont Theatre, Chicago, IL

Scope2, Artists Space, New York, NY

BIBLIOGRAPHY

2009

Elaine, James, et al. Hammer Projects 1999 – 2009, Los Angeles, CA: The Hammer Museum. pp 31, 350-53.

Thomas, Elizabeth, et al. Matrix/Berkeley: A Changing Exhibition of Contemporary Art, Berkeley, CA: University of California, Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive. pp.458 – 61.

Rattemeyer, Christian. The Judith Rothschild Foundation Contemporary Drawings Collection: Catalogue Raisonne, New York, New York: The Museum of Modern Art. pp. 200.

Durrell, Jane and Chambers, Karen S. “Aaron Morse at Country Club,” AEQAI, December, 2009.

Schad, Ed. “Perfumes, Sounds, and Colors Correspond,” ArtSlant, August 18.

Knight, Christopher. “Aaron Morse at ACME.,” Los Angeles Times, August 7.

Ward, Alie. “Aaron Morse’s artistic jumble of the deep,” Brand X, July 15.

2008

Carlin, T. J. “Aaron Morse, ‘Story of Man,’” Timeout New York, November 2 – December 3, 2008.

Kamps, Toby. The Old, Weird America, Houston, TX: Contemporary Arts Museum Houston. pp. 20, 100-105, 152.

Kukielski, Tina. “Aaron Morse,” Hammer Projects (exhibition brochure), Los Angeles, CA: Hammer Museum of Art.

Satorius, Katherine. “Aaron Morse at the Hammer Museum,” Artweek, vol. 39, issue 5, June, pp.19-20.

2007

Wood, Eve. “Aaron Morse,” Artillery, May, No. 5, p. 34.

2006

“Aaron Morse,” Flaunt, October, No. 78, pp. 74-77. 2005

Wood, Eve. “Aaron Morse,” Art Papers, July-August, p. 55. 2004

Zuckerman Jacobson, Heidi. Matrix 213: Some Forgotten Place, Exhibition Catalogue, Berkeley Art Museum, University of California, Berkeley, CA

Jones, Leslie “Step into Liquid: Contemporary Watercolor Painting in Los Angeles,” Art on Paper, July-August, p.40-45, illus. p.44.

Rimanelli, David. Women Beware Women, New York: Deitch Projects, 2003. 2003

Pagel, David. “The Past’s View of the Past Made New: Aaron Morse at ACME.,” Los Angeles Times, October 24, p. E28.

Martin, Philip. “international paper,” tema celeste, number 97, p. 83.

Morse, Aaron. “Self-portrait,” tema celeste, number 96, Summer, p. 80-81, illus.

Knight, Christopher. “Drawing, Not Toeing, the Line,” Los Angeles Times, February 7, p. E30. 1999

Featured Artist, “Big Bang: When Science & Poetry Collide,” Conduit, Fall.

PUBLIC COLLECTIONS

Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, NY
The Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY
Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY
Hammer Museum of Art, University of California, Los Angeles, CA
Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, CA
University of California at Berkeley Art Museum, Berkeley, CA
Nerman Museum of Contemporary Art, Overland Park, KS
Johnson County Community College, Overland Park, KS
Henry Art Gallery, University of Washington, Seattle, WA
Santa Barbara Museum of Art, Santa Barbara, CA
Nora Eccles Harrison Museum of Art, Utah State University, Logan, Utah

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