Sarah Morris

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| birth_date = 20 June 1967

| birth_place = Sevenoaks, Kent, England

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| nationality = American,{{cite web |title=Sarah Morris |url=https://www.moma.org/artists/22999 |website=The Museum of Modern Art |access-date=15 April 2021}} British{{r|getty|benezit|grove|moma}}

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| field = painting, film

| training = Brown University
Cambridge University

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| awards = Berlin Prize Fellow (1999–2000)
Joan Mitchell Foundation Award (2001)

Omaggio in Histoire(s) du cinéma at the Locarno Film Festival (2012) {{cite web |title=When the Painting Ends, the Film Begins |url=https://www.locarnofestival.ch/pardo/pardo-live/today-at-festival/2012/day7/Sarah-Morris.html |website=Locarno Film Festival |access-date=15 April 2021}}

Artist in Focus at the Rotterdam International Film Festival{{cite web |title=Sarah Morris Artist in Focus |url=https://iffr.com/en/2006/films/sarah-morris-artist-in-focus |website=Rotterdam International Film Festival |access-date=15 April 2021}}

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Sarah Morris (born 20 June 1967 in Sevenoaks, Kent, England) is an American and British artist.{{r|getty|benezit|grove|moma}}{{efn|name = a}}{{cite web |title=College of Fine Arts at the University of Texas |url=https://landmarks.utexas.edu/video-art/sarah-morris |website=Landmarks |access-date=15 April 2021}} She lives in New York City in the United States.{{r|cuddy}}

Personal life and education

Morris was born in Sevenoaks, Kent, in south-east England, on 20 June 1967.{{r|grove}} She attended Brown University from 1985 to 1989, Cambridge University,{{r|gaby}} and the Independent Study Program of the Whitney Museum of American Art in 1989–90.{{r|grove}} She was a Berlin Prize fellow at the American Academy in Berlin in 1999–2000; in 2001 she received a Joan Mitchell Foundation painting award.Werner Miester (27 March 2010). [https://web.archive.org/web/20100330100347/http://www.artknowledgenews.com/2010-03-27-21-17-18-best-works-by-sarah-morris-on-view-at-gallery-meyer-kainer.html Best Works by Sarah Morris on View at Gallery Meyer Kainer]. Art Knowledge News. Archived 30 March 2010. She was married to Liam Gillick.{{r|gaby}}

Work

Morris works in both painting and film, and considers the two to be interconnected.{{cite book|last1=Holzwarth|first1=Hans W.|title=100 Contemporary Artists A-Z|date=2009|publisher=Taschen|location=Köln|isbn=978-3-8365-1490-3|pages=392–397|edition=Taschen's 25th anniversary special}}

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From about 1997 her paintings were geometric Modernist grid designs with flat planes of colour; a related series was of glass-faced skyscrapers with geometric landscape designs reflected in their façades. Among her earlier painting styles were screen-prints reminiscent of Andy Warhol, word-paintings, and paintings of shoes.{{r|grove}}

File:Robert Towne Installation.jpg, Manhattan]]

Morris's films have been characterized as portraits that focus on the psychology of individuals or cities. Her films about cities, like Midtown, Chicago, Los Angeles, and Rio depict urban scenes, capturing the architecture, politics, industry and leisure which define a specific place. Other films describe a place through the viewpoint of an individual, like psychologist Dr. George Sieber describing the terrorist event at the Olympic Stadium in Munich in the film 1972 or the industry politics of Hollywood from the viewpoint of screenwriter and producer in the eponymous film Robert Towne.{{cite web|last1=Rabinowitz|first1=Cay Sophie|title=Interview: Sarah Morris|url=http://www.artinamericamagazine.com/news-features/magazine/interview-sarah-morris/|website=Art In America|access-date=14 January 2016}}{{cite web|url=http://www.frieze.com/issue/review/sarah_morris2/|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081218194532/http://www.frieze.com/issue/review/sarah_morris2/|url-status=dead|archive-date=18 December 2008|title=Frieze Magazine - Archive - Archive - Sarah Morris|author=Erskine Design|work=frieze.com|access-date=26 March 2015}}

=Exhibitions=

She has shown internationally, with solo exhibitions at Hamburger Bahnhof in Berlin (2001),{{cite web|url=https://portal.dnb.de/opac.htm?method=showFullRecord¤tResultId=%22sarah%22+and+%22morris%22%26any¤tPosition=19|title=DNB, Katalog der Deutschen Nationalbibliothek|work=Katalog der Deutschen Nationalbibliothek|access-date=26 March 2015}} Palais de Tokyo in Paris (2005),{{cite web|url=http://archives.palaisdetokyo.com/fr/docu/tokyonews/76/tokyonews76.html|title=Tokyonews 76|work=palaisdetokyo.com|access-date=26 March 2015}} Fondation Beyeler in Basel (2008),[http://www.fondationbeyeler.ch/sites/default/files/fondation_beyeler/downloads/mm_sonderausstellungen/2008/e_sarah_morris_project.pdf Sarah Morris: Black Beetle; June 1 - September 7, 2008] Museum für Moderne Kunst in Frankfurt (2009),{{r|metz}} Museo d’Arte Moderna di Bologna (2009),{{cite web|url=http://www.mambo-bologna.org/en/mostre/mostra-38/|title=Sarah Morris "China 9, Liberty 37"|author=D-sign.it|work=mambo-bologna.org|access-date=26 March 2015}} Musée National Fernand Léger in Biot (2012),[http://www.musees-nationaux-alpesmaritimes.fr/library/Sarah%20Morris/CP%20Sarah%20Morris.pdf Sarah Morris: Mechanical Ballet; November 17, 2012 - March 4, 2013] {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140429221040/http://www.musees-nationaux-alpesmaritimes.fr/library/Sarah%20Morris/CP%20Sarah%20Morris.pdf |date=April 29, 2014 }} M Museum, Leuven, Belgium (2015),https://www.mleuven.be/en/programme/sarah-morris Kunsthalle Wein, Vienna, Austria (2016),https://kunsthallewien.at/en/exhibition/sarah-morris-falls-never-breaks/ Espoo Museum of Modern Art, Espoo, Finland (2017),https://emmamuseum.fi/en/exhibitions/sarah-morris/ UCCA, Beijing, China (2018),https://ucca.org.cn/en/exhibition/sarah-morris//

Tai Kwun Contemporary, Hong Kong (2024) https://www.taikwun.hk/en/programme/detail/sarah-morris-who-is-who/1340

Her mid-career retrospective titled "All Systems Fail" traveled to multiple cities and museums in 2023 and 2024 including: Deichtorhallen Hamburg, Germany [https://www.deichtorhallen.de/en/ausstellung/sarah-morris/], Kunstmuseen Krefeld, Germany [https://kunstmuseenkrefeld.de/en/Exhibitions/2023/Sarah-Morris-All-Systems-Fail], Zentrum Paul Klee , Bern, Switzerland [https://www.zpk.org/en/ausstellung/sarah-morris] and Kunstmuseum Stuttgart, Germany [https://www.kunstmuseum-stuttgart.de/en/exhibition/sarah-morris].

She has created site-specific works for various institutions including the Lever House,{{cite web|last1=Schlesinger|first1=Toni|title=Wonderful Towne! Lever House Hosts Homage to Screenwriter|url=http://observer.com/2006/09/wonderful-towne-lever-house-hosts-homage-to-screenwriter/|website=observer.com|publisher=The Observer|access-date=6 May 2015}} Kunsthalle Bremen in Germany,{{cite web|url=https://www.kunsthalle-bremen.de/home-en/exhibitions-2/current-exhibitions/|title=Kunsthalle Bremen - Current exhibitions - Exhibitions|work=kunsthalle-bremen.de|access-date=26 March 2015}} Kunstsammlung Nordrhein-Westfalen Museum, Düsseldorf, Germany,[https://www.capitainpetzel.de/artists/46-sarah-morris/installation_shots/image535/ Sarah Morris - Installion Shots|Capitain Petzel] the lobby of UBS in New York City, the Gloucester Road tube station in London,Coline Milliard (12 June 2012). [https://web.archive.org/web/20141218182425/http://www.blouinartinfo.com/contemporary-arts/article/808139-sarah-morris-on-taking-big-ben-underground-at-londons-gloucester-road-tube-station Sarah Morris On Taking Big Ben Underground at London's Gloucester Road Tube Station]. ArtInfo. Archived 18 December 2014. the Metropolitan Transportation Authority, Dutch Kills / 39th Ave Subway Station,https://www.mta.info/agency/arts-design/collection/hellion-equilibrium Ad-Diriyah Biennale in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia,https://sarahmorris.com/sites/courtship-ad-diriyah-biennale-riyadh/ St. Louis Lambert International Airport,https://www.artoftravelstl.com/permanent-exhibits General Dynamics Headquarters in Reston, Virginia, Tulsa Convention Center, Tulsa, Oklahoma,https://tulsaworld.com/news/local/govt-and-politics/public-artwork-dresses-up-city/article_4bb82cff-c5b1-5350-a17f-16648317df7b.html Gateway School for Sciences, Queens, New York,https://mosaika.com/project/sarah-morris/ and Cleveland Clinic, Cleveland, Ohio,https://www.clevelandclinic.org/lp/power-of-art/images/pdf/power-of-art-cleveland-clinic-collection.pdf Key Biscayne Community Center, Key Biscayne, Florida.https://keybiscayne.fl.gov/business_detail_T14_R53.php

Morris's films have been featured at the following:

  • Ullens Center for Contemporary Art in Beijing (Entire filmography) {{Cite web|url=http://ucca.org.cn/en/exhibition/sarah-morris/|title=Sarah Morris: Odysseus Factor|website=ucca.org.cn|access-date=2018-06-26}}
  • Fondation Louis Vuitton in Paris (Strange Magic) {{cite web|url=http://www.fondationlouisvuitton.fr/content/flvinternet/en/la-collection/la-collection-sarah-morris.html|title=La collection Sarah Morris|work=fondationlouisvuitton.fr|access-date=26 March 2015}}
  • Museum of Contemporary Art in Chicago (Chicago) {{cite web|url=http://www2.mcachicago.org/exhibition/city-self/|title=CITY SELF - MCA Chicago|author=Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago|work=mcachicago.org|access-date=26 March 2015}}
  • Sotheby's in New York (Points on a Line) {{cite web|url=http://www.art-agenda.com/shows/a-project-to-benefit-the-farnsworth-house-and-glass-house/|title=A Project to Benefit The Farnsworth House and Glass House|work=art-agenda.com|access-date=26 March 2015}}
  • Barbican Centre in London (Beijing, Midtown) {{cite web|url=https://www.barbican.org.uk/film/event-detail.asp?ID=11293|title=Barbican - Beijing (U*) (UK Premiere) + Sarah Morris|work=barbican.org.uk|access-date=26 March 2015}}
  • Guggenheim in New York (Midtown, AM/PM, Capital, Miami, Los Angeles) {{cite web|url=http://pastexhibitions.guggenheim.org/shapes/events.html|title=Guggenheim Museum - Exhibitions - The Shapes of Space|date=1 April 2007|work=guggenheim.org|access-date=26 March 2015}}
  • Centre Pompidou (Midtown, AM/PM, Capital, Miami, Los Angeles) {{cite web|url=http://www.centrepompidou.fr/cpv/ressource.action?param.id=FR_R-e281319e6c214532e41479f1e9e78b63¶m.idSource=FR_E-e281319e6c214532e41479f1e9e78b63|title=L'évènement Sarah Morris - Centre Pompidou|work=centrepompidou.fr|access-date=26 March 2015}}
  • M+ in Hong Kong (ETC) {{Cite web |date=2024-02-25 |title='A new view of the city': US artist's film of Hong Kong, star of M+ facade |url=https://www.scmp.com/magazines/post-magazine/long-reads/article/3252975/new-view-city-us-artist-sarah-morris-film-hong-kong-star-m-facade-offers-outsiders-depiction |access-date=2025-01-28 |website=South China Morning Post |language=en}}
  • Locarno Film Festival, Locarno, Italy (Rio) Tribute https://www.sentieriselvaggi.it/locarno-65-lo-schermo-del-mondo/

Public collections

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  • Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo{{cite web|title=Albright Knox Collection|url=http://www.albrightknox.org/collection/search/piece:5808/|website=Albright Knox Art Gallery|access-date=14 January 2016}}
  • Berardo Collection, Sintra, Portugal{{cite web|title=Berado Collection|url=http://www.berardocollection.com/?sid=50004&CID=102&artist=262&lang=en|website=The Berado Collection|access-date=14 January 2016}}
  • Beyeler Foundation, Riehen, Switzerland https://www.fondationbeyeler.ch/en/beyeler-collection/translate-to-englisch-kuenstler
  • British Council, London{{cite web|title=British Council Collection|url=http://visualarts.britishcouncil.org/collection/artists/sarah-morris-1967/initial/m|website=British Council: Visual Arts|access-date=14 January 2016}}
  • Centre d’Art Contemporain, Le Consortium, Dijon{{cite web|title=Le Consortium Collection|url=http://leconsortium.fr/la-collection/sarah-morris/|website=Le Consortium|access-date=14 January 2016}}
  • Centre Pompidou, Paris{{cite web|title=Centre Pompidou Collection|url=https://www.centrepompidou.fr/cpv/ressource.action?param.id=FR_R-9719c0ae5686654f92f2cb94ee26979¶m.idSource=FR_O-c8ec917a61ffce2d43bc018542a5f86|website=Centre Pompidou|access-date=14 January 2016}}
  • Cooper Hewitt Smithsonian Design Museum, New York{{cite web|title=Cooper Hewitt Collection|url=https://collection.cooperhewitt.org/objects/68774785/|website=Cooper Hewitt|access-date=14 January 2016}}
  • Dallas Museum of Art, Dallas{{cite web|title=Dallas Museum of Art Collection|url=https://www.dma.org/collection/artwork/sarah-morris/endeavor-los-angeles|website=Dallas Museum of Art|access-date=14 January 2016}}
  • DekaBank, Frankfurt am Main https://www.deka.de/deka-group/our-responsibility/our-commitment/art
  • Fondazione Prada, Milan, Italy
  • Fondation Louis Vuitton, Paris{{cite web|title=Fondation Louis Vuitton Collection|url=http://www.fondationlouisvuitton.fr/en/accrochages/la-collection/la-collection-sarah-morris.html|website=Fondation Louis Vuitton|access-date=14 January 2016}}
  • F.R.A.C. Bourgogne, Dijon{{cite web|title=FRAC Bourgogne Collection|url=http://www.frac-bourgogne.org/recherche/?q=MORRIS,%20GB|website=FRAC Bourgone|access-date=14 January 2016}}
  • F.R.A.C. Poitou-Charentes{{cite web|title=FRAC Poitou-Charentes Collection|url=http://www.frac-poitou-charentes.org/pages/collection_artistes-morris_FRAC.html|website=FRAC Poitou-Charentes|access-date=14 January 2016}}
  • Government Art Collection, London{{cite web|title=Government Art Collection|url=http://www.gac.culture.gov.uk/artist.aspx?vw=th&id=129806&sb=WorkDate&pg=1|website=Government Art Collection|access-date=14 January 2016}}
  • Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York{{cite web|title=Guggenheim Museum Collection|url=http://www.guggenheim.org/new-york/collections/collection-online/artists/2959|website=Guggenheim Museum|access-date=14 January 2016}}
  • Hamburger Bahnhof, Museum fur Gegenwart, Berlin
  • Jumex Museum, Ciudad de Mexico https://www.fundacionjumex.org/en/fundacion/coleccion/83-rio-las-vegas
  • Kunsthalle Bremen, Bremen{{cite web|title=Kunsthalle Bremen Online Katalog|url=http://www.kunsthalle-bremen.de/sammlung/online-katalog/|website=Kunsthalle Bremen|access-date=14 January 2016}}
  • Kunstmuseum Wolfsburg, Wolfsburg{{cite web|title=Kunstmuseum Wolfsburg Collection|url=http://www.kunstmuseum-wolfsburg.de/artists/M/|website=Kunstmuseum Wolfsburg|access-date=14 January 2016}}
  • Städtische Galerie im Lenbachhaus, Munich{{cite web|title=Lenbachhaus Collection|url=http://www.lenbachhaus.de/collection/art-after-1945/?L=1|website=Lenbachhaus|access-date=14 January 2016}}
  • Luma Foundation, Arles, France https://www.luma.org/en/arles/about-us/luma-arles.html
  • Miami Art Museum{{cite web|title=Art Gift to Pérez Art Museum Miami by Mimi and Bud Floback Grows to Nearly 30 Major Works|url=http://www.pamm.org/about/news/2013/art-gift-p%C3%A9rez-art-museum-miami-mimi-and-bud-floback-grows-nearly-30-major-works|website=Pérez Art Museum Miami|access-date=14 January 2016}}
  • Musee d’Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris{{cite web|title=Musee d'Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris Collection|url=http://mam.paris.fr/fr/recherche-collections-musee-art-moderne#/artworks/search/180000000007677?page=0&favorites=&ids=&layout=grid&filters=authors%3AMORRIS+Sarah%E2%86%B9MORRIS+Sarah¬e_edit=&page_size=15&reset=true&show_text_note=&artworkId=180000000007677¬e=&elementIndex=&isHeader=|website=Musee d'Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris|access-date=14 January 2016|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140731211736/http://mam.paris.fr/fr/recherche-collections-musee-art-moderne#/artworks/search/180000000007677?page=0&favorites=&ids=&layout=grid&filters=authors%3AMORRIS+Sarah%E2%86%B9MORRIS+Sarah¬e_edit=&page_size=15&reset=true&show_text_note=&artworkId=180000000007677¬e=&elementIndex=&isHeader=|archive-date=31 July 2014}}
  • Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles{{cite web|title=Museum of Contemporary Art Los Angeles Collection|url=http://www.moca.org/artist/sarah-morris|website=Museum of Contemporary Art Los Angeles|access-date=14 January 2016}}
  • Museum of Modern Art, New York{{r|moma}}
  • Museum fur Moderne Kunst, Frankfurt{{cite web|title=MMK Collection|url=http://mmk-frankfurt.de/de/sammlung/werkuebersicht/?kuenstler=167871&all=1|website=MMK Museum Für Moderne Kunst|access-date=14 January 2016}}
  • M+, Hong Kong{{Cite web |title=ETC {{!}} M+ |url=https://www.mplus.org.hk/en/mplus-facade/etc/ |access-date=2025-01-28 |website=www.mplus.org.hk |language=en-US}}
  • Nakanoshima Museum of Art, Osaka{{Cite web |title=[ID:12923] Society is Abstract, Culture is Concrete [Sound Graph] : Detail {{!}} Collection Database {{!}} Nakanoshima Museum of Art, Osaka |url=https://jmapps.ne.jp/osytrmdsen/det.html?data_id=12923 |access-date=2025-01-28 |website=Nakanoshima Museum of Art, Osaka - Collection Database |language=en}}
  • National Museum of Women in the Arts, Washington, D.C.{{cite web | url=https://nmwa.org/exhibitions/positive-fragmentation/ | title=Positive Fragmentation: From the Collections of Jordan D. Schnitzer and His Family Foundation | publisher=National Museum of Women in the Arts | accessdate=November 11, 2023}}
  • National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne https://www.ngv.vic.gov.au/explore/collection/work/113306/
  • Neue Nationalgalerie im Hamburger Bahnhof, Berlin
  • Saastamoinen Foundation Art Collection https://saastamoinenfoundation.fi/en/testtt/
  • Sammlung DaimlerChrysler, Berlin{{cite web|title=Daimler Art Collection|url=http://art.daimler.com/en/artist/sarah-morris-2/|website=Daimler Art Collection|access-date=14 January 2016}}
  • Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam{{cite web|title=Steelijk Museum Amsterdam Collection|url=http://www.stedelijk.nl/en/person/11661-morris-sarah|website=Steelijk Museum Amsterdam|access-date=14 January 2016}}
  • Tate Modern, London{{cite web|title=Tate Modern Collection|url=http://www.tate.org.uk/art/search?aid=3099|website=Tate Modern|access-date=14 January 2016}}
  • Yale Center for British Art, New Haven{{cite web|title=Yale Center for British Art Collection|url=http://collections.britishart.yale.edu/vufind/Search/Results?join=OR&lookfor0%5b%5d=%22Print%20made%20by%20Sarah%20Morris%2C%20born%201967%2C%20American%22&type0%5b%5d=author&bool0%5b%5d=OR&lookfor1%5b%5d=%22Print%20made%20by%20Sarah%20Morris%2C%20born%201967%2C%20American%22&type1%5b%5d=author2&bool1%5b%5d=OR&lookfor2%5b%5d=%22Print%20made%20by%20Sarah%20Morris%2C%20born%201967%2C%20American%22&type2%5b%5d=author_additional|website=Yale Center for British Art|access-date=14 January 2016}}
  • Victoria and Albert Museum, London{{cite web|title=Victoria and Albert Museum Collection|url=https://collections.vam.ac.uk/search/?q=sarah+morris&name%5B%5D=5220&narrow=1&offset=0&slug=0|website=Victoria and Albert Museum|access-date=14 January 2016}}
  • UBS Art Collection, New York https://www.ubs.com/global/en/our-firm/art/artists-articles/sarah-morris.html

Filmography

  • Midtown (1998){{cite web|last1=Rabinowitz|first1=Cay Sophie|title=Interview: Sarah Morris|url=http://www.artinamericamagazine.com/news-features/magazine/interview-sarah-morris/|website=Art in America|access-date=20 April 2015}}
  • AM/PM (1999)
  • Capital (2000)
  • Miami (2002)
  • Los Angeles (2004)
  • Robert Towne (2006)
  • 1972 (2008)
  • Beijing (2008){{cite web|last1=Sherwin|first1=Skye|title=Artist Sarah Morris's Latest Film Beijing|url=http://www.wallpaper.com/art/artist-sarah-morriss-latest-film-beijing/4941|website=Wallpaper|access-date=20 April 2015}}
  • Points on a Line (2010){{cite web|last1=Moshayedi|first1=Aram|title=Looking Glass|url=http://artforum.com/film/id=26551|website=Artforum|access-date=20 April 2015}}
  • Chicago (2011){{cite web|last1=Cuddy|first1=Alison|title=City Self exhibition attempts a portrait of Chicago|url=http://www.wbez.org/news/culture/city-self-exhibition-attempts-portrait-chicago-109394|website=WBEZ91.5|access-date=20 April 2015}}
  • Rio (2012){{cite web|last1=Johnson|first1=Paddy|last2=Leifheit|first2=Matthew|title=Orange: Sarah Morris at Petzel Gallery|url=http://artfcity.com/2013/11/29/orange-sarah-morris-at-petzel-gallery/|website=Artfcity|access-date=20 April 2015}}
  • Strange Magic (2014){{cite web|last1=Kawahito|first1=Wakana|title=Fondation Louis Vuitton|url=http://www.shift.jp.org/en/archives/2015/03/fondation_louis_vuitton.html|website=SHIFT|access-date=20 April 2015}}
  • Abu Dhabi (2016){{Cite news|url=http://www.interviewmagazine.com/art/sarah-morris#_|title=Sarah Morris|work=Interview Magazine|access-date=2017-03-24}}
  • Finite and Infinite Games (2017){{Cite news|url=http://www.sueddeutsche.de/kultur/kunst-wo-gretel-herrscht-1.3375262|title=Wo Gretel herrscht|last=Briegleb|first=Till|work=sueddeutsche.de|access-date=2017-03-24|language=de|issn=0174-4917}}
  • Sakura (2019)
  • ETC (2024){{Cite web |last=McHugh |first=Fionnuala |date=2024-02-25 |title='A new view of the city': US artist's film of Hong Kong, star of M+ facade |url=https://www.scmp.com/magazines/post-magazine/long-reads/article/3252975/new-view-city-us-artist-sarah-morris-film-hong-kong-star-m-facade-offers-outsiders-depiction |access-date=2025-01-28 |website=South China Morning Post |language=en}}

Other activities

Origami lawsuit

In 2011 Morris was sued by a group of six origami artists, including American Robert J. Lang. They alleged that in 24 works (eventually discovered to be 33 or more) in her "Origami" series of paintings Morris had without permission or credit copied their original crease patterns, coloured them, and sold them as "found" or "traditional" designs.

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The case was settled out of court early in 2013; under the terms of the settlement, the creators of the crease patterns are to be given credit when the works are displayed.{{r|duray|lang}}

class="wikitable sortable mw-collapsible mw-collapsed"

|+List of affected paintings/models

!Painting title

!Year painted

!Square painting edge sizes

!Model title

!Model composer

Angel

|2009

|214 cm

|Harpy

|Jason Ku

Bat

|2007

|214 cm

|Bat

|Noboru Miyajima

Black Ant

|2009

|214 cm

|Harvestman (Phalangium)

|Manuel Sirgo

rowspan="2" |Calypte Anna

|2007

|214 cm

| rowspan="2" |Ruby-throated Hummingbird, opus 389

| rowspan="2" |Robert J. Lang

2008

|289 cm

rowspan="2" |Cat

| rowspan="2" |2007

|53.5 cm

| rowspan="2" |Cat

| rowspan="2" |Noboru Miyajima

214 cm
Chaser

|2008

|214 cm

|Dragonfly, opus 369

|Robert J. Lang

Clerid Beetle

|2009

|214 cm

|Scorpion (Buthus)

|Manuel Sirgo

Crane

|2008

|214 cm

|Dancing Crane, opus 460

|Robert J. Lang

Cuttlefish

|2009

|214 cm

|Sepia

|Manuel Sirgo

Dragon

|2007

|214 cm

|KNL Dragon, opus 132

|Robert J. Lang

rowspan="2" |Falcon

|2007

|214 cm

| rowspan="2" |Cooper’s Hawk, opus 464

| rowspan="2" |Robert J. Lang

2008

|53.5 cm

Goatfish

|2007

|152.5 cm

|Goatfish, opus 202

|Robert J. Lang

rowspan="2" |Grasshopper

| rowspan="2" |2007

|76.6 cm

| rowspan="2" |Grasshopper, opus 83

| rowspan="2" |Robert J. Lang

289 cm
Hercules Beetle

|2007

|214 cm

|Hercules Beetle, opus 271

|Robert J. Lang

June Beetle

|2009

|214 cm

|Cyclommatus metallifer

|Nicola Bandoni

rowspan="4" |Kawasaki Cube

| rowspan="3" |2008

|53.5 cm

| rowspan="4" |Kawasaki Cube #1

| rowspan="4" |Toshikazu Kawasaki

53.5 cm
214 cm
2009

|289 cm

Leaf Mantis

|2009

|214 cm

|Leaf Mantis

|Manuel Sirgo

Lion

|2007

|214 cm

|Lion

|Noboru Miyajima

rowspan="2" |Mommoth

| rowspan="2" |2007

|53.5 cm

| rowspan="2" |Mommoth

| rowspan="2" |Noboru Miyajima

214 cm
Mouse

|2007

|122 cm

|Rat, opus 159

|Robert J. Lang

Night Hawk

|2008

|214 cm

|Stealth Fighter, opus 324

|Robert J. Lang

Night Hunter

|2007

|214 cm

|Night Hunter, opus 469

|Robert J. Lang

Orchis

|2008

|214 cm

|Orchid, opus 392

|Robert J. Lang

Parrot

|2009

|214 cm

|Macaw

|Manuel Sirgo

rowspan="2" |Pegasus

| rowspan="2" |2007

|53.5 cm

| rowspan="2" |Pegasus, opus 325

| rowspan="2" |Robert J. Lang

214 cm
Praying Mantis

|2007

|214 cm

|Praying Mantis, opus 246

|Robert J. Lang

Rabbit

|2007

|122 cm

|Rabbit, opus 186

|Robert J. Lang

Raccoon Dog

|2007

|122 cm

|Raccoon Dog

|Noboru Miyajima

Rhino Beetle

|2008

|214 cm

|Eupatorus gracilicornus, opus 476

|Robert J. Lang

rowspan="3" |Rockhopper

| rowspan="2" |2007

|20.8 cm

| rowspan="3" |Penguin

| rowspan="3" |Noboru Miyajima

122 cm
2009

|289 cm

rowspan="4" |Swan

| rowspan="3" |2007

|122 cm

| rowspan="4" |Swan

| rowspan="4" |Noboru Miyajima

214 cm
289 cm
2008

|53.5 cm

rowspan="2" |Tarantula

| rowspan="2" |2008

|53.5 cm

| rowspan="2" |Tarantula

| rowspan="2" |Robert J. Lang

214 cm
rowspan="4" |Weasel

| rowspan="2" |2007

|76.6 cm

| rowspan="4" |Weasel

| rowspan="4" |Noboru Miyajima

214 cm
rowspan="2" |2008

|122 cm

289 cm
Wolf

|2007

|289 cm

|Wolf

|Noboru Miyajima

Notes

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References

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{{cite web|last1=Benezit|title=Benezit Dictionary of Artists|url=http://www.oxfordartonline.com/subscriber/article/benezit/B00126216?q=sarah+morris&search=quick&pos=1&_start=1#firsthit|website=Oxford Art Online|access-date=14 January 2016}}

Alison Cuddy (17 December 2013). [http://www.wbez.org/news/culture/city-self-exhibition-attempts-portrait-chicago-109394 City Self exhibition attempts a portrait of Chicago]. WBEZ91.5. Accessed April 2015.

Dalya Alberge (5 June 2011). [https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2011/jun/05/tate-artist-sarah-martin-origami-lawsuit Tate artist Sarah Morris 'unfolded' our works, claim leading origami designers]. The Observer. Accessed March 2018.

Dan Duray (28 May 2013). [http://observer.com/2013/05/beneath-the-fold-the-twisted-tale-of-origami-v-sarah-morris/ Beneath the Fold: The Twisted Tale of Origami v. Sarah Morris]. New York: Observer. Accessed March 2018.

Gaby Wood (23 May 2004). [https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2004/may/23/art2 "Cinéma vérité"]. The Observer. Accessed March 2014.

{{cite web|last1=Getty|title=Union List of Artist Names|url=http://www.getty.edu/vow/ULANFullDisplay?find=&role=&nation=&subjectid=500121030|website=Getty Research|access-date=14 January 2016}}

.Francis Summers (2001–14). [http://www.oxfordartonline.com/subscriber/article/grove/art/T097276 Morris, Sarah]. Grove Art Online. Oxford Art Online. Oxford: Oxford University Press. Accessed May 2015. {{subscription required}}

[http://www.langorigami.com/copyright/sarah_morris_attributions.php Sarah Morris Works Attribution]. Robert J. Lang origami. Accessed March 2018.

Erhard Metz (3 June 2009). [http://prod-images.exhibit-e.com/www_petzel_com/2009_6_Feuilleton_Frankfurt_SM.pdf Sarah Morris: Gemini Dressage]. Feuilleton Frankfurt. Accessed May 2015.

{{cite web|url=http://www.moma.org/collection/artist.php?artist_id=22999|title=MoMA|work=MoMA.org|access-date=26 March 2015}}

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Further reading

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  • Modern Worlds, 1999 {{ISBN|1-901-352-05-6}}
  • Capital, 2001 {{ISBN|3-89611-098-5}}
  • Sarah Morris: Bar Nothing, 2004 {{ISBN|0-9546501-1-5}}
  • Los Angeles, 2005 {{ISBN|3-00-016363-8}}
  • 1972, 2008 {{ISBN|978-3-86560-460-6}}
  • Sarah Morris: Lesser Panda, 2008 {{ISBN|978-1-906072-16-2}}
  • Beijing, 2009 {{ISBN|978-3-86560-646-4}}
  • Sarah Morris: Clips, Knots, and 1972, 2010 {{ISBN|978-89-92819-55-8}}
  • You Cannot Trust A Surface, 2011 {{ISBN|978-3-86984-054-3}}
  • An Open System Meets an Open System: Sarah Morris and Hans Ulrich Obrist in Conversation, 2013 {{ISBN|978-3-7091-1031-7}}
  • Sarah Morris: Bye Bye Brazil, 2013 {{ISBN|978-1-906072-82-7}}
  • Sarah Morris: Mechanical Ballet, 2014 {{ISBN|978-2-36380-065-7}}
  • Frédéric Paul, {{Cite book| publisher = Verlag der Buchhandlung Walther Konig| isbn = 978-3-941360-46-4 | title = Sarah Morris: Capital Letters Rear Better for Initials| location = S.l.| date = 5 November 2015}}
  • {{Cite book| publisher = Ivorypress LiberArs| isbn = 978-84-942820-7-2| last = Morris| first = Sarah| others = Sarah Morris (ed.)| title = Crease Folds| date = 2015| url = http://www.ivorypress.com/content/crease-folds}}
  • Two Erasing Principles, 2016 {{ISBN|6055815370}}
  • Sarah Morris, 2018 {{ISBN|978-952-5509-58-8}}
  • Michael Archer. "Sarah Morris", Artforum, May 2009, p. 170
  • Nick Haymes, "Sarah Morris", Art Review, May 2009, pp. 70–7
  • Hans Ulrich Obrist, "Sarah Morris", Adam & Eve, March/April/May 2009, pp. 78–91
  • Eric Banks, "Seeing Red", Men's Vogue, August 2008, pp. 114–119
  • Adrian Searle, "Dazzled by the Rings", The Guardian, 30 July 2008
  • Christopher Turner, "Beijing City Symphony", Modern Painters, July/August 2008, pp. 56–59
  • Marcus Verhagen, "Nomadism", Art Monthly October 2006
  • Tanja Widmann, "To Offer You Something", Texte Zur Kunst, September 2006, pp. 248–251
  • Ezra Petronio and Stephanie Moisdon, "Bar Nothing by Sarah Morris", Self Service, Issue No.21, Fall/Winter 2004, pp. 302–315
  • {{cite book|title=Art Now|editor-first1=Uta|editor-last1=Grosenick|editor-first2=Burkhard|editor-last2=Riemschneider|publisher=Taschen|location=Köln|edition=25th anniversary|year=2005|pages=196–199|isbn=9783822840931|oclc=191239335}}

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