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RESUME
Pol Morton is a chronically ill non-binary artist making assemblage paintings and sculptures about queerness, transness, and disability. In Morton’s diaristic paintings, oil paint surrounds and sometimes encrusts collaged materials such as medical debris and resin-coated sequins, playing with the beauty in the experiences of injury, infection, and recovery. Their work takes on intimate, quotidian moments—lying in bed, taking a bath, walking around the city of New York with a cane, and staring at doves having sex through the window. Born in Palo Alto, California, they received their BFA from the Maryland Institute College of Art in Baltimore (2009) and their MFA from Hunter College in New York City (2022). Their work has been exhibited in NYC at White Columns, Klaus von Nichtssagend, Storage Gallery, and Swivel Gallery, among others; as well as in San Francisco, Baltimore, and Beijing, China. Morton is currently a Monira Foundation resident at Mana Contemporary in Jersey City.
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Education
2022 MFA, Hunter College, New York City, NY
2009 BFA summa cum laude, Maryland Institute College of Art (MICA), Baltimore, MD
2008 International School of Painting, Drawing, and Sculpture, Montecastello di Vibio, Italy
Solo Exhibitions
2018 Hand to Hand, Strut, the art gallery associated with the gay men’s health clinic, San Francisco, CA
2014 Walls and Windows, Beijing American Center (BAC), Beijing, China
Two-Person Exhibitions
2023 Hole Show, with Tucker Claxton curated by Jacob Patrick Brooks, Outlet Gallery, NYC, NY
2023 Pol Morton / Sara Murphy, White Columns, NYC, NY
Selected Group Exhibitions
2024 All Tomorrow’s Parties, M. David & Co, Brooklyn, NY
2024 Painting Deconstructed, curated by Leeza Meksin, Ortega y Gasset Projects, Brooklyn, NY
2024 Chemistry, Peninsula Gallery, NYC, NY
2024 The Sum Of Our Parts, Swivel Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
2024 Neuro-Queering the Drawing Studio, curated by Angela Conant, Pratt Institute DeKalb Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
2024 Love-Struck, curated by Juliet Byrne, Ely Center for Contemporary Art, online exhibition https://elycenter.org/digital-grace-love-struck
2024 Postcards From the Edge, Visual AIDS fundraiser at Berry Campbell Gallery, NYC, NY
2023 Red Thread, curated by Anne-Laure Lemaître, Latitude Gallery, NYC, NY
2023 Currents, curated by Alex Feim, Morris Adjmi Architects, NYC, NY
2023 Process Driven, Ely Center of Contemporary Art, online exhibition https://elycenter.org/process-driven-1
2023 No Regerts, curatorial project by Dominic Terlizzi and Christine Stiver, Brooklyn, NY
2023 Pareidolia, Tappeto Volante, Brooklyn, NY
2023 Press Release IV, Storage Gallery, NYC, NY
2023 The I Has to Travel, Klaus von Nichtssagend, NYC, NY
2023 Pyramid Scheme, Bass and Reiner, San Francisco, CA
2023 Press Release III, Storage Gallery, NYC, NY
2023 Dwelling, White Columns, online exhibition https://whitecolumns.org/exhibitions/white-columns-online-curated-by-mihaela-chiriac/
2023 Press Release II, Storage Gallery, NYC, NY
2023 It’s Never Over, St. Charles, Baltimore, MD
2022 Eve, SHAG Gallery, curated by Lauren Fowler, NYC, NY
2022 Not Even Home Will be With You Forever, Field Projects, curated by Amanda Barker, NYC, NY
2022 Free To Be, Plaxall Gallery, Long Island City, NY
2022 Some Strange Power, MFA thesis show, Hunter MFA, NY
2021 Not Just Another Anthropocenic Love Story, Trestle Gallery, NY
2021 Shin Haus: Armory Week, Shin Gallery, NY
2020 Trust Fall, Hunter online viewing room, NY
2020 Shin Haus, Shin Gallery, NY
2020 As Inside, So Outside, Juror: David Smith and Kate Mothes, Young Space online exhibition https://www.yngspc.com/exhibitions/2020/01/as-inside-so-outside
2020 What Gazes Back, Hunter 2nd Floor Gallery, New York, NY
2020 Leyline of Anticipation, Puppy American, New York, NY
2018 Our Souls to Keep, Juror: Lissa Rivera, Field Projects, New York, NY
2017 Public Alchemy II, ArtLab, Palo Alto, CA
2016 Gihon River School, Vermont Studio Center, Johnson, VT
2016 Public Alchemy, ArtLab, Palo Alto, CA
2016 Aqua, Juror: Susan Snyder, Gallery Route One (GRO), Point Reyes, CA
2015 Sexism: A Touchy Subject, Juror: Catharine Clark, Arc Gallery, San Francisco, CA
2014 Nature, 66 Art Workshop Gallery, Beijing, China
2014 Half the Sky: Intersections in Social Practice Art, Women’s Caucus for Art, Luxun Academy of Fine Art, Shenyang, China
2013 Fifth Annual Figurative Drawing and Painting Competition, Juror: Alessandra Sulpy, Lore Degenstein Gallery, Susquehanna University, Selinsgrove, PA
2013 Space Regeneration Projects #6 Exhibition “ 啪”, PAE Building, Beijing, China
Curated Platforms
2023 White Columns Curated Artist Registry, NYC, NY https://registry.whitecolumns.org/view_artist.php?artist=31401
2022 Drawer NYC, NYC, NY https://drawer.nyc/artists/polwin-morton
Residencies
2023-4 Monira Foundation, Jersey City, NJ
2016 Vermont Studio Center, Johnson, VT
Artist Lectures/Critiques
2020 Artist Talk in conjunction with the show up at Shin Haus, New York, NY
2018 Guest Moderator, “Talk Art” public access TV show interview, Palo Alto, CA
2017 Guest Lecturer, Berkeley Connect, UC Berkeley, Berkeley, CA
2017 Guest Artist, “Talk Art” public access TV show interview, Palo Alto, CA
2016 Resident artist talk, Vermont Studio Center, Johnson, VT
2014 Guest lecturer and guest critic, Shenyang Normal University, Shenyang, China
2014 Guest lecturer, American Consulate, Shenyang, China
2014 Exhibition talk, Beijing American Center, Beijing, China
Awards
2022 Leeman-Boksenbaum Hunter MFA Thesis Prize, New York, NY
2016 Vermont Studio Center Artist’s Grant