Self Portrait as a Planet, O positive, 2005
40x40 inches, edition of 3
Archival chromgenic print
born 1957, Patuxent River, Maryland
resides Toronto, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
education University of California at Santa Barbara, Painting and Sculpture
Orange Coast College, Photography, Newport, California
selected solo exhibitions
2007 The Pilgrim Suite and Siren, Museum of the Southwest, Texas
2005 One Hundred Days, Bloom, Sag Harbor, New York
1998 Heavenly Light: Gates of Heaven and The Shiva Portfolio, Ricco/Maresca, Gallery, New York, New York
1999 Gates of Heaven - Silent Fire, Tatar Alexander Gallery, Toronto, Canada
1997 Angels and Oracles, van de Griff/Marr Gallery, Santa Fe, New Mexico
1995 The Shiva Portfolio, Foote Cone Belding Gallery, San Francisco, California
1987 El Camino College, Los Angeles, California
selected group exhibitions
2005 Sylvester and Co. 2, Amagansset, NY
2003 All Thats Red, Bergdorf Goodman, New York , NY
2002 Translations/Transgression, University of Rhode Island, Providence, Rhode Island
2001 Eccentric Photography, Islip Museum, East Islip, New York curated by Karen Shaw
1999 One Life's Work: The Hand, The Power Plant, Toronto, Canada curated by Mark Mayer
This is Not a Photograph, Pace University Gallery, Pleasantville, New York
Phenomena: The Poetics of Space, The Friends of Photography - The Ansel Adams Center for
Photography, San Francisco, California
1998 Tatar Alexander Gallery, Toronto, Canada
1997 Exploding into Light, Ricco/Maresca Gallery, New York, New York
1996 van de Griff/Marr Gallery, Santa Fe, New Mexico
1994 American Diamonds, New York, New York
1987 New Works with Polaroid, Photokina, Germany
1982 Mail Art: The Art of Words, Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibit, Los Angeles, California
selected bibliography
TBA Heavenly Light, Meridien Press, Foreword by A.D. Coleman.
2002 Coleman, A.D. “Heavenly Light, the Photographs of Scott Morgan,” AG Magazine, Volume 26, 2002.
1999 Jenkins, Steven. “Phenomena: The Poetics of Science,” Exhibition Review, Camerawork Journal of
Photographic Arts, Vol. 26, No. 1, Spring/Summer 1999, pp. 33-35, b&w ills.
Bonetti, David. “Phenomena: Focus of Nature,” The San Francisco Examiner, February 17, 1999.
1996 Lachnit, Carroll. "Scott Morgan and the Pursuit of Ideas,” Photo District News, November, 1999.
1989 Prendiville, Julie. “Scott Morgan,” Communication Arts, May-June 1989.
1987 “Scott Morgan,” Photo Design Magazine, 1987 edition.
Scott Morgan was born in Patuexent River Maryland in 1957. He studied painting, sculpture, photography and literature at the University of California, Santa Barbara on a scholarship for art and writing. He was deeply influenced by the California Light and Space school, the photographs of Minor White and Duane Michals and the paintings of Ad Reinhardt and Agnes Martin. He later traveled extensively throughout Europe, studying the great master painters of the renaissance and working as an assistant for a number of well-known fashion photographers .
At the same time he went deeply into his own art practice moving past the borders of image based photography with the Shiva portfolio in 1998, Earth Sutras 1998 and subsequently the Gates of Heaven series in 2000.
He later transitioned into a more conceptually based practice with For the Love Of, in 2002, a large installation exploring blood, faith and cosmological influence and One Hundred Days, 2004. In 2008, 2009 and 2010 Scott produced a number of significant works in a more global framework, projects on the edge of the great oceans, such as The Pilgrim Suite, and moving into video projects such as Siren, and The Center of the World.
He currently resides in Toronto, Ontario and Vancouver, British Columbia. His works continue to weave the deeply human experience, nature and a rich spiritual context. New works such as 10,000 Years, Cathedral, While You were Sleeping, and the new video installation and print series, The Stations, 2015 continue that focus.