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 Most exhibitions in: |
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| USA | 31 |
| Germany | 13 |
| France | 7 |
| United Kingdom | 4 |
| Italy | 4 |
| Most exhibitions held at: |
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Sperone Westwater Gallery, USA |
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Biography: 
7.6.1931 Born in London, England (UK)
Malcolm Morley´s childhood memories of the Blitz would continue to shape his repertoire of motifs: the bombed city, the Royal Navy, a model airplane he played with. After an adolescence spent in the bleak post-war years, during which Morley even had a brief stint in prison for theft, he attended the Camberwell School of Arts and Crafts in 1952-53 and the Royal College of Art from 1954 until 1957. Drawn to Abstract Expressionism, Morley finally left London for New York in 1958. Dissatisfied with his pictures, at that time light monochrome relief surfaces articulated in the horizontal, Morley now sought representational motifs. At first working with a reduced palette from newspaper photos of battleships, Morley developed a Photorealist style in 1964, which entailed accurately transferring colour photos as raster elements to canvas. Morley's practice of dissolving a motif into non-representational raster surfaces, which he would sometimes paint on upside-down canvases, continued to link him with his abstract beginnings. Morley developed this unusual act of pictorial creation into Performances, in which the occasionally defective end product, the representational image, was of secondary significance. Despite his individuality, Morley is regarded as a precursor of Photorealism, for which he coined the term Superrealism. Morley's motifs at the time were both contemporary scenes, which placed him close to Pop art, and copies of Old Master paintings. In the early 1970s gestural touches began to break into Morley's pictures and his motifs increasingly attested to violence and destruction (for instance 'Train Wreck', 1975). While staying in Florida, Morley developed a new technique: he now executed his paintings after watercolours he did as preliminaries. His subjects were inspired by Greek mythology and Mediterranean scenery encountered on his extensive travels. By the early 1980s Malcolm Morley was so well established as a leading Neo-Expressionist that he was the first winner of the prestigious Turner Prize in London (in 1984). Towards the close of the 1980s, Morley returned to his early motif repertoire of ships and planes, which now figured in large-scale installations that were a combination of paintings and mobiles. Morley was now painting from models observed through a camera obscura system. By the mid-1990s, however, he again reverted to more exact rendering, now using model planes from sets, which he represented in two dimensions but with an abstract tendency. In recent years Malcolm Morley has painted in a figurative style accompanied by a reticently gestural approach, translating photographic images into spatially complex paintings. Morley has remained in America, his adopted country.
1953 Camberwell School of Arts and Craft, London, England
1957 Royal College of Art, London, England, ARCA
Awards 1984 Turner Prize, Tate Gallery, London
1992 Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture, Painting Award
Lives and works in (US)
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Public exhibitions 71
Solo shows 14
2009
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| Malcolm Morley - Sperone Westwater Gallery, New York City, NY |
2006
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| Malcolm Morley - The Art of Painting - Museum of Contemporary Art - North Miami (MOCA), Miami, FL |
2005
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| Malcolm Morley - The Art of Oil Painting - Sperone Westwater Gallery, New York City, NY |
2003
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| Malcom Morley - Galleria Cardi, Milan |
2001
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| Malcolm Morley, Watercolors - Baldwin Gallery, Aspen, CO |
2000
1999
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| Malcolm Morley - Sperone Westwater Gallery, New York City, NY |
1997
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| Malcolm Morley, Africa – Watercolors - Baldwin Gallery, Aspen, CO |
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| Malcolm Morley - Galerie Daniel Templon, Paris |
1995
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| Malcolm Morley - Mary Boone Gallery - 745 Fifth Avenue, New York City, NY |
1993
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| Malcolm Morley - Centre Pompidou - Musée National d´Art Moderne, Paris |
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| Malcolm Morley - Mary Boone Gallery - 745 Fifth Avenue, New York City, NY |
1983
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| Malcolm Morley - The Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, DC |
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| Malcolm Morley - Whitechapel Art Gallery, London (England) |
Group shows 57
2009
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| A Tribute To Ron Warren - Mary Boone Gallery - 541 West 24 Street, New York City, NY |
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| Slough - David Nolan Gallery, New York City, NY |
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| Picturing America: Fotorealismus der 70er Jahre - Deutsche Guggenheim, Berlin |
2008
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| Shock of the Real: Photorealism Revisited - Boca Raton Museum of Art, Boca Raton, FL |
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| NAO TE POSSO VER NEM PINTADO - Berardo Museum - Collection of Modern and Contemporary Art, Lisbon |
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| POP und die Folgen - Museum der Stadt Ratingen, Ratingen |
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| Bad Painting - good art - Museum Moderner Kunst Stiftung Ludwig - MUMOK , Vienna |
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| Who's Afraid of Jasper Johns? - Tony Shafrazi Gallery, New York City, NY |
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| History in the Making - Mori Art Museum, Tokyo |
2007
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| Deutsche und Amerikanische Malerei - Aus der Sammlung Frieder Burda - Museum Frieder Burda, Baden-Baden |
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| The Painting of Modern Life - Hayward Gallery, London (England) |
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| The Turner Prize: A Retrospective - Tate Britain, London (England) |
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| Summer - Neuhoff Edelman Gallery, New York City, NY |
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| Conversations - Artist and Collector - North Dakota Museum of Art, Grand Forks, ND |
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| Art is Decor - Adelson Galleries, Inc., New York City, NY |
2006
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| Prints and Multiples from Vermillion Editions Limited 1977-1992 - The Minneapolis Institute of Arts, Minneapolis, MN |
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| Summer Exhibition - Sperone Westwater Gallery, New York City, NY |
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| This is America - Centraal Museum, Utrecht |
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| The other side - Tony Shafrazi Gallery, New York City, NY |
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| Le mouvement des images - Centre Pompidou - Musée National d´Art Moderne, Paris |
2005
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| Peter Blake - Sylvie Fleury - Malcolm Morley - George Segal - Sturtevant - Mamco - musée d´art moderne et contemporain, Geneva |
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| Bilderwechsel III – Amerikanische Malerei - Museum Frieder Burda, Baden-Baden |
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| 50 Jahre - Years documenta 1955 – 2005 - Kunsthalle Fridericianum, Kassel |
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| Covering the Real - Kunst und Pressebild, von Warhol bis Tillmans - Kunstmuseum Basel, Basel |
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| "Out of Site - Selections from the Marsha S. Glazer Collection." - Art Museum at U.C. Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, CA |
2004
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| Eröffnungsausstellung Sammlung Frieder Burda - Museum Frieder Burda, Baden-Baden |
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| Sammlung Frieder Burda - Eröffnungsausstellung - Staatliche Kunsthalle Baden-Baden, Baden-Baden |
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| Max's Kansas City - Kunsthallen Nikolaj, Copenhagen |
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| ...So Fresh, So Cool! - Galleria Cardi, Milan |
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| Out Of Place - Galerie Nordenhake - Berlin, Berlin |
2003
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| Wings of Art - Motiv Flugzeug - Ludwig Forum für Internationale Kunst, Aachen |
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| Painting Lesson - Galleria Cardi, Milan |
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| Mouvements de fonds - Acquisitions 2002 du Fonds national d'art contemporain - MAC Musées d´Art Contemporain, Marseille |
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| Defying Gravity - Contemporary Art and Flight - North Carolina Museum of Art, Raleigh, NC |
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| Fall Colors: Group Show - Baldwin Gallery, Aspen, CO |
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| Wings of Art – Motiv Flugzeug - Kunsthalle Darmstadt, Darmstadt |
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| Recent Acquisitions - Barbara Mathes Gallery, New York City, NY |
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| The Human Figure - David Nolan Gallery, New York City, NY |
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| Hyperréalismes USA - 1965-1975 - Musée d'Art Moderne et Contemporain (MAMCS), Strasbourg |
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| War (What Is It Good for?) - Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago - MCA Chicago, Chicago, IL |
2002
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| French Collection - Mamco - musée d´art moderne et contemporain, Geneva |
2001
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| Fresh - Recent Acquisitions - Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, NY |
2000
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| Luci in galleria. Da Warhol al 2000. Gian Enzo Sperone. 35 anni di mostre - Palazzo Cavour, Turin |
1999
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| Reality and Desire - Fundación Joan Miró, Barcelona |
1998
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| Summer Painting, Video, Photography - Lennon, Weinberg, Inc., New York City, NY |
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| Le futur du passé - L.A.C. - Lieu d'Art Contemporaine, Sigean |
1997
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| Malcolm Morley, Laurie Simmons, Rosemarie Trockel - David Nolan Gallery, New York City, NY |
1996
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| Pop Art und Hyperrealism in den USA - Kunstraum Innsbruck, Innsbruck |
1993
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| Der zerbrochene Spiegel. Positionen zur Malerei heute - KUNSTHALLE wien project space karlsplatz, Vienna |
1991
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| Summertime - Tony Shafrazi Gallery, New York City, NY |
1985
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| XIII BIENNALE DE PARIS - Biennale de Paris, Paris |
1983
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| American Still Life: 1945–1983 - Contemporary Arts Museum Houston, Houston, TX |
1982
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| Zeitgeist - Martin-Gropius-Bau, Berlin |
1977
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| documenta 6 - Documenta, Kassel |
1972
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| documenta 5 - Documenta, Kassel |
1969
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| Directions 2: Aspects of a New Realism - Contemporary Arts Museum Houston, Houston, TX |
| Dealer Directory 11 |
Belgium
France
Germany
| | Galerie Jöllenbeck GmbH, Cologne
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Spain
USA
| | Baldwin Gallery, Aspen, CO
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| | Gemini G.E.L. at Joni Moisant Weyl, New York City, NY
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| | One Eye Pug, New York City, NY
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| | Pace Prints, New York City, NY
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| | Sperone Westwater Gallery, New York City, NY
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Public collections 15
Bermuda
| | The Masterworks Foundation, Paget
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France
| | Musée d'Art Moderne et Contemporain (MAMCS), Strasbourg
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Germany
| | Museum Frieder Burda, Baden-Baden
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Hungary
| | Ludwig Museum - Museum of Contemporary Art - Budapest, Budapest
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Italy
| | Collezione Maramotti, Reggio Emilia
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Norway
| | Astrup Fearnley Museet for Moderne Kunst, Oslo
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Portugal
| | Berardo Museum - Collection of Modern and Contemporary Art, Lisbon
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United Kingdom
| | Tate Britain, London (England)
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USA
| | Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, NY
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| | Arts Club of Chicago, Chicago, IL
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| | Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art, Kansas City, MO
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| | Castellani Art Museum, Lewiston, NY
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| | MoMA - Museum of Modern Art, New York City, NY
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| | National Academy Museum, New York City, NY
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| | Everson Museum of Art, Syracuse, NY
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