Self Portrait as a Planet, O positive, 2005
40x40 inches, edition of 3
Archival chromgenic print
EDUCATION:
University of California at Santa Barbara, Painting and Sculpture
Orange Coast College, Photography
SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2023 10,000 Years, Provide, Vancouver BC
2022 10,000 Years, Janaki Larsen, Vancouver BC
2020 10,000 Years, JHB Gallery, Artnet
2006 Pilgrim and Siren, Museum of the Southwest, Midland, TX (Installation and photographs)
2004 100 Days, Bloom, Sag Harbor, NY
1998 Heavenly Light, Ricco Maresca Gallery, New York, NY
1998 Gates of Heaven, Tatar Alexander Gallery, Toronto
1997 Van De Griff Gallery, Santa Fe, NM
1995 The Shiva Portfolio, Foote Cone Belding Gallery, San Francisco, CA
1989 Scott Morgan: New Work, Lithographix Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
1987 Scott Morgan, El Camino College, Los Angeles, CA
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2024 Transformative Visions, Icon Gallery, Fairfield Iowa
2024 Summer, JHB/Jetsam Gallery, East Hampton, NY
2023 Summer, JHB/Jetsam Gallery, East Hampton, NY
2022 Summer, JHB/Jetsam Gallery, East Hampton, NY
2021 Winter, JHB/Jetsam Gallery, East Hampton, NY
2020 Summer, JHB/Jetsam Gallery, East Hampton, NY
2005 Sylvester & Co.2, Amagansett, NY
2003 All Thatʼs Red, curated by Jayne H. Baum, Bergdorf Goodman, New York, NY
2002 Translations/Transgressions, Fine Arts Center Galleries, University of Rhode Island,
2001 Eccentric Photography, Islip Museum, East Islip, NY
1999 The Hand Show, The Power Plant, Toronto, Canada
This Is Not A Photograph, curated by Roger Sayre, Pace University Gallery, Pleasantville, NY
Phenomena: The Poetics of Science, The Friends of Photography, The Ansel Adams Center for
Photography, San Francisco, CA
1998 Tatar Alexander Gallery, Toronto, Canada
1997 Light, Ricco Maresca Gallery, New York. NY
1996 Van De Griff Gallery, Santa Fe, NM
1990 American Diamonds, New York, NY
1987 New Works with Polaroid, Photokina, Germany
1982 Mail Art, Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions, Los Angeles, CA
SELECTED COLLECTIONS
Alliance/Bernstein, New York, NY and Tokyo, Japan
Banana Republic Corporate Collections, San Francisco, CA and Nationwide, Toronto Canada Brandywine Global Investment Management, Philadelphia, PA
Brooklyn Museum of Art, Brooklyn, NY
Elizabeth Dow and Lynda Sylvester, East Hampton, NY
Joseph Fisher, New York, NY
The Four Seasons, The Bahamas
Christopher M. Jeffries, Miami, FL
Library of Congress, Washington, D.C
Jeffrey Limesider, East Hampton, NY
Anne and Marc Mayerson, Rockville, MD Polaroid Corporate Collection, Boston, MA
Gwyneth Paltrow, New York, NY
Kathy and Joseph Pretlow, Woodland Hills, CA Stephen Quinlan, Tuscon, AZ
St. Regis, San Francisco, CA
Related Properties Inc., New York, NY
Jess Reeves and Robert Lewis, New York, NY
Mr. and Mrs. Ralph Rosenberg, Scarsdale, NY
Christi Turlington and Edward Burns, New York,
NY US Consulate, Capetown, South Africa
Linda Cheverton Wicks and Walter Wicks, Hartford, CT
BIBILIOGRAPHY
2005 Severin, Jay. Photographyʼs Spiritual Realm. Sag Harbor, NY. Pg. 10 TBA Foreword by Coleman, A.D., Heavenly Light, Meridien Press.
2002 Coleman, A.D. Heavenly Light, the Photographs of Scott Morgan, AG Magazine, Volume
2003 Jenkins, Steven. Phenomena: The Poetics of Science, Exhibition Review, Camerawork Journal of Photographic Arts, Vol. 26, No.1, Spring/Summer, pps. 33-35.
1999 Bonetti, David, Phenomena: Focus on Nature, The San Francisco Examiner, San Francisco, CA,
February 17.
1996 Lachnit, Carroll. Scott Morgan and the Pursuit of Ideas, Photo District News, November. 1989 Prendiville, Julie. Scott Morgan, Communication Arts, May-June.
1987 Scott Morgan, Photo Design Magazine, 1987 edition.
TEACHING EXPERIENCE
Creativriver Workshops, Toronto, Vancouver, Los Angeles
Maine Photographic Workshops, Rockport, Maine
Santa Fe Photographic Workshops, Santa Fe, New Mexico
Creativity: Lecture by Scott Morgan, numerous lectures throughout the United States
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 Vancouver, British Columbia. His works continue to weave the deeply human experience, nature and a rich spiritual context.