Victoria Morton
Born 1971, Glasgow; Lives in Glasgow.
Education
| 1995 | MFA, Glasgow School of Art |
| 1993 | BA (Hons) Fine Art Painting, Glasgow School of Art |
Solo Exhibitions
| 2023 | ‘Double Shuffle’, Kerlin Gallery, Dublin (with Merlin James) |
| ‘A Warm Articulation’, Nino Mier, Los Angeles | |
| 2021 | ‘SLEEP LINE’, The Modern Institute, Aird's Lane Bricks Space |
| ‘Pedal Point’, Sadie Coles HQ, London | |
| 2019 | ‘Treat Fever with Fever’, The Modern Institute, 14–20 Osborne Street, Glasgow |
| 2016 | ‘My Mother Was A Reeler’, Etro, London |
| ‘Spoken Yeahs From A Distance’, Sadie Coles HQ, London | |
| 2014 | The Modern Institute, 3 Aird's Lane, Glasgow |
| Upstairs at The Modern Institute Osborne Street, Glasgow | |
| ‘Mouth Wave’, Rat Hole Gallery, Tokyo | |
| 2012 | Il Capricorno, Venice, Il Capricorno, Venice |
| ‘Tapestry (RADIO ON)’, Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, Boston (Inaugural Exhibition) | |
| 2011 | ‘Her Guitars’, The Modern Institute, 14–20 Osborne Street, Glasgow |
| Independent, New York (Solo Project) | |
| Sadie Coles HQ, London | |
| 2010 | Inverleith House, Edinburgh |
| 2008 | ‘ba Ba ba’, Sadie Coles HQ, London |
| 2007 | ‘Sun By Ear’, Tramway, Glasgow (with Katy Dove) |
| 2005 | The Modern Institute/Toby Webster Ltd, Glasgow |
| 2004 | ‘Curiosity Action Crowd’, Bonner Kunstverein, Bonn; Sadie Coles HQ, London |
| 2003 | ‘Blue Dog Tooth’, Il Capricorno, Venice |
| ‘Careless Freedom’, Roma Roma Roma, Rome | |
| 2002 | ‘Night Geometry’, Gavin Brown's enterprise, New York |
| ‘Plus and Minus’, The Fruitmarket Gallery, Edinburgh | |
| ‘Pleasure & Practice’, Transmission, Glasgow (basement project) | |
| 2000 | Galerie Enja Wonneberger, Kiel |
| Sadie Coles HQ, London | |
| 1999 | ‘DECAPODA’, The Changing Room, Stirling |
| The Modern Institute/Toby Webster Ltd, Glasgow | |
| 1997 | ‘Dirty Burning’, 33 Great Sutton Street, London |
| Gallery TRE, Stockholm | |
| 1996 | ‘Out of The Web’, Fringe Gallery, Glasgow |
| The Pier Arts Centre, Stromness | |
| Transmission, Glasgow | |
| 1995 | Wilkes, Glasgow |
Group Exhibitions
| 2023 | ‘Rupture, Rapture: Womxn in Collage’, 16 Nicholson Street, Glasgow |
| ‘I've never met anyone quite like you before.’, Queens Park Railway Club, Glasgow | |
| 2022 | ‘Sabrina’, Sim Smith, London |
| ‘Painters Paint Paintings: LA Version’, Nino Mier, Los Angeles | |
| ‘Abstraction Now’, The Corn Hall, Diss | |
| ‘Off the Beaten Track’, Baton Gallery, Seoul | |
| ‘International Women’s Day Exhibition’, The Royal Glasgow Institute of Fine Arts, Glasgow | |
| ‘Rhythm Repeater’, Sadie Coles HQ, London | |
| 2021 | ‘I Know Where I'm Going - Who Can I Be Now’, The Modern Institute, 14–20 Osborne Street, Glasgow |
| 2020 | ‘Fieldwork’, 42 Carlton Place, Glasgow |
| 2019 | ‘Sipgate Shows Brexit: Mail Art from a Small Island’, Sipgate, Düsseldorf |
| ‘Du coq à l’âne’, Le Bel Ordinaire | |
| 2018 | ‘unintelligible truths’, A-M-G5, Glasgow |
| ‘What You Do, I Like’, Hospitalfield Arts, Arbroath | |
| ‘Foundation Painting Show’, British Heart Foundation, Glasgow (As part of Glasgow International 2018) | |
| ‘Surface Work’, Victoria Miro, London | |
| ‘Artists who make music Musicians who make art’, Queen’s Park Railway Club, Glasgow | |
| 2017 | ‘From Pablo Picasso to Robert Rauschenberg’, Kunstsammlungen Chemnitz |
| 2016 | ‘Out of the Frame: Scottish Abstraction’, The McManus: Dundee’s Art Gallery & Museum, Dundee |
| ‘I still believe in miracles’, Inverleith House, Edinburgh | |
| ‘The Appearance’, Galerie Born Berlin, Berlin | |
| 2015 | ‘CONTINUUM’, Hospitalfield Arts, Arbroath |
| ‘Devils in the Making’, GOMA, Glasgow | |
| 2014 | ‘GENERATION: 25 Years of Contemporary Art in Scotland’, Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art, Edinburgh |
| ‘That Petrol Emotion’, Metropolitan Art Society, Beirut | |
| 2013 | ‘40/40’, Glasgow Print Studio, Glasgow |
| ‘A Picture Show’, GOMA, Glasgow | |
| 2012 | ‘Studio 58: Women Artists in Glasgow Since WWII’, Mackintosh Museum, Glasgow School of Art, Glasgow |
| ‘Chromatropic Anni Albers, Josef Albers, Rose Kallal, Victoria Morton’, The Hidden Noise, Glasgow | |
| 2010 | ‘Every Night I go to Sleep’, Modern Art, London |
| ‘12 Artists at Fairfield’, Fairfield Shipyard Drawing Rooms, Glasgow | |
| ‘Our TV, film reel’, Studio Warehouse, Glasgow | |
| 2009 | ‘Artist in Residence’, Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, Boston |
| ‘Directions’, A Palazzo Gallery, Brescia | |
| 2006 | ‘Gastrophoria’, Pumphouse Gallery, London |
| 2004 | ‘Glasgow In Viaggio’, Museo Corta Alta, Fossombrone |
| ‘Edge of the Real’, Whitechapel, London | |
| 2003 | ‘Love Over Gold’, Gallery of Modern Art, Glasgow |
| ‘Contemporary Abstraction’, Glasgow Print Studio, Glasgow | |
| ‘Matisse and Beyond’, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco | |
| ‘Inaugural Group Exhibition’, Gavin Brown's enterprise, New York | |
| ‘Painting Not Painting’, Tate St Ives, Cornwall | |
| 2002 | ‘Half the World Away’, Hallwalls CAC, Buffalo |
| ‘New’, Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art, Edinburgh | |
| ‘My Head is on Fire but my Heart is Full of Love’, Charlottenborg Museum, Copenhagen | |
| ‘Painted, Printed & Produced in Great Britain’, Grant Selwyn Fine Art, Beverly Hills | |
| Roma Roma Roma, Rome | |
| 2001 | ‘Pippo’, Lloyd Jerome Gallery, Glasgow |
| ‘Casino 2001’, S.M.A.K., Ghent | |
| ‘Studio International’, The Hydra Workshop, Hydra | |
| ‘One for One’, ZKM Museum for Contemporary Art, Karlsruhe (Circles project; with Elizabeth Go) | |
| ‘Circles 4 One Fo(u)r One’, ZKM Museum for Contemporary Art, Karlsruhe (with Elizabeth Go) | |
| ‘Here and Now: Scottish Art 1990-2001’, Dundee Contemporary Arts, Dundee; Aberdeen Art Gallery, Aberdeen | |
| 2000 | ‘Surface’, An Tuireann Art Centre, Skye |
| ‘Tecknigar’, Galleri Charlotte Lund, Stockholm | |
| Grant Selwyn Fine Art, Beverly Hills | |
| ‘In Glass Loopholes’, Intermedia, Glasgow | |
| ‘Film Club’ (with Elizabeth Go; curated by Scott Myles) | |
| ‘Film Club 2’, Vilma Gold, London (with Elizabeth Go; curated by David Thorpe) | |
| 1999 | ‘The Queen is Dead’, Stills Gallery, Edinburgh |
| ‘Where the Wild Roses Grow, Anti War - You Take it From my Heart’, Transmission, Glasgow (with Elizabeth Go) | |
| ‘Love, Speed, Thrills’, Manchester Metropolitan University (with Elizabeth Go) | |
| 1998 | ‘Hardline’, Catalyst Arts, Belfast |
| ‘Monoprint’, Glasgow Print Studio, Glasgow | |
| ‘Reverend Todd's Full House’, Grassy Knoll Productions, Belfast | |
| ‘Select’, The Crawford Arts Centre, St. Andrews | |
| ‘Tronway Arts Centre’, Transmission, Glasgow | |
| ‘Slant 6’, Jacob Javits Center, New York | |
| ‘Floatina Happiness’, Tramway, Glasgow (Host; with Elizabeth Go) | |
| 1997 | ‘Stepping Up’, 33 Great Sutton Street, London |
| ‘Group Show’, Free Gallery, Glasgow | |
| ‘Art '97’, London Art Fair, London (with Transmission and Andrew Mummery) | |
| ‘Evel Machines’, Street Net Project, New York | |
| ‘Intelligible Lies’, Talbot Rice Gallery, University of Edinburgh | |
| ‘Glasgow Art Fair’, Glasgow (with Transmission Gallery) | |
| ‘Hit ‘em With This Antoinette’, Catalyst Arts, Belfast (Elizabeth go performance at Satellite City) | |
| ‘You Show Me The DF Every Night You Show Me The DF You Show Me’, NGCA, Sunderland (Elizabeth go performance at Connected) | |
| 1996 | ‘Loaded: A Contemporary View of British Painting’, Ikon Gallery, Birmingham |
| ‘Art '96’, London Art Fair, London (with Andrew Mummery) | |
| ‘Satellite’, Travelling Gallery, throughout Scotland | |
| ‘Smart Show’, Stockholm (with Transmission Gallery) | |
| ‘Stepping Out’, 33 Great Sutton Street, London | |
| ‘insanestupidphatfuctpervert’, Concrete Skates, Glasgow (Touring exhibition. Touring to Cubitt, London) | |
| ‘Art for People’, Transmission, Glasgow | |
| 1995 | ‘SBC European Art Exhibition’, Smith Gallery, London/Paris |
| ‘New Rose Hotel’, Transmission, Glasgow | |
| ‘Swarm’, Travelling Gallery, throughout Scotland | |
| ‘30 Secs + Title’, Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto | |
| 1994 | ‘New Art in Scotland’, CCA, Glasgow and Aberdeen City Art Gallery |
| ‘Modern Art’, Transmission, Glasgow | |
| 1993 | ‘In A Still Climate’, Newberry Gallery, Glasgow |
Projects
| 2021 | ‘CALE by SOTTO VOCE’ |
Commissions
| 2021 | ‘Antiphonic Waves’, Royal College of Music, London |
Bibliography
Press
| 2023 | ‘Merlin James and Victoria Morton’, Bomb Magazine, 164 01/06/2023 |
| 2021 | Knoche, Mira : ‘Humming between Harmony and Dissonance’, Bella Caledonia, 07/03/2021 |
| 2020 | Younes, Nadia : ‘Luke Fowler and Vikki Morton introduce Sotto Voce’, The Skinny, 02/11/2020 |
| 2010 | ‘Katy Dove & Victoria Morton’, Map, 21 02/2010 |
| ‘Katy Dove & Victoria Morton’, Map, 21 2010 | |
| 2005 | Mark Rappolt: ‘Victoria Morton’, Modern Painters, 11/11/2005 |
| Rappolt, Mark: ‘Victoria Morton’, Modern Painters, 11/2005 | |
| 2004 | JJ Charlesworth: ‘Art & Beauty’, Art Monthly, 279 09/2004 |
| Charlesworth, JJ: ‘Art & Beauty’, Art Monthly, Number 279 09/2004 | |
| 2003 | Herbert, Martin: ‘The Vortex’, Frieze, Issue 76 06/2003 |
| 1999 | Mahoney, Elisabeth: ‘Flower Powered’, The Scotsman, 29/05/1999 |
| 1998 | Rothschild, Eva: ‘I am you as you are me as he is she as we are all together’, Make, Issue 80 31/05/1998 |
Exhibition Reviews
| 2019 | Sutherland, Calum: ‘Victoria Morton’, Artforum, 04/2019 |
| Mansfield, Susan: ‘Art reviews: Sometimes I disappear at the Ingleby Gallery | Victoria Morton at the Modern Institute | Emmie McLuskey at Collective’, The Scotsman, 20/02/2019 | |
| 2016 | ‘.Plant Perfect’, .Cent , 13/10/2016 |
| Ndebele, Senzeni Kristina: ‘Etro X Victoria Morton’, Shift London, 07/10/2016 | |
| Neel, Julia: ‘Etro, Thomas Tait host parties as Frieze opens in London’, wwd, 06/10/2016 | |
| 2015 | Benschop, Jurriaan: ‘Victoria Morton‘, Artforum, 02/2015 |
| Benmakhlouf, Adam: ‘Victoria Morton‘, The Skinny, 01/2015 | |
| 2014 | ‘Victoria Morton‘, this is tomorrow, 12/2014 |
| 2011 | Perry, Colin: ‘Victoria Morton‘, Art Review, Issue 50 05/2011 |
| ‘Victoria Morton’, The Guardian Guide, 05/02/2011 | |
| 2010 | Dove, Katy: ‘Victoria Morton: Hitlist‘, The List, 30/04/2010 |
| Mansfield, Susan: ‘Art review: Jenny Holzer: Blue Purple Tilt | Victoria Morton‘, Scotsman, 14/04/2010 | |
| ‘Victoria Morton’, this is tomorrow, 02/04/2010 | |
| Cooper, Neil: ‘Review: Victoria Morton‘, The List, 04/2010 | |
| Hogan, Verity: ‘"Explicit abstract realist"‘, Culture 24, 30/03/2010 | |
| Moira, Jeffrey: ‘Art Review: Victoria Morton’, Scotsman, 30/03/2010 | |
| Jeffery, Moira: ‘Musical Chairs’, Scotland on Sunday, 28/03/2010 | |
| 2008 | Sholis, Brian (conversation with the artist): ‘Victoria Morton’, Artforum, 07/2008 |
| 2007 | Vincent, Martin: ‘Katy Dove and Victoria Morton: Sun by Ear’, Metro, 13/03/2007 |
| Kennedy, Alexander: ‘Light and Dark‘, The List, 13/03/2007 | |
| 2005 | Mottram, Jack: ‘Victoria Morton‘, The List, 26/05/2005 |
| 2004 | Herbet, Martin: ‘Victoria Morton‘, Time Out London, 14/04/2004 |
| 2003 | Dallas, Sorcha: ‘Contemporary Abstraction‘, The List, 31/07/2003 |
| 2002 | Jeffery, Moira: ‘Portrait‘, The Herald, 23/09/2002 |
| 2001 | Staple, Polly: ‘Victoria Morton‘, Make, Issue 91 03/2001 |
| Coomer, Martin: ‘Victoria Morton‘, Time Out London, 10/01/2001 | |
| Jones, Jonathon: ‘Victoria Morton‘, The Guardian, 08/01/2001 | |
| 1999 | Mahoney, Elisabeth: ‘Flipside of the Ethereal‘, The Guardian, 16/06/1999 |
| Mahoney, Elisabeth: ‘The Queen is Dead’, Untitled, 1999 | |
| Bird, Nicky: ‘The Queen is Dead’, Art Monthly, 1999 |
Publications
| 2016 | Mouth Wave, Rat Hole Gallery, Tokyo |
| 2015 | Victoria Morton: Tapestry {Radio On}, Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, Boston |
| 1996 | Wilkes, Cathy, (interview), Red Eyes, The Pier Arts Centre Orkney/ Transmission, Orkney/Glasgow |
Exhibition Publications
| 2011 | Victoria Morton, Inverleith House, Edinburgh |
| 2005 | Victoria Morton, Bonner Kunstverein, Bonn |
| 2002 | My Head is on Fire but my Heart is Full of Love, Charlottenborg Exhibition Hall, Copenhagen |
| Victoria Morton, The Fruitmarket Gallery, Edinburgh | |
| 2001 | Here and Now: Scottish Art 1990-2000, Dundee Contemporary Arts, Dundee |
| Studio International, Hydra Worskshop, Hydra | |
| 1999 | DECAPOCA, The Changing Room, Stirling |
| 1994 | New Art in Scotland, CCA, Glasgow |