Nyeema Morgan’s work references familiar cultural material such as recipes, fables, canonical artworks and jokes to prompt reflection on the soft aesthetic power of systems of knowledge, information production and the mechanics of representation. Her conceptually layered works, ranging from large-scale drawings to sculptural installation and print based media, raise questions about how we articulate and construct meaning within a complex system of socio-political relations.

CURRICULUM VITAE
b. Philadelphia, PA
Lives and works in Chicago, IL

EDUCATION
2009 Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture, Skowhegan, ME
2007 MFA, California College of the Arts, San Francisco, CA
2000 BFA, Cooper Union, School of Art, NYC, NY
1996 Non-degree, University of Minnesota, Department of Art, Minneapolis, MN

SOLO / TWO PERSON EXHIBITIONS
2022 


between friends, (with Mary Simpson), David Peterson Gallery, Minneapolis, MN
The Set-up, PATRON Gallery, Chicago, IL 
Soft Power. Hard Margins., Grant Wahlquist Gallery, Portland, ME

2021

Nyeema Morgan, The Philadelphia Art Alliance at the University of the Arts, Philadelphia, PA
Soft Power. Hard Margins., table, Chicago, IL 

2020           
THE STEM. THE FLOWER. THE ROOT. THE SEED., Boulder Museum of Contemporary Art, Boulder, CO

2019
Asian Smaisians and Other Abstract Racial Slurs (with Mike Cloud), Marlborough Gallery Viewing Room, NYC, NY

2018  
horror horror, Grant Wahlquist Gallery, Portland, ME 

2016
Nyeema Morgan: I, Rhinoceros, Staniar Gallery, Washington & Lee University, Lexington, VA

2013
Forty-Seven Easy Poundcakes Like grandma Use To Make, BRIC Arts Media, Brooklyn, NY

2012
The Dubious Sum of Vaguely Discernable Parts, The Bindery Projects,  St. Paul, MN

2011
You Are Here. This Is Now., Art in General, Musée Miniscule, NYC, NY

2010
Nyeema Morgan: Like It Is, John Jay College of Criminal Justice (CUNY), NYC, NY         
 
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2024
Errata, PATRON, Chicago, IL

2023
Barely Visible, Good Weather, Chicago, IL
There is a Woman in Every Color : Black Women in Art, El Paso Museum of Art; touring to Mulvane Art Museum, Topeka KS. 

2022
Continue a poem, Riverside Art Center, Riverside, IL 
The Scripts Found in a Bottle, Found in a Can, Found in a Discourse (Les Scripts Trouvés dans une Bouteille, Trouvés dan une Canette, Trouvés dans un Discours), The Green Gallery, Milwaukee, WI
Us We Them | Race Ethnicity Identity, Worcester Museum of Art, Worcester, MA

2021
There is a Woman in Every Color, Bowdoin College Museum of Art, New Brunswick, ME
Downtown Train, PS 122, NYC, NY
Stopgap, Massimo de Carlo, Milan, Italy

2020
The Party’s Over, Grant Wahlquist Gallery, Portland, ME
The Beginning of Everything: An Exhibition of Drawings, Katherine Nash Gallery, University of Minnesota,
Minneapolis, MN

2019  
Fish House 2, The Stuyvesant Fish House, NYC, NY
Ready, Berkeley Art Center, Berkeley, CA
Museum of Capitalism, Kellen Gallery/ Parsons School of Design, NYC, NY
Secondary Sources, Tiger Strikes Asteroid New York, NYC, NY
Distance, Dorsky Gallery, NYC, NY

2018  
Out of Line, SEPTEMBER Gallery, Hudson, NY
Second Sight: The Paradox of Vision in Contemporary Art, Bowdoin College Museum of Art, Brunswick, ME

2017  
Paperless, Small Editions, Brooklyn, NY
#1, Grant Wahlquist Gallery, Portland, ME

2016
20th Anniversary Show, Smack Mellon, Brooklyn, NY
Itasca, The Bindery Projects, St. Paul, MN

2015  
Name It by Trying to Name It: Open Sessions 2014-2015,  The Drawing Center, NYC, NY
love child, Ortega y Gasset, Brooklyn, NY
Open Sessions 3, The Drawing Center, NYC, NY
Signal from Noise, CSS Bard Galleries/ Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson, NY
A Chorus of Objects, SPRING/ BREAK Art Show, NYC, NY
RESPOND, Smack Mellon, Brooklyn, NY

2014
the past is more infinite than the future, North Campus Art Gallery/ Miami Dade College, Miami, FL     
doubleplusgood, Tuck Under Projects, Minneapolis, MN
The Intuitionists, The Drawing Center, NYC, NY 
Belewe, Kala Art Institute, Berkeley, CA

2013        
The Shadows Took Shape (in collaboration with william cordova & Otebenga Jones & Associates), The Studio Museum in Harlem, NYC, NY
Come Together: Surviving Sandy, Year 1, Industry City, Brooklyn, NY [cat.]
Lost & Found Part II, Hal Bromm Gallery, NYC, NY
Toonskin, Artspace, New Haven, CT
History! Hauntings and Palimpsests, The Anya & Andrew Shiva Gallery/John Jay College (CUNY), NYC, NY
Feedback, Arts Incubator at Washington Park, Chicago, IL
Collinear Points, Carol Jazzar Gallery, Miami, FL

2012
NEWSFEED: Anonymity & Social Media in African Revolutions and Beyond, Museum of African and
Diasporan Arts (MOCADA), Brooklyn, NY 
What Do You Believe In?, New York Photo Festival 2012, NYC, NY
At Play 4, South Hill Park Arts Centre, Bracknell, UK (traveling to OVADA, Oxford, UK and New Ashgate
Gallery, Farnham, UK
Projet Gutenberg, Galerie Jeanroch Dard, Paris, France

AWARDS & RESIDENCIES
2023
Artist-in-Residence, Joan Mitchell Foundation, New Orleans, LA 

2022
Artist-in-Residence, Latitude Chicago, Chicago, IL

2021  
Alumni Artist-in-Residence, Shandaken Project at Storm King Art Center, New Windsor, NY 

2020  
Emergency Grant, Foundation for Contemporary Art, NYC, NY
Faculty Enrichment Grant, School of the Arts Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL

2017
Artist-in-Residence, Shandaken Project at Storm King Art Center, New Windsor, NY
Keyholder Residency, Lower East Side Printshop, NYC, NY

2016  
Painters & Sculptors Grant, Joan Mitchell Foundation, NYC, NY

2015
Studio Residency Program, Smack Mellon, Brooklyn, NY

2014
Open Sessions, The Drawing Center, NYC, NY

SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY
2023
Nayyar, Rhea. “Chicago Artists Exploring Meaning-Making Win 2022 Artadia Awards” Hyperallergic Apr. 11

2022
Schmid, Christina. between friends: On Mourning, Mirrors and Togetherness in Extraordinary Times. MNArtists.org/ Walker Art Center. Dec 5.
Morgan, Nyeema. “Love Rituals”. A Tender Spirit, A Vital Form: Arlene Burke-Morgan & Clarence  Morgan, edited by Howard Oransky. University of Minnesota Press, 2023. Pg. 69-76. 
Polster, Barbarita. Setting-Up the Set-Up: Nyeema Morgan at PATRON Gallery, Wrong Life Review. Sept 16.
Cheung, Julietta & Nyeema Morgan, Correspondence Archive. #22, Aug.
Young, Nate. An Oral History with Nyeema Morgan, BOMB Magazine. Fall issue.  
Arango, Jorge S., Art Review: Nyeema Morgan grants permission to rethink iconic works of art, Press  Herald. Mar 27.

2021  
Forsythe, Pamela J., “The Philadel­phia Art Alliance presents Nyeema Morgan’s Like It Is”, Broad Street Review, September
Corwin, Will. “THE STEM. THE FLOWER. THE ROOT . THE SEED.”, Arcade Projects, January
Keys, Bob. “Bowdoin museum looks at black women as subjects and artists”, Press Herald, August
DeCordoza, Kerry. “A Hierarchy of Images: A Review of Nyeema Morgan at table”, Newcity, August
Paris, Norm. “Soft. Power. Hard Margins.: Nyeema Morgan Interviewed by Norm Paris”, BOMB Magazine,
January

2020  
McCort, Kalene., “Fall exhibits at BMoCA capture the cosmos and fracture the female formula”, The Daily Camera, September

2018 
Tyson, John A., Second Sight: The Paradox of Vision in Contemporary Art, CAA Reviews. Oct
Kany, Daniel. “Art review: ‘Second Sight’ brings fresh, provocative visions to Bowdoin art museum”, Press
Herald. March
Tani, Ellen. “Second Sight: The Paradox of Vision in Contemporary Art,” Bowdoin College

2017
Kaack, Nicole. “Paperless”, Small Editions, print publication
Langevin, Julien. “Where Critical Tides Meet: The Inaugural Show at Grant Wahlquist Gallery”, The Chart, Vol. 2, No. 3. Spring

2016  
Dickenson, Shiela. “Critic’s Pick: Itasca”, ArtForum
Kinsella, Eileen. “18 Female Artists Give Advice to Young Women Starting Out in the Art World”, Artnet, July

2015  
“Art List’s 3 Must See Shows: Art You Can’t Miss This Week in New York”, Art Market Monitor, July
Choi, Eun Young. “Donuts and Coffee”, Culturehall, March
Meier, Allison. “Jam-Packed Spring/Break Art Show Pulls into Moynihan Station”, Hyperallergic, Mar 4.

2014
Wolff, Rachel. “Science Friction: Sci-Fi Gets Real”, ARTnews, March
“Come Together: Surviving Sandy, Year 1”, Daedelus Foundation, exhibition catalogue

2013
Cotter, Holland. “Going Beyond Blackness, Into the Starry Skies”, The New York Times, November
Rosenberg, Karen. “The Future is African”, The New York Times, November
Clark, Abigail. “A Chat Over Pound Cake: Nyeema Morgan Reflects on “Forty Seven Easy Poundcakes”, BRIC
Arts | Media | Bklyn, April
Bortolot, Lana. “Culture Count: How Do We Love Cake? Let Us Count the Ways”, The Wall Street Journal,
April

VISITING ARTIST/ PANELIST
2023
Visiting Critic, Anderson Ranch, Snowmass, CO 
Panelist, A Tender Spriit, A Vital Form: Arlene Burke-Morgan & Clarence Morgan, Katherine E. Nash Gallery, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN (with Bill Gaskins, Tia Simone-Garner and Robert Cozzolino)
Artist Talk, Member Event: Artist Talk with Nora Lawrence and Nyeema Morgan Storm King Art Center, New Windsor, NY 

2022 
Guest Artist, School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL

2021 
Guest Artist, Clark University, Worcester, MA
Visiting Artist, Maine College of Art & Design, Portland, ME
Visiting Artist, Cranbrook Academy of Art, Department of Print Media, Bloomfield Hills, MI
Visiting Artist, Boston College, Art, Art History & Film Department, Boston, MA

2019  
Artist Lecturer, Kunstakademie Karlsruhe, Karlsruhe, Germany
Visiting Artist, University of Maine, Department of Art, Orono, ME

2018  
Artist Lecturer, Association of Independent Colleges of Art & Design (AICAD)            
Fellowship Program, School of the Art Institute Chicago, Chicago, IL
Voices: Nyeema Morgan, Gallery 400, University of Illinois Chicago, Chicago, IL

2017  
Visiting Artist, University of Minnesota, Department of Art, Minneapolis, MN
Visiting Artist, University of Cincinnati, College of Design, Architecture, Art & Planning, Cincinnati, OH

2016
Visiting Artist, Brooklyn College, Brooklyn, NY
Visiting Artist, Washington & Lee University, Lexington, VA

2014         
Co-moderator, Book Club: The Invisible Man, The Studio Museum in Harlem, NYC, NY (with Shaun C. Leonardo) 
Visiting Scholar, Department of Art and Art Professions, Steinhardt School, New York University, NYC, NY
2010         
Visiting Artist, Department of Visual Arts, Brigham Young University, Provo, UT

PUBLIC COLLECTIONS
Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, MN 
Bowdoin College Museum of Art, Brunswick, ME
The Menil Collection, Houston, TX (in collaboration with william cordova and Otabenga Jones & Associates)
Worcester Museum of Art, Worcester, MA