Margaret Morgan

Margaret Morgan is an Australian- American artist living and working in Los Angeles. Her practice is based in drawing ephemera, photos from her phone, and text excerpts. Morgan draws from the everyday. Her works may be considered bookish and read like a rebus, a text poetic, an image made from scraps, residues, broken things. She wants to produce an alchemy of the ordinary. Her work speaks to the trauma of being a woman under patriarchy and she hopes to provide solace for herself and for her most attentive readers. A champion of the arts, Morgan’s critical practice has extended to teaching and serving on the boards of fine art and music organizations.

Margaret Morgan holds an MFA from University of California, Irvine, a BA from College of Fine Arts, UNSW, Sydney, Australia, and is an alumnus of The Whitney Independent Study Program at The Whitney Museum of American Art, New York. Morgan has exhibited internationally. Notable exhibitions include Australian Centre for Contemporary Art, Melbourne, AU; Fine Arts Gallery, University of California, Irvine, CA; Women's Resource Center, UC Irvine, CA;  Robert V. Fullerton Museum, California State University, San Bernardino, CA; Norwich School or Art, Norwich, UK; Avago Gallery, University of Sydney, AU; Wilson Art Gallery, University of Western Australia, Perth, AU; LAXART, Los Angeles, CA; Sir John Soane’s Museum, London, UK; Kunsthaus, Dresden, DE; Ohio State University Art Gallery, OSU, Athens OH; 18th Street Arts Center, Santa Monica, CA; Arti et Amicitiae, Amsterdam, ND; Sweeney Art Gallery, University of California, Riverside, CA; Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney, AU; Baden-Wurtemburg Foundation, Stuttgart, DE; Frye Art Museum, Seattle, WA; Laguna Museum of Art, Laguna Beach, CA, amongst others.