Richard Allen Morris was born in 1933 in Long Beach, CA and currently lives and works in San Diego. His first solo exhibition was in 1960 at the Art Center in La Jolla, La Jolla, CA.. From the 1960s to early 2000s he was predominantly shown in the San Diego area. Morris had his New York solo debut in 2004 at the CUE Art Foundation. In 2005, the above-mentioned exhibition at the Museum Haus Lange, Krefeld traveled to the San Diego Museum of Contemporary Art. In recent years, Morris’ work was included in important institutional exhibitions at Kunstmuseum Bern, Switzerland; Kunstmuseum Wiesbaden, Germany as well as at the Museum für Moderne Kunst, Frankfurt am Main, Germany.