SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2019 More like a Forest: Paintings and Sculptures by Richard Allen Morris, MCASD, La Jolla, California
2018 This & That: Excavations from the Studio, R.B. Stevenson Gallery, La Jolla, California
2014 "Work from the 60's", R.B. Stevenson Gallery, La Jolla, California
Richard Allen Morris Mixed Bag, Galerie Anke Schmidt, Cologne, Germany
2013 "QUICK DRAW", drawings, R.B. Stevenson Gallery, La Jolla, California
2012 Richard Allen Morris, This and That, Galerie Schimidt Maczollek, Cologne, Germany
2010 Richard Allen Morris "Boxer" Häusler Contemporary Zurich, Switzerland
Richard Allen Morris "Patch and Paint" R.B. Stevenson Gallery, La Jolla, CA
Richard Allen Morris, Peter Blum Gallery Chelsea New York, NY
2009 Morris Code, Peter Blum Gallery, New York, NY, March 19 - May 9, 2009
Richard Allen Morris, "Small One's", R.B. Stevenson Gallery, La Jolla, California
2008 Insight into Sight, Galerie Schmidt Maczollek, Cologne, Germany
Richard Allen Morris "Painter's Room", Häusler Contemporary, Munich, Germany
Richard Allen Morris, "Paintings", Galerie Les Filles du Calvaire, Paris, France
Richard Allen Morris, "Case in View", R.B. Stevenson Gallery, La Jolla, California
2007 Richard Allen Morris "Crossing Edges", Häusler Contemporary, Zurich, Switzerland
2006 GUNS - 110 Works on Paper, Häusler Contemporary, Munich, Germany
Richard Allen Morris, Bilder für München, Häusler Contemporary, Munich, Germany
Body and Soul, Mandarin Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
2005 Through Thick and Thin, Galerie Schmidt Maczollek, Cologne, Germany
Richard Allen Morris Retrospective 1958 – 2005, Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego, San Diego, CA
2004 Richard Allen Morris Retrospective 1958 - 2004, Museum Haus Lange, Krefeld, Germany
Selections from the Studio, R.B. Stevenson Gallery, La Jolla, California
Richard Allen Morris, CUE Art Foundation, New York, NY
2000 Through Thick and Thin, R.B. Stevenson Gallery, San Diego, California
1999 Richard Allen Morris at Chac-Mool, Chac-Mool, West Hollywood, CA
1997 Almost An Apple, Mesa College Art Gallery, San Diego, CA
1996 Jaws, Rita Dean Gallery, San Diego, CA
1988 A Sense of Place, Mandeville Gallery, University of California San Diego, La Jolla, CA
Sculpture, La Jolla Museum of Contemporary Art, Downtown Annex, San Diego, CA
1984 439 Works 1958-1984, Santa Barbara Contemporary Arts Forum, Santa Barbara, CA
Abstractions, Quint Gallery, La Jolla, CA
1983 Guns and Heads, Quint Gallery, La Jolla, CA
1980 Recent Work, Southwestern College Art Gallery, Chula Vista, CA
40 Recent Works, 552 Galleries, San Diego, CA
1979 Aspects of a Retrospective, Boehm Gallery, Palomar College, San Marcos, CA
1978 Recent Work, University of California Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, CA
1972 Things on Paper, University of West Florida, Pensacola, Fl
1971 Heads, San Diego Fine Arts Gallery, San Diego, CA
1970 Sculpture, California Institute of the Arts, Los Angeles, CA
Hyde Gallery, Grossmont College, San Diego, CA
1969 Paintings, Bardhall Gallery, Unitarian Church, San Diego, CA
1965 Gun Room 56 Works, Art Center in La Jolla, La Jolla, CA
1960 Art Center, La Jolla, La Jolla, CA
1959 Dada Comes to San Diego Beginning at $1.98, Vroman's, San Diego, CA
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2019 20/20, Peter Blum Gallery, New York, NY
2016 From the Studio, Richard Allen Morris & David Reed, Häusler Contemporary. Munich, Germany
Drawings, Galerie Anke Schmidt, Cologne, Germany
2015 Visual Language, a group show, R.B. Stevenson Gallery, La Jolla, CA
In the Abstract: Midcentury San Diego Painting & Sculpture, Oceanside Museum of Art, Oceanside CA
2014 Spitting in the Wind: Art From the End of the Line by John Baldessari, Richard Allen Morris, Bob Matheny and
Russel Baldwin curated by Dave Hampton Oceanside Museum of Art, CA
Eccentric Abstraction, Frosch Portmann Gallery, New York, NY
Green Heaven, a group show, R.B. Stevenson Gallery, La Jolla, CA
Works on Paper 1963 - 2013, Galerie Schmidt Maczollek, Cologne, Germany
2013 Sweet Home, Häusler Contemporary Münich, Germany
My Kind of Disneyland, Märkisches Museum Witten, Germany
2012 The Very Large Array: San Diego/Tijuana Artist in the MCA Collection, MCASD, San Diego, CA
Trip, Peter Young, Michael Venezia, Richard Allen Morris, Häusler Contemporary Münich, Germany
Smile, Amerikanische Kunst - Sammlung Kienbaum, curated by Rolf Ricke, Galerie Thomas Zander, Koln, Germany
Mixed Media, a group show, R.B. Stevenson Gallery, La Jolla, CA
Neue Wege der Abstraktion Bernard Frize , Bernard Frize, Richard Allen Morris, David Reed, Gerhard Richter,
Juan Uslé Die, Sammlung Peter Metzger, Galerie Schönewald Fine Arts, Düsseldorf
Stone Gravy, 9 Painters, Ameringer McEnery Yohe, New York, NY. curated by David Pagel.
California Abstraction: Painting 1952 to 2011, Woodbury University Nan Rae Art Gallery, Burbank, CA,
curated by James Hayward.
It's Not Only Malerei but I Like It, Kunstverein Offenburg Mittelbaden, Germany curated by Steffen Lenk
2011 A Collection with Stature, Heinz and Marianne Ebers Foundation, Museum Haus Lange, Krefeld, Germany
Itsy-Bitsy Spider, Galerie Schmidt Maczollek, Cologne, Germany
Color & Culture, R.B. Stevenson Gallery, La Jolla, California USA
Collectors Choice, R.B. Stevenson Gallery, La Jolla, California USA
BIWAK lll, Galerie Schmidt Maczollek, Cologne, Germany
2010 Apartment Museum, Collector’s Choice From Private – to Public – to Private, Häusler Contemporary,
Zurich, Switzerland
35 Annual Image Small Show, Spanish Village Art Center, Balboa Park, San Diego, CA
2009 Raum.inhalt (1) The Big Exploration, im Tal – Stuftung Wortelkam, Hasselbach, Switzerland Double Header,
San Diego Art Prize, San Diego, CA
Quint: Three Decades of Contemporary Art, California Center for the Arts, Escondido Museum, Escondido, CA
Homing In, An Exhibition of 50 San Diego Artists, Quint Contemporary Art, La Jolla, CA
2008 Untitled, Museum of Contemporary Art La Jolla, CA
Painted! - Recent Acquisitions of the Daros Collections, Daros, Zurich, Switzerland
There is Desire Left (Knock, Knock), Museum Wiesbaden, Germany
There is Desire Left (Knock, Knock), Kunstmuseum Bern, Switzerland
2007 Blue Chips & Masterpieces, Museum of Modern Art, Frankfort, Germany
Abstract, Gallery Selections, R.B. Stevenson Gallery, La Jolla, CA
In the Thick of It, Mandarin Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
2006 A Group Show, R.B. Stevenson Gallery, La Jolla, CA
Driven to Abstraction, Riverside Art Museum, Riverside, CA
Michael Stankiewicz Collection, Schloss Raabs Museum, Stadtgemeinde Raabs, Austria
A Little So Cal Abstraction, Mandarin Gallery, Los Angeles CA.
2005 Triple Play, Richard Allen Morris, James Hayward, Ed Moses, R. B. Stevenson Gallery, La Jolla, CA
Linear Logic, Charles Arnoldi, Richard Allen Morris, Thomas Zitzwitz, R.B. Stevenson Gallery, La Jolla, CA
The Dazzling Show, Richard Allen Morris, John McCracken, Lydia Dona, Roellin Duerr Galerie,
St. Gallen, Switzerland
2004 White on White, Patricia Faure Gallery, Santa Monica, CA
Full Disclosure, Geoffrey Young Gallery, Great Barrington, MA
Pickup Lines, Geoffrey Young Gallery, Great Barrington, MA
2003 Selections, R.B. Stevenson Gallery, San Diego, CA
Not the Usual Suspects, Manny Silverman Gallery, Los Angeles, CA & Charlotte Jackson Fine Art, Inc.,
Santa Fe, NM
Extreme Paint, Peter Blake Gallery, Laguna Beach, CA
2002 Big and Blurry, Flux Gallery, San Diego, CA
5 Times 4, Modernism, San Francisco, CA
Group Show, R.B. Stevenson Gallery, San Diego, CA
2001 The Necessary Beauty, R.B. Stevenson Gallery, San Diego, CA
Mass Appeal, R.B. Stevenson Gallery, San Diego, CA
2000 The Next Wave, New Paintings in Southern California, California Center for the Arts, Escondido, CA
1999 Four By Four, Boehm Gallery, Palomar College, San Marcos, CA
1996 Field Days, Cerulean Embankments, Geoffrey Young Gallery, Great Barrington, MA
96 Works on Paper, Geoffrey Young Gallery, Great Barrington, MA
1988 Midwinter Award Show, San Diego Art Institute, San Diego, CA
1987 Black Lines, Gwydion Gallery, La Jolla, CA
1986 Southern California Assemblage: Past and Present, Santa Barbara Contemporary Arts Forum, College of Creative
Studies Gallery, UCSB, Santa Barbara, CA
The Museum of Santa Cruz County and Cabrillo College Gallery, Santa Cruz, CA
Art Furniture: 98 Artists, Installations Gallery, San Diego, CA
Drawings, Rogue Graphics Gallery, San Diego, CA
1985 Masters Show, San Diego Art Institute, San Diego, CA
Wood, Quint Gallery, San Diego, CA
Sixteen X Twenty-six, Quint Gallery, San Diego, CA
1984 Parts of a World, Santa Barbara Contemporary Arts Forum, Santa Barbara, CA
1982 10 Against the Wall, San Diego, CA
1981 A California Summer, Thomas Babeor Gallery, La Jolla, CA
1979 San Diego Art Guild All Media Membership Exhibition, San Diego Museum of Art, San Diego, CA
1978 University of Santa Barbara Art Museum, Santa Barbara, CA
Big San Diego Show, Newspace, Los Angeles, CA
1977 24th Annual Art Exhibition, San Diego Art Institute, San Diego, CA
1976 California Hawaii Biennial, Fine Arts Gallery of San Diego, San Diego, CA
1975 Collage and Assemblage Exhibition, Los Angeles Institute of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, CA
San Diego Art Guild All Media Exhibit, San Diego, CA
1974 Blazing Brushes and Flying Clay: Artists of the 1950's and 1960's, The Artists Co-op Gallery, San Diego, CA
1973 19th Annual All California Purchase Prize Competition, Laguna Beach Museum of Art, Laguna Beach, CA
1972 San Diego Art Guild All Media Show, Fine Arts Gallery, San Diego, CA
19th Annual Art Exhibition, San Diego Art Institute, San Diego, CA
1971 Top Box Art Spring Invitational Exhibition of Painting, Illinois State University, Bloomington/Normal, IL
1970 An Assemblage of Assemblage, Dwight Boehm Gallery, Palomar College, San Marcos, CA
Jewish Community Center Annual Award Show, San Diego, CA
17th Annual Art Exhibition, San Diego Art Institute, San Diego, CA
San Diego Art Guild All Media Exhibition, San Diego Art Institute, San Diego, CA
1968 15th Annual Art Exhibition, San Diego Art Institute, San Diego, CA
San Diego Art Guild All Media Exhibition, San Diego Art Institute, San Diego, CA
1967 Found Object Exhibition, Gallery 25, Balboa Park, San Diego, CA
1966 San Diego Art Guild All Media Show, Fine Arts Gallery, San Diego, CA
1965 Some Aspects of California Painting and Sculpture, La Jolla Museum of Art, La Jolla, CA
The Box Show, New York, NY
Invitational Sculpture Exhibition, San Diego State Art Gallery, San Diego, CA
1963 4th Annual Painting and Sculpture, Art Center, La Jolla, CA
1962 81st Annual Painting Exhibition, San Francisco, CA
1st Annual Southern California Exhibition, Long Beach Museum of Art, Long Beach, CA
1961 80th Annual Painting Exhibition, San Francisco, CA
24th Annual Drawing, Print and Sculpture Exhibition, San Francisco Art Association, San Francisco, CA
6 La Jolla Area Artists, Comara Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
Art Center Annual California Painting and Sculpture Exhibition, La Jolla, CA
1960 The Fine Arts Gallery All Media County-Wide Exhibition, San Diego, CA
1st Annual Painting and Sculpture Exhibit, Art Center, La Jolla, CA
40th National Exhibition, Los Angeles County Art Museum, Los Angeles, CA
SELECTED PUBIC COLLECTIONS
The Daros Collection, Zurich, Switzerland
Museum of Contemporary Art, San Diego
San Diego Museum of Art, San Diego
Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles
Long Beach Museum of Art, Long Beach
Museum Haus Lange, Krefeld Germany
Museum für Moderne Kunst, Frankfurt, Germany
Museum St. Gallen, St. Gallen, Switzerland
PUBLICATION
Richard Allen Morris, Retrospective 1958 - 2004 Museum Haus Lange, Krefeld, Germany
Udo Kittelmann & Klaus Görner, What's New, Pussycat? 2006 Museum für Moderne Kunst, Frankfurt, Germany
Richard Allen Morris, Crossing Edges 2007, Häusler Contemporary, Zurich Switzerland
Daros Collection, Painted! 2008 Daros-Latinamerica AG, Zurich Switzerland
Richard Allen Morris Painter's Room 2009, Häusler Contemporary, Munich, Germany
Richard Allen Morris, It's just a certain sound I'm after 2008 Kienbaum Artists' Books, Gummersbach, Germany.
BIBLIOGRAPHY
2009 Maine, Stephen "Richard Allen Morris", Art in America, September 2009
"Richard Allen Morris", The New Yorker, April 27, 2009
Halle, Howard. "Richard Allen Morris, 'Morris Code, works from 1957-2007'", Time Out New York, April 2, 2009
pg. 44
Jimenez Carlos, "Painted!", Art Nexus N0. 72 Volume 8 Year 2009
2008 Stephane Correard Analyse / Un Bon Artiste Francais Est Un Artiste Mort, Particules No. 21 -
October/November 2008
Robert L. Pincus, 'Case' in Point, San Diego Union Tribute, July 10, 2008
2006 Barbara Hein, The Light in the Cellar, ART - das Kunstmagazin, Nr. 6 / June 2006
David Pagel, Packing a lot into very tight quarters, Los Angeles Times, April 14
2005 Shana Nys Dambrot "Triple Play" at R.B. Stevenson Gallery, ArtWeek, August 2005
Robert L. Pincus, High Profile, At Last, San Diego Union Tribune, May 12, 2005
David Pagel, The Color of his Passion, Los Angeles Time, May 15, 2005
Ralf Christofori Richard Allen Morris, Museum Haus Lange, Frieze Magazie, May 2005
2004 Robert L. Pincus, An Artist Expands (and Shrinks) his genre, San Diego Union Tribune, December 26, 2004
Siri Hustvedt, Necessary Leaps, Modern Painter, October 2004
Robert L. Pincus, Through Thin and Thick, Morris Stuck with his Art, San Diego Union Tribune, October 24, 2004
Christopher Knight, The many colors of white explored, Los Angeles Times, March 19
2002 Robert L. Pincus, 3 Dimensions, San Diego Union-Tribune, April 14
2000 Julia Morton, Bold Strokes, San Diego Union-Tribune, July 27
Christopher Knight, Catching the Next Wave of Painters, Los Angeles Times, June 20
1999 David Pagel, Bold Abstractions, Los Angeles Times, April 23
Claudine Lae, Art Issues, October, Number 59
1998 Welton Jones, San Diego Union-Tribune, May 17
1997 Robert L. Pincus, 'Apple' Intimately shows the fruition of talent, passion, San Diego Union-Tribune, April 6
1988 David Antin Thinking of Richard Allen Morris, Some Sentences UCSD Press, La Jolla, CA
Robert L. Pincus, Morris Stirs Elixir of Gold Into Rubble, San Diego Union-Tribune, April 21
Robert L. Pincus, Passion For Art, San Diego Union-Tribune, February 25
1984 Mark Elliot Lugo, Richard Allen Morris: Abstractions, San Diego Union-Tribune, September 21
1980 Michael Pierce, A Salvage Operation, San Diego Union-Tribune, September 9
Robert McDonald, From New to Old, Artweek, Vol. 11, No. 28, August 30
Else Miller, Recycling Art for Art's Sake, Los Angeles Times, August 11
1978 Suzanne Muchnic, Borrowings of a Creative Recluse, Los Angeles Times, October 6
Morris Show Has Vitality, Santa Barbara California News-Press, October 7
Geoffrey Young, A Deserved Survey UCSB Art Museum, Artweek, Vol. 9, No. 33
1976 Kathryn Russell, Escondido Times Advocate, May 30
Ruth-Ann Rohman, California Hawaii Biennial, Artweek, Vol. 7, No. 11, March 13
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1965 Dr. Armin Kietzmann, Morris: Love of the Brush Is Still Core of His Talent, San Diego Union-Tribune, December 5
Dr. Armin Kietzmann, Contemporary Art is for Homes Too, San Diego Union-Tribune, August 8
Marilyn Hagberg, San Diego Magazine, Vol. 17, No. 10, August 1965