History of the Morris Gallery
The Morris Gallery program, inaugurated in 1978 to present the work of living artists in the Philadelphia region, expanded during its over 30-year run to show work by some of the most influential artists of the time, both inside and outside of Philadelphia. Some well-known examples include Robert Ryman, Vik Muniz, Nan Goldin, Laylah Ali, and Virgil Marti, among many others. The program continues today as a showcase for a diverse array of emerging and mid-career artists from the Philadelphia region and beyond that reflects art-making today.
| Exhibition Title | Open | Close |
|---|---|---|
| Martha Mayer Erlebacher: Drawings and Paintings | July 13, 1978 | September 3, 1978 |
| John Dowell: Recent Paintings | March 16, 1978 | April 30, 1978 |
| Phil Simpkin: A Project Format "...to a Fault" | May 18, 1978 | June 25, 1978 |
| Richard Cranmer: Paintings and Drawings | November 16, 1978 | December 31, 1978 |
| Harold Jacobs: Recent Work | September 20, 1978 | November 5, 1978 |
| The David J. Grossman Bequest: Horace Pippin and Franklin Watkins | January 10, 1979 | February 25, 1979 |
| Summer at the Morris Gallery: Maurie Kerrigan, Sid Sachs, John Ferris, William Walton, Bruce Pollock | June 30, 1979 | August 26, 1979 |
| Arlene Love: Sculpture | March 8, 1979 | April 22, 1979 |
| Hitoshi Nakazato: Recent Paintings | May 3, 1979 | June 17, 1979 |
| Isaiah Zagar | November 10, 1979 | December 30, 1979 |
| Cynthia Carlson: Homage to the Academy Building | September 14, 1979 | October 29, 1979 |
| Summer at the Morris Gallery: Richard Bottwin, Wade Saunders, Millard Warren | July 10, 1980 | August 24, 1980 |
| Ray K. Metzker: Sand Creatures | January 17, 1980 | March 2, 1980 |
| Robert Younger: Sexually Contagious Relationships | March 14, 1980 | April 27, 1980 |
| Barbara Zucker: Animated Chairs | May 9, 1980 | June 29, 1980 |
| Jody Pinto: Split Tongue | November 7, 1980 | December 28, 1980 |
| Diane Burko: Drawings | September 10, 1980 | October 26, 1980 |
| Mark Cohen: Recent Photographs | January 9, 1981 | February 22, 1981 |
| Dotty Attie: J. and Armond Tour the World | July 10, 1981 | August 23, 1981 |
| Bilgé Friedlaender: Unique Books, Pastels, and Small Sculptures | March 6, 1981 | April 19, 1981 |
| Annson Kenney: Variations on Three Bauhaus Bends | May 8, 1981 | June 21, 1981 |
| Gerald Nichols: "The Fox Hunt," Structures Based on Winslow Homer's Painting | October 30, 1981 | December 13, 1981 |
| David Kettner: Paintings and Drawings, a Bach Transcription, and Other Illuminations | September 4, 1981 | October 18, 1981 |
| George Krause: A Retrospective, 1960–1982 | January 8, 1982 | February 21, 1982 |
| Jonas dos Santos: Americas, To Whom It May Concern, an Installation | July 2, 1982 | August 29, 1982 |
| Warren Rohrer: Passage, An Exhibition of Paintings | March 5, 1982 | April 18, 1982 |
| Lois Lane: Recent Work | May 7, 1982 | June 27, 1982 |
| Ed Kerns: "Evidence of Activity," Recent Paintings | September 10, 1982 | October 17, 1982 |
| Lynn Denton: Sophia's House—An Installation | January 14, 1983 | February 28, 1983 |
| Ken Vavrek: Recent Wall Sculpture | July 8, 1983 | August 21, 1983 |
| Peter Paone: Paintings | March 11, 1983 | April 24, 1983 |
| Michael Berkowitz: "The Ancestors," an Installation-Performance | May 6, 1983 | June 26, 1983 |
| Emily Brown: Landscape Paintings | October 29, 1982 | January 2, 1983 |
| Antony Visco: "Via Dolorosa," the Commissions for Old St. Joseph's and Related Works | September 15, 1983 | October 23, 1983 |
| Contemporary Philadelphia Photographers | March 9, 1984 | April 22, 1984 |
| Tom Judd: Hymn for a Landscape | January 20, 1984 | February 29, 1984 |
| Woofy Bubbles (Christopher Hodge): The Woo, (A Compendium of Form) | June 29, 1984 | August 19, 1984 |
| Anthony Gorny: "Sympathy of All Things" | May 4, 1984 | June 17, 1984 |
| Marcy Hermansader: Drawings | November 4, 1983 | January 1, 1984 |
| Lizbeth Stewart: Recent Work | November 9, 1984 | December 30, 1984 |
| Brian Meunier: Anxious Toys—Recent Work | September 14, 1984 | October 28, 1984 |
| Stanley Whitney: Paintings and Drawings | January 11, 1985 | February 24, 1985 |
| Nancy Hellebrand: Nudes and Portraits | June 28, 1985 | August 25, 1985 |
| Bill Freeland: Excavation—An Irish Suite | March 8, 1985 | April 21, 1985 |
| Dean Dass: Unique Works on Paper | May 3, 1985 | June 23, 1985 |
| Tom Butter: Sculpture | November 1, 1985 | December 29, 1985 |
| Bill Richards: Abstract Paintings | September 6, 1985 | October 20, 1985 |
| Adela Akers: Recent Works | January 10, 1986 | February 23, 1986 |
| Joyce Filip: Natural Phenomena and Atmospheric Effects | July 17, 1986 | August 24, 1986 |
| Judith Shea: New Sculptures | March 7, 1986 | April 20, 1986 |
| David Hannah: Paintings and Drawings | May 2, 1986 | July 13, 1986 |
| Phoebe Toland: Recent Works | November 14, 1986 | December 31, 1986 |
| Harriet Feigenbaum: Reclamation Art | September 12, 1986 | November 2, 1986 |
| Herbert George, Nona Hershey, and Evan Summer | May 8, 1987 | June 21, 1987 |
| A Telling Impulse: A Group Show of Artists Concerned With Narrative | January 9, 1987 | March 1, 1987 |
| Judith Joy Ross: Photographic Portraits of the United States Congress | July 2, 1987 | August 30, 1987 |
| Stephen Talasnik, Mythology: Recent Drawings | March 13, 1987 | April 26, 1987 |
| Helene Brandt: Sculpture and Drawings | September 11, 1987 | October 18, 1987 |
| Hubert Taylor: New Work | January 14, 1988 | February 28, 1988 |
| Eugene Baguskas: Idyllic Places | June 30, 1988 | August 28, 1988 |
| Barbara Schwartz: Dispersions | March 10, 1988 | April 24, 1988 |
| Robinson Fredenthal: Big Plus | May 5, 1988 | June 19, 1988 |
| Joe Stefanelli: Paintings, The Fifties to the Present | October 27, 1988 | January 1, 1988 |
| Martha Zelt: Recent Work | October 30, 1987 | January 3, 1988 |
| Robert Bingham: Urban Survival Equipment | September 8, 1988 | October 16, 1988 |
| Ken Hassel and Stuart Rome: Recent Photographs | January 12, 1989 | February 26, 1989 |
| Recent Acquisitions: Works by Women in the Pennsylvania Academy's Collection | November 17, 1989 | December 31, 1989 |
| Elizabeth T. Scott and Joyce J. Scott: Family Traditions | September 8, 1989 | November 5, 1989 |
| Frank Hyder: Pleurants | June 30, 1989 | August 27, 1989 |
| Michael Harnett: New Paintings | March 10, 1989 | April 23, 1989 |
| Maurie Kerrigan: Walkin' Part II–Rhythms of Life | May 5, 1989 | June 18, 1989 |
| Susan Lowry and Sarah McEneaney: Recent Work | June 29, 1990 | August 26, 1990 |
| Susan Fenton and Bruce Katsiff: Recent Works | May 14, 1990 | June 17, 1990 |
| Raymond Saunders: Paintings | February 28, 1990 | April 22, 1990 |
| Bill Walton: Six or Seven Places in One Place | January 12, 1990 | February 25, 1990 |
| Susan Moore: Works on Paper | November 2, 1990 | December 30, 1990 |
| Bruce Pollock: Thresholds—Recent Paintings | September 7, 1990 | October 21, 1990 |
| S. A. Bachman, David Graham, Diane Neumaier: Photographs | June 14, 1991 | August 11, 1991 |
| Philadelphia Furniture | August 23, 1991 | October 20, 1991 |
| Twentieth-Century Paintings from the Permanent Collection | March 22, 1991 | May 26, 1991 |
| Philip Govedare: Recent Paintings | January 18, 1991 | March 17, 1991 |
| Judy Pfaff: An Installation | June 28, 1991 | August 11, 1991 |
| G. Daniel Massad: To Begin Inwardly—Recent Work | November 1, 1991 | December 29, 1991 |
| Clarence Morgan: Sign as Metaphor—Recent Work | January 10, 1992 | February 23, 1992 |
| Michael Glier: Green Drawings | July 11, 1992 | September 27, 1992 |
| Toshiko Takaezu: Recent Work | March 6, 1992 | April 26, 1992 |
| Pepon Osorio: El Velorio (The Wake)—AIDS in the Latino Community | October 9, 1992 | December 6, 1992 |
| Alida Fish and Edith Neff: Recent Work | April 8, 1993 | May 30, 1993 |
| Anne Minich and Shirley Moskowitz: Recent Work | February 12, 1993 | March 28m 1993 |
| Lanny Bergner and Frank Galuszka: Recent Work | June 11, 1993 | August 29, 1993 |
| Howard Brunner and Ron Klein: Recent Work | September 10, 1993 | October 24, 1993 |
| Louise Fishman: Paintings, 1986–1992 | December 15, 1992 | January 31, 1993 |
| Nannette Clark and Scott Rothstein: Recent Work | February 4, 1994 | April 24, 1994 |
| Chance Encounters: A Morris Gallery Group Exhibition | June 22, 1994 | October 1, 1994 |
| Jill Bonovitz and Bhakti Ziek: Recent Work | November 2, 1993 | January 23, 1994 |
| Nature Morte: Contemporary Still Life | February 10, 1996 | April 14, 1996 |
| Mark McCullen | January 25, 1997 | April 13, 1997 |
| Sarah McCoubrey | October 12, 1996 | January 12, 1997 |
| Kate Moran: Vitreous Humors | January 10, 1998 | April 26, 1998 |
| Darwin Nix | June 13, 1998 | September 13, 1998 |
| Judith Schaechter | September 18, 1998 | November 29, 1998 |
| Parks and Portraits: Dona Nelson, 1983–88 | January 9, 1999 | March 7, 1999 |
| Charles Burns | October 8, 1999 | December 5, 1999 |
| Barry Goldberg | December 10, 1999 | February 6, 2000 |
| Jeremy Blake: Digital Projections | September 9, 2000 | November 15, 2000 |
| Virgil Marti | June 15, 2001 | September 2, 2001 |
| Neysa Grassi | March 2, 2001 | May 6, 2001 |
| Mary Judge | September 14, 2001 | November 11, 2001 |
| BaseKamp: Dirty Deeds (Re-done) Dirt Cheap | November 30, 2001 | February 3, 2002 |
| Phil Frost | February 23, 2002 | April 28, 2002 |
| Astrid Bowlby: Leaves of Grass | September 14, 2002 | November 10, 2002 |
| Odd Fellows: Marcel Dzama, Michael Dumontier, and Andrew Jeffrey Wright | February 22, 2003 | April 27, 2003 |
| Jane Irish: History Lesson | December 7, 2002 | February 2, 2003 |
| Monique Van Genderen | September 20, 2003 | November 9, 2003 |
| The Sixth Annual Altoids Curiously Strong Collection | July 10, 2004 | August 15, 2004 |
| Michelle Oosterbaan | December 13, 2003 | February 1, 2004 |
| Adam Cvijanovic: Ideal City | February 21, 2004 | April 25, 2004 |
| Quentin Morris | November 20, 2004 | January 31, 2005 |
| Paul Swenbeck: Specter of the Brocken | September 11, 2004 | November 7, 2004 |
| Nan Goldin: Fantastic Tales | December 15, 2005 | February 12, 2006 |
| Do-Ho Suh: Paratrooper II | June 17, 2005 | August 21, 2018 |
| Eamon Ore-Giron: Mirage | March 5, 2005 | May 15, 2005 |
| Vik Muniz: Remastered | September 17, 2005 | November 27, 2018 |
| Elizabeth Leister: Every Body is Everywhere and Nowhere | June 10, 2006 | August 20, 2006 |
| Nadia Hironaka: The Late Show | March 4, 2006 | May 14, 2007 |
| Robert Ryman: Small Works | October 13, 2006 | January, 28 2007 |
| Senga Nengudi: Warp Trance | June 9, 2007 | August 26, 2007 |
| Laylah Ali: Drawings from the Typology Series | March 3, 2007 | May 13, 2008 |
| Steve Powers: The Magic Word | October 20, 2007 | January 27, 2008 |
| Spot Check: Academy Contemporary | March 1, 2008 | June 8, 2008 |
| Jacob Lawrence’s Hiroshima occupied the Morris Gallery space. | August 1, 2008 | December 28, 2008 |
| Image: Music:…sampler | May 14, 2009 | June 9, 2009 |
| Summer Shorts: REDUX | August 18, 2009 | October 11, 2018 |
| Malcolm McLaren: Shallow | October 24, 2009 | January 3, 2018 |
| Contemporary Video Art | January 30, 2009 | August 8, 2009 |
| Serigala Militia | January 29, 2010 | April 11, 2010 |
| Roxana Pérez-Méndez: Este Es Mi Pais | May 22, 2010 | September 26, 2010 |
| Tom LaDuke: run generator | October 23, 2010 | March 6, 2011 |
| Hiro Sakaguchi: No Particular Place To Go | April 2, 2011 | August 28, 2011 |
| Bill Viola: Ocean Without a Shore | November 19, 2011 | November 3, 2014 |
| No Particular Place to Go | April 2, 2011 | August 29, 2011 |
| Cynthia Norton: Freedom Rings Placed Within | March 3, 2012 | May 27, 2012 |
| David Lynch: Six Men Getting Sick | January 10, 2015 | June 7, 2015 |
| Mia Rosenthal: Paper Lens | October 10, 2015 | January 3, 2016 |
| Alyson Shotz: Plane Weave | April 21, 2016 | August 7, 2016 |
| Fernando Orellana: His Study of Life | August 20, 2016 | November 6, 2016 |
| Emil Lukas | January 14, 2016 | April 10, 2016 |
| Cassils: The Resilience of the 20% | November 19, 2016 | March 5, 2017 |
| Melt/Carve/Forge: Embodied Sculptures by Cassils | November 19, 2016 | March 5, 2017 |