Jeffrey F Morrison is an Award-winning multi-media installation artist and visual thinker, based in St. Paul, MN.
Disappearing Homestead Project.
Latex paint on abandoned farm buildings.
Disappearing Homestead Project
Multi-media installation including assembled constructions and recorded audio.
BROKEN HARVEST: ONE POTATO, TWO…
Multi-media installation.
E.A.T. (Empty Associations Tasted)
CANNED EXCHANGE at the Soap Factory, Minneapolis MN
multi-media installation with audience participation
CANNED EXCHANGE
WALLS OF WARMTH: SEWN AND PASTED.
Collage series using vintage wall papers and paper ephemera.
View Project →
KINTSUGI 1 (detail)
Walls of Warmth: Sewn and Pasted series
Included in FIELD NOTES exhibition at
FORM+CONTENT Gallery, Minneapolis
SON, Like Grandma’s quilt, this will be yours someday…
…should I die before we wake…
Installation for ROOTS OF RENEWAL at Faulconer Gallery, Grinnell College, Grinnell, Iowa
The fruits of farming labor form the beginning of several chains upon which we all depend.
…soil, cotton seed, thread.
Weaving, sewing, clothing…
…soil, grain seed, fodder.
Produce, consumption, life…
…bone, ash, soil.
My works continue to explore and question issues related to the family farmers’ struggle to maintain their connection to the land.
Jeffrey F Morrison 2003
READY FOR THE TABLE?!
multi-media installation with audience participation.
LURKING BELOW THE SURFACE
artificial turf, map, house builder’s plans, and toy tractor
Vested in bringing agricultural-related issues into the public eye to attract audiences as well as raise awareness, I use my artistic voice to explore our relationship to the land and to the pioneering spirit our ancestors brought to the Midwest. One of my first multi-media installations, DISAPPEARING HOMESTEAD PROJECT has been exhibited widely throughout the midwest. This project’s ‘heart’ and focus on rural life and farm families continues to provide me with content to expand upon when create even more complex works. Some of my installations that include this same ‘heart’ are HOMESTEAD: ARCHEOLOGICAL DIG, REMEMBERING HOWARD’S OATS, DOORS: NEW BEGINNINGS OR ENDINGS, and BROKEN HARVEST: ONE POTATO, TWO…
I have received numerous grants and fellowships throughout my artistic career. The first significant one being chosen as Chief Curator and Artist-in-residence at Oscar Howe Art Center, Mitchell, SD in 1990. Subsequent grants of significance were garnered from SD Arts Council (3), SD Arts & Humanities, Rural Initiative Grant/Bush Foundation, MN State Art Board (2), SE MN Arts Council, Jerome Foundation/MCBA Bookarts Fellowship, and Intermedia Arts MN.
JEFFREY F MORRISON
HARVESTING A RITUAL
Multi-media Installation at Plains Art Museum, Fargo, ND
BED ROCK - ROCK BED installation
USA TAG SALE Guerrilla Action
S.P.R.A.W.L. (Same Postal Rural Address Without Loyalties)
JEFFREY F MORRISON Resume:
(needs to be updated)
GRANTS & AWARDS: (significant)
2010 - Community Supported Art Fall 2010 artist MNartist.org & Springboard
2003 - Jerome Foundation / MCBA Bookarts Fellowship
2000 - Presentation Grant, Cornucopia Art Center, S.E. MN Arts Council
1999 - Artists Fellowship, Minnesota State Arts Board
1999 - “Jeffrey F. Morrison” feature article, Mpls/St Paul Magazine
1998 - Career Opportunity Grant, Minnesota State Arts Board
1996 - Artists Career Development Grant, South Dakota Arts Council
1996 - Diverse Visions Regional Interdisciplinary Grant, Intermedia Arts MN
1995 - Rural Initiative Grant, Bush Foundation/South Dakota Arts Council
1995 - Presentation/Exhibit Grant, “American Pluralism in a Global Society”
South Dakota Arts and Humanities Conference
‘90-’96 - Artist-in-residence, Oscar Howe Art Center, Mitchell,
SOLO EXHIBITIONS: (selected)
2004 - Value Added: Maize Project Site specific installation, SD
2002 - Sown/Sewn Multi-media installation, AZ Gallery, St. Paul, MN
2001 - Broken Harvest: One Potato, Two... Installation, AZ Gallery
2001 - Cereal Killer Minnesota Zoo Family Farm, Apple Valley, MN
2000 - Harvesting a Ritual Multi-media installation & Agricultural Issues
Forum Reception, Granary Rural Cultural Center., Groton, SD
1999 - D.O.A.: Grab a Shovel Multi-media installation, AZ Gallery
1998 - Rural Foundations - Through the Sieve Oscar Howe Art Center
1998 - Empty Associations Tasted Installation, AZ Gallery, St. Paul
1996 - Disappearing Homestead-Archaeological Dig Installation, South
Dakota School of Mines and Technology Gallery, Rapid
1995 - Disappearing Homestead Project Multi-media installation, Civic
Fine Arts Center, Sioux Falls, SD
1995 - Ready for the Table? Installation, West Gallery, Mitchell, SD
1995 - ...from the drawer...of a wall...in a quilt Dakota Art Gallery, Rapid City, SD
1994 - Reckoning with Time Oscar Howe Art Center, Mitchell, SD
1992 - Doors: New Beginnings or Endings?! Ruddell Gallery, Spearfish, SD
and Community Cultural Center, Brookings, SD
1993 - Recent Works Old Firehouse Gallery, Madison, SD
1991 - Compromising Stress: An Environmental Concern Karl Mundt
Gallery, DSU, Madison, SD and Oscar Howe Art Center, Mitchell, SD
1990 - Fabricated Fields Dahl Fine Arts Center, Rapid City, SD
INVITATIONAL & GROUP EXHIBITIONS: (selected)
2009/’10 - A Book About Death Emily Harvey Foundation Gallery, New York City,
NY and Brooklyn Museum of Art, Brooklyn, NY
2007 - Canned Exchange featured in HOST, Soap Factory, Minneapolis, MN
2004 - Jerome Bookarts Fellowship Award Winners Exhibition, Minnesota
Center for Bookarts, Minneapolis, MN
2003 - Roots of Renewal Faulconer Gallery, Grinnell College, Grinnell, IA
2001 - Hot House The Soap Factory, Minneapolis, MN
2000 - Shelf Life Phipps Center for the Arts, Hudson, WI
1998 - Pieces of the Sky Invitational Plains Art Museum, Fargo, ND
1996 - Food for Thought South Dakota Artists’ Network Exhibition
1995 - 30 American Artists - Nat’l Invitational Frogmen’s Press & Gallery
1995 - On Common Ground Regional Traveling Exhibition
1994 - Parts and Pieces - Art of Assemblage South Dakota Art Museum
1994 - Art as if the World Matters - International Environmental Exhibit,
Dahl Fine Arts Center, Rapid City, SD
1993 - University of North Dakota Tri-State Art Competition, Grand Forks, ND
1993 - Dakota Visions - Traveling Exhibition North and South Dakota venues
1992 - South Dakota Sculpture Invitational Traveling Exhibition
1991 - 50th Annual Competitive Exhibition Sioux City Art Center, Iowa
BIBLIOGRAPHY: (selected)
MariAnne Combs, “Broken Harvest: One Potato, Two...”
Word of Mouth, MPR Radio 2002
Jennifer Amie, “Jeffrey F. Morrison: Ag Art” Mpls/St Paul Magazine, Oct 99
Judy Arginteanu, “Co-opportunity Knocking”
Saint Paul Pioneer Press, June 20, 1998
Nancy Correll, “Morrison Draws State Grant Award”
Mitchell Daily Republic, May 16, 1996
Ann Grauvogl, “Art Project Takes Viewers to Prairie Roots”
Sioux Falls Argus Leader, September 24, 1995
Steve Erickson, “Reflections of Rural Decline”
Mitchell Daily Republic, April 14, 1995 Associated Press
CIVIC ENGAGEMENTS: (significant)
2010/17 - Board Member, Off-Leash Area Contemporary Performance, Mpls. MN
2004 - Curator, PriceWaterhouseCoopers, Ltd. Minneapolis, MN
2002-’04 - Curator, St. Paul Artists’ Program, Office of the Mayor, St. Paul, MN
‘98-2000 - Member Liaison, Saint Paul Arts Partnership
1999 - Panelist, Bush Foundation’s Rural Arts Initiative Roundtable, St Paul
1998 - Co-founder, Argyle Zebra Artists’ Co-op / AZ Gallery, St. Paul, MN
1997 - Lecturer, International Gallery of Contemporary Art. Minneapolis, MN
1997 - Presenter, Art & Profit - Is it a Myth? Seminar, Rapid City, SD
‘94/‘96 - Selection Committee Member, Civic Fine Arts Center, Sioux Falls, SD
COLLECTIONS
Minnesota Zoo, Apple Valley, MN
Black Hills Oral Surgery Complex, Rapid City, SD
Children’s Home Society, Sioux Falls, SD
Commercial Bank, Mitchell, SD
Children’s Home Society, Rapid City, SD
Dakota Discovery Museum, Mitchell, SD
Oscar Howe Art Center, Mitchell, SD
CorTrust Bank, Mitchell, SD
Toshiba America Inc., Systems Division, Mitchell, SD
Friends of the Middle Border Museum, Mitchell, SD
Public Utilities Commission, Rapid City, SD
St. Mary’s Foundation, Pierre, SD
ALFALFA 1: SE 40 acrylic on yupo
MEMORIES: OVERGROWN BUT NOT FORGOTTEN
Doors: New Beginnings or Endings Series
ALTERED GENE POOL
non-traditional bookarts
CANNED SPRAWL
