Devin N Morris
b. 1986, Baltimore, Maryland
Education
2010 B.A., Towson University, Journalism and New Media
2007-09 B.A., University of Maryland Eastern Shore, Fashion Merchandising
Residency/ Awards
2023 Artist in Residence, Studio Museum in Harlem, New York, NY
2022 Residencia São João, São José do Vale do Rio Preto, Rio de Janeiro, Brasil
2021 ISCP Vision Fund Recipient, Brooklyn, NY
2020 Center for Book Arts Workspace Resident, New York, NY
2019 Robert Blackburn Printmaking Fellow, New York, NY
Artadia NY 2019 Fellow
2018 Wassaic Project, Wassaic, New York 2017 Wassaic Project, Wassaic, New York
2014 Residencia São João, São José do Vale do Rio Preto, Rio de Janeiro, Brasil
Solo Exhibition
2021 On Paper, Deli Gallery, New York, New York
2019 Play Too Much, Baby Company Gallery, New York, NY
2017 I Found You Like This, AC Institute, New York, New York
In A Dignified Fashion, Terrault Contemporary, Baltimore, Maryland
2015 Grey Areas, Smooch Cafe, Brooklyn, New York
Group Exhibition
2023 Portrait of an Unlikely Space, Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, CT
Earthly Pleasures, Deli Gallery, New York, NY
The Minotaur’s Daydream, Semiose Gallery, Paris, France
2022 Symbiopsychotaxiplasm, Nicodim Gallery, NY
The Fool, 8th House Projects, Colonia Escandon, Mexico City
2021 The Skin I Live In, Lyles & King, NY
Dog, Company Gallery, New York, NY
2020 Noplace, PPOW Gallery, New York, NY
Days Soon to Fade, PPOW Gallery, New York, NY
Another Country, Terrault Gallery, Baltimore, MD
2019 Mickalene Thomas: A Moment’s Pleasure, Baltimore Museum of Art, Baltimore, MD
Mickalene Thomas: Better Nights, Bass Museum, Miami, FL
Soft Scrub, The Luminary Arts, St. Louis, MO
Caretaker, Agnes B. Gallery, New York, NY
Forging Territories, San Diego Arts Institute, San Diego, CA
Summer Fling, Kravets Wehby Gallery, New York, NY
Vernacular Interior, Hales Gallery, New York, NY
Embodied, Fjord Gallery, Philadelphia, PA
Love Is Always Wise, Anacostia Arts Center, Washington, D. C.
2018 Inside Out Here, La Mama Gallery, New York, NY
Furthering Sight, Gloria’s, Ridgewood, NY
Consciousness Razing- The Stonewall Re-memorialization Project, New Museum, New York, NY
Block Party, Jenkins Johnson Projects, Brooklyn, NY
Close Quarters, NADA, New York, NY
This Desire: poetics & longing, Able Baker Contemporary, Portland, ME
Black Is A Color, Antenna Gallery, New Orleans, LA
The Aesthetics of Matter, VOLTA Show, New York, NY
Punctual Reality, High Tide Gallery, Philadelphia, PA
Potemkin// Body, Lubov Gallery, New York, NY
Imperfect Tools for Navigation, American Medium, New York, NY
2017 With You, New Image Art, West Hollywood, CA
Hidden In Plain Sight, Jenkins Johnson Projects, Brooklyn, NY
Visible Scene, Practice Gallery, New York, NY
Torrent Tea, Newspace Center for Photography, Portland, Oregon
COLORED, Breaker Gallery, Tacoma, WA
2016 Queering Space, Yale School of Art, New Haven, CT
Baltimore Boy; Reading 3 Memories, Fleischer Art Memorial, Philadelphia, PA
Cold Open Verse, MoMA PS1, Queens, NY
JRR & ROY, Signal Gallery, Brooklyn NY
Samples, Derrick Adams Studio, Brooklyn, NY
After-Facts, Gallery 102 at George Washington University, Washington DC
The Ointment, Signal Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
PEOPLE 4 PEOPLE, Gallery CA, Baltimore, MD
w e l c o m e w e l c o m e, Platform Gallery installation at Artscape Art Fair, Baltimore, MD
Social Sunday, Platform Gallery, Baltimore, MD
R U 4 Real: AN Exhibition on Authenticity and Anger, BUFU Studios, Brooklyn, NY
6th Annual Zine & Self-Published Photo Book Fair & Exhibition, Baxter Street Camera Club of New York, New York, NY
Common Sense(s); A Photo Zine Exhibition, Center for Photography at Woodstock, Woodstock, NY
Self Publication
2017 .r, MoMA Ps1, New York, NY
2016 Baltimore Boy: 3 Short Stories by Devin N Morris, New York Art Book Fair, MoMA PS1, Queens, NY
2015 Issue 2: Gray Areas, 3 Dot Zine, Smooch Cafe, Brooklyn, NY
Waking Up Black (Special Edition Poster), Aljira, a Center for Contemporary Art, Newark, NJ
2014 Issue 1: 3 Dot Zine, Molasses Bookstore, Brooklyn, NY
Discussion/ Presentation
2017 Radical Edits: Reassessing Cultural Narratives, MoMA Ps1, Long Island City, NY In Conversation with Sarah Hammerman,
Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY
Zines: Elaborate Disruption & Black Creativity, Schomburg Center, New York, NY
Artist Run Reading Spaces, Knockdown Center, Queens, NY
2016 In Conversation with Jeffrey Kent, Terrault Contemporary, Baltimore, MD
Anthony Cudahy, Devin N Morris & Elle Perez In Conversation, La Mama Galeria, New York, NY
Stepping Out; Adorning the Black Body, Impact Hub Baltimore, Baltimore, MD
After-Facts Closing Talk, Gallery 102 at George Washington University, Washington DC
Common Sense(s) - A Photo-zine Panel Discussion, The Center for Photography at Woodstock, Woodstock, NY
Studio Squared: Zine Workshop, Studio Museum In Harlem, Harlem, New York, NY
Community
2020 Communion: Black Art Fair, Playground Coffee Shop, Brooklyn, NY
2018 Welcome, A Space: New York Art Book Fair, MoMA Ps1, Long Island City, NY
Brown Paper Zine & Small Press Fair, Barnard Zine Library, New York, NY
2017 New York Art Book Fair, MoMA Ps1, Long Island City, NY
Rock Paper Scissors And A Three-Armed Shovel, Baxter Street Camera Club of New York, New York, NY
Brown Paper Zine & Small Press Fair for Black & PoC Artists, Eubie Blake Center, Baltimore, MD
Brown Paper Zine & Small Press Fair for Black & PoC Artists, MoCADA Museum, Brooklyn, NY
Fifth Annual BABZ Fair, Knockdown Center, Queens NY
2016 The 6th Annual Zine and Self-Published Photo Book Fair, Baxter Street Camera Club of New York, NY
Pioneer Works Zine Exchange, Pioneer Works, Brooklyn, NY
Seventh Annual Publication and Multiples Fair, Baltimore Design School, Baltimore, MD
Bruce High Quality Foundation Book Fair, Bruce High Quality Foundation, Brooklyn, NY
2015 Skin and Bones Indie Book Fair, Studio Museum in Harlem, New York, NY
28th Loisada Festival, Avenue C, New York, NY
BLACKNUSS Pop Up Shop at The Studio Museum of Harlem, Studio Museum of Harlem New York, NY
2014 Afro Punk Festival, Brooklyn, NY