Keith Anthony Morrison

Keith Anthony Morrison is a Jamaican-born painter, educator, critic, curator and administrator. Presently the dean of the Tyler School of Art at Temple University in Philadelphia, Morrison has also served as past dean of the College of Creative Arts at San Francisco State University, and as a faculty member at the University of Maryland. Morrison was trained at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, where he received both a BFA (1963), and an MFA (1965). Morrison was born in Linstead, Jamaica, in 1942.

Career

Morrison has exhibited his work internationally, including exhibitions at the the Museums of Contemporary Art (MARCA) of Monterrey Mexico, Art Institute of Chicago, the Smithsonian Institution, the Cincinnati Museum, the Corcoran Gallery of Art; and the High Museum. He was one of three artists invited to represent Jamaica in the 2001 Venice Biennale.

Morrison has curated many exhibitions, including Art in Washington and Its African American Presence: 1940-1970; Prints at the Brandywine Workshop; Jacob Lawrence’s Toussaint L’Ouverture Series; and Contemporary Art in Cuba at San Francisco State University. He has served as art consultant for many state arts agencies in the United States, and is a former commentator for a weekly program broadcast by WETA-TV in Washington DC. He was one of five international artists featured in the PBS film Free Within Ourselves.

Morrison has lectured and conducted workshops at numerous institutions, including the San Francisco Art Institute, Metropolitan Museum of Art, Getty Museum; Art Institute of Chicago; and Cooper Union Institute. Morrison gave the 50th Anniversary address for the Edna Manley School of Art, and presented a keynote address at the Ludwig Foundation of Havana, Cuba.

As a writer and critic, Morrison has published many articles, essays, catalogs, and reviews.

Awards

Morrison has won several awards, including the 1976 Bi-Centennial Award for Painting in Chicago, and the 1979 Award for Painting from the Organization of African States.

Bibliography

Ater, Renee, "Keith Morrison", (2005, Pomengranate Press).

Perry, Regina A., "Free Within Ourselves: African-American Artists in the Collection of the National Museum of American Art" (Pomegranate, 1992).

Driskell, David C., editor, "African American Visual Aesthetics: A Postmodernist View" (Smithsonian Institution Press, 1995).

Cederholm, Theresa Dickason, editor, "Afro-American Artists" (Boston Public Library, 1973).

External links

* [http://www.keithmorrison.com/ Keith Morrison Website]
* [http://www.temple.edu/news_media/hkg0506_141.html Temple University press release announcing Morrison appointment]