Biography
 
1942
Born in Washington, D.C.
 
Lives and works in Santa Monica
 
 
Education
 
1960-64
Harvard College
 
1965
B.A. in Fine Art
 
1964-65
University of Southern California, work toward M.A. in Cinema
 
1965-66
University of California, Los Angeles, work toward M.F.A. in Motion Picture Division, Department of Theater Arts
 
 
Solo Exhibitions / Screenings
 
2022
“New Paintings”, Bortolami, New York
“Paintings and Photographs”, Galerie Mitterrand, Paris
 
2019
“Kenneth Anger / Morgan Fisher”, Slash, San Francisco
 
2018
“Passing Time”, REDCAT, Los Angeles (catalogue)
“6 x 6 x 6 x 2”, Bortolami Gallery, New York
 
2016
“Screening Room”, Bortolami, New York
“Past Future Housing - Morgan Fisher / Karina Nimmerfall”, MAK Center, Los Angeles
“Morgan Fisher’s ‘Phi Phenomenon’ + Newsreels’s ‘Community Control'”, Light Industry, Brooklyn
 
2015
“Negative Film Boxes”, Bortolami Gallery, New York
 
2014
“Past Present, Present Past”, Maureen Paley, London
Whitney Biennial, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York
“Exterior and Interior Color Beauty”, China Art Objects Galleries, Los Angeles
 
2013
“Interior Color Beauty”, Bortolami Gallery, New York
“( ), ( ), ( ), ( ),”, Maureen Paley, London
 
2012
“Conversations”, Aspen Art Museum, Aspen
“The Frame and Beyond”, Generali Foundation, Vienna (catalogue)
 
2011
“New Work: Photographs and Works on Paper”, Gallery Bortolami, New York
“Translations”, Museum Abteiberg, Mönchengladbach (catalogue)
“Morgan Fisher: Films and Paintings and In Between and Nearby”, Raven Row, London
“Modelo estándar: El Cine de Morgan Fisher”, Xcèntric Cinema - Centre de Cultura Contemporània de Barcelona
“An Evening with Morgan Fisher”, Nottingham Contemporary, Nottingham
“Morgan Fisher Presents”, Harvard Film Archive, Harvard University, Cambridge
Morgan Fisher, in the series Talking Film, curated by Ann Goldstein, Stedelijk Museum, presented at Smart Project Space, Amsterdam
Morgan Fisher, Werkvortrag, Filmhaus Nürnberg im KunstKulturQuartier, Nürnberg
 
2010
“Missing - An Evening with Morgan Fisher”, Piet Zwart Institute, Rotterdam
“Works on Paper 1968-2008”, Galerie Daniel Buchholz, Cologne
P”rojections on Art”, program of films presented by Shahryar Nashat, curated by  Silberkuppe in conjunction with Old Ideas, Kunstmuseum Basel, Museum für Gegenwartskunst, Basel
“Kill Your Timid Notion 2010”, curated by Silberkuppe, Dundee Contemporary Arts, Dundee
 
2009
“Portikus Looks at Itself”, Portikus, Frankfurt am Main, curated by Melanie Ohnemus
Independent Film Show, curated by María Palacios Cruz and Stoffel Debuysere, Fondazione Morra, Naples (catalogue)
“Fisher Films, in Size Matters, in Signals”, curated by Edwin Carels, 38th International Film Festival Rotterdam, Rotterdam (catalogue)
 
2008
“Alien Pendant Pair Paintings”, China Art Objects Galleries, Los Angeles
Art Unlimited, Galerie Daniel Buchholz, Art Basel, Basel
 
2007
“Pendant Pair Paintings”, Galerie Daniel Buchholz, Cologne
 
2006
“Standard Gauge: Film Works by Morgan Fisher, 1968-2003”, Museum of Contemporary Art,
Los Angeles, curated by Chrissie Iles
 
2005
“Standard Gauge: Film Works by Morgan Fisher, 1968-2003”, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York
“Scratched Aspect Ratio Pieces”, China Art Objects Galleries, Los Angeles
“Standard Gauge: The Films of Morgan Fisher”, film screening, Tate Modern, London
“Edge and Corner Paintings”, Adamski Galerie, Aachen
Morgan Fisher / Thom Andersen, film screening, Kölnischer Kunstverein, Cologne
 
2004
“(  ) / Film Cans and Film Boxes”, Galerie Daniel Buchholz, Cologne
“Aspect Ratio Pieces, (  )”, Greene Naftali, New York
“(  )”, Cubitt, London
“(  )”, film screening (with Sharon Lockhart), Kino Arsenal, Internationales Forum des jungen Films / Berlinale, Berlin
Filmforum, Los Angeles
Städelschule, Frankfurt
 
2002
“To See Seeing”, NAK - Neuer Aachener Kunstverein, Aachen
“Photogenic Drawings / Color Balance”, Galerie Daniel Buchholz, Cologne
“The Italian Paintings, Self-Portraits”, China Art Objects Galleries, Los Angeles
Pacific Title and Art Studio, Hollywood; presented by China Art Objects Galleries, Los Angeles
 
2000
Kunstverein Hamburg, Hamburg
“The Italian Paintings”, presented by Dave Muller, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles
 
1998
Künstlerhaus Stuttgart, Stuttgart
Galerie Daniel Buchholz, film screening at the cinema of the British Council, Cologne
Österreichisches Filmmuseum, Vienna
 
1989
University of Rochester, in the series “The New Avant-Garde”, Rochester
 
1986
International Forum of Young Cinema, Berlin International Film Festival, Berlin
University Gallery of Fine Art, Ohio State University, Ohio
 
1985
The Collective for Living Cinema, New York
San Francisco Cinematheque, San Francisco
Pacific Film Archive, Berkeley
 
1981
“Color Balance”, P.S. 1, Long Island City, New York
 
1980
“Color Balance”, Media Study/Buffalo
“Film as Installation”, The Clocktower, New York
 
1979
Boston Film/Video Foundation, Boston
Art School, California Institute of the Arts
Department of Photography and Film, Ohio State University, Columbus
Art Program, School of Art, California Institute of the Arts, Valencia
 
1978
Collective for Living Cinema, New York
 
1976
Museum of Art, Carnegie Institute, Pittsburgh
Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo
San Francisco Museum of Art, San Francisco
Anthology Film Archives, New York
Museum of Modern Art, New York
 
1975
Pacific Film Archive; Berkeley
San Francisco Art Institute, San Francisco
Vancouver Art Gallery, in the series “The Very Eye of Light. A Primer in the Experimental
Film”, Pacific Cinematheque in collaboration with the Vancouver Art Gallery, Vancouver, British Columbia
Canyon Cinematheque, San Francisco
 
1974
Pratt Institute, Brooklyn
 
1973
Millennium Film Workshop, New York
School of the Art Institute, Chicago
Independent Film Festival, National Film Theater, London
 
1972
Film Section, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
 
1970
Department of Theater Arts, UCLA, Los Angeles
 
 
Group Exhibitions
 
2024
“film”, Haubrok Foundation, Fahrbereitschaft, Berlin
 
2023
“Ecstatic Media. Medienkunst neu betrachtet”, Museum der Moderne, Salzburg
 
2022
“HOMMAGE A MUSEUM ABTEIBERG”, Museum Abteiberg, Mönchengladbach
“Afterimages: Echoes of the 1960s from the Fisher and SFMOMA Collections”, SFMOMA, San Francisco
“A Decade of Acquisitions of Works on Paper - Part II”, Hammer Museum, Los Angeles
 
2021
“The Youngest Day”, carlier gebauer, Berlin
“Drafting Space”,1301PE, Los Angeles
 
2020
“Museum for Preventive Imagination - Editorial”, MACRO, Rome
 
2018
Class Reunion: Works from the Gaby and Wilhelm Schürmann Collection, Museum Moderner Kunst Stiftung Ludwig, Vienna
 
2017
“Truth: 24 frames per second”, Dallas Museum of Art, Dallas
“in awe”, Kunsthalle Exnergasse, Vienna
“Picture Industry”, Hessel Museum of Art, Annandale-On-Hudson
“Portikus XXX”, Portikus, Frankfurt am Main
 
2016
“A Month of Sundays,” Taylor Macklin, Zurich
“Daniel Buren. A Fresco”, Bozar Center for Fine Arts, Brussels, Belgium
“Ordinary Pictures”, Walker Art Center, Minneapolis
 
2015
“America is Hard to See”, Inaugural Exhibition, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York
“Apparition: Frottages and Rubbings from 1860 to Now”, Hammer Museum, Los Angeles / The Menil Collection, Houston
“Palm Capsule”, MAK Center for Art and Architecture, West Hollywood
“Old News (Again)” Cneai, Chatou
“Sweet Sixteen”, China Art Objects Galleries, Los Angeles
 
2014
“Waywords of Seeing”, Frac Ile-de-France, Paris
Whitney Biennial, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York
“A Machinery for Living”, Friedrich Petzel Gallery, New York
“Waywords of Seeing”, Le Plateau, Paris
“Systems & Subjects”, Museum der Moderne, Salzburg
“Waywords Of Seeing”, FRAC - Ile-de-France - Le Plateau, Paris
“Pleasing Artists And Publics Since 1963”, ICA - Institute of Contemporary Art - University of Pennsylvania
“Propaganda für die Wirklichkeit”, Museum Morsbroich, Leverkusen
 
2013
“State of Mind: New California Art Circa 1970”, Smart Museum of Art, Chicago
“Against Method”, Generali Foundation, Vienna
“State of Mind: New California Art circa 1970”, Bronx Museum of the Arts, New York City
“The Content of Form”, Generali Foundation, Vienna
“Super 8”, Museu de Arte Moderna Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro
“Andersen & Fisher”, Yale Union, Portland
 
2012
“Stand still like the hummingbird”, David Zwirner, New York
“Perfect”, China Art Objects Galleries, Los Angeles
“Drawing a Blank (On Forgetting, Refusal, Censure and Impotence)”, David Kordansky Gallery, Los Angeles
“Made In L.a. 2012”, Hammer Museum, Los Angeles
“Shelf Life”, Berlin Collective, Berlin
“MY.LA”, Haubrok Foundation, Berlin
“SUPER 8 - Part 1”, Künstlerhaus Bethanien, Berlin
 
2011
“Quodlibet III - Alphabets and Instruments”, Galerie Buchholz, Berlin
“Lonely At The Top: Graphology. Chapter 4”, Muhka, Antwerpen
“El Cinema Del CCCB”, Xcentric Cinema, Barcelona
“Objektiv”, Haubrockshows, Berlin
“The Silver Show - 25 Jahre Nak”, Neuer Aachener Kunstverein, Aachen
“Mind Games”, China Art Objects Galleries, Los Angeles
“The Unfinished Film”, Gladstone Gallery, New York
 
2010
Richard Telles Fine Art, Los Angeles
“Monochrome Reflections”, Haubrok Shows, Berlin
“rogalski”, Haubrok Shows, Berlin
“Taking Place”, Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam
“Alchemy box”, Maison d’Art Bernard Anthonioz, Nogent-sur Marne
“De Rigueur”, Richard Telles Fine Art, Los Angeles
“FAX & Move on Asia”, Para/Site Art SpaceHong Kong
“FAX”, Torrance Art Museum, Torrance
 
2009
“Aspect Ratio”, TENT, Rotterdam International Film Festival, Rotterdam
“Protective Coloration”, curated by Niko Vicario, Center for Curatorial Studies, Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson
Daily Film Program in conjunction with “See This Sound; Promises in Sound and Vision”, curated by Cosima Rainer, Lentos Kunstmuseum Linz, Linz, Austria (catalogue)
“Quodlibet II”, Galerie Daniel Buchholz, Cologne
38th International Film Festival Rotterdam, Rotterdam
“Fax”, The Drawing Center, New York
“1999”, China Art Objects Gallery, Los Angeles
“Restoring the Los Angeles Avant-Garde”, La Filmforum, Los Angeles
“Collecting History: Highlighting Recent Acquisitions”, curated by Bennett Simpson, Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles
“Artists’ Cinema”, curated by Alex Farquharson, Nottingham Contemporary, Nottingham
 
2008
“Neutre Intense - Mitim”, Maison populaire-Centre d’art Mira Phalaina, Montreuil
“You, Whose Beauty Was Famous in Rome”, Mandarin Gallery, Los Angeles
“To Square Light”, Signal - Center for Contemporary Art, Malmö, Sweden
“Zuordnungsprobleme”, Johann König, Berlin
“Standard Sizes”, Andrew Kreps Gallery, New York
“Please Stay Out, We’re Open”, Redling Fine Art, Los Angeles
“Haubroksshow”, Sammlung Haubrok, Berlin
“Neutre Intense -( )”, Carl Freedman Gallery, London
“Index: Conceptualism in California from the Permanent Collection”, curated by Phillip Kaiser and Corrina Peipon, Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles
California Biennial, Orange County Museum of Art, Newport Beach, curated by Lauri Firstenberg (catalogue)

2007
“Internationale Kurzfilmtage Oberhausen”, Oberhausen
“Monochrome Painting”, Cardwell Jimmerson, Culver City
“Provokation? III - Täterin”, Fotogalerie Wien, Vienna
“Filmische Wahrheiten”, Heidelberger Kunstverein, Heidelberg
 
2006
“Galerie Daniel Buchholz Cologne at Metro Pictures”, Metro Pictures, New York
“Los Angeles 1955-1985”, Centre Pompidou, Paris
Program of films presented by Christopher Williams as an artist in the Whitney Biennial, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York
“Blows into Microphone”, curated by Achim Lengerer, Kunsthalle Exnergasse, Vienna / Wiener Votivkino, Vienna / Deutsches Filmmuseum, Frankfurt (catalogue)
“The Artists Cinema”, Frieze Art Fair, Regent’s Park, London
“Expanded Cinema I”, film program curated by Patrick Huber and Fred Truniger, Kunsthaus Zürich, Zürich
“Bunch Alliance and Dissolve”, curated by Public-Holiday Projects, Contemporary Arts Center, Cincinnati, (catalogue)

2005
“Beside the Dream Machine”, Museum Moderner Kunst, Vienna
“A Walk to Remember”, curated by Jens Hoffman, LACE (Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions), Los Angeles (catalogue)
“Old News”, curated by Jacob Fabricius, LACE, Los Angeles
Gallery exchange, China Art Objects Galleries and Bowie Van Valen, Amsterdam
Bienal de Lisboa, Lisbon; curated by Ricardo Matos Cabo

2004
Whitney Biennial, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York
 
2003
“Turbulent Screen”, Edith-Ruß-Haus für Medienkunst, Oldenburg
“Fate of Alien Modes”, Secession, Wien
Morgan Fisher and Mason Cooley, China Art Objects Galleries, Los Angeles
“Sandwiched”, curated by Jacob Fabricius, Los Angeles,
“Conceptualisms: Zeitgenössische Tendenzen in Musik, Kunst und Film”, curated by Christoph Metzger, Akademie der Künste, Berlin
 
2002
“Sie träumt von ihrem Lieblingsstar. Er spricht mit einer fremden Sprache. Vier Räume aus der Sammlung Schürmann”, Sammlung Schürmann, K21 Kunstsammlung im Ständehaus, Düsseldorf
Morgan Fisher, Tomma Abts, Leica Dole-Recio, James Hayward, curated by Richard Hawkins, Galerie Daniel Buchholz, Cologne
“A Show That Will Show That a Show Is Not Only a Show”, curated by Jens Hoffman, The Project, Los Angeles (catalogue)
 
2001
Frances Stark meets Morgan Fisher, Klosterfelde, Berlin
 
2000
“The Italian Paintings”, Dave Muller/Three Day Weekend, in “Made in California: Now”, LACMA, Los Angeles
Galerie Daniel Buchholz at Jürgen Becker, Hamburg
“Not Coming”, produced by Side Street Projects, Laemmle Grande Theaters, Los Angeles
 
1999
“Afterimage: Drawing Through Process”, Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles
“A History of European Cinema through Technical Evolution”, Festival dei Popoli, Florence
“The American Century: Art and Culture 1950-2000; The Cool World: Film and Video in America 1950-2000”, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York
“Thanks”, visiting faculty show, School of Art, California Institute of the Arts
 
1998
“Time Dilates”, Dave Muller/Three Day Weekend, The Downtown Arts Festival, New York
 
1997
“Threshold”, Side Street Projects, Santa Monica
 
1996
“Projections”, produced by Side Street Projects, AMC Old Pasadena Theaters, Pasadena, California
 
1995
Inaugural Film Screening, ACME. Gallery, Santa Monica
“Reconsidering the Object of Art: 1965-1975”, The Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles (catalogue)
“23 Short Films / 23 Film Posters”, a show of and by Maria Eichhorn, Galerie Eva Presenhuber, Zürich
 
1994
“Scratching the Belly of the Beast; Cutting-Edge Media in Los Angeles, 1922-1994”, Filmforum, Los Angeles
“Detours”, painting installation, Side Street Projects, Santa Monica (group show)
“Color This! “, Foundation for Art Resources, Los Angeles, 1994 (coloring book with drawings by Los Angeles artists)
 
1993
“Fade to Black”, Eldorado Centrum voor Beeldcultuur, Antwerpen
Robert Flaherty Seminar, Ithaca, New York
Stichting Amsterdams Filmhuis, Amsterdam
 
1991
Faculty show, School of Art, California Institute of the Arts
 
1990
Mostra internazionale del nuovo cinema, retrospective of American Independent Films of the 1980s, Pesaro, Italy
“Beyond Illusion: American Film and Video Art, 1965-1975”, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York
“Metamedia”, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York
 
1989
“What’s Wrong with These Pictures?”, retrospective (with George Landow), The American Museum of the Moving Image, New York
 
1988
“mot:dites, image”, Musée National d’Art Moderne, Centre Pompidou, Paris (catalogue)
“Independent America; New Film 1978-1988”, American Museum of the Moving Image, New York
 
1987
“Text as Image”, Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive, Berkeley
 
1985
Biennial Exhibition, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York (catalogue)
New York Film Festival, New York
 
1983
“Word Works”, Walker Art Center, Minneapolis
“Film as Installation II”, The Clocktower, New York
 
1982
“Ten Years of Living Cinema”, Collective for Living Cinema, New York (catalogue)
 
1981
“West Coast”, Anthology Film Archives, New York (catalogue)
“American and French Independent Cinema”, Padiglione d’arte contemporanea/Cineteca italiana, Milan (catalogue)
P.S. 1, Long Island City, New York
 
1980
“‘The Pleasure Dome’, American Experimental Film, 1939-1979”, Moderna Museet, Stockholm
 
1979
“The New West”, curated by Jack Goldstein, The Kitchen, New York
“Re-Visions”, curated by John G. Hanhardt, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York (exhibition broschure)
 
1978
International Forum of Young Cinema, curated by John G. Hanhardt, Berlin International Film Festival
“Frameworks”, Water Street Branch, Whitney Museum of American Art
“Artists’ Film”, Artists Space, New York
 
1977
“The Poetic Eye: Perspectives on the American Independent Film, 1923-1977”, Los Angeles County Museum of Art
“Time”, Philadelphia College of Art (catalogue)
“The Moving Image/N.Y. State”, Tour program organized by Gerald O’Grady, New York
“Film Spaces”, Art Gallery, Mount San Antonio College, Walnut Creek, California
 
1976
“Text and Image”, New American Filmmakers Series, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York
“Fisher/Serra/Shulman”, New American Filmmakers Series, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York
“Neue Avantgardefilme aus den USA”, Werkstattkino, Munich
 
1975
“Stills”, New American Filmmakers Series, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York
Institute of Contemporary Art, London
 
1974
“Thom Andersen / Morgan Fisher”, Theatre Vanguard, Los Angeles
 
1973
Walker Art Center, Minneapolis
Independent Film Festival, National Film Theatre, London
 
1970
“Information”, Museum of Modern Art, New York (catalogue)
“North American Filmmakers: At Home and Abroad”, tour program organized by the Film Department, Museum of Modern Art, New York
 
 
Group Screenings
 
2009
“Aspect Ratio”, Rotterdam International Film Festival, Rotterdam
“Restoring the Los Angeles Avant-Garde: Thom Andersen and Morgan Fisher”, Hammer Museum, UCLA, Los Angeles, co-presented with the UCLA Film and Television Archive and Los Angeles Filmforum
 
2008
“Los Angeles”, in “Paul McCarthy: Film List”, a series of programs of films and videos curated by Paul McCarthy to accompany his one-person show at the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York
“Los Angeles: Eine Stadt im Film; A City on Film”; curated by Thom Andersen, a retrospective of the Viennale and the Austrian Film Museum, Vienna (catalogue)
 
2007
“Kinomuseum”, Oberhausen International Short Film Festival, Oberhausen, Germany (catalogue)
 
2006
“Expanded Cinema: Film als Spektakel, Ereignis und Performance”, Hartware Medien Kunst Verein, Dortmund / Württembergischer Kunstverein Stuttgart, Stuttgart
 
2005
Edinburgh International Film Festival, Edinburgh
“Thom Andersen and Morgan Fisher”, Galerie Daniel Buchholz, Cologne, presented at the Kölnischer Kunstverein, Cologne
 
2004
Rotterdam International Film Festival, Rotterdam
International Forum of Young Cinema, Berlin International Film Festival, Berlin
The Robert Flaherty Film Seminar, New York
Toronto International Film Festival, Toronto
Athens International Film Festival, Athens
London International Film Festival, London
 
2003
“Turbulent Screen; Die strukturelle Bewegung in Film und Video”, curated by Rosanne Altstatt and Ralf Sausmikat, Edith-Ruß-Haus für Medienkunst, Oldenburg
“Views from the Avant-Garde”, New York Film Festival, New York
 
2001
“Two Film Screenings organized by Christopher Williams (Poster, Introductory Remarks and Film Screening), Screen Theater, Pacific Design Center/MAK Center for Art and Architecture, Los Angeles
 
1999
“A History of European Cinema through Technical Evolution”, Festival dei Popoli, Florence
 
1995
Inaugural film screening, Acme. Gallery, Santa Monica
 
1994
“Scratching the Belly of the Beast; Cutting-Edge Media in Los Angeles, 1922-1994”, Filmforum, Los Angeles (catalogue)
 
1993
“Fade to Black”, Eldorado Centrum voor Beeldcultuur, Antwerp
The Robert Flaherty Film Seminar, New York
Stichting Amsterdams Filmhuis, Amsterdam
 
1992
“Unknown Territories: American Independent Film”, presented by Sixpack Film at the Vienna Film Theatre, Vienna
 
1990
Mostra internazionale del nuovo cinema, Pesaro, Italy
 
1998
INPUT 88 (International Public Television screening conference), Philadelphia
 
1976
“Neue Avantgardefilme aus den USA”, Werkstattkino, Munich
Institute of Contemporary Art, London
 
1974
“Thom Andersen/Morgan Fisher”, Theatre Vanguard, Los Angeles
 
1973
Walker Art Center, Minneapolis
 
1969
Oberhausen International Short Film Festival, Oberhausen
 
 
Visiting Artist / Lectures
 
2007

École Nationale des Beaux-Arts, Lyon (Visiting artist)
 
1998
Merz Akademie, Stuttgart
Städelschule, Frankfurt
 
1997
Otis College of Art and Design, Los Angeles (Visiting artist)
Art Center College of Design, Pasadena, California (Visiting artist)
School of Film/Video, California Institute of the Arts, Valencia, California (Visiting artist)
 
1996
Art Department, University of California at Riverside (Visiting artist)
Occidental College, Los Angeles (Visiting artist)
 
1995
California Institute of the Arts (Visiting artist)
 
1992
Art Center College of Design, Pasadena (Visiting artist)
 
1986
Art Center College of Design, Pasadena (Visiting artist)
 
1980
Philadelphia College of Art, Philadelphia
 
1978
Contemporary Art Survey (lecture series), Art Department, UCLA
College of Creative Studies, University of California at Santa Barbara (Visiting artist)
Department of Visual Arts, University of California at San Diego
 
1977
Otis Art Institute, Los Angeles
 
 
Other Activities
 
2012
conversation with Jean-Philippe Antoine and Christa Blümlinger after the screening “Morgan Fisher et affinités électives (films by Morgan Fisher, Christoph Girardet, and Matthias Müller)”, Centre Pompidou, Paris; part of “Morgan Fisher: Un cinéma hors-champ?”; Université Paris 8 Vincennes-Saint-Denis, Institut national de l’histoire de l’art, and Centre Pompidou, Paris
roundtable at the ceremony for Doctor honoris causa, Université Paris 8 Vincennes - Saint-Denis; with the participation of Morgan Fisher, Christophe Gallois, Jean-Philippe Antoine, and Christa Blümlinger; part of “Morgan Fisher: Un cinéma hors-champ?”; Université Paris 8 Vincennes-Saint-Denis, Institut national d’histoire de l’art, and Centre Pompidou, Paris
panelist in the symposium “Beyond the Frame: How and Why,” with the participation of Rainer Bellenbaum, Sabeth Buchmann, Gabriele Jutz, and Constanze Ruhm; in conjunction with the exhibition “Morgan Fisher: The Frame and Beyond”, Generali Foundation, Vienna
“Non-Composition, Past and Present”, conversation with Yve-Alain Bois, in conjunction with the exhibition “Morgan Fisher: The Frame and Beyond”, Generali Foundation, Vienna
“Artists’ Books and Cookies,” presented by Biblioteca Alumnos47 and ForYourArt at ForYourArt, Los Angeles; discussion with Cesar Garcia about “Morgan Fisher: Two Exhibitions” and “Morgan Fisher: Writings”
 
2011
interviewed by Jens Hoffman in Kaleidoscope Arena at ROMA - The Road to Contemporary Art, the Rome art fair
 
2010
panelist, “The Most Typical Avant-Garde and Experimental Film in Los Angeles”, organized by Federico Windhausen, Annual Meeting of the Society for Film & Media Studies; informal talk titled “Near but Far; Narrative Film as a Subject”
curated and presented a program of films by other filmmakers, Courtisane Festival, Ghent
panelist, “Material”, third of a series of panels under the title “Experimental Film in a Museum Context”, organized by Rita Gonzalez and Alex Klein, Los Angeles County Museum of Art
panelist, “Alternative Projections: Experimental Film in Los Angeles 1945-1980”, University of Southern California; screening of work done by members of the Los Angeles Independent Film Oasis, followed by discussion
 
2008
panelist, “In Memory of the Image”, organized by Stuart Comer, Frieze Talks, Frieze Art Fair
read untitled collage text in “A Live Reading/Performance of the Texts of Lawrence Weiner”, curated by Fred Dewey, Beyond Baroque, Venice, California
 
2007
contributed an untitled page to CMYK, an artist project curated by Walead Beshty in Cabinet 27
contributed an entry in “Instructions for Films”, a project curated by William Rose for no.w.here, first presented as no.w.here’s contribution to the *Zoo Art Fair, London
 
2006
respondent to James Welling’s lecture “Ideas of Color” in the series “Works in Progress”, The Getty Research Institute, Los Angeles
 
2002
performance/talk presented at “Radical Time”, a symposium in the Graduate Program, Department of Art, UCLA
 
1990
juror, dramatic film competition, U.S. Sundance Film Festival, Park City, Utah
 
1986
panelist, annual meeting at University Film and Video Association, “Film in Los Angeles: The Avant Garde and the Industry”
 
1981
member of the Board of Advisors, The Foundation for Art Resources
 
1980
member of Evaluation Committee for The George A. and Eliza Gardner Howard Foundation
 
1977
guest editor “Journal”, No. 14, April-May, Los Angeles Institute of Contemporary Art
 
1976
panelist, annual meeting of the College Art Association, “Object/Illusion: The Filmic Dialectic”
programming Secretary, The Los Angeles Independent Film Oasis, a cooperatively-run non-profit screening organization for independent film (1976-78)
 
 
Grants and Fellowships
 
1989
Media Arts Program, National Endowment for the Arts
 
1988
California Arts Council
 
1987
Guggenheim Fellowship for Film
 
1980
Media Arts Program, National Endowment for the Arts
 
 
Collections
 
Whitney Museum of American Art, New York
Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris, France
FRAC Ile-de-France, Paris
Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco
Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles
Museum of Modern Art, New York
Moderna Museet, Stockholm
Deutsche Kinemathek, Berlin