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About Claire Morgan

Claire Morgan is an Irish artist, born in 1980 in Belfast. Solo shows have included I only dared to touch you once I knew that you were dead, Galerie Karsten Greve (Cologne, DE and Paris, FR, 2023), A tentative strategy for a renewal, or, wanting to tell you everything and then changing my mind, Galerie Karsten Greve, (Paris, FR, 2021), Joy in the Pain, Saarlandmuseum Moderne Galerie (Saarbrücken, DE, 2021), As I Live and Breathe, The Horniman Museum (London, UK, 2019), Stop Me Feeling, Frist Art Museum (Nashville, US, 2017), The Sound of Silence, Het Noordbrabants Museum (Den Bosch, NL, 2016), The Gathering Dusk, Musée de la Chasse et de la Nature (Paris, FR, 2015), Try Again. Fail Again. Fail Better., Touring Osthaus Museum (Hagen, DE, 2014), Stadtmuseum Jena (Jena, DE, 2015), Fondazione Fernet Branca, (St. Louis, FR, 2015). Group shows have includes Natura Artis Magistra, Museum Schloss Moyland (Bedburg-Hau, DE, 2020), Nature, Life, Human, MoCA Busan (Busan, KO, 2019), Beastly Hall, Hall Place (Bexley, UK, 2013), Fantastic, Lille 3000, Tripostal, Lille FR, 2012, Bestes, Bestiaux, et Bestioles, Château d’Oiron (Oiron, FR, 2011), Monanism, MONA (Tasmania, AU, 2011), on&on, La Casa Encendida (Madrid, ES, 2010), Dead or Alive, Museum of Arts and Design (New York, US, 2010). In 2022 Morgan was a recipient of the Virginia A. Groot Foundation Grant, and in 2019, was awarded the 12th Prix de Dessin of the Fondation Daniel et Florence Guerlain. Previous awards have included the inaugural Premio Fondazione Arnaldo Pomodoro, Prize for Young Sculptors in 2006, and the Royal British Society of Sculptors Annual Bursary and Roy Noakes awards in 2004. Sculptures, drawings and paintings are in numerous collections worldwide, including Centre Georges Pompidou, FR; MONA – Museum of Old and New Art, AU; Fondation Guerlain, FR; Emerige, FR; ALTANA Kulturstiftung, DE. Current exhibitions include I only dared to touch you once I knew that you were dead, Galerie Karsten Greve, Paris (FR) 04/11/2023 – 06/01/2024 and SEISMIC: Art Meets Science, GIANT Gallery, Bournemouth (UK) 28/10/2023 – 20.01.2024.

Claire Morgan is an Irish artist, born in 1980 in Belfast.

Solo shows have included I only dared to touch you once I knew that you were dead, Galerie Karsten Greve (Cologne, DE and Paris, FR, 2023), A tentative strategy for a renewal, or, wanting to tell you everything and then changing my mind, Galerie Karsten Greve, (Paris, FR, 2021), Joy in the Pain, Saarlandmuseum Moderne Galerie (Saarbrücken, DE, 2021), As I Live and Breathe, The Horniman Museum (London, UK, 2019), Stop Me Feeling, Frist Art Museum (Nashville, US, 2017), The Sound of Silence, Het Noordbrabants Museum (Den Bosch, NL, 2016), The Gathering Dusk, Musée de la Chasse et de la Nature (Paris, FR, 2015), Try Again. Fail Again. Fail Better., Touring Osthaus Museum (Hagen, DE, 2014), Stadtmuseum Jena (Jena, DE, 2015), Fondazione Fernet Branca, (St. Louis, FR, 2015).

Group shows have includes Natura Artis Magistra, Museum Schloss Moyland (Bedburg-Hau, DE, 2020), Nature, Life, Human, MoCA Busan (Busan, KO, 2019), Beastly Hall, Hall Place (Bexley, UK, 2013), Fantastic, Lille 3000, Tripostal, Lille FR, 2012, Bestes, Bestiaux, et Bestioles, Château d’Oiron (Oiron, FR, 2011), Monanism, MONA (Tasmania, AU, 2011), on&on, La Casa Encendida (Madrid, ES, 2010), Dead or Alive, Museum of Arts and Design (New York, US, 2010).

In 2022 Morgan was a recipient of the Virginia A. Groot Foundation Grant, and in 2019, was awarded the 12th Prix de Dessin of the Fondation Daniel et Florence Guerlain. Previous awards have included the inaugural Premio Fondazione Arnaldo Pomodoro, Prize for Young Sculptors in 2006, and the Royal British Society of Sculptors Annual Bursary and Roy Noakes awards in 2004.

Sculptures, drawings and paintings are in numerous collections worldwide, including Centre Georges Pompidou, FR; MONA – Museum of Old and New Art, AU;  Fondation Guerlain, FR; Emerige, FR; ALTANA Kulturstiftung, DE.

Current exhibitions include I only dared to touch you once I knew that you were dead, Galerie Karsten Greve, Paris (FR) 04/11/2023 – 06/01/2024 and SEISMIC: Art Meets Science, GIANT Gallery, Bournemouth (UK) 28/10/2023 – 20.01.2024.

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‘CHOKE’: A meditation on grief and the alchemy of the abject

Claire Morgan is a UK-based Irish artist. She concluded a 3-month residency at Stiftung Bartels Fondation, Basel, with a solo exhibition, ‘Choke’ (14 – 21 June 2026). Coinciding with Basel’s international art week, this artist-initiated presentation of deeply intimate new work marks a profound evolution in her practice, stepping back from the scale of her signature suspended installations to embrace an intensely personal, visceral vulnerability.

From control towards vulnerability

Claire Morgan is an Irish artist, born in 1980 in Belfast.

“Being alive can be beautiful and horrific. Every living thing is in this state of constant transition. I am intrigued by those simultaneous senses of spiritual communion and unpalatable intrusion that come about through awareness of our connectedness, and of our vulnerability.

My practice has been focussed on how we humans understand and interact with the rest of the natural world, and our unwillingness to acknowledge our absolute lack of autonomy or control. I look at humans as animals, and the complexity of our intellectual dislocation from the landscape that sustains us. We behave as individual entities with fixed identities, but the reality is less clear.”