Victoria Morton

1971

Born in Glasgow, Scotland

1993-1995

MFA Glasgow School of Art, Glasgow, Scotland

1989-1993

BA (Hons) Fine Art Painting Glasgow School of Art, Glasgow, Scotland

1997-2001

Lecturer in Drawing & Painting, Duncan of Jordanstone College of Art,
Dundee, Scotland

 

Solo Exhibitions

2010

Inverleith House, Edinburgh, Scotland, UK

2008

ba BA ba, Sadie Coles HQ, London, UK

2007

Sun by Ear (with Katy Dove), Tramway, Glasgow, Scotland, UK

2005

Victoria Morton, The Modern Institute, Glasgow, Scotland, UK

2004

Victoria Morton, Bonner Kunstverein, Bonn, Germany
Curiosity Action Crowd, Sadie Coles HQ, London, UK

2003

Il Capricorno, Venice, Italy
The Modern Institute, Glasgow, Scotland, UK
Careless Freedom, Roma, Roma, Roma, Rome, Italy
Blue Dog Tooth, II Capricorno, Venice, Italy

2002

Pleasure & Practice (basement project), Transmission Gallery, Glasgow, Scotland, UK
Night Geometry, Gavin Brown’s Enterprise, New York (NY), USA
Plus and Minus, Fruitmarket Gallery, Edinburgh, UK (cat.)
My Heart is on Fire but my Head is Full of Love, Charlottenborg Udstillingsbygning, Copenhagen, Denmark

2001

Sadie Coles HQ, London, UK
Galerie Enja Wonneberger, Kiel, Germany

1999

The Modern Institute, Glasgow, Scotland, UK
DECAPODA, The Changing Rooms, Stirling, Scotland, UK (cat.)

1997

Dirty Burning, 33 Great Sutton Street, London, UK
Gallery TRE, Stockholm, Sweden

1996

The Pier Art Centre, Orkney, Scotland, UK
Transmission Gallery, Glasgow, UK
Out of the Web, Fringe Gallery, Glasgow, UK

1995

Wilkes, Glasgow, UK

 

Group Exhibitions

2009                    

Directions, A Palazzo Gallery, Brescia, Italy

2006

Gastrophobia, Pumphouse Gallery, London, UK

2004

Edge of the Real: A Painting Show, Whitechapel Gallery, London, UK
Glasgow In Viaggio, Museo Corta Alta, Fossombrone, Italy

2003

Painting Not Painting, Tate St. Ives, St. Ives, UK
Inaugural Group Exhibition, Gavin Brown's Enterprise, New York (NY), USA
Love Over Gold, Gallery of Modern Art, Glasgow, Scotland, UK
Contemporary Abstraction, Glasgow Print Studio, Scotland, UK
Matisse and Beyond, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco (CA), USA

2002

New, Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art, Edinburgh, Scotland, UK
My Head is on Fire but my Heart is Full of Love, Charlottenburg Museum, Copenhagen, Denmark (cat.)
Half the World Away, Hallwalls CAC, Buffalo (NY)
Painted, Printed & Produced in Great Britain, Grant Selwyn Fine Art,
New York (NY), USA
Roma Roma Roma, Rome, Italy

2001

Casino 2001, S.M.A.K., Gent, Belgium (cat.)
Here and Now: Scottish Art 1990-2001, Dundee Contemporary Arts, Dundee, Scotland & Aberdeen Art Gallery, Aberdeen, Scotland (cat.)
Studio International, The Hydra Workshop, Hydra, Greece (cat.)
One for One, Circles Project (with Elizabeth Go), ZMK, Karlsruhe, Germany

2000

Grant Selwyn Fine Art, Beverly Hills (CA)
In Glass Loop Holes, Intermedia Gallery, Glasgow, Scotland
Surface, An Tuireann Arts Centre, Portree, Skye, Scotland
Film Club (with Elizabeth Go, curated by Scott Myles), Gallery Charlotte Lund, Stockholm
A Very Nice Film Club (with Elizabeth Go), Vilma Gold, London

1999

Where The Wild Roses Grow, Anti War – You take it from my Heart (with Elizabeth Go), Transmission Gallery, Glasgow, (cat.)
The Queen Is Dead, Stills Gallery, Edinburgh, (cat.)
Love Speed Thrills (with Elizabeth Go) Holden Gallery, Manchester University, Manchester, England

1998

Host, (with Elizabeth Go), Tramway, Glasgow, Scotland
Hardline, Catalyst Arts, Belfast
Monoprint, Glasgow Print Studio, Glasgow, Scotland
Slant 6, Jacob Javis Centre, New York
Intelligible Lies, Talbot Rice Gallery, Edinburgh
Select, The Crawford Arts Centre, St. Andrews, Scotland
Tramway Arts Centre, Transmission Gallery, Glasgow
Reverend Todd’s Full House, Grassy Knoll Productions, Belfast

1997

Gallery TRE, Stockholm, Sweden
Every Night You Show Me The DF, Elizabeth Go performance
at Connected, NGCA Sunderland, Sunderland, England
Group Show, Free Gallery, Glasgow, Scotland
Hit’ Em With That Antoinette, collaborative work with Tompkins, Tripp and Wilkes at Satellite City, Catalyst Arts, Belfast
Stepping Up, 33 Great Sutton Street, London
Evel Machines Street Net Project, New York

1996

Loaded: A Contemporary View of British Painting, Ikon Gallery,
Birmingham, England
Art for People, Transmission Gallery, Glasgow, Scotland
Stepping Out, 33 Great Sutton Street, London
Satellite, Travelling Gallery, throughout Scotland, (cat.)
Insanetoopidphatfuctpervert, Concrete Skates, Glasgow and
Cubitt St. Gallery, London

1995

SBC European Art Exhibition Smith Gallery, London/Paris
30 Secs + Title, Glasgow, Los Angeles, Toronto
Swarm, Travelling Gallery, throughout Scotland
New Rose Hotel, contemporary art & design, Transmission Gallery

1994

Modern Art, Transmission Gallery
In A Still Climate (with Jonnie Wilkes and Tom O’Sullivan)
Newberry Gallery, Glasgow
New art in Scotland, CCA, Glasgow

 

Commissions and Awards

2009

Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum residency

1999

Commissioned work for DECAPODA funded by Stirling District Council and SAC
1998

SAC Small Assistant Grant, to attend Triangle Artists Workshop,
New York

1997

British Council Visual Art Award, to assist solo exhibition at Gallery Tie, Sweden
Hope Scott Trust Award

1996

SAC Small Assistance Grant Award, to fund new work for a solo
exhibition at Transmission Gallery, Glasgow

 

Collections

Gallery of Modern Art, Edinburgh, Scotland, UK
Harper Mackay Architects and Designers, London, UK
Private collections England, Denmark, Germany, USA