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