Keith Morrison

Artist, art professor, curator, writer, and administrator Keith Anthony Morrison was born in Jamaica. Morrison studied at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, where he received a BFA and MFA. He represented the United States as an art critic and cultural envoy to the 2008 Shanghai Biennial. He represented Jamaica in the 2001 Venice Biennale and the 1994 Bienal del Caribe, Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic.

Morrison recently retired as professor of painting at Temple University's Tyler School of Art and Architecture, Philadelphia. He is represented in public collections including the Cincinnati Art Museum, OH; Art Institute of Chicago; Philadelphia Museum of Art and Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Philadelphia; Corcoran Gallery of Art (now Corcoran School of the Arts & Design) and Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington, DC; the Museum of Modern Art, Monterrey, Mexico; and the National Gallery of Art, Kingston, Jamaica.
—Excerpted from the exhibition catalog All My Ancestors: The Spiritual in Afro-Latinx Art (2022); https://brandywineworkshopandarchives.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/02/All-my-ancestors-exhibition-brochure-final5-1.pdf, accessed 8-30-2022

Artist Info


Born

1942

Jamaica

Gender

Male

Nationality

Jamaican