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21 July 2025



Current + upcoming




A favorite favorite artist of mine Irini Karayannopoulou also flexes her smarts and instincts as a curator—I’m grateful to be included in Anatomia Humana II she has organized with Blackbird Rook and ARTSY. Up through September 14, 2025. Details linked.


I’m very happy to have gotten to think my way through the practices of several wonderful artists who have studied in the Painting + Drawing Department at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, where I am Associate Adjunct Faculty. The writing accompanies the massive Lisa Wainwright-curated exhibition Master Class at Secrist | Beach. Get the catalogue here (and my contributions are also posted in the writing section of this site).


I contributed a fun, thoughtful text to a recently released publication from New Poetics Publishing; “Sweet Pea”: Ryan Patrick Krueger is an art installation in a publication that folds out into different views of Krueger’s research-based practice that examines queer histories and the artifacts of their representations.
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I continue to contribute somewhat regularly to perfume discourse on Fragrantica. You can track down all my Fragrantica essays at this archive: https://www.fragrantica.com/news/author/Matt-Morris/




The BEAUTIFULLY produced monograph that accompanies Lise Haller Baggesen's recent exhibition APOCALYPSTICK at Le Confort Moderne, Poitiers, France, includes an essay of mine and a questionnaire interview with the artist. Details on the project here: https://www.confort-moderne.fr/fr/archives/event/Apocalypstick/2809





It was my deep honor to craft a text "Gorgon's Litany" that is included in the publication Field Guide for Sedimentary Time by artist Dan Gunn that was made in conjunction with his solo exhibition at KMAC. Info here: https://www.dangunn.com/publications






It's wonderful and humbling to follow along with former student's practices and triumphs in the years following their studies. In the case of Jared Packard, he's become a friend and peer as well as a vital force out in the field. Along with including several of his paintings in an exhibition at RUSCHWOMAN last year, I also wrote an essay that was included in the publication that accompanied his exhibition My Bedroom is Not Your Bedroom at the Salinas Art Center.  A PDF of the text is available here: https://files.cargocollective.com/c1068622/MyBedroom-digital-Booklet.pdf




My particular passion for very alternative exhibition sites is always gratified by Erin Toale's project Bird Show which hosts a rotating series of exhibitions on and around a bird feeder corner of her back porch, always accompanied by thoughtful programming and commissioned writing. I had the delight to write "Fairy Valley Beneath the Big Rock Candy Mountain: A script for radio play" in response to Gabriel Chalfin-Piney's The Sierra Mist Memorial Bird Bath. See and read more about all these parts here.




Emmy Bright is one of my favorite artists and people. She was part of our exiting-lockdown bash at Ruschman, The Red Wedding, and we will have details soon about her solo project next year at RUSCHWOMAN. Sandwiched between those, I was one of the merry contributors to the publication that accompanied her exhibition It Gets Better Or It Doesn't. Se Pone Mejor O No. at the College of Visual Arts and Design Galleries at the University of North Texas. Watch for it online at my or Emmy's websites soon soon. 








12 April 2023
beyond elated to be THAT GIRL in a LVL3 Artist of the Week feature