Morgan Ritter is a Jewish artist, poet and mother whose intermedia practice is driven by dreaming and play, yet responds to, and at times subverts current cultural realities. Her practice contains drawings, sculpture, poetic text, html webpages and textiles. As within hypnagogic states, object, action, sensation, and language interchange freely in her work. Her work has been exhibited at Noon Projects (LA), Artists Space (NY), Shanaynay (Paris), PICA, The Whitney Biennial 2017 (NY), a light bulb store, an orchard, MoMA (NY), and many other conventional and less conventional venues for experiencing art. She is the recipient of grants from Oregon Arts Commission and Foundation for Contemporary Art, among others. Ritter has attended several residencies including Anderson Ranch and Ken Kesey’s Farm. Her work has been featured in Art Forum, Art Practical, Art Viewer, e-flux, W Magazine & Vice. This website is an ever changing and inconclusive log of her work.
Activities Timeline
2024
→ Special news around a fashion campaign
→ Publication. New Old Dream, produced by Anna Gray & Ryan Wilson Paulsen as part of their project, "bending library" .
→ Exh. UPCOMING. 2024 Oregon Contemporary Artist's Biennial, Oregon Contemporary, Portland.
→ Poem. Poem Tags now available at Bridget Donahue Gallery Shop, New York, New York.
→ Publication. Forthcoming essay, "Vibes of the Periphery", in Ford Family Foundation's Critical Conversations Publication Series. Details soon.
→ Writing
2023
→ Exh. MOTHER, Noon Projects, Los Angeles.
→ Poem. Limited edition Poem Tags for ILY2, purchase in Portland at the ILY2 gallery.
→ Writing
2022
→ Writing
→ Learning Yiddish
→ Working in 9k sq ft gardens w baby
→ Establishing a new studio
2020
→ Poem. POEM TAGS
→ Poem. Reading Bernadette Mayer's Memory for Poets House in an Online Program, Language is a Temptation
→ Sound., Conceptualizing & recording album demo, THE
WHISTLEBLOWER'S RETREAT CENTER SOUNDTRACK.
2017
→ Poem. Yin-yang Non-Fotography in Projects for the Page at Pacific Northwest College of Art, Portland.
→ Poem. 2013–2017, iSn't She
→ Poem. Reading at Susan Cianciolo's RUN PRAYER, RUN CAFÉ, RUN
LIBRARY, Bridget Donahue Gallery, New York.
→ Poem. Meta Touch Town at Picture Room's
Multiples Sale, New York.
→ Art Fair. Out of Sight 2017, Seattle.
→ Exh. Mp3 in HER EYES ARE LIKE DOVES
BESIDE STREAMS OF WATER at Adams and Ollman, Portland.
→ Award. Nominated for The Henry Art Gallery's Brink Award.
→ Poem. Readings at Susan Cianciolo's Run Restaurant Untitled at The Whitney Biennial, New
York.
→ Dreams.