Annie Morris (b. 1978, London) takes great delight in process and materials. From the roughly hewn surfaces of her colourful sculptures to her scribbly oil-stick drawings and assiduously sewn tapestries, she is always pushing for more vibrancy and increased vitality. Informed by personal experience, memory and the subconscious, her works crowd the north London studio that she shares with her husband and fellow artist Idris Khan. Most prominent are her precarious-looking Stack sculptures. These signature works comprise irregular spheres placed one on top of the other. Varying in size, scale and colour, they appear like columns of delicately balanced boulders. Yet beneath their jubilant appearance lies a sombre undercurrent: the series began after Morris and Khan suffered the loss of their first child to stillbirth. For Morris, the Stacks are defiant, standing tall against the odds. Operating as metaphors for hope, each one suggests the possibility of surmounting the insurmountable in the face of life’s fragility.

2003
Slade School of Art, London, UK

1998
École de Beaux-Arts, Paris, France

1997
Central St. Martin’s School of Art and Design, London, UK

2022
Annie Morris, Château La Coste, Provence, France

2021
Annie Morris: When a Happy Thing Falls, Weston Gallery, Yorkshire Sculpture Park, UK
Annie Morris, Timothy Taylor, London, UK

2020
Annie Morris: Diaries (online), Timothy Taylor, London, UK

2019
Annie Morris: Solo Exhibition, Timothy Taylor, New York, NY, USA
Annie Morris, Union Gallery, London, UK

2018
New Works, ProjectB Gallery, Milan, Italy
Annie Morris: New Work, Winston Wachter Fine Art, New York, NY, USA

2017
Cobalt Blue, Winston Wachter Fine Arts, New York, NY, USA

2015
Stacked, Winston Wachter Fine Art, Seattle, WA, USA
Ascension, ProjectB Gallery, Milan, Italy

2014
Annie Morris: Hope From a Thin Line, Winston Wachter Fine Art, New York, NY, USA

2012
There Is A Land Called Loss, Pertwee Anderson and Gold Gallery, London, UK

2010
Annie Morris, Winston Wachter Fine Art, New York, NY, USA

2007
When A Happy Thing Falls, Allsopp Contemporary Gallery, London, UK
When A Happy Thing Falls, Jeannie Frielich Contemporary, New York, NY, USA

2006
Annie Morris, Lightbox Gallery, Los Angeles, CA, USA

2005
Annie Morris, Laura Bartlett Gallery, London, UK
Annie Morris: Glass Paintings, Postcards, Thomas Williams Gallery, London, UK

2004
Annie Morris (curated by Nick Hackworth), The Adams Street Club, London, UK
The Man With The Dancing Eyes, Daniel Katz Gallery, London, UK

2023
Two Worlds Entwined: Annie Morris and Idris Khan, Newlands House, Petworth, West Sussex, UK

2022
London Calling, Palazzo Cipolla, Rome, IT

2021
Colour Space, Mucciaccia Gallery, Rome, Italy
London Calling, Fundación Bancaja, Valencia, Spain

2020
Idris Khan and Annie Morris, Galerie Isa, Mumbai, India

2018
Astrup Fearnley Museum, Oslo, Norway
Idris Khan and Annie Morris: Re-Imaginings, Galerie Isa, Mumbai, India
Surface Work, Victoria Miro, London, UK

2017
Peter Doig Gala Exhibition, Whitechapel Gallery, London, UK
Women and Gluck, The Fine Art Society, London, UK

2015
After Marcel Duchamp, The Fine Art Society, London, UK

2014
The Summer Show, The Royal Academy, London, UK

2013
Sculpture Al Fresco III, Great Fosters Sculpture Park, Surrey, UK

2010 The House of Fairy Tales, Tate St Ives, Cornwall, UK