Lives/Works: Jersey City, NJ
Education
Rutgers University, Mason Gross School of the Arts, NJ, M.F.A. 1985
University of Florida, Gainesville, FL, 1983
Gallery Representation
Galleria del Carbone, Ferrara Italy
PIEROGI, Flatfiles, Brooklyn, NY
REDFOX Press, Dugort Achill, Ireland (work available)
SOLO EXHIBITIONS / two & three person exhibitions
2022 – SHEN MOCA, Linear Compulsion, Strasburg, VA
2022 – Geis Gallery, Flipping Reality, Georgian Court University, NJ
2019 – Sawtooth Gallery, Unpacking Leo Morrissey, Winston Salem NC
2017 – Galleria Carbone, Ferrara Italy
2017 – Giese Gallery, Passengers, Georgian Court University, NJ
2016 – Fabula Urbis, Lisboa to Lisboa, Lisbon Portugal
2015 – Giese Gallery, where I’ve been…Georgian Court University, NJ
2014 – Pierogi, Flat Files, Artist of the Month, Brooklyn, NY
2013 – Giese Gallery, selected work (Whitman Sampler?), Georgian Court University, NJ
2012 – Hanes Gallery, Wake Forest, On Paper, Winston Salem NC (two person)
2010 – Rukia, judson+morrissey project, Winston Salem NC,
2009 – Akateletecobe Sovesahva Gallery, New Work, Kyoto Japan.
2009 – apercu gallery, Book-Works, Winston Salem NC
2009 – Salem College, “practical things can be an issue…”, Winston Salem, NC
2008 – The Hedreen Gallery, Bookish, David Bunn & Leo Morrissey, Seattle WA.
2007 – Catherine Person Gallery, Bookish, Seattle WA (three person show)
2007 – Thoughts on Industry and Nature, Diggs Gallery, Winston Salem NC
2003 – Pilchuck Glass School, Lodge Gallery New Prints, Stanwood, WA
2002 – Brevard Museum of Art, Melbourne FL
2002 – Pilchuck Glass School, Lodge Gallery, Stanwood, WA
1999 – Fifth Avenue Art Gallery, New Work, Melbourne, FL (2 person show),
1998 – Jane Francis Fine Art, Melbourne Beach, FL
1992 – CARR/BIC Gallery, New Brunswick, NJ
1991 – Z Gallery, New York City (three person show)
1986 – Esta Robinson Contemporary Art Gallery, New York, NY
1985 – Five-Four, MGSA Rutgers University, New Brunswick, NJ (three person show)
1985 – Walters Hall Gallery, Douglass College, New Brunswick, NJ
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2025
- 10th International Artist’s Book Triennial Vilnius 2024, Biblioteca del Hospital Real, Granada, Spain
- 10th International Artist’s Book Triennial Vilnius 2024, The Morgan Conservatory, Cleveland, US.
2024
- 10th International Artist’s Book Triennial Vilnius 2024, Gallery SG in Venice, Italy.
- 10th International Artist’s Book Triennial Vilnius 2024, Museum of Applied Arts and Design, Lithuania.
- 10th International Artist’s Book Triennial Vilnius 2024, Art and Museum Library of the City of Cologne, Köln, Germany
- Le mani nel carbon, ripensando alle mostre, 2000-2023, Galleria del Carbon. Ferrara Italy
- Postcards From The Edge 2023, Visual AIDS, Ortuzar Projects, New York, NY
- NJ Arts Annual, Noyes Museum, Stockton University, NJ
2022
- An Incomplete History of Printed Matter, Art Book Fairs, Hauser & Wirth, New York, NY
- Postcards From The Edge 2022 (Virtual), Visual AIDS, New York, NY
- FOOD JUSTICE In Appalachia: Artist Perspectives, West Virginia Univ., Morgantown, WV.
2021
- International İKÇÜ ART FESTIVAL, IKCU Art Gallery, Izmir, Turkiye.
- Postcards From The Edge 2021 (Virtual), Visual AIDS, New York, NY
- GUARDARE AL PASSATO, COSTRUIRE IL FUTURO, Studio Gennai, Pisa Italy
- Unique Minds: Creative Voices Exhibit 2021, CoLab, Lewis Arts Complex, Princeton NJ
2020
- BORTOLAMI, Postcards From The Edge, Visual AIDS, New York, NY
- Printed Matter, We Live in Real Time (mail-art project during pandemic) New York, NY
2019
- BORTOLAMI, Postcards From The Edge, Visual AIDS, New York, NY
- Providence College, Passengers Project, Ferry del Libro, Providence RI, 2019
- New York Art Book Fair, PS1, Redfox Press, FOUND, New York, NY
2018
- Et Tu Art, Brut? Andrew Edlin Gallery, AEG Underground, New York NY
- ONWARD, Outsider Art Fair, New York, NY (Curator Jamie Sterns project)
- Gallery 524, Postcards From The Edge, Visual AIDS, New York, NY
- ASSOCIAZIONE CULTURALE TRIVU-, judson+Morrissey, 17 International screening.
2017
- Metro Pictures, Postcards From The Edge, Visual AIDS, New York, NY
- Studio Gennai Arte Contemporanea, Tutti possono essere Collezionisti, Pisa Italy
- George Paton Gallery-University of Melbourne, Museum of Lost Public Notices, Melbourne Australia.
- University of South Dakota Library, Bound and Unbound IV, Vermillion, SD
2016
- Sikkema Jenkins &Co., Postcards From The Edge, Visual AIDS, New York, NY
- Hamburg Book Fair,7th International Artist’s Book Triennial Vilnius, Hamburg, Germany
2015
- 4th Ghetto Biennale , Port-au-Prince, Haiti.
- Gallery Titanikas, 7th International Artist’s Book Triennial Vilnius, Vilnius Lithuania,
- Museo Leone, 7th International Artist’s Book Triennial Vilnius, Vercilli, Italia,
- Luhring Augustine, Postcards From The Edge, Visual AIDS, New York, NY
- Minnesota Center for Book Arts, The Contained Narrative: Defining the Contemporary Artist’s Book.
2014
- Luhring Augustine, Postcards From The Edge, Visual AIDS, New York, NY
- The Boiler, Brooklyn Gravity Racers at the Boiler, New York, NY
- Frankfurt Book Fair, Redfox Press, Franticham’s Assembling Box, Frankfurt, Germany
2013
- Forum Eugenio de Almeida, Portas Abertas/Open Doors, Eugenio de Almeida Foundation, Evora, Portugal
- Sikkema Jenkins &Co., Postcards From The Edge, Visual AIDS, New York, NY
- PARK Magazine, “Art & Politics” 2nd Multimedia Showcase, (Online), project, Porto, Portugal
- Spinach, Object Abuse, London England
- I.P Stanch Museum, Civil Rights Now, South Carolina State Univ., Orangeburg SC
2012
- Cheim and Read, Postcards From The Edge, Visual AIDS, New York, NY
- Galeria Alternativa, LIBROARTE 2012, 2nd Feira Internacional do Livro de Artista, San Jose, Costa Rica.
- daadgalerie– unrealized projects, Agency of Unrealized Projects (AUP),(e-flux collaboration w/ Serpentine Gallery) Berliner Kunstlerprogramm/DAAD, Berlin, GR.
- White Box- Postcards to Ai Weiwei, New York, NY
- Berlin Biennale, Public Research Archive,KW Institute of Contemporary Art, Berlin, GR.
- Space fiftyfour,(Architecture for Humanity) Ideas On A Postcard Please, London England
- Cirrus Gallery, Open Network Exhibition, (Pacific Standard Time), Los Angeles, CA
2011
- Fabula Urbis, Feira Do Livro De Artista, Lisbon, Portugal
- unrealized projects, Agency of Unrealized Projects (AUP),(e-flux in collaboration w/ Serpentine Gallery) The Kopfbau, Messeplatz Basil, Basil Switzerland
- Sloan Fine Art, Metro Card Show, New York, NY,
- MASS MoCA (Massachusetts Museum of Contemporary Art), An Exchange with Sol LeWitt, North Adams, MA
- CRG Gallery, Postcards From The Edge, Visual AIDS, New York, NY
2010
- ZeiherSmith Gallery, Postcards From The Edge, Visual AIDS, New York, NY
- Exit Art. FRACKING, Art and Activism Against Drilling, New York, NY
- Voix Visuuelle, Deconnection immimente, 5th Exposition internationla d ’estampe numerique miniature, Montreal Canada
- The Cameron Art Museum, Artist Made Toys, Wilmington NC. 2009-2010
2009
- Metro Pictures, Postcards From The Edge, Visual AIDS, New York, NY
- Coffee Cup Collaborative, Civil Rights commemoration, Greensboro NC 2009
2008
- Exit Art. It’s Not Easy, (SEA, Social Environmental Aesthetics), New York, NY
- SECCA, Southeast Centre for Contemporary Art, SITEings, Winston Salem,
- The Cameron Art Museum, Art & Social Conscience: The Holocaust, Wilmington NC.
- Polk Museum of Art, Digital Art in the Post Digital Age, Lakeland FL
2007
- Dislocate 07, Ginza Art Laboratory, Tokyo, Japan
- James Cohan Gallery., Postcards From The Edge, Visual AIDS Benefit, NY, NY
- eyebeam, eco-icon submission exhibition, New York, NY
- monochromatic, Incident.net, France
2006
- Sikkema Jenkins & Co., Postcards From The Edge, Visual AIDS Benefit, New York, NY
- Flux Factory, Works on Paper, Long Island City NY
- Fourth International Artist Book Exhibition, King Stephen Museum, Hungary
- Anchorage Museum of History & Art, Planes, Trains,& Automobiles, AK
- Lower Manhattan Cultural Center, REDHEAD, New York, NY
- SECCA, Southeast Centre for Contemporary Art, Blurring Racial Barriers, NC
- The Parthenon, SECAC/MACAA Exhibition, Nashville, TN
- Delta Fine Art, Blurring Racial Barriers, Winston Salem, NC
2005
- Robert Miller Gallery, Postcards From The Edge, Visual AIDS New York, NY
- Flight 93 National Memorial Design Competition, Somerset PA
- FAEA small works, MOCA Museum of Contemporary Art, Miami FL
- Biennial Open 2005, Noyes Museum, Oceanville, NJ
- Sharjah Art Museum, THE ARTCARD, United Arab Emirates
2004
- Brent Sikkema Gallery,Postcards From The Edge, Visual AIDS, New York, NY
- Boulder Museum of Contemporary Art, A Sense of Place, Boulder CO
- Liberty Museum, Glass Now Auction, Philadelphia, PA
2003
- Taiwan Museum of Art, 11th International Biennial Print and Drawing Exhibition, Taiwan, ROC
- Gallery Lelong Postcards From The Edge, Visual AIDS Benefit, New York, NY
- Monash Gallery of Art, “Not Brick Chimneys”, Melbourne Australia
- Daintree, 9th Wexford international Artist Book Exhibition, Dublin, Ireland
- 9th Wexford Artists Book Exhibition (International), Wexford Ireland
- Brevard Museum of Art, Liquid Sand, Melbourne FL
2002
- Museum of Modern Art, Life of The City, New York, NY
- Aldrich Museum of Contemporary Art, Snapshot, Ridgefield, CT
- Sperone Westwater Gallery Postcards From The Edge, Visual AIDS Benefit, New York, NY
- WHITE BOX, Urban Doghouse Design, New York, NY
- Free Manifesta, Manifesta 4, Frankfurt, Germany
- Galerie Claude Dorval, Paris France
- Musee du Pays et Val De Charmey, Skin, Charmey Switerland
- Glasmuseet Ebeltoft, Glass and Poetry, Ebeltoft, Denmark 2002-3
- Produzionia Editoriali Aprile, (PEA), Ovazione and Liberzione, Torino,Italy
2001
- Galerie Claude Dorval, Paris France
- Dieu Donne Papermill, For Love or Money, New York, NY
- Sara Meltzer Gallery, Postcards From The Edge, Visual AIDS Benefit, New York
- Foundazione Palazzo Bricherasio, About the Book, Turin Italy
- 7th Wexford Artist Book Exhibition, Wexford Arts Center, Wexford, Ireland
- Sirius Arts Centre, 7th Wexford Book Exhibition, Cobh, Co. Cork, Ireland
2000
- Andrew Kreps Gallery, Postcards From The Edge, Visual AIDS Benefit, New York
- Dieu Donne Papermill, LandEscape, New York, NY
- Contemporary Museum, Snapshot, Baltimore, MD
- Wexner Center for the Arts, The Art is in the Mail(ing), Columbus, OH
- The Sharjah Arts Museum, Sharjah, United Arab Emirates
- 6th Wexford Artist Book Exhibition, Wexford Arts Center, Wexford, Ireland
1999
- M.H. de Young Memorial Museum, The Non-informative Flyer Project, San Francisco, CA
- The Never Empty Room, Ultra Ent. & Whole Arts Inc., Brooklyn NY
- 5th Wexford Artist Book Exhibition, Wexford Arts Center, Wexford, Ireland
1998
- 4th Wexford Artist Book Exhibition, Wexford Arts Centre, Wexford, Ireland
- London Book Fair, Wexford Artist Books, London, England
- Barbican Centre, The World Sea Book, London, England
- Gasworks, New York Drawers. The Pierogi 2000 Flatfiles, London, England
- Cornerhouse, New York Drawers. The Pierogi 2000 Flatfiles, Manchester, England
- CRI, Sheldon Lurie Art Against AIDS, Coral Gables, FL
- 3rd Wexford Artist Book Exhibition, Wexford Arts Centre, Wexford, Ireland
1996
- J. Sexton Gallery, Vero Beach, FL
1993
- A.J. Lederman Fine Art, Hoboken, NJ
- Hermann Fine Arts Center, Marietta College, Marietta, OH
- Pavilion Gallery, Mount Holly, NJ
1992
- Mason Gross School of the Arts Gallery, MFA 30th Anniversary Exhibition, NJ
- Russell Sage College Gallery, Troy, NY
1991
- Gallery Vicent Bernat, Barcelona, Spain
1990
- Hispano 20/Cartoon Gallery, Barcelona, Spain
- El Archivero, Libros de Artista, Mexico
- Wetherholt Galleries, Washington, DC
- Masterworks Gallery, Auckland, New Zealand
1989
- A & A Gallery, Yale University, New Haven, CT
- The Society for Art in Craft, Metropol, Pittsburgh, PA
- The Hunger Show, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, NJ
1988
- Trabia-MacAfee Gallery, Arf Art, New York City
- Cultural Centre of San Paulo, Visual Poetry, Brazil
- Prairie Avenue Gallery, While the Whole World Watched-1968, Chicago IL.
- Review / Preview III, ALJIRA – A Center for Contemporary Art, Newark, NJ
- Metro Show, City Without Walls, Newark, NJ
- King Stephen Museum, International Artist Books, Hungary
- The American (Bad) Dream, Rosemont College, Rosemont, PA
- Art Postal, Centre Educatif et Cuturel du Bourget, Paris, France
1986
- Sculpture Six, Curator, Holly Block, The Bronx Museum of the Arts, Bronx, NY
- Zeus-Trabia, New York City
- 8th Annual International Outdoor Lighting Exhibition, Alfred University, NY
- Copier Art Books, Technical University of Nova Scotia, Halifax, Canada
- Experimental Art, Yamanashi Museum of Art, Yamanashi, Japan
1985
- The Jane Voorhees Zimmerli Art Museum, New Brunswick, NJ
- Celebration of the Horse, Curator, John Goodyear, Hunterdon Valley Arts Center, Clinton, NJ
- Art Against Apartheid, Boricue College, Brooklyn, NY
- Art Against Apartheid, Absinian Baptist Church, New York City
- Second International Show, Ariel Gallery, New York City
- Art By Instruction, Ecole National D’Art, Paris, France
- Art in Site, Noyes Museum, Oceanville, NJ
SELECTED COLLECTIONS
Taiwan Museum of Art, ROC, Taiwan, Republic of China
Museum of Modern Art Silverman Fluxus Collection, The Search for Accidental
Significance, Money for Food Press, NY (two works included in edition of 200)
Museum of Modern Art/ Franklin Furnace/Artist Book Collection
The Jane Voorhees Zimmerli Museum, New Brunswick, NJ
Pierogi, (archive), Brooklyn, NY
Exit Art, archive, NYU -Fales Library & Special Collections New York, NY
Appleton Museum of Art, Lakeland FL
Flight 93 National Memorial Archive, National Park Service, Somerset PA
Boulder Museum of Contemporary Art, A Sense of Place, Boulder CO
The Sharjah Arts Museum, Sharjah, United Arab Emirates
Pilchuck Glass School Collection, Seattle WA
King Stephen Museum, Hungary
Glass Museum, Ebeltof, Denmark
Canadian Postal Museum, Ottawa, Canada
SELECTED EXHIBITION CATALOGUES & BOOKS
NJ Arts Annual, 2023(catalogue)
Exit/Art , Steild & Exit Art, Gottening, 2016 (pg 352)
Ghetto Biennale/Geto Byenal 2009-2015, Leah Gordon, 2017 (project included)
Out of the Ordinary, Derham Groves, Cambridge Scholars Publishing, Newcastle, 2012,(p 26-7)
Civil Rights, Then, Now, When…?, I.P Stanbach Museum, South Carolina State Univ., Orangeburg SC 2013 (catalogue)
On Paper / data mining – Paul Bright, Hanes Gallery, Wake Forest University, Winston Salem NC 2012(catalogue)
Planes, Trains, & Automobiles, Anchorage Museum of History and Art, Anchorage Alaska. (catalogue)
Pilchuck Glass School, 26th Annual Auction, Seattle, WA, 2005 (catalogue)
Liberty Museum, Glass Now Auction, 2004 Philadelphia, PA (catalogue)
Pilchuck Glass School, 25th Annual Auction, Seattle, WA, 2003 (catalogue)
Monash Gallery, Not A Brick Chimney, Melbourne Australia, 2003 (catalogue)
Musee du Pays et Val De Charmey, Peau & Papier, Charmey, Switerland, 2002 (catalogue)
Pilchuck Glass School, 24th Annual Auction, Seattle, WA, 2002 (catalogue)
LIBERAZIONE. Reproduction in Book, PEA, Torino Italy, 2001
Snapshot, Contemporary Museum, Baltimore, MD, 2000. (catalogue)
48 Hours in Burlington County, Pavilion Gallery. NJ.1993 (catalogue)
Artist Books, 5th Wexford Artist Book Exhibition, Ireland. 1999 (catalogue)
Glasmuseum Magazine, Denmark, 1992
UN Libro Mas Para EL Archivero, Mexico, 1991(catalogue)
The ISCA Quarterly, Artist Magazine, New York, 1991
New Yorkers in Barcelona, Spain, 1990 (catalogue)
Libro Objeto X Corre, Mexico, 1988 (catalogue)
The Pollack Krasner Foundation Inc, Report, New York, 1987
Fourth International Artist Book Exhibition, King Stephen Museum, Hungary1987 (catalogue)
Books Build Bridges, Artist Books Exhibition Catalog, Canada, 1986 (catalogue)
Celebration of the Horse, Hunterdon Museum, New Jersey, 1984 (catalogue)
21st Biennial, Delaware, 1984 (catalogue)
Light Sensitive, Gainesville, Florida, 1983 (catalogue)
AWARDES
1987 – The Pollock-Krasner Foundation, New York, NY
2008 – Hauberg Fellowship, Pilchuck Glass School, Seattle WA
2011 – Regional Artist Grant, Arts Council of Winston-Salem and Forsyth County NC
PUBLIC WORKS
2009 – Coffee Cup Collaborative, Civil Rights commemoration, public work, Greensboro NC
SELECTED EDITIONS & PUBLICATIONS
2016 – FOUND – (book) Redfoxpress, Achill Island, Ireland
Redfoxpress publishes artists’ books dedicated to experimental, concrete and visual poetry, or any work combining text and image.
1987 – The Search for Accidental Significance, Edition of 200, Money for Food Press, New York, NY (Included in the Museum of Modern Arts Silverman Fluxus Collection, NY)
Franticham’s Assembling Boxes, Edition of 40, 25 Invited International Artist in each edition. Redfoxpress, Achill Island, Ireland 20+ editions 2011 to Present
Field Report – Journal of Field Study International, Edition of 100, Field Study International Publications, Geelong, Australia 2014- Present (Invited International Artist included)
Kart-magazine of multiplicity, Edition of 40, Field Study International Publications, Geelong, Australia 30+ Editions 2014- present (15 International Artist included in each Edition of 40)