Biography
SUSAN MORRIS
Born in Birmingham, UK, 1962. Lives and works in London.
EDUCATION
1984
BA (Hons) Birmingham College of Art (now UCE).
1991
MA, Goldsmiths, University of London.
1998-2000
Research bursary (with studio), Goldsmiths, University of London.
2007
PhD, On the Blank: Photography, Writing, Drawing, UAL, London
(Three-year, full time, funded studentship)
2009-2011
Introductory course and one year’s psychoanalytic training, CFAR, London.
PUBLISHED WRITING/ARTIST’S BOOKS (SINCE 2020)
2024
‘Inarticulations’, essay, in Lifework: On the autobiographical impulse in contemporary art, writing, and theory, edited by Moran Sheleg, Manchester University Press, 2024. ISBN: 9781526172471
2022
Record, Transcribe, Post: 24 Hours in Locked-down London, May 3rd, 2020, 2022. Artist’s book. Printed paper and card, bookcloth covered slipcase, etched vinyl record. Edition of seven.
‘Gorgeous Nothings’, essay in The Gorgeous Nothings, exhibition catalogue, Bartha Contemporary Ltd
2021
de Umbris Idearum [of the Shadow Cast by Our Thoughts], Artist’s Book, 12 softback books on bespoke shelf.
‘Twenty Years of Boredom’, essay in On Boredom: Essays in Art and Writing, edited by Rye Dag Holmboe & Susan Morris, UCL Press. ISBN: 978-1-78735-947-5
‘It’s the Unhappiest Day of the Year’ and ‘It’s the Happiest Day of the Year’. Limited edition set of postcards, distributed through the mail to selected recipients.
2020
Concordances I-VI, Artist's Book. Edition of seven.
COMMISSIONS/AWARDS (SINCE 2010)
2020-22
Commission from St John’s College, University of Oxford, for six large Jacquard tapestries generated from ambient sound recordings, for the Library and Study Centre at St John’s. Accompanying artist’s book, Silence (On Prepared Loom), with essays by Alex Bacon, Rye Dag Holmboe and a reprint of Simon Aeberhard’s essay ‘Writing the Ephemeral: John Cage’s Lecture on Nothing as a Landmark in Media History’, Journal of Sonic Studies, 2017. Curated by Modus Operandi. Completed in 2022. Permanent installation.
2020
‘Instagram Takeover’, commissioned by KBCB, Switzerland, during the first wave of the global Covid-19 pandemic. One 1-minute video posted every hour, on the hour, documenting a locked-down day at home and a night walk through the empty city. Clocks, bells, public announcements at train stations and news reports from the radio feature heavily, alongside spoken extracts read from a diary.
2015
Funding from the Wellcome Trust and Arts Council England, with support from Drawing Room, London, for production of a Jacquard tapestry recording five years of the artist’s sleep/wake patterns and an artist’s book, SunDial:NightWatch Tapestry Dossier, with essay ‘Susan Morris: Marking Time’ by Margaret Iversen. Related symposium, Standard Deviation: Time and the Body, at the Drawing Room, with Briony Fer, Margaret Iversen, David Lomas and Michael Newman.
2010
Wellcome Trust Arts Award to produce three large Jacquard tapestries generated from data tracking the artist’s sleep/wake patterns and ambient light exposure, for permanent installation at the John Radcliffe Hospital, Oxford. Commissioned by Ruth Charity, ArtLink, University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust. Related public engagement projects, including two day-long symposiums with exhibition of work in progress in 2011, organised in collaboration with the Nuffield Laboratory of Ophthalmology, University of Oxford. Work from this project developed into the ‘SunDial:NightWatch’ series of Jacquard tapestries, 2010-2018.
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2025
Record, Transcribe, Post: 24 Hours in Locked-Down London, May 3rd, 2020. Launch of limited edition publication with accompanying film and vinyl record, Bartha Contemporary, London
Four Tapestries, Bartha Contemporary, London
2022
Silence (On Prepared Loom), permanent installation of six large Jacquard tapestries at St John’s College, University of Oxford
2021
Ongoing Work, Bartha Contemporary, London
2020
Instagram Film, hosted online by CentrePasquArt, Biel/Bienne, Switzerland
2016
Self Moderation, KBCB, Pasquart, Biel/Bienne, Switzerland
2014
A Work in Progress, Stags Head Public House, London
2012
Susan Morris: Untitled Motion Capture Drawings, Art Exchange, University of Essex
SunDial:NightWatch, permanent installation of three large Jacquard tapestries,
John Radcliffe Hospital, Oxford
Susan Morris: Untitled Motion Capture Drawings, London Gallery West, London
2011
Songs, Poems and Diagrams about Calendrical Time, eight-month installation of hand-made posters,
John Radcliffe Hospital, Oxford
SunDial:NightWatch, exhibition of Jacquard tapestries, Cheltenham Science Festival, Cheltenham
Tracing a Bodily Unconscious, Examination Rooms, University of Oxford
2009
Sontag Montag: Drawings, Recordings and Diagrams by Susan Morris, Five Years, London
2008
Academics Find Formula for 14 Extra Years of Life, Clockwork Gallery, Berlin, Germany
2007
On My Nervous Illness, PhD Viva examination and exhibition, Central Saint Martins College, University of the Arts, London
2006
Always on My Mind, Platform Gallery, London
2002
Between Two Deaths, Museum Van Nagsael, Rotterdam, Holland
2000
The Haunting, Five Years, London
1999
Desire, Project 304, Bangkok, Thailand
1997
Between Hits, Accident Gallery, London
GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2026
The Rule: Forming Lives, Medieval and Modern, Sainsbury Centre for Visual Arts, UEA, Norwich
2025
(Forthcoming) Lighten Up! In the Rhythm of Day and Night, MIT Museum, Cambridge, USA
2025
… And Going On… dr julius art projects, Berlin, Germany
Körpererweiterung / Ghostly Bodies, ERES Projects, München, Germany (Two person show with Berenice Olmedo, of works from the ERES Collection.)
All the Time in the World, Design Museum Den Bosch, Herzogenbosch, The Netherlands
Konkrete Frauen: Neue Räume / Concrete Women: New Spaces, Kunstmuseum Ahlen, Germany
2024
Nach der Natur / After Nature, SKK Soest, Germany
Sequential Gestures: Serial Approaches in Contemporary Art, Bartha Contemporary, London
Lighten Up! In the Rhythm of Day and Night, Gewerbemuseum Winterthur, Switzerland
After Mallarmé: Part Two… contingency, the operator… , Large Glass, London
Energie / Energy: Works from the Schroth Collection, SKK, Germany
2023
Architectures in Air, Brixton Library Gallery, London
Next-Previous, The Gerald Moore Gallery, London
Lighten Up! On Biology and Time, EPFL Pavilions, Lausanne, Switzerland
Expect the Unexpected, Kunstmuseum, Bonn, Germany
2022
The Gorgeous Nothings, Bartha Contemporary, London (curated by Morris)
Camden Psychotherapy Unit: Fundraising Exhibition, Freud Museum, London
2021
The World is in You, Kunsthal Charlottenborg, Copenhagen, Denmark
Nouer le Reste, CEAAC, Strasbourg, France
2020
The Sleeper, Bartha Contemporary, London
Darktaxa, Schierke Seinecke Gallery, Frankfurt, Germany
Kaléidoscope: Current perspectives on the collection’s 30th anniversary, KBCB, Switzerland
2019
Drawing Biennial (fundraising exhibition), Drawing Room, London
A Day's Work, SKK, Soest, Germany (curated by Morris)
Photon / Icon, Galerie Falko Alexander, Cologne, Germany
2018
Reflex II: The Brain Closer Than the Eye, Bartha Contemporary, London
For Eternity: Archival Strategies in Art, Kunstraum Alexander Bürkle, Germany
Sleep Well / Schlaf Gut, Vögele Kultur Zentrum, Switzerland
Binaire/Non Binaire - Binary/Non-Binary, GESTE, Paris
2017
Real Print, Valentines, Los Angeles, California, USA
Drawing Biennial (fundraising exhibition), Drawing Room, London
Intuition, Palazzo Fortuny, Venice, Italy
En l’occurrence, CEAAC, Strasbourg, France
No Secrets!, ERES-Stiftung Munich, Germany
2016
No Fun Without EU, one-day protest event, London
Thinking in Algorithms, Scheublein + Bak, Zürich, Switzerland
“...Und Eine Welt Noch”, Kunsthaus Hamburg, Germany
2015
Compression, Ormston House, Limerick, Ireland
Drawing Biennial (fundraising exhibition), Drawing Room, London
2014
La Collection Impossible, in Pièces Montrées, FRAC Alsace, 30 Ans de Collection,
Fondation Fernet-Branca, Saint-Louis, France
2013
Whisper Down the Lane, Gallery 400, University of Illinois, Chicago, USA
Lumen, Old Saint. Clements Hospital, London
Drawing Biennial (fundraising exhibition), Drawing Room, London
2012
Motion Capture: Drawing and the Moving Image in Contemporary Art, Lewis Glucksman
Gallery, Cork, and RCC, Letterkenny, Ireland
2011
Drawing Biennial (fundraising exhibition), Drawing Room, London
2009
Timewarp, CRAC, Alsace, France
Free Association, Area 53, Vienna, Austria
Drawing Biennial (fundraising exhibition), Drawing Room, London
2008
False Friends (with Clive Hodgson), Five Years, London
Betsey’s Salon, presentation of video work to live audience, London
Honey Honig, AutoItalia, London
Underwood, Ballhaus Ost, Berlin, Germany
2007
Video Art Festival, Prague, Czech Republic
Our Period (with Mathew Hale), Five Years, London
2006
Frenzy, The Metropole Galleries, Folkestone
The Society of London Ladies, Paris, France
Outdoors, Danielle Arnaud Gallery, London
2003
Adddiction, Micawber Street, London (co-curated by Morris and Chris Kul-Want)
Sense and Nonsense, Danielle Arnaud Gallery, London
Tender Prey, Arti et Amicitiae, Amsterdam, Netherlands
The Group of Seven, Platform Gallery, London
2002
Silence and Darkness, Outline, Amsterdam, Netherlands
2 Step, CCNOA, Brussels, Belgium
2001
Eat. Fuck. Die., Platform Gallery, London
Starring, Five Years, London
The Difference Between You and Us, Five Years, London
2000
Perspective 2000, Ormeau Baths, Belfast, Northern Ireland (selected by Lynne Cooke, DIA, NY)
For Your Eyes Only, private residencies in London and Essex
Dark Pop, Five Years, London
John, I’m Only Dancing, Margaret Harvey Gallery, St Albans
1999
Ritual, Danielle Arnaud Gallery, London
Interior/Interior, Danielle Arnaud Gallery, London
Resolute, Platform Gallery, London
1998
Silent Movies, Five Years, London
1998
What Is A Photograph?, Five Years, London (co-curated by Morris and David Bate)
United in Death, exhibition on CD and gallery installation, Cambridge Darkroom Gallery, Cambridge (curated by Morris)
Playing And Reality, Salon II, London (curated by Morris)
Whitechapel Open, Whitechapel Art Gallery, London
The School of Beautiful Art, Tower Hamlets College, London (curated by Morris)
1997
On Boredom, exhibition on CD and live screening event, ICA Gallery, London, and Cambridge Darkroom Gallery, Cambridge (curated by Morris). Note: this exhibition was revisited twenty years later, in 2017, with a symposium, Twenty Years of Boredom, at University College London. Papers presented at this event were developed into a book, On Boredom: Essays in Art and Writing, edited by Morris and Rye Dag Holmboe, and published by UCL Press, 2021.
Accident, Accident Gallery, London
AWARDS (PRE 2010)
2009
Arts Council grant to produce automatic drawings using motion capture technology at Culture Lab, Newcastle University
2006
Arts Council grant to produce new text-based work using ‘Concordance’ software in collaboration with neurologist Dr Peter Garrard, University of London
2005
Funding from the University of the Arts London, plus sponsorship from Cambridge
Neurotechnology and Imperial College, London, to produce automatic drawings generated by the body using medical-scientific devices such as an ‘Actiwatch’ and ‘Actiheart’.
2003
Travel Grant from British Council to perform reading of ‘A beginning…’ , catalogue essay for exhibition Tender Prey at Arti et Amicitiae, Amsterdam, Netherlands.
2000
Funding from Goldsmiths, University of London, and from the University of the Arts London, for Four Essays on Experience, published by Looseleaf (Edited by Morris).
1999
Travel Grant from British Council for installation of solo exhibition Desire, Project 304, Bangkok, Thailand.
1998
Eastern Arts Award for Development of New Work, and Arts Council of England grant for United in Death, exhibition and CD, Cambridge Darkroom Gallery (curated by Morris).
1997
Arts Council grant for On Boredom, exhibition on CD (curated by Morris). This project was also sponsored by Studio Fish, London, and ICA Gallery, London.
PUBLIC PAPERS/ TALKS
2015
‘In Conversation’ with artist and writer Sharon Kivland for launch of Record, Transcribe, Post:
24 Hours in Locked-Down London, May 3rd, 2020, limited edition publication,
Bartha Contemporary, London
2024
‘In conversation: Michael Newman, Toby Christian, Emma McNally and Susan Morris’, in the context of After Mallarmé, Large Glass, London.
‘Susan Morris: Camera Consciousness’, paper for Techno/Seen: On the Technological Apparatus and its Images symposium, Royal Academy of Fine Arts, Antwerp, Belgium.
2023
‘SunDial/NightWatch: The Entanglement of the Body in Clock and Calendrical Time’, paper for Encounters between Art and Chronobiology symposium, in relation to Lighten Up: On Biology and Time, EPFL Pavilions, Lausanne, Switzerland.
Artist's talk for exhibition Expect the Unexpected, Kunstmuseum Bonn.
2021
‘In conversation’ with chronobiologist Zach Gerhart Hines (University of Copenhagen), in relation to The World is in You, Kunsthal Charlottenborg, Copenhagen, Denmark. Chaired by curator Kristen Hussey.
On-line launch of On Boredom: Essays in Art and Writing, edited by Rye Dag Holmboe & Susan Morris.
Hosted by the Institute of Advanced Studies, UCL, London. Performance, from his bedroom, by Martin Creed. Chaired by Prof. Briony Fer, with input from all other locked-down contributors.
Online talk for Drawbridge, Drawing Research Hub at MTU Crawford College of Art & Design, Cork, Ireland.
2020
‘In conversation’ with neurologist Prof Peter Garrard (University of London) on computer generated analyses of text and speech, with presentation of Morris’s artist’s book Concordances I–VI, (2020), Bartha Contemporary, London.
2019
Introductory talk at opening of A Day’s Work, curated by Morris, at SKK, Soest, Germany. Two public tours in the gallery during the exhibition.
2017
‘Twenty Years of Boredom’, paper for Twenty Years of Boredom symposium, UCL, London.
‘Inarticulations’, Public Lecture, HdK, Zürich, Switzerland.
‘Diary as Novel: Writing the Neutral?’, paper for Lifework symposium, UCL, London.
2018
Talk with art historian Prof Margaret Iversen on the relation of digital recordings to the indexical mark, for Reflex II, Bartha Contemporary, London.
2016
‘In Conversation’ with writer Dr Sadie Plant, for public tour of Self Moderation, solo exhibition of Morris’s work at Kunsthaus / Centre d’Art, Pasquart, Biel / Bienne, Switzerland.
2015
‘Standard Deviation’, paper for Standard Deviation: Time and the Body symposium, Drawing Room, London, with Briony Fer, Margaret Iversen and Michael Newman.
2013
‘The Body That Goes Its Own Way: Involuntary Drawing as Displaced Self-Portraiture’, paper for Anti-Portraiture symposium, Birkbeck College, University of London. Keynote speaker.
2012
‘Drawing in the Dark’, paper for Involuntary Drawing: Art and Automatism symposium, University of Westminster to accompany Morris’s solo exhibition Untitled Motion Capture Drawings, London Gallery West.
‘Motion Capture’, paper for Involuntary Drawing: Art and Automatism, symposium to accompany Morris’s solo exhibition Untitled Motion Capture Drawings at Art Exchange, University of Essex.
‘Expanding Drawing’, paper for Lines of Thought symposium, Lewis Glucksman Gallery, Cork.
‘Susan Morris: Motion Capture Drawings’, paper for The Art, Theory and Practice of Movement Capture symposium, London Knowledge Lab, University of London.
2011
‘I Dream of Deluge’, presentation of Motion Capture Drawings at Ideas Sharing Forum, Drawing Room, London.
2010
‘Drawing on the Index’, paper for Making in Two Modes conference, University of Cork, Ireland.
‘Da... Dada... Da, Da, Da’, paper presented at Lacan in the UK: Art, Clinic, Feminism, Literature, 25th Anniversary Conference, Centre for Freudian Analysis and Research.
‘I Keep a Close Watch on this Heart of Mine’, lecture for the Department of Art History, UCL, London.
2003-06
Annual public presentation of PhD research, University of the Arts, London.
2002
‘On The Blank’, paper for Psychoanalysis and Art symposium, Tate Modern.
FULL BIBLIOGRAPHY
2025
‘Textile Kunst: Haleh Radjaian, Susan Morris and Alke Reeh’ in Konkrete Frauen: Neue Räume,
Kunstmuseum Ahlen, Germany. ISBN: 978-3-9822552-7-9
2024
‘Inarticulations' by Susan Morris, and 'Diaristic Diagrams' by Margaret Iversen, in Lifework: On the autobiographical impulse in contemporary art, writing, and theory, edited by Moran Sheleg, Manchester University Press, 2024. ISBN: 9781526172471
‘Camera-Consciousness: On Susan Morris’s Concordances and Silence (On Prepared Loom)’ by Margaret Iversen, Burlington Contemporary, Issue #10, June 2024
Review of After Mallarmé: Part Two… contingency, the operator… at Large Glass, by Andrew Chesher, in Art Monthly, No.479 September 2024.
2023
Expect the Unexpected, Susan Morris et al, edited by Michael Reisa & Barbara J. Scheuermann, Kunstmuseum, Bonn. ISBN: 978-3-943676-19-8
All The Libraries in London, Susan Morris et al, edited by Ruth Beale & Simon Elvins. ISBN: 978-0-9563668-8-7
‘Periodic Textures: an interview with Susan Morris by Anna Nagele’, in The Posthumanist (Issue No.2, Rhythms, SS 2023), Susan Morris et al, edited by Anna Nolda Nagele. ISBN: 977-2-7533360-0-2
‘Susan Morris: The SunDial/NightWatch Series’, in Lighten Up! On Biology and Time, EPFL Pavilions, Lausanne, Switzerland.
2022
‘Inlines' by Rye Dag Holmboe, and 'Resistant Data' by Alex Bacon, in Silence (On Prepared Loom), Artist’s Book for St John’s College Library, University of Oxford. Bartha Contemporary Ltd. ISBN: 978-0-9933621-4-9
‘Gorgeous Nothings' by Susan Morris and 'Folds' by Rye Dag Holmboe, in The Gorgeous Nothings, Bartha Contemporary Ltd
The World is in You, Susan Morris et al, edited by Adam Bencard, Malthe Kouassi Bjerregaard & Jacob Lillemose, Medical Museion, University of Copenhagen
‘Manifesto (I Promise)' by Susan Morris, in A Manifesto of Sorts, edited by Scott Robertson. Fifth Syllable. ISBN: 978-1-8383733-2-0
A margem: ensaio sobre experiência e desejo, Mário Furtado Fontanive, Marcavisual, Brazil. ISBN: 978-65-89263-37-1
2021
de Umbris Idearum [of the Shadow Cast by Our Thoughts], Susan Morris (Artist's Book)
‘Unhappy Readymade' by Susan Morris, in The Kink in the Arc, online collective novel, edited by Paul Becker
‘Twenty Years of Boredom' by Susan Morris in On Boredom: Essays in Art and Writing, edited by Rye Dag Holmboe & Susan Morris, UCL Press. ISBN: 978-1-78735-947-5
‘The Diaristic Mode in Contemporary Art after Barthes' by Margaret Iversen, in Art History (Journal of the Association for Art History), Vol. 44, Issue 4, edited by Dorothy Price, John Wiley & Sons, Oxford, UK
‘On Underlinings’ by Susan Morris, response to Becky Beasley & Claire Scalon: Nero Editions #3, quotation mark quotation mark, edited by Adam Gibbons and Eva Wilson, neroeditions.com
Contribution to noPublication, edited by Michael Reisch. ISBN: 978-3-7533-0093-1
2020
‘Concordances I-VI’, Susan Morris, Artist's Book for The Sleeper, exhibition at Bartha Contemporary, London.
‘Towards a History of the Portrait, the Anti-Portrait, and What Comes After' by Michael Newman, in Anti-Portraiture: Challenging the Limits of the Portrait, edited by Fiona Johnstone & Kirstie Imber, Bloomsbury. ISBN: 978-1-7845-3412-7
‘Marking Time, Moving Images: Drawing and Film' by Ed Krčma, in A Companion to Contemporary Drawing, edited by Kelly Chorpening & Rebecca Fortnum, Wiley Blackwell. ISBN: 978-1119194545
Contribution to noManifesto, darktaxa-project, edited by Michael Reisch. ISBN: 978-3-9821696-1-3
‘Giornata' by Susan Morris, in RIMA Journal, Issue no.0, edited by Nick Koppenhagen
2019
‘A Day's Work', introductory essay by Susan Morris, drawing attention to the impact on labour practices of the Jacquard loom. Essays 'Diagramming the Day' by Margaret Iversen and ‘A Day Too Late’ by Michael Newman, in A Day's Work, curated by Morris, edited by Deirdre O’Dwyer & Juliane Rogge. Preface by Carl-Jürgen Schroth, Stiftung Konzeptuelle Kunst, Soest, Germany. ISBN:978-3-9819110-2-2
2018
‘Dark Net’ by Harriet Shepherd in Indie Magazine (Issue 61, Winter 2018), edited by Kira Stahowitch, Plastic Media, Vienna. ISBN: 919-0001-0124-90
‘Fortuna: Drawing, Technology, Contingency' by Ed Krčma, in O que nos faz pensar, Vol.26 No.40, February 2018
2017
‘The Necessary' by Davide Daninos and 'Profane Illumination' by Margaret Iversen, in Intuition, edited by Lucy Derycke & Axel Vervoordt, Axel & May Vervoordt Foundation in association with MER. ISBN: 978-9-49232-159-6
‘Die Algorithmische Identität' by Frank Pascale, in No Secrets!, edited by Dr Sabine Adler et al, ERES-Stiftung. ISBN: 978-3-00-056058-3
‘Index, Diagram, Graphic Trace', in Photography, Trace and Trauma, Margaret Iversen. University of Chicago Press. ISBN: 978-0-226-37016-3
Work Journal, ‘Susan Morris: Motion Capture Drawings’ (Summer 2017 Issue)
‘Make-Readies’, project for X-TRA Contemporary Art Quarterly, Vol.20 no.1, Susan Morris et al, edited by Rakish Light, X-TRA Contemporary Art Quarterly, Los Angeles
‘Susan Morris - Present / Absence’. Interview with artist, Nick Koppenhagen for Kunstgespräch #9
2016
‘One-Twenty-Two' by Briony Fer and 'Compelled to Count' by Sadie Plant, in Self Moderation, edited by Felicity Lunn, Verlag für Moderne Kunst. ISBN: 978-3-903131-63-7
2015
‘Compression' by Ed Krčma, in Compression, Enclave Books. ISBN: 978-0993323201
‘Marking Time: Susan Morris's Tapestries and Diaries' by Margaret Iversen, in SunDial:NightWatch Tapestry Dossier, Artist’s Book by Susan Morris, Drawing Room, London
‘Artists Pick Artists: Susan Morris’. Interview with Rob Colvin for Hyperallergic Magazine, April 2015
2013
Paper Visual Art Journal: Cork (Edition Two), Ed Krčma & Adrian Duncan interview discussing Morris’s Motion Capture Drawings, Paper Visual Art Journal. ISBN: 978-0-9573350-1-1
Pièces Montrées, FRAC Alsace, 30 Ans de Collection, edited by Olivier Grasser. ISBN: 978-2-91196356-8
2012
‘Drawing in the Dark' by Susan Morris, 'Index, Diagram, Graphic Trace' by Margaret Iversen and 'Lightning and Rain: Phenomenology and Matisse's Hand' by Ed Krčma, in Tate Papers no.18, Autumn 2012. Special issue on Involuntary Drawing, edited by Margaret Iversen
‘Time Held Up' by Ed Krčma and 'Some Notes on Seeing Ghosts' by Matt Packer, in Motion Capture: Drawing and the Moving Image, edited by Fiona Kearney, Glucksman. ISBN: 978-1-906642-56-3
2010
‘Drawing a Blank' by Susan Morris, in Journal of the Centre for Freudian Analysis and Research, Issue 20, edited by Gillian Clayton.
Writing Art History, Margaret Iversen & Stephen Melville. University of Chicago Press. (Detail of a Motion Capture Drawing by Morris featured on cover.) ISBN: 978-0-226-38826-7
2009
‘Kafka's Ear' by Briony Fer, 'Figuring Futility' by Ed Krčma and 'On Susan Morris, or The Shadow of the Object' by Margaret Iversen, in Sontag Montag, edited by Deirdre O’Dwyer, Five Years. ISBN: 1-903724-03-1
Timewarp, text by Felicity Lunn for exhibition Timewarp,, CRAC Alsace
2008
‘Our Periodical (Combination Piece No.2)’ by Susan Morris and Mathew Hale, in Five Years Periodical vol.1 no.2, Five Years
2007
Museum Van Nagsael: Celebrating 11 Years, Susan Morris et al, edited by Silvia B & Rolf Engelen, Museum Boijmans-Van Beuningen, Rotterdam
All Thought Expresses a Throw of the Dice, Artist’s Book, Looseleaf Press. Edition of 3.
On Account of the Moon, Artist’s Book. Edition of 7.
On My Nervous Illness, Susan Morris Artist's Book & PhD submission, UAL, London
2006
Platform 1998-2006 (gallery retrospective catalogue), by Susan Morris et al,
edited by Sheila Lawson, Platform Gallery.
‘Frenzy: Spider' by Susan Morris, in Frenzy, exhibition catalogue, Five Years
2003
‘A Beginning… Or Perhaps it’s Already Too Late’ by Marc Hulson & Susan Morris, in Tender Prey, exhibition catalogue, edited by Mariette Rensen, Arti et Amicitiae, Amsterdam
2002
‘On the Blank', by Susan Morris. Guest editor, Filmwaves magazine, Issue 18, Spring 2002
2000
‘Experience’ (Introduction)' and 'On Looking, Now' by Susan Morris, in Experience: Four Essays on Experience, with Darian Leader, Kate Love, David Wolchover & Anthony Heaton-Armstrong. Edited by Morris, Looseleaf Press. ISBN: 0-9538076-0-6
1999
Project for Make Magazine, Surveillance, Issue no 84, June 1999. Centre-page spread of video stills by Morris
1998
‘Introduction’ by Susan Morris, in United in Death, exhibition catalogue, Cambridge Darkroom Gallery. Edited by Susan Morris & Ronnie Simpson.
1997
‘Introduction’ by Susan Morris, in On Boredom, exhibition catalogue, Cambridge Darkroom Gallery. Edited by Susan Morris & Ronnie Simpson.
PUBLIC COLLECTIONS
ERES-Stiftung, Germany
FRAC ALSACE, France
Pasquart Stiftung Kunsthaus-Sammlung, Switzerland
SAMMLUNG SCHROTH/ SKK, Germany
St John’s College, University of Oxford, UK
The John Radcliffe Hospital, Oxford, UK
UBS Art Collection, Switzerland
SELECTED MEDIA LINKS
2024
2022
2021
ON BOREDOM: ESSAYS IN ART AND WRITING, UCL Press
‘TWENTY YEARS OF BOREDOM’, essay in ON BOREDOM: https://issuu.com/barthacontemporary/docs/susan_morris_on_boredom?fr=xKAE9_zMzMw
ON BOREDOM. Recording of virtual book launch, IAS, London
The Diaristic Mode in Contemporary Art After Barthes, by Margaret Iversen