1933-2021

STUDIED:

Oxford University: Ruskin School of Drawing, Oxford, England: CFA, 1958; MA, 1972 
Carnegie Institute of Technology, Pittsburgh, PA:  BFA, 1956 
L'Académie de la Grande Chaumière, Paris, France, 1954 
Maryland Institute College of Art (scholarship student), Baltimore, MD, 1946


SELECTED AWARDS,  HONORS: 

William S. Morris Eminent Scholar in Art Emeritus, (Artist in Residence), Augusta State University, Augusta, GA, 2002-2021
Artist Award, Greater Augusta Arts Council, 2014
Signature Artist, Westobou Arts Festival, 2010
Member, Oxford and Cambridge Club, London, 2008
Honorary Fellow, St. Edmund Hall, Oxford University, Oxford, England, elected, 2007 
President's Fellow in Painting and Drawing, California College of Arts and Crafts, Oakland, CA, 1987-1996
Fellow in Painting, California Arts Council, 1994 
Resident Artist, San Francisco Art Institute, San Francisco, CA, 1991 
Chair of Art Practice, University of California, Berkeley, CA, 1986-1987 
Artist in Residence, Dartmouth College, Hanover, NH, 1983 
The Ruskin Master of Drawing, Oxford University, Oxford, England, 1971-1984
Fellow of the Carpenter Center for the Visual Arts, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, 1976 
Artist in Residence, Rochester Institute of Technology, Rochester, NY, 1968-1970


SELECTED COLLECTIONS: 

Art Museum of South Texas, Corpus Christi, TX
Ashmolean Museum, Oxford, England
Butler Institute of American Art, Youngstown, OH
Columbus Museum of Art, Columbus, OH
Crocker Museum of Art, Sacramento, CA
Hood Museum, Dartmouth College, Hanover, NH 
King and Spalding Collection, Atlanta, GA 
Miami University Art Museum, Oxford, OH 
Morris Museum of Art, Augusta, GA 
Museum of Contemporary Art, Atlanta, GA 
Ogden Museum of Art, New Orleans, LA 
Pilot Hill Collection of Contemporary Art, Pilot Hill, CA 
Principal's Collection, City University of London, London, England 
Rochester Memorial Art Gallery, Rochester, NY 
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, CA 
San Jose Museum of Art, San Jose, CA 
Southampton City Art Gallery, England


SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS: 

Hampton Ill Gallery, Taylor, SC,  2011, 2015, 2017, 2021
Mary S. Byrd Gallery of Art, Augusta, GA, 2017 
if ART Gallery, Columbia, SC, 2015 
Charlotte and Philip Hanes Art Gallery, Winston-Salem, NC, 2013 
Miami University Art Museum, Oxford, OH, 2008 
Jepson Center for the Arts, Telfair Museum, Savannah, GA, 2008
Gallery 307, The Lamar Dodd School of the Arts, University of Georgia, Athens, GA 2008 
Morris Museum of Art, Augusta, GA, 1997, 2000, 2007 
Romo Gallery, Atlanta, GA, 2005 
Mary Pauline Gallery, Augusta, GA, 1998, 2000, 2001, 2003, 2005 
Larry Evans Gallery, San Francisco, CA, 2001 
Triangle Gallery, San Francisco, CA, 1996, 1997
Rena Bransten Gallery, San Francisco, CA, 1988, 1990, 1992 
Morley Gallery, London, England, 1978 
Butler Institute of American Art, Youngstown, OH, 1976 
McAlpine Gallery, Ashmolean Museum, Oxford, England, 1974 
Rochester Memorial Art Gallery, Rochester, NY, 1971 


SELECTED TWO-PERSON EXHIBITIONS: 

Form and Figure: Philip Morsberger and Anita Huffington, if ART Gallery, Columbia, SC, 2020 
Philip Morsberger and Anita Huffington, Morris Museum of Art, Augusta, GA, 2014, 2019
Selected Works by Philip Morsberger and Tom Nakashima, Mary S. Byrd Gallery of Art, Augusta, GA 2012
The Mind’s Eye: Philip Morsberger and Anita Huffington, Valley House Gallery, Dallas, TX, 2011
Eye of the Beholder: Philip Morsberger and Anita Huffington, Steffen Thomas Museum of Art, Buckhead, GA, 2011
Spirit and Substance: Philip Morsberger and Anita Huffington, Aiken Center for the Arts, Aiken, SC, 2010 
Dreams and Visions, Firehouse Gallery, Louisville, GA, 2010
Two Realities: Philip Morsberger and Edward Rice, Summit One Gallery, Highlands, NC, 2008 
Degrees of Separation, Blanden Memorial Art Museum, IA, 2005
Looking Back, Looking Forward: Norman Rockwell and Philip Morsberger, Miami University Art Museum, Oxford, OH, 2005
Philip Morsberger and Andy Warhol, Miami University Art Museum, Oxford, OH, 1999


SELECTED GROUP EXHlBITlONS: 

In Times Like These,  Hampton III Gallery, Taylors, SC, 2020 
Augusta Collects Southern Art, Morris Museum of Art, Augusta, GA, 2018
60th Anniversary Exhibition: A Celebration of Valley House Artists, Valley House Gallery, Dallas, TX, 2014
Three Charmed Artists, Harmon Meek Gallery, Naples FL, 2014 
Color Fields, Forms, and Fractures, if Art Gallery, Columbia, SC, 2011 
Dallas Art Fair with Valley House Gallery, Fashion Industry Gallery, Dallas, TX, 2011
The Augusta-Columbia Connection: Six Artists from the if Art Gallery, Westobou Festival, Augusta, GA, 2010
Within State Lines II: Five Georgia Artists, Museum of Contemporary Art, Atlanta, GA, 2010
Painters Reel: Contemporary Painting in Georgia, Jepson Center for the Arts, Telfair Museum of Art, & Morris Museum of Art, GA, 2010
Painters Reel: Contemporary Painting in Georgia, Macon Museum, Macon, GA, 2009
Compositions in Black and White (with Leon Golub, Kara Walker, others), Miami University Art Museum, Oxford, OH, 2009 
A Strong Vision: Three  Decades of Exhibitions, Wiegand Gallery, Notre Dame de Namur University, Belmont, CA, 2007
Art DC, Mary Pauline Gallery, Convention Center, Washington, DC, 2007 
Nineteen Prominent Alumni Artists, 1906-2006, The Miller Gallery, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA,  2006 
Inaugural Exhibition, Ogden Museum of Art, New Orleans, LA, 2003
Butler Institute of American Art, Youngstown, OH, 2003 
Crocker Museum of Art, Sacramento, CA, 2003 
Art Museum of South Texas, Corpus Christi, TX, 2003 
San Francisco International Art Expo, San Francisco, CA, 2002 
Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art, Kansas  City, MO, 2000 
San Jose Museum of Art, San Jose, CA, 1999 
Triangle Gallery, San Francisco, CA, 1999 
Museum of Modern Art, Oxford, England, 1981, 1992
La Foret Museum, Kyoto-Ku, Japan, 1989 
John Berggruen Gallery, San Francisco, CA, 1987 
Stedelijk Museum de Lakenhal, Leiden, Holland, 1982

SELECTED TELEVISION/VIDEO APPEARANCES: 

TEDx Talk, Some Thoughts on Making Art: Philip Morsberger at TEDxTelfair Street, 2014 
Channel 21, Rochester Institute of Technology, Rochester, NY, Artist to Artist: Philip Morsberger and Wendell Castle, dir. Thomas Russell, 1969
WMUB-TV- Miami University, Oxford, OH, A Dialogue in Art: Louise Nevelson and Philip Morsberger, (Archives of American Art) dir. W. L. Utter, 1965 

BALLET: 

The Scottish Ballet, Edinburgh, Scotland Randombach 3 choreography by Peter Royston, visuals by Philip Morsberger, 1984

SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY: 

Sherry Foster, Around Town: Award-Winning Contributors, Augusta Magazine, Volume XLI, No. 6, August-September 2014, page 77
Monica Dutcher, Standing Ovations, Augusta Magazine, Volume XLI, No. 6, August-September 2014, page 30
Sherry Foster, Upfront, Augusta Magazine, Volume XLI, No. 6, August-September 2014, page 8
From the Classes: Philip Morsberger, Carnegie Mellon Today, Vol. 10, No. 1, January 2013
Michael Granberry, The Minds Eye, Dallas Morning News, Art Guide, March 18, 2011, page 34
The Artist’s Studio reproduced Painters’ Reel: Contemporary Painting in Georgia, catalogue with introduction by Eric O’Dell, Macon Museum, 2009
Linda Louise Brown, New Contemporary art: Five Artists, Charlotte Observer, October 26, 2008
Philip Morsberger: A Retrospective, Miami University Art Museum, Oxford, Ohio, spring, 2008
Holly Koons McCullough, Philip Morsberger; The Sixties, Jepson Center for the Arts, Telfair Museum of Art, Savannah, Georgia, 2008
Tom Mack, Morsberger at the Morris, Aiken Standard, May, 2007
Jerry Cullum, Art on the Edge in Atlanta: Morsberger’s Musings, The Atlanta Journal-Constitution, January 11, 2007
Christopher Lloyd, Philip Morsberger: A Passion for Painting, New York: Merrell, 2007
Felicia Feaster, Philip Morsberger: Generation Gap, Creative Loafing, January 5, 2006
Jerry Cullum, Philip Morsberger: Cartoon Network, The Atlanta Journal-Constitution, January 5, 2006
Castleberry Hill Artstroll: Philip Morsberger at the Romo Gallery, The Story, December 15, 2005
Sara Ivry, A New Trove of Treasures, The New York Times, March 25, 2005
Degrees of Separation: From Figuration to Abstraction, exhibition catalogue with introduction by Margaret Skovo, Blanden Memorial Art Museum, Iowa, 2005
Looking Back, Looking Forward: works by Norman Rockwell and Philip Morsberger, Arts at Miami, Miami University Art Museum, fall 2005
Tom Patterson, Nothing Finer, Winston-Salem Journal, August, 2003
The Pilot Hill Collection of Contemporary Art, catalogue with text by John Fitz Gibbon, Crocker Art Museum, Sacramento, California, 2002
Catherine Fox, Abstract Expressionist has a Seriously Good Time, The Atlanta Journal-Constitution, November, 2001
Jim Garvey, A Visit with Philip Morsberger, Augusta: The Magazine of Metropolitan Augusta, January, 2001
Susan Landauer, The Lighter Side of Bay Area Figuration, American Art Review, September-October, 2000
Ann Curran, Andy Warhol and Philip Morsberger: A Carnegie Mellon Double Header, Carnegie Mellon Magazine, spring 2000
Jeffery Day, An Artist’s 40-Year Journey, The State, February, 2000
Philip Morsberger: Paintings and Drawing from the Sixties, catalogue with introduction by Dr. Richard Gruber, Morris Museum of Art, Augusts, Georgia, 2000
The Lighter Side of Bay Area Figuration, catalogue with introduction by Susan Landauer, San Jose Museum of Art, San Jose, California, 2000
Philip Morsberger: Made at Miami, catalogue with introduction by Dr. Edna Southard, Miami University Art Museum, Oxford, Ohio, 1999
B.H. Walsh, Morsberger and Warhol: Déjà Vu at Miami University, City Beat, February, 1999
Jeffery Day, Amazing Abstractions, The State, August 9, 1998
Kent Kimes, It’s Academic: Works by Philip Morsberger, Augusta Chronicle, July 31, 1998
Benjamin Carr, Colorful Master at Mary Pauline Gallery, Augusta Chronicle, July, 1998
Ken Greenleaf, ‘Theater’ Puts Nine Painters in the Spotlight, Sunday Telegram, July 4, 1993
Mark Van Proyen, Morsberger at CCAC and Rena Bransten Gallery, Visions Art Quarterly, 1993
Kenneth Baker, Philip Morsberger Masks Art’s Private Meaning, San Francisco Chronicle, September, 1992
Philip Morsberger, catalogue with introduction by Marcia Tanner, Rena Bransten Gallery, San Francisco, California, September, 1992
Koi Nagashima, American Pop Culture Today, Tokyo, Japan: Seibundo Shinkosha, 1990
Dorothy Burkhardt, Morsberger’s Art Beckons Its Viewers, San Jose Mercury News, 1989
Gay Morris, Morsberger at Rena Bransten, Art in America, March, 1989
Kenneth Baker, Philip Morsberger/Rene Bransten Gallery, Artforum International, December, 1988
Clement Kortenback, Kunst uit Oxford, Leids Daghlad, September, 1982
Kenneth Baker, The Atomized Self, Artcoast, Vol. 1, No 1, March/April, 1980