Morgan Ritter
Artist & Poet

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Activities Timeline

2024
Exh. Upcoming! GROUP SHOP, Bridget Donahue Gallery, New York, New York.
Publication. New Old Dream, produced by Anna Gray & Ryan Wilson Paulsen as part of their project, "bending library" .
Exh. NOW!!!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

2021
Childbirth
Poem. Bernadette Mayer's Midwinter Day Marathon Reading, Recording
→ Sewing :)
Poem. Publication.Art. Visual & written contributions to Susan Cianciolo's upcoming publication produced by Lumber Room
Poem.Residency Earth, Video Reading + Interview by Stephanie Berzon, Birch Cooper & Brenna Murphy

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.

2019
Residency. Mount Lebanon Residency, New Lebanon, New York.
Poem. "An evening with Bernadette Mayer and Morgan Ritter", MoMA, New York.
Publication. Organized the republication of Bernadette Mayer's UTOPIA (United Artists, 1984). Email if you'd like to learn more.
Exh. Centrum Artist Residency exh., Port Townsend, Washington.
Poem. Reading within Nora Slade's exh. SESAME BE DIAMOND SENSITIVE, Potts Alhambra, Los Angeles.
Screening. Video screening & Conversation with Et al., McEvoy Foundation, San Francisco.
Poem. SF Art Book Fair, c/o Et. al., Minnesota Street Projects, San Francisco.
Poem. DC Art Book Fair, c/o Conduit, National Museum of Women in the Arts, Washington DC.
Poem., FREE CHARGER, Selected Writing from 2007–2018, Designed & published by Penny Press.
→ Press. Spencer wrote a thoughtful piece about my work here: The Cat Houses of Morgan Ritter
Grant. Awarded Oregon Arts Commission's Career Opportunity Grant!
Exh. Displaying my work within domestic spaces.
→ Dreams.

2018
Exh. XFINITY KITTEN, SUC, Portland.
Exh. THE CAT HOUSE SETTLEMENT at Veronica, Seattle.
Exh. Opening a can, with Dana Dart-McLean and Johanna Jackson, Et al. etc., San Francisco.
Poem. In APbPLaESr, New York.
→ Dreams.

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.

2016
Exh. GROUP SHOW at Washington State Acupuncture & Chinese Medicine Center, Seattle.
Grant. Nominated for the Joan Mitchell Foundation's Emerging Artist Grant.
Exh. 3RD ANNUAL EXHIBITION: uo!ʇɐu!ƃɐɯ! ɟo pןɹoʍ s’uǝɹpן!ɥɔ ǝɥʇ ɹoɟ s! ǝʇɐǝɹɔ noʎ ƃu!ɥʇʎɹǝʌe, Sunlan Lighting, Portland.
Exh. Part 1: Progenitor Cat Houses at The Middler, New York.
Poem. Performance at Artists Space, New York.
Grant. Awarded a Foundation for Contemporary Art Emergency Grant
Exh. HOLDING A CUP ON A BOAR, RONGWRONG, Amsterdam.
Poem. Reading at Shanaynay, Paris.
Grant. Awarded from Regional Arts and Culture Council.
Poem. Denim Premonition, Apres Upfor (Window Video), Upfor Contemporary, Portland.
→ Dreams.

Earlier...
Exh. 2015, COMMONPLACE, with Karl Larsson, Portland Institute of Contemporary Art, Portland.
Exh. 2014, BECOMING VERSATILE SMOK, Ditch Projects, Springfield.
Exh. 2012, UNDERSTANDING WITCHES NOW, Portland Institute of Contemporary Art, Portland.
→ Dreams.





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.



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