Past
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Fugue States
26 Jun - 29 Jul 2025 Morgan Presents is thrilled to announce Fugue States , featuring new works by Maria Haag, Sam Jablon, Rebecca Ness, Terry Rosenberg, Mike Shultis and Willie Stewart, alongside a significant historical work by Albert Oehlen. Moving between the familiar and the fantastic, Fugue States presents the viewer with episodic moments from... Read more -
Willie Stewart: Constructed Pictures
10 Apr - 7 Jun 2025 “I want to make beautiful pictures without concrete meaning. These are the most political paintings I have ever made. Images that console you before they confront you. These paintings are like newspapers, you might read one and wrap steak in another.” — Willie Stewart In constructing these pictures, Willie Stewart... Read more -
Object(ive)
6 Feb - 25 Mar 2025 Each of these artists emerged at the vanguard of their generation—unbridled, uncompromising and with an urgent purpose of expression. The artists’ embrace of materiality, alongside their infusing of everyday objects with a transformative mission, unites these artworks while simultaneously letting each exist as a proclamation of its time. While the... Read more -
Rebecca Ness: Memories of Daydreams
24 Oct - 14 Dec 2024 These paintings by Rebecca Ness are pictures of quotidian life. Together they present a portrait of our societal moment and document our time: an age that Ness understands as constituted by a menagerie of moments, a collection that unwaveringly recognizes the rich complexity of each individual’s interior life. The compositions... Read more
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Mike Shultis: Déjà vu
4 Sep - 12 Oct 2024 Throughout the exhibition Déjà vu Mike Shultis promotes a new language of painting. Often we ask: What is the art of today ? We find ourselves searching for a style or movement as expansive as American post-war Abstract Expressionism, or as cohesive as Color Field painting. Shultis asserts that today’s... Read more -
Figures and Faces
11 Jul - 2 Aug 2024 Morgan Presents is thrilled to announce Figures and Faces , featuring a group of defining works from the mid-twentieth century to the present. Examining the relationship between subject and artistic authorship, across a breadth of figurative painting, Figures and Faces engages history, politics and culture via the languages of radical... Read more -
Terry Rosenberg: Portraits of Character
16 May - 28 Jun 2024 Surveying a selection of abstract paintings produced by Terry Rosenberg over three decades, Portraits of Character asserts that these works have more in common with portraiture than abstract expressionism. Rosenberg’s paintings investigate the interaction of organic forms, including the human body, through space, time and light. The work cares little... Read more -
Sam Jablon: Linger Longer
28 Mar - 3 May 2024 Morgan Presents is proud to inaugurate its new gallery space in Chelsea with “Linger Longer,” a show of recent paintings by Sam Jablon, the New York-based artist and poet. It follows “Color/Code,” a two-person show with Jablon and Odili Donald Odita that opened at Morgan Presents in September 2021. “Linger... Read more
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American Portraiture: Selling the Self
12 May - 15 Jun 2023 Alex da Corte, Andy Warhol, Ernesto Renda, Jeff Koons, Leon Golub, Mario Ayala, Mike Shultis, Rebecca Ness, Red Grooms, Sylvia Sleigh, Walter Robinson This exhibition examines two elements constitutive to a particular vein of American portraiture: appropriation & commodification. This consideration takes as its starting point Andy Warhol’s portrait of... Read more -
Chloe West: Somebody's Sins
6 Apr - 2 May 2023 “Jesus died for somebody's sins but not mine”—Patti Smith In Somebody’s Sins Chloe West presents a reflective, robustly independent, meditation on mortality, mourning and the relationship between the animate and inanimate. This relationship is explored specifically through West’s focused attention on the female form and the recognition of woman as... Read more -
Ania Hobson & Barbara Kruger
19 Jan - 18 Feb 2023 Ania Hobson’s portraits of women, captured in moments of day-to-day life, stand perhaps in contrast to Barbara Kruger’s resounding knell of mortality. Yet this dialogue, between Hobson’s new body of work and the singular Kruger exhibited, reminds us that death, love and fear exist experientially in everyday moments, not as... Read more -
Hollywood at the Hearth: Willie Stewart & Walter Robinson
27 Oct - 10 Dec 2022 Sex sells quickly, dreams require budgets and marketing campaigns. For close to a century now America, and more specifically Hollywood, has sold dreams domestically and abroad. The dream business touches each major industry on the planet, seeping into everything from flashy billboards to product design. That Americana can be simultaneously... Read more
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Cora Cohen: Works from the 1980's
15 Sep - 18 Oct 2022 These works were overlooked in their time and I believe they, and Cora Cohen, deserve to be looked at with fresh eyes. They are, first and foremost, great paintings and I hope you get the chance to come and see them in person. Sincerely, Morgan While Cora Cohen’s works are... Read more -
Janus
30 Jun - 26 Jul 2022 The ancient Roman god Janus embodied beginnings and endings, transitions and time, as well as doorways and passages. Depicted with two faces, one looking towards the future and one back to the past, Janus represented a middle ground between concrete and abstract dualities such as life and death, creation and... Read more -
Topography & Language: Mike Shultis & Bruce Nauman
5 May - 14 Jun 2022 In 1964, Bob Dylan proclaimed: The Times They Are a-Changin’ . This exhibition, showcasing a new body of work by Mike Shultis, in dialogue with a Bruce Nauman neon text piece, examines the moments preceding and following great social upheaval. Shultis’ three Plexiglas works, superimpose two Goya watercolors and a... Read more -
Studio Visitor: Rebecca Ness & Joel Shapiro
24 Feb - 14 Apr 2022 Studio Visitor presents a new body of paintings by Rebecca Ness in dialogue with a singular Joel Shapiro sculpture installed in the center of the gallery. These monumental works by Ness are all portraits of artists in their studios, individuals who represent her artistic community and circle of dialogue, friendship... Read more
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Looking West: Anselm Reyle & Jon Young
20 Jan - 16 Feb 2022 The West exists simultaneously as a reference of relational position, and as an autonomous concept, imbued with symbolism and characteristics. Anselm Reyle & Jon Young’s works engage various qualities of the West, citing an expansive range of sources, from neon signage to land art. Both artists operate from a position... Read more -
The Muse's Gaze: Ana Benaroya & Yinka Shonibare CBE
11 Nov - 17 Dec 2021 The Muse’s Gaze presents a new suite of paintings by Ana Benaroya in dialogue with a Yinka Shonibare CBE sculpture installed in the center of the space. These paintings represent a new endeavor for Benaroya, of reimagining and retranslating modernist masterpieces through a queer feminist lens. The muse is transformed... Read more -
Color/Code: Sam Jablon & Odili Donald Odita
23 Sep - 2 Nov 2021 For its inaugural exhibition, Morgan Presents unveils Color/Code , a cross-generational pairing of artists Sam Jablon and Odili Donald Odita that considers color and its uses in generating and communicating content in painting. Renowned for his exploration of color in large-scale, geometric compositions, Odita has exhibited extensively at institutions including... Read more
