Morgan Fisher : films and paintings and in between and nearby

Morgan Fisher made his first film in 1968, and his most recent in 2003. He began showing paintings and related work in galleries in the early nineties, and is currently represented by Galerie Daniel Buchholz, Cologne, and China Art Objects Galleries, Los Angeles. In 2005 a survey of his films curated by Chrissie Iles, travelled from The Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, to Tate Modern, London, and the Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles. His exhibition at Portikus, Frankfurt, in 2009 was a site-specific architectural installation that occupied the entire space.
Fisher’s films, usually grouped with the structuralist movement, explore their own means of production, examining the conventions that underlie film to generate radical new forms. His work in painting continues this strategy, examining the unspoken assumptions that have governed painting to create works that are no less radical.