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HA&L Biographical Sketch
Kim Morgan
 Kim Morgan works in sculpture, multimedia installation, and public art. Her current work explores materiality and the body through interdisciplinary and sometimes collaborative methods of artmaking. She first started working with scanning electron microscopy (SEM) in 2014 during a HEALS Artist-in-Residence Program at Dalhousie Medical School, Halifax. This led to the commissioning of Blood Group (2016), an installation of plexiglass sculptural forms derived from diverse blood samples donated by medical students, artists, family, and friends. It may be viewed in the “Link” building between Sir Charles Tupper Medical Building and the Collaborative Health Education Building, or online at http://kimmorgan.ca/blood-group.
Kim Morgan has participated in solo and group exhibitions internationally at Mass MoCA, North Adams, USA, John Michael Kohler Arts Centre, Sheboygan, USA, Cynthia Broan Gallery, NYC, USA, and St. Paul’s Gallery, Auckland, NZ; in Canada at the National Arts Centre, Ottawa, The Robert McLaughlin Gallery, Oshawa, Confederation Centre Art Gallery, Charlottetown, Beaverbrook Art Gallery, Fredericton, Owens Art Gallery, Sackville, MSVU Art Gallery and Dalhousie Art Gallery, Halifax. Public Spaces commissions include: Nuit Blanche, Toronto, Photopolis festival of photography, Halifax, the Vancouver Olympics, and Regina Transit System. Artist Residencies include: Artpace San Antonio, Texas, Dalhousie Medical School, Halifax, The Robert Rauschenberg Foundation, Florida, Optic Nerve Residency, Banff Centre for the Arts, and TR Labs, University of Regina. Morgan has received grants from the Canada Council for the Arts, Arts Nova Scotia, Saskatchewan Arts, and the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council. She received the Arts Nova Scotia Established Artist Recognition Award in 2017 and the Nova Scotia Masterworks Award in 2012.
Kim Morgan, B.Lit. (McGill), BFA (School of Visual Arts, NYC), MFA (University of Regina) is also a Professor at NSCAD University, Halifax, teaching sculpture, installation, and public art.
WATCH:
Blood Portraits, a video by Kim Morgan >>>
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Kim Morgan: Blood Portraits by Susan Gibson Garvey >>>
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[This HA&L biographical sketch and introduction © 2021-22 KM.]
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