Sarah Morris (2)

British painter and independent filmmaker (b. 20 June 1967, Sevenoaks, Kent); lives and works in New York City, USA. Sarah Morris has earned many prestigious accolades throughout her career, including Berlin Prize Fellow (99–2000) from the American Academy in Berlin and Joan Mitchell Foundation's 2001 painting award. She had solo exhibitions and artworks in permanent collections at the British Council, Tate Modern, Victoria And Albert Museum, MoMA, The Museum Of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, Berlin's Hamburger Bahnhof, Museum für Moderne Kunst in Frankfurt, and Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam. Sarah Morris was married to Liam Gillick. Morris attended the University of Cambridge in the UK but spent most of her adult life in the United States. She studied at Brown University from 1985 to 1989, earning a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree, and graduated from the Whitney Museum Of American Art's 1990 Independent Study Program. Since the mid-90s, Sarah Morris has been making abstract paintings and experimental films investigating self-described "urban, social and bureaucratic typologies." Most of her works are dedicated to specific cities, derived from an artistic exploration of architectural details and the underlying psychology of its inhabitants. Sarah's films were screened at Fondation Louis Vuitton, the Museum Of Contemporary Art Chicago, the Barbican Centre, New York's Guggenheim Museum, the Centre Pompidou and other prominent museums and galleries. In 2011, a group of six origami artists, including Robert J. Lang and Noboru Miyajima, sued Morris for alleged plagiarism and unauthorized usage of over 30 original models in her "Origami" series; Sarah Morris presented them as "found" and "traditional" designs. They settled out of court in early 2013, with origamists now fully credited in Sarah's publications or exhibitions.