Education
2019 - How to Start a Business. Insa College, Montreal QC.
2007 - Master of Fine Arts (MFA) painting, Stephen F. Austin State University (SFASU)
Nacogdoches, Texas USA. Thesis: “Personal Archaeology”
2006 - Master of Arts (MA) painting, minor digital media, SFASU Nacogdoches, Texas
1991 - Diploma in Graphic Design, Edna Manley College of the Visual and Performing Arts
(EMCVPA) Kingston, Jamaica
Solo Exhibitions
2024 - "Cloth & Conscience: Transforming Clothes into Voices of Change", Harcourt House Artist Run Centre, Edmonton AB, Canada
2024 - "What Lies Beneath", Don Wheaton Family YMCA, Edmonton AB, Canada
2022 - “Pieces of the Puzzle", Georges Laoun Opticien, Montreal QC. Canada
2022 - “Creating Space", Côte Saint-Luc Public Library, Montreal QC. Canada
2016 - “The Persistence of Memory”, Philip Sherlock Centre, UWI (Mona) Kingston, Jamaica
2016 - “The Unravelling”, Kingston Jamaica
2015 - “The Tarp Project”, New Local Space (NLS) Kingston, Jamaica
2014 - “Outside the Box”, Olympia Gallery, Kingston, Jamaica
2013 - “Re-Connections”, Redbones Gallery, Kingston, Jamaica
2013 - “Memories, Dreams, Reflections”, UTECH Centre for the Arts, Kingston, Jamaica
2013 - “Bodies in Evidence”, Olympia Gallery, Kingston, Jamaica
Selected Group Exhibitions
2024 - "Think Blue", Harcourt House Artist Run Centre Members Show, Harcourt House Artist Run Centre, Edmonton AB, Canada
2023 - Latitude 53 Fundraising Exhibition
2023 - Atlantic World Art Fair artsy.net
2023 - "Regeneration", Members’ Show, Articule, Montreal QC
2022 - Women's Art Society of Montreal Annual Art Show, Montreal QC
2022 - Artists in Montreal Valentine's Art Show, Montreal QC
2021 - "Migration Exhibition", Moroccan Cultural Center, Montreal QC
2021 - "Making the Invisible Visible", Saturday Swim Gallery, Montreal QC
2019 - “Situate”, Members’ Show, Articule, Montreal QC
2018 - “Christmas in October”, Olympia Gallery, Kingston, Jamaica
2017 - “Perspectives”, Milreu, Portugal
2017 - “Pollinators”, Nacogdoches, Texas USA
2015 - “Beyond Borders”, Seinäjoen Kaupunki, Finland
2015 - “The Tarp Project”, NLS, Kingston, Jamaica
2013 - “Festival Mundial das Artes”, Pela Paz, Brazil
2012 - “A Bricolage of Identities”, Olympia Gallery, Kingston, Jamaica
2012 - “Celebrating Jamaica’s 50th year of Independence”, Commerzbank, Berlin, Germany
2011 - ARCO Gallery, Germany
2011 - “Under Fifties Exhibition”, Olympia Gallery, Kingston, Jamaica
2010 - “Environmental Concern and Human Existence”
Beijing International Art Biennale (BIAB), Beijing, China
2010 - “Kingston on the Edge” (KOTE) Grosvenor Gallery, Kingston, Jamaica
2010 - “Tea Glorious Tea, Revolution Gallery, Kingston, Jamaica
2009 - “Regeneration”, Studio 174, Kingston, Jamaica
2009 - “Annual Faculty Show”, EMCVPA, Kingston, Jamaica
2007 - “Annual Faculty Show”, SFASU Nacogdoches, Texas, USA
Publications and Media
Montreal Guardian interview https://montrealguardian.com/montreal-artist-garfield-morgan/
Patchwork: Essays and Interviews on Caribbean Visual Culture (published 2023)
Chapter 7: Garfield Morgan Discusses an Intuitive Approach to Art-Making
ARC Magazine feature, “Garfield Morgan discusses an intuitive approach to art-making.”
ARC (Art Recognition Culture) Contemporary Caribbean Art and Culture, November 2016
Health, Home and Garden, Jamaican Magazine feature, “Garfield Morgan - A Journey into the realm of Expressive Fine Art.”
Youtube clip What Lies Beneath https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AwTe1_Lej14
Youtube promo for Migration Exhibition (Oct. 2021) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cjnomyrLlo8
Youtube clip The Tarp Project https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tuE12Jbsu-k
Youtube clip The Persistence of Memory https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=waDp3iDUXmo
Youtube clip Inside the Artist's Studio https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Uzc-nk-ZD_M&t=26s
Award
Edmonton Arts Council grant "Equity and Access in the Arts 2023"
Artist-In-Residence 2023/2024 Harcourt House Artist Run Centre
Artist of the Month (June 2022) on the Artists in Montreal (AIM) website
https://www.artistsinmontreal.com/copy-of-artist-of-the-month
Winner, Best by Theme, Women's Art Society of Montreal Art Show 2022
Winner, People's Choice Award in AIM's Virtual Valentine Show 2022
Post Graduate Teaching Fellowship, School of Art, Stephen F. Austin State University (SFASU)
Nacogdoches, Texas USA 2007 - 2008
Member of the following organisations
Edmonton Arts Council
CARFAC Alberta
Harcourt House Artist Run Centre, Edmonton, Alberta
Latitude 53, Edmonton, Alberta
ICAI Immigrant Council for Arts Innovation, Alberta
Articule, Montréal, Quebec
ELAN (English Language Arts Network) Montreal, Quebec
Garfield L. Morgan Tel: 780-222-5359 Email: garfieldmorgan1@yahoo.com Website: https://www.garfieldmorgan.org Instagram: @garfieldmorganartist