The Fall 2025 Graduate Art guest lecture series, organized by Kelly Akashi and Richard Hawkins.

Presented by Jan Tumlir unless otherwise noted.

Rebecca Morris

This event is free and open to the public. RSVPs are not required.

See the full Fall 2025 Seminar schedule here.

Rebecca Morris (b.1969 Honolulu, Hawaii) lives and works in Los Angeles. The survey Rebecca Morris: 2001–2022, curated by Jamillah James, opened at the ICA Los Angeles in 2022 and traveled to the MCA Chicago in 2023, accompanied by a comprehensive monograph. Morris has been the subject of significant solo institutional exhibitions at the Blaffer Art Museum, Houston (2019); Bonnefanten Museum, The Netherlands (2014); LAXART, Los Angeles (2014); and The Renaissance Society, Chicago (2005). Her work has been included in notable group shows at the Wexner Center for the Arts, Columbus (2018); Made in L.A. at the Hammer Museum, Los Angeles (2016), and the Whitney Biennial, New York (2014). In 2015, Morris presented a special project at the artist-run 356 Mission in Los Angeles.

Morris’s work is included in numerous public and private collections, among them the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; Art Institute of Chicago; Hirschhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington, D.C.; Hammer Museum, Los Angeles; MoCA, Los Angeles; MCA Chicago; MCA San Diego; DePaul Art Museum, Chicago; Bonnefanten Museum, The Netherlands; Speed Art Museum, Kentucky; Sammlung Goetz, Munich; Hall Art Foundation, Vermont and Germany; and Berezdivin Collection, Puerto Rico. Morris has received awards and fellowships from the Joan Mitchell Foundation, John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation, Louis Comfort Tiffany Foundation, California Community Foundation Fellowship for Visual Art, and Art Matters Inc., among others. Morris is represented by Regen Projects (Los Angeles); Bortolami (New York City); Corbett vs. Dempsey (Chicago); and Trautwein Herleth (Berlin).

Image credits: Courtesy of the artist.

Support for this series is generously provided by the following: Jack Shear, Brenda R. Potter, Brendan Dugan, Lisson Gallery, Beth Rudin DeWoody, Sprüth Magers, BLUM, Hannah Hoffman, Alan Hergott, and David Kordansky.

ArtCenter's Graduate Art program is based on intensive studio practice and rigorous academic coursework. The program is distinguished by its low faculty-to-student ratio that provides students with the attention and feedback they need to refine and achieve their artistic goals. Faculty and students are artists working in all genres—film, video, photography, painting, sculpture, performance and installation. A significant number of alumni have achieved national and international acclaim and often return to share their insights and expertise as visiting faculty and guest lecturers.