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William Alan Morrison Resume
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*FOR INQUIRIES ABOUT COLLECTION, PLEASE CALL 415-664-4123
William Alan Morrison
November 27, 1946 – May 31, 2013

EDUCATION
MFA, University of California, Davis, 1973
BA, Art, California State University, Fresno, 1968

AWARDS
National Endowment for the Arts Individual Grant, 1977
Fulbright Fellowship, Japan, 1973-74


SELECTED EXHIBITIONS

2018
  • Gestures, Big Inks, ink on rag paper, Live Worms Gallery, San Francisco
2017    
  • Variations & Diversions, Portraits, Landscapes, ink and gesso on board, Live Worms Gallery, San Francisco   
  • Tangents, Untitled (big puppet), ink on starched muslin, Live Worms Gallery, San Francisco
2015    
  • Variations on Paper, Pool Party, ink and paper collage, Live Worms Gallery, San Francisco.
2010    
  • Tom Marioni’s The Act of Drinking Beer with Friends is the Highest Form of Art, Giacometti Reading, performance, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art and the Hammer Museum, Los Angeles
2008    
  • Tom Marioni’s The Society of Independent Artists, Untitled (Rubber Chicken Piece), performance, San Francisco. 
  • Fugue for Unprepaired Piano, performance, Sheraton Hotel, Monterey, CA.
2006  
  • Untitled Video Performance, De Young Museum, San Francisco.
2005    
  • Untitled Performance, Center for the Arts, Yerba Buena Gardens, San Francisco.
  • Tom Marioni’s A Motion Picture, videos by 18 San Francisco sculptors and painters, Untitled, video, deYoung Museum, San Francisco.
2004    
  • Group Show, 871 Fine Arts, San Francisco 
    Tom Marioni’s Buddhist Band, performance with Pea-pah, sculptural instrument, Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, San Francisco.
1997    
  • Tom Marioni’s Art Orchestra, performance with sculptural instrument, Florence Gould Theater, California Palace of the Legion of Honor, San Francisco.
1995    
  • Gallery Route One, Monumental Ink Drawing, installation, Point Reyes Station, CA.
1992    
  • Squiggle Gallery, New Plasters, installation, San Francisco.
1984    
  • Out Our Way V, What a Nice Day for a Picnic (Cupid), The Big Fish, performances, University of California, Davis, Main Theater.
1984    

  • New Langton Arts, New Ceiling for the Sick’nin Chapel, installation, San Francisco.
  • House Burn Piece, performance, San Francisco Art Institute.
1981    
  • William Wiley’s Some Inch Haunted Evening, Just Another American Satan, performance, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, Herbst Theater.
  • Out Our Way Part IV, Just Another American Satan, performance, Main Theater, University of California, Davis.
1980    
  • Fifth Anniversary Show, New Langton Arts, I Hate Keno at the Pacific Coast Exchange, performance, Knights of the Red Branch Hall, San Francisco.
1979    
  • Space/Time/Sound — Conceptual Art in the San Francisco Bay Area: The 1970s, Cloth Napkins, performance, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art.
1978    
  • Out Our Way Part III, Red Boat Float, Eyes At Sea, performances, Main Theater, University of California, Davis.
  • Performance as an Art Form, Sound In Tent, (Teton Tent), performances, University of Montana, Boseman.
1977    
  • Bay Area/Tokyo Exchange, Puppet (cry baby) and Parts with Visual Instructions for Installation, installation, Ken Min Prefectural Hall, Yokahama, Japan.
  • Site, Inc, Die Cut Rapids After Fox Falls, installation and performance, San Francisco.
  • Center for Contemporary Music Concert Hall, Ten Tiny Torn Tents on a Table, performance, Mills College, Oakland, CA.
  • 80 Langton Street, Fever Dream Remnant with Elipse Kit, performance, San Francisco.
  • Los Angeles Institute of Contemporary Art, Room for Rant, performance.
1976    
  • Exchange/DFW/SFO, Cloth Napkins, performance, San Francisco Museum of Modem Art.
  • Five Artists, Fishtent Tokyo, sculpture installation, San Francisco Art Institute McBean Gallery.
  • Fibers, Fiberworks Gallery, New Kits — Elipse Kit With Puppets, My Light-Weight Properties, performances, Berkeley, CA.
1975    
  • Exchange/DFW/SFO, Folding Village, performanc, Fort Worth Museum of Art, Texas.
  • Visiting Performers, WHA-TV Studios, Three Performance Kits — Folding Village, Fish Skins, Cloth Napkins, performances, University of Wisconson, Madison.
  • Performance/Art/Artists/Performers, Unfolding Performance Kit, performance, University Art Museum, Berkeley.
  • Out Our Way Part II, This Is A Bouquet, performance, Main Theater, University of California, Davis.
1974    
  • South of the Slot, Solo at the Sink Solo, performance, 63 Bluxome Street, San Francisco.
  • Tokyo Jido Kaikan, Fishtent Tokyo, installation, Children’s Fish Theater, performance, Japan.
1973    
  • Out Our Way, Big Fish Deep, Frank Display, performances, Main Theater, University of California, Davis.
  • Spring Arts Festival, Children’s Fish Theater, sculpture and performance, University of Nevada, Reno.
  • MFA Exhibition, Fishtent Construction with Valley Cane, sculpture and performance, Nelson Gallery, University of California, Davis.
1972    
  • Group Show, Artists’ Contemporary Gallery, Embrace On a Bed of Rice, She is Pam Scrutton, performances, Sacramento, CA.
  • An Evening With Bean, Shadow Works In a Warped Space, I Get Depressed Sometimes, And She Turned Around and Looked at Me Again, Rag House Shaking, performances, Main Theater, University of California, Davis.
  • Crate Theater, Blind Faith/A Child Like Crate, performance, Department of Dramatic Art, University of California, Davis.
  • Spring Arts Festival, I Get Depressed Sometimes, And She Turned Around and Looked at Me, performances, Church Memorial Gallery, University of Nevada, Reno.
  • Delta Artists, And She Turned Around and Looked at Me, performance, McBean Gallery, San Francisco Art Institute.
1971    
  • Ragnet and Rag Wig, installation and performance, Deborah Butterfield’s horse pasture, Davis, California.
  • Evening Performances, Red Head Neptune, performance, California State University, Hayward.
  • Performances by Six Artists, The Blessed Event with Twenty-Five Babies, performance, University Art Museum, Berkeley.
  • Two Performing Sculptors, Ragnet with Heart Beat with Cricket, performance, Main Theater, University of California, Davis,.
  • Wheel of Life, Where are My Hands, and Rag Wig Red Head, performances, Arena Theater, University of California, Davis.
all images ©2013 Bill Morrison.