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
2025 - “Cloth & Conscience” Cold Hollow Sculpture Park, Enosburg, Vermont USA
2024 - “Cloth & Conscience” Harcourt’s Artist-In-Residence exhibition
2024 - “What Lies Beneath” The Works Art & Design Festival
(Don Wheaton Family YMCA) Edmonton, 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 Unraveling”, JFLL, 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
2026 - “Being and Becoming”, Gallery@501, Strathcona County
2025 - “Curator’s Eye”, Olympia Gallery, Kingston, Jamaica
2025 - “One Nation, New Symbols”, National Gallery of Jamaica, Kingston, Jamaica
2025 - "New Routes: Threads Across Space and Time", Mitchell Art Gallery
2025 - "Joy" Harcourt House Members' Exhibition
2025 - Members Show, Gallery@501 Strathcona County
2024 - “Art-O-Rama”, Harcourt House Fundraising Exhibition
2024 - “Think Blue”, Harcourt House Members Exhibition
2023 - “The Face of Us”, National Gallery of Jamaica, Kingston, Jamaica
2023 - Latitude 53 Fundraising Exhibition
2023 - Atlantic World Art Fair on 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
2010 - “Environmental Concern and Human Existence”
Beijing International Art Biennale (BIAB), Beijing, China
2010 - “Kingston on the Edge” (KOTE) Grosvenor Gallery, Kingston, Jamaica
2009 - “Annual Faculty Show”, EMCVPA, Kingston, Jamaica
2007 - “Annual Faculty Show”, SFASU Nacogdoches, Texas, USA
Publications and Media
Saint Albans Messenger: https://www.samessenger.com/things_to_do/arts_entertainment/jamaican-artist-sets-up-studio-at-cold-hollow-sculpture-park-gives-talk-this-saturday/article_cc81e7f6-88cf-469c-ac36-117b38d45f41.html
gallerieswest:
https://www.gallerieswest.ca/events/garfield-morgan-Cloth-Conscience-Transforming-Clothes-Into-Voices-Change/?fbclid=IwY2xjawHucIpleHRuA2FlbQIxMAABHdNjjgdapFa8RIR8zyPzyEXFR_kjnHHbac04kntuaCBvzxyzmfuZIknHtQ_aem_uCk72hmCBInOx8Bx_y6V_Q
Preview Magazine:
https://preview-art.com/highlight/garfield-morgan-cloth-conscience-transforming-clothes-into-voices-of-change/?fbclid=IwY2xjawHucUxleHRuA2FlbQIxMAABHdNjjgdapFa8RIR8zyPzyEXFR_kjnHHbac04kntuaCBvzxyzmfuZIknHtQ_aem_uCk72hmCBInOx8Bx_y6V_Q
Edmonton Arts Council blog I Am YEG Arts:
Jamaica Daily Gleaner:
September 14, 2024: Jamaica-born artist transforming everyday clothing into powerful artistic expressions.
Jamaica Daily Gleaner:
July 17, 2024: Jamaica-born artist Garfield Morgan making lasting impressions in Canada.
https://jamaica-gleaner.com/article/news/20240717/jamaica-born-artist-garfield-morgan-making-lasting-impressions-canada
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.”
(Art Recognition Culture) Contemporary Caribbean Art and Culture, November 2016
Youtube clip “Cold hollow Sculpture Park Artist Talk” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tMZRTFp5k5o
Youtube clip “Apocalypse in Vogue” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OmBJL7Yu_WI
Youtube promo for “What Lies Beneath” exhibition (2024) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AwTe1_Lej14
Youtube clip “Inside the Artist's Studio” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Uzc-nk-ZD_M&t=26s
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
Awards
Edmonton Arts Council grant: Equity and Access in the Arts (Stream 3) Major Artist Drive Projects 2025
Artist-In-Residence July 2025 Cold Hollow Sculpture Park
Edmonton Arts Council grant: Individuals and Collectives (Stream 3): Major Artist Drive Projects, Winter 2025
Artist-In-Residence 2023/2024 Harcourt House Artist Run Centre
Edmonton Arts Council grant: Individuals and Collectives (Stream 3): Major Artist Drive Projects, Winter 2024
Edmonton Arts Council grant: Equity and Access in the Arts 2023
Artwork titled Nyame Dua was adapted as the 2024 image for Black History in Montreal https://www.moishistoiredesnoirs.com/year/2024
Artist of the Month (June 2022) on the Artists in Montreal (AIM) website
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 organizations
Harcourt House Artist Run Centre
Edmonton Arts Council
CARFAC Alberta
SNAP - Society of Northern Alberta Print-Artists
Latitude 53
Gallery@501
Immigrant Council for Arts Innovation (ICAI)
CultureBrew.Art
SAVAC MosaÏque Interculturelle
Garfield L. Morgan Tel: 780-222-5359 Email: [email protected] Website: https://www.garfieldmorgan.org Instagram: @garfieldmorganartist