Christopher Colm Morrin b. 1980

 ° Dublin, Ireland

Christopher Colm Morrin makes enigmatic and philosophical pieces of art across various media, including painting, drawing, poetry, and music composition. His work embraces the often hidden, underlying patterns of life and shifting nature of reality; states like mutability, impermanence and ambiguity. Initially trained in psychology, philosophy, and psychoanalytic psychotherapy, his work has been driven by a deep, serious, and irreverent questioning of reality in an attempt to get to grips with what is going on at any time.

Abstract and small in scale, the paintings often use elemental shapes and raw saturated colours. His work has been praised for its careful and sensitive understanding of composition and the ways in which forms and colours relate to one another in different arrangements and styles. All his work is united by an open, loose and untethered exploration of what painting is and what it can do. Morrin is motivated by painting’s rich expanse rather than its categories. (extract from text by Wells Fray-Smith)

In 2024, he was awarded the Josef & Anni Albers Foundation artist-in-residence program, Carraig-na-gCat.

Christopher Colm Morrin has a B.A. (Hons) in Psychology and Philosophy and a major in Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy. Solo exhibitions include notes, Gallery Sofie Van de Velde, Antwerp (2024); Witnessing Change, Galerie Mutter Fourage, Berlin (2023); Unknown Landscapes, Köthener Str. 28, Berlin (2022). Select group exhibitions include Unfathomable, Althuis Hofland Fine Arts, Amsterdam, Holland (2023); Real Life, Gallery Sofie Van de Velde, Antwerp, Belgium (2023); Uferhallen, Berlin Art Week, Berlin (2022); Different Shades of Abstraction, Althuis Hofland Fine Arts, Amsterdam (2022); Selected Works, Wilson Stephens & Jones Gallery, London (2021); Days of Heartbreak, Pony Royal, Berlin (2021); Lusus Naturae, BcmA Gallery, Berlin (2021); Rare, Anomalie Art Club, Berlin (2019); Craw, Kultstätte Keller, Berlin (2018); Riso, Urban Spree, Berlin (2017).
Christopher Colm Morrin is represented by Gallery Sofie Van de Velde.

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