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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Selected exhibitions
BRAFA Art Fair, Brussels, BE Art Brussels, Brussels, BE
Art Antwerp, Antwerp, BE 'It's all right, don't think twice', Gallery Sofie Van de Velde, Antwerp, BE Art Brussels, Brussels, BE BRAFA, Brussels, BE 'notes', Gallery Sofie Van de Velde, Antwerp, BE
'Unfathomable,' Althuis Hofland Fine Arts, Amsterdam, NL 'Real Life', Gallery Sofie Van de Velde, Antwerp, BE 'Witnessing Change', Galerie Mutter Fourage, Berlin, DE
'Uferhallen', Berlin Art Week, Berlin, DE 'Unknown Landscapes' (solo exhibition), Köthener Str. 28, 10963, Berlin, DE
'Different Shades Of Abstraction', Althuis Hofland Fine Arts, Amsterdam, NL 'Selected Works', Wilson Stephens & Jones Gallery, London, UK 'Days of Heartbreak', Pony Royal, Berlin, DE 'Lusus Naturae', Bcma Gallery, Berlin, DE
'Rare', Anomalie Art Club, Berlin, DE
Craw', Kultstätte Keller, Berlin, DE
'Riso', Urban Spree, Berlin, DE
Residencies
Josef & Anni Albers Foundation, Ireland
Christopher Colm Morrin Playground, 2024 Oil on linen 50 x 32 cm
Christopher Colm Morrin Next Episode, 2024 Oil on jute 73 x 60 cm
Christopher Colm Morrin Untitled, 2023 Oil on jute 30 x 35 cm
Christopher Colm Morrin Untitled, 2023 Oil on jute 18 x 35 cm
Blindspot, 2023 Oil on jute 73 x 60 cm
Christopher Colm Morrin Untitled, 2023 Oil on jute 35 x 30 cm
Christopher Colm Morrin Untitled, 2022 Oil on jute 73 x 60 cm
Christopher Colm Morrin Miracle, 2021 Oil on canvas 22 x 30 cm
Christopher Colm Morrin Out Into This World, 2022 Oil on jute 60 x 70 cm
Christopher Colm Morrin Upward, 2022 Oil on jute 73 x 60 cm
Christopher Colm Morrin Untitled, 2022 Oil on canvas 15 x 20 cm
Christopher Colm Morrin Let Go Of It All, 2021 Oil on jute 24 x 31 cm
Christopher Colm Morrin Untitled, 2022 Oil on jute 35 x 30 cm
Christopher Colm Morrin Faith, 2021 Oil and gesso on jute 30 x 34 cm
Christopher Colm Morrin Play, 2022 Oil on canvas 30 x 30 cm