saylEr/morris

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Education (saylEr)

Education (MORRIS)

MFA, Photography and Related Media, The School of Visual Arts, New York, NY
BA, East Asian Studies, Wesleyan University, Middletown, CT

MA, Regional Studies - East Asia, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA
BA, English, Wesleyan University, Middletown, CT

SOLO and two-person EXHIBITIONS

2023
Prophesy of Butterflies, The Momentary / Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art, Bentonville, AR

2021
River Within Us, Phoebe A. Hearst Museum of Anthropology, Berkeley CA (Canceled due to Covid.)

2019
Their World is Not Our World, North Carolina Museum of Art, Raleigh, NC

2017
Palm, American Writers Museum, Chicago, IL

2016
Water Gold Soil: The American River, David Brower Center, Berkeley, CA
Next of Kin, Harvard Museum of Natural History, Cambridge, MA

2014
Eclipse, MASS MoCA, North Adams, MA
A History of the Future: The New Landscape of Climate Change, Palitz Gallery, New York, NY

2012
The Canary Project, Nevada Museum of Art, Reno NV
A History of the Future, Open Lens Gallery, Philadelphia, PA

2011
Divine Violence, Human Resources, Los Angeles, CA

2010
Double Blind, Illges Gallery, Columbus State University, Columbus, GA

2009
Terminus, Harvard Graduate School of Design, Cambridge, MA

2008
The Canary Project, Cleveland Museum of Natural History, Cleveland, OH
The Canary Project, Ho Science Center, Colgate University, Hamilton, NY
An Illuminated History of the Future, Gensler, Washington DC (commission)

2007
The Canary Project, Museum of Science + Industry, Chicago, IL
The Canary Project (A History of the Future), Sheehan Gallery, Whitman College, Walla Walla, WA
A History of the Future, National Art Club, New York, NY
The Canary Project, Desert Living Center, Las Vegas, NV
A History of the Future, Santa Barbara City Hall, CA

2006
The Canary Project, Everson Museum of Art, Syracuse, NY

SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS

2023
50th Anniversary Selections from Light Work Collection, Everson Museum, Syracuse, NY

2022
I Don’t Know How to Love You: The Relationship Between Humans and Nature, FotoFocus Biennial, Cincinnati, OH
National Invitationals: Photography, University of Iowa, Iowa City, IA

2021
Cross Pollination, Thomas Cole National Historic Site, Catskill, NY
State of Nature, Indiana State Museum, Indianapolis, IN

2020
Ecotopian Library, The University of Colorado Art Museum, Boulder, CO
State of Nature, Grunwald Gallery of Art, Indiana University, Bloomington, IN
Fotobok Festival Oslo 2020, Oslo, Norway

2019
The Museum of Capitalism, Anna-Maria and Stephen Kellen Gallery at Parsons School of Design,
New York, NY

2018
Re/Call, Rocky Mountain Land Library, Fairplay, CO
In Vivo, Noorderlicht International Photofestival, Museum Belvédère. Heerenveen, Netherlands

2017
The Museum of Capitalism, (inaugural exhibition), Oakland, CA
Landmarked, Pickard Art Museum, Colgate College, Hamilton, NY
Their World is Not Our World, Oak Cliff Film Festival, Dallas, TX

2016
The Distance Plan: Climate Infrastructure, Human Resources, Los Angeles, CA
Rare Bird, Berman Museum, Collegeville, PA
Dispatches, The Southeastern Center for Contemporary Art, Winston-Salem, NC
Between Species, Everson Museum - Urban Video Project, Syracuse, NY

2015
Social Ecologies, Gallery at Industry City, Brooklyn, NY
Hy-brasil, TULCA Festival of Visual Art, Galway, Ireland
Sacramento Meditations, Verge Center for the Arts, Sacramento, CA

2013
Pirate Cinema, Venice Biennale - Maldives Pavilion, Venice, IT
Psychic Geographies, Everson Museum - Urban Video Project, Syracuse, NY
Un/Natural Occurrences, Central Booking, New York, NY
Sandy: Once and Future Superstorm, Gallery Bergen, Bergen Community College, Paramus, NJ
At Land and Sea, Scene: Brooklyn Film Series, Union Docs, Brooklyn, NY
Trouble the Water, Legion Arts, Cedar Rapids, IA

2012
Zoet & Zout: Water en de Nederlanders, Kunsthal Museum, Rotterdam, Netherlands
Fieldnotes From the Gowanus, The Old American Can Factory, Brooklyn, NY
Terra Cognita, Noorderlicht Photo Festival, Belvedere Museum, Netherlands
Their World is Not Our World, Light Work, Syracuse, NY
To the Stars on the Wings of an Eel, Gowanus Ballroom, Brooklyn, NY

2011
Fieldnotes From the Gowanus, Sheila C. Johnson Design Center, New York, NY
Currents: Art and the Environment, Courthouse Galleries, Portsmouth, VA
Myself, Sheppard Fine Arts Gallery, University of Nevada, Reno, NV
YOU ARE HERE, Community Folk Art Center, Syracuse, NY

2010
Tragedy of Beauty, Exit Art, New York, NY
EARTH WORKS, Hagedorn Foundation Gallery, Atlanta, GA

2009
Canary Project Works on Climate Change 2006-2009, SoFA Gallery, Indiana University, Bloomington, IN
Economy of Scale, Hemphill Fine Arts, Washington DC
Green Sight + Sound, Mina Dresden Gallery, San Francisco, CA

2008
Climate Change: Ecology, Media and the Arts, Cambridge University, UK
Aqueous, Carroll Square Gallery, Washington DC
Sound the Alarm: Landscapes in Distress, Wave Hill, Bronx, NY
The Canary Project: Landscapes of Climate Change, Clifford Gallery, Colgate University, Hamilton, NY

2006
Dimensions of Change, Crane Arts Building, Philadelphia, PA
ARTECH: Art, Technology, Science and Society, PonteVedra, Spain

PUBLIC ART

2019
Park Pictures, North Carolina Museum of Art, Raleigh, NC

2016
Food-Prints, Plumber Park, West Hollywood, CA

2013
Sweat Equity, Ideas City Festival, New Museum, NY

2011
Climate Walk, (with ZKM | Karlsruhe) Akademie der Künste Berlin, Plenary Hall, Berlin

2010
Umngqusho, as part of 350.org’s eARTh project, Cape Town, South Africa
Double Blind, in collaboration with Illges Gallery, Columbus State University, Columbus, GA (A History of the Future images on 5 Columbus billboards.)

2007
Albedo Cloud on Little West 12th, New York, NY
Albedo Cloud on the East River, New York, NY

2006
The Canary Project, Denver Museum of Contemporary Art, Creative Acts that Matter Program (A History of the Future images on the sides of 45 Denver city buses.)

AWARDS/HONORS

2023
Guggenheim Fellowship in Photography

2018 - 2019
Artists in Residence, UC Berkeley, Center for Science, Technology, Medicine & Society (CSTMS)

2017
American Writers Museum / The Poetry Foundation (commission)

2016
David Brower Center ART/ACT Award and Exhibition

2016
New York Foundation for the Arts (NYFA) Artist Fellowship for Photography

2015
Robert Rauschenberg Foundation Rising Water Confab Residency

2014 - 2015
Smithsonian Artist Research Fellowship

2013 - 2015
Nevada Museum of Art Center for Art + Environment Artist Fellowship

2009
Aspen Institute Award Finalist, Visual Art & Design

2008 - 2009
Loeb Fellowship, Harvard University Graduate School of Design

MONOGRAPHS