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Education
MFA in Moving Image - University of Illinois Chicago - 2010
Prior Degree Program - School of the Art Institute of Chicago - 2007
BA in Radio, Television, and Film - University of North Texas - 2006
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Solo Screenings and Performances
Initiation Into the Mysteries: Films by Michael Morris – Rubicon Cinema – Akron, Ohio - 2026
Before We Ever Pass This Way Again: An Evening with Michael A. Morris - Oberlin College - 2025
Expanded Cinema: The Films of Michael A. Morris – SUNY Oswego; Oswego, NY - 2025
Initiation Into the Mysteries: Films and Videos by Michael Alexander Morris – Texas Theatre; Dallas, TX - 2024
Experiments in Cinema: Films by Michael A. Morris – Ohio State University; Columbus, OH - 2023
A Chorus of Black Voids Sings In Rays of Unseeable Light - Microscope Gallery; Brooklyn, NY - 2017
Hybrid Cinema Tour:
Echo Park Film Center - Los Angeles, CA - 2017
Sight Unseen - Baltimore, MD - 2017
Hallwalls + Squeaky Wheel Media Center - Buffalo, NY - 2016
Church In The Cliff - Dallas, TX - 2016
Visual Studies Workshop - Rochester, NY - 2015
Connectivity Through Cinema at Center for Performance Research - Brooklyn, NY - 2015
Microlights Cinema - Milwaukee, WI - 2015
Experimental Response Cinema - Austin, TX - 2015
Headroom - Iowa City, IA - 2015
How To Build A Fire: Films and Videos by Michael A. Morris - Experimental Response Cinema at New Media Art and Sound Summit, Salvage Vanguard Theatre - Austin, TX - 2013
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Solo Gallery Exhibitions
Write through of An Image to generate peace and love between two people from The Picatrix – Western Pole; Chicago, IL - 2023
ARK - Hawn Gallery; Dallas, TX - 2018
Black Boxes and Dark Rooms - Beefhaus; Dallas, TX - 2016
It’s Just Meant To Be - Oliver Francis Gallery; Dallas, TX - 2012
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Two Person Exhibitions
Working Groups (with Carolyn Sortor) - The MAC; Dallas, TX - 2019
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Awards
Best Music Video – 63rd Ann Arbor Film Festival – Riding Day – 2025
Best Storytelling - Cagliostro Award – Hermetic International Film Festival – First Hermanubis: Initiation - 2023
Kodak Stock Award, Florida Experimental Film and Video Festival - A Chorus of Black Voids Sings in Rays of Unseeable Light - 2019
Audience Award, Southern Colorado Film Festival - Blue Movie - 2017
First Prize, Haverhill Experimental Film Festival - Blue Movie - 2017
Jurors’ Recognition, Athens International Film and Video Festival - Blue Movie - 2017
Dallas Observer Mastermind Award - 2015
Vimeo Award, Crossroads Film Festival - Third Hermeneutic - 2015
Best in Expanded Cinema, Milwaukee Underground Film Festival - Second Hermeneutic - 2014
3rd Prize “Showmanship Award”, Haverhill Experimental Film Festival - Fires - 2013
Honorable Mention, Milwaukee Underground Film Festival - Confessors - 2011
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Grants and Residencies
The Mudhouse Artist in Residence Program– Crete, Greece - 2025
FaveLAB Artist in Residence Program- Athens, Greece - 2025
Signal Culture Researcher in Residence Program – Loveland, Colorado - 2025
Visual Studies Workshop Artist in Residence Program - Rochester, NY - 2018
Signal Culture Artist in Residence Program - Owego, NY - 2016
Nasher Sculpture Center Artist Microgrant - Dallas, TX - 2015
Artists’ Cooperative Residency and Exhibitions - Steuben, Wisconsin / Chicago, IL - 2011
Centraltrak Artist in Residence Program - Dallas, TX - 2010
Harold Arts Artist in Residence Program - Chesterhill, OH - 2009
Vermont Studio Center Writer in Residence Program - Johnson, VT - 2007
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Selected Screenings and Performances
- Riding Day
Ann Arbor Film Festival Touring Program – 2025
Shadowbox Studio and Duke University – 2026
Wealthy Theatre, Grand Rapids MI – 2026
Bowling Green State University - 2026
Cleveland Cinematheque – 2025
Thin Line Film Festival – Denton, TX - 2026
Kornelia Boczkowska’s The Animal Show – Other Cinema, San Francisco, CA - 2025
World Cinema Carnival – Calcutta, India - 2025
Moviate Underground Film Festival – Harrisburg, Pennsylvania - 2025
Under The Radar – Vienna, Austria - 2025
Athens International Film and Video Festival – Athens, Ohio - 2025
Ann Arbor Film Festival – Ann Arbor, Michigan - 2025
Ribalta Experimental Film Festival – Vignola, Italy - 2025
San Diego Underground Film Festival – San Diego, California - 2025
Harkat 16mm Film Festival – Mumbai, India - 2024
Little Scuzzy International Film Festival – Carbondale, Illinois - 2024
Engauge Experimental Film Festival – Seattle, Washington - 2024
Analogica – Bolzano, Italy – 2024
Lisbon Film Rendezvous – Lisbon, Portugal - 2024
West Virginia Mountaineer Film Festival – Morgantown, West Virginia – 2024
-First Hermanubis: Initiation
Fugue State – Elastic Arts Foundation – Chicago, IL 2026
ULTRAcinema – Cuernavaca, Mexico 2025
Fisura, International Festival of Experimental Film and Video – Durango, Mexico 2025
University Film and Video Association Conference – Cleveland, OH 2024
Cauldron International Film and Video Festival – Salt Lake City, UT - 2024
Istanbul International Experimental Film Festival – Istanbul, Turkey - 2024
Ribalta Experimental Film Festival – Vignola, Italy – 2024
Experiments in Cinema – Albuquerque, NM – 2024
51st Athens International Film and Video Festival – Athens, Ohio – 2024
First Hermetic International Film Festival – Virtual – 2023
Buffalo International Film Festival – Buffalo, NY – 2023 (World Premiere)
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- ARK
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It Came From Texas Film Fest – Garland, Texas - 2024
Aurora: Video Art Nights – Dallas, Texas - 2022
Canyon-on-demand: Recent Acquisitions online screening - 2021
Moviate Underground Film Festival - Harrisburg, PA - 2020
Aesthetic of the Ruins online program - Istanbul Experimental - Istanbul, Turkey - 2020
Archive Fever - Other Cinema at Artists Television Access - San Francisco, CA - 2019
Chicago Underground Film Festival - Chicago, IL - 2019
Milwaukee Underground Film Festival - Milwaukee, WI - 2019
Athens International Film and Video Festival - Athens, OH - 2019
Experiments in Cinema - Albuquerque, NM - 2019
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- A Chorus of Black Voids Sings in Rays of Unseeable Light
Ohio Expanded – Cineseries at Wexner Center for the Arts - Columbus, OH - 2025
Heavy Light – Los Angeles, CA - 2023
That One Film Festival Online Edition - Muncie, IN - 2020
Crossroads - San Francisco, CA - 2019
San Diego Underground Film Festival - San Diego, CA - 2019
Dallas Medianale - Dallas, TX - 2019
Athens International Film and Video Festival - Athens, OH - 2019
Chicago Underground Film Festival - Chicago, IL - 2019
Florida Experimental Film and Video Festival - Tampa, FL - 2019
Revolutions Per Minute Film Festival - Boston, MA - 2019
Mono No Aware - Brooklyn, NY - 2018
Microscope Gallery - Brooklyn, NY - 2017
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- The Night in the Last Branches
Archive Fever – Other Cinema at Artists’ Television Access – San Francisco, CA - 2021
Istanbul International Experimental Film Festival - Istanbul, Turkey - 2018
Austin Film Festival - Austin, TX - 2018
Plaza Classic Film Festival - El Paso, TX - 2018
San Diego Underground Film Festival - San Diego, CA - 2018
Dallas International Film Festival - Dallas, TX - 2018
That One Film Festival - Muncie, IN - 2018
Experiments in Cinema - Albuquerque, NM - 2018
Deep in the Heart Film Festival - Waco, TX - 2018
Frame of Mind on KERA Public Television - Dallas, TX - 2017
- Blue Movie
Project Intimacy, curated by Priyanka Das and Joe Wakeman at Millenium Film Workshop – New York, NY - 2025
Harkat 16mm Film Festival – Mumbai, India - 2023
Lisbon Film Rendezvous – Lisbon, Portugal - 2023
New Year, New Works 2020 at Filmmaker’s Coop - New York, NY - 2020
High Coast International Film Festival - Lunde, Sweden - 2019
Visual Chorus at The Horse Hospital - London, UK - 2018
Alchemy Film and Moving Image Film Festival - Hawick, Scotland - 2018
Ann Arbor Film Festival - Ann Arbor, MI - 2018
Avant To Live: New Experimental Works - Artists Television Access - San Francisco, CA - 2017
Southern Colorado Film Festival - Alamosa, CO - 2017
San Diego Underground Film Festival - San Diego, CA - 2017
Eye Myth Film Festival - Toronto, ON - 2017
Moviate Underground Film Festival - Harrisburg, PA - 2017
Haverhill Experimental Film Festival - Haverhill, MA - 2017
Crossroads - San Francisco, CA - 2017
Chicago Underground Film Festival - Chicago, IL - 2017
Athens International Film and Video Festival - Athens, OH - 2017
Ultraseeing at Nasher Sculpture Center - Dallas, TX - 2017
Antimatter [Media Art] - Victoria, BC - 2016
Winnipeg Underground Film Festival - Winnipeg, MB - 2016
Milwaukee Underground Film Festival - Milwaukee, WI - 2016
Oak Cliff Film Festival - Dallas, TX - 2015
- Third Hermeneutic
El Nicho en Festival Aural - Mexico D.F., Mexico - 2017
San Diego Underground Film Festival - San Diego, CA - 2017
Perpetual Motion by SF Cinematheque - Gray Area - San Francisco, CA - 2016
Chicago Underground Film Festival - Chicago, IL - 2015
International Symposium of Electronic Art - Vancouver, BC - 2015
Boulder Museum of Contemporary Art - Boulder, CO - 2015
Experiments in Cinema - Albuquerque, NM - 2015
Crossroads - San Francisco, CA - 2015
Mono No Aware - Brooklyn, NY - 2014
Dallas Contemporary - Dallas, TX - 2013
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- Second Hermeneutic
Ohio Expanded – Wexner Center for the Arts - Columbus, OH - 2025
El Nicho Festival en Aural - Mexico D.F., Mexico - 2017
Ultraseeing at Nasher Sculpture Center - Dallas, TX - 2016
Perpetual Motion by SF Cinematheque - Gray Area - San Francisco, CA - 2016
International Symposium of Electronic Art - Vancouver, BC - 2015
Experiments in Cinema - Albuquerque, NM - 2015
Crossroads - San Francisco, CA - 2015
Winnipeg Underground Film Festival - Winnipeg, MB - 2015
Experimental Film Festival Portland - Portland, OR - 2014
Milwaukee Underground Film Festival - Milwaukee, WI - 2014
Mono No Aware - Brooklyn, NY - 2013
Dallas Contemporary - Dallas, TX - 2013
Oliver Francis Gallery - Dallas, TX - 2013
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Selected Group Exhibitions
Wish You Were Here, Mudhouse Benefit – Microscope Gallery - New York, NY - 2025
Ohio Expanded – Wexner Center for the Arts - Columbus OH - 2025
CounterVolt Version.001 - North Door, Austin TX - 2018
Circuit Breaker - Texas Women's University - Denton, TX - 2016
Acoustic Nerves - Dead White Zombies Icehouse - Dallas, Texas - 2016
Drawing Quote Unquote - University of Texas at Dallas - Richardson, TX - 2016
Lost Worlds - McKinney Avenue Contemporary - Dallas, TX - 2015
Call.io.pe at The Wrong New Digital Art Biennial - International Online Exhibition - 2015
Second Hand Emotions at Aurora - Dallas, TX - 2015
Irrational.City - Bath House Cultural Center - Dallas, TX - 2015
The Voice’s Folds w/Morehshin Allahyari and Jenny Vogel - Sunview Luncheonette - Brooklyn, NY - 2014
WACH - Chicago Hilton - Chicago, IL - 2014
Objective Strategies - El Centro College - Dallas, TX - 2014
Every Person is a Special Kind of Artist, with Baggage (as part of The Dallas Collective) - Ballroom Marfa, Marfa, TX - 2013
Collective Bargaining - University of Texas at Dallas - Richardson, TX - 2013
DallasSITES: Available Space - Dallas Museum of Art - Dallas, TX - 2013
The Texas Biennial - San Antonio, TX - 2013
Monstrous Couplings - University of Texas at Dallas - Richardson, TX - 2012
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Distribution and Collections
Collection of Archival Elements and papers held for research purposes at the G. William Jones Film and Video Collection –
Southern Methodist University
First Hermanubis: Initiation, Blue Movie, and ARK – 16mm and 35mm Prints available from Canyon Cinema
Blue Movie – 16mm Print available from The Film-Maker’s Cooperative
Blue Movie - 56th Ann Arbor Film Festival DVD Volume 11
Self Published Split Cassette Tape with Lily Taylor
Confessors - Journal of Short Film vol. 23
Kyrie - Journal of Short Film vol. 19