Morgan Osburn creates ceremonies of disembodiment & dissection, remaking and reclaiming the body through assemblage and installation. Her installations are built layer by layer, in an intuitive balancing act between materiality and emotive content. Constructed bodies are repurposed, transformed, and sacrificed, then explored through photography, and performance. These tactile sculptural installations reflect on the intimate contact and confrontation exchanged between two bodies.
She received her BFA in Studio Art and BA in Art History from Randolph College in 2018, and her MFA from the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts in 2020. She currently teaches IB Visual Arts at West Charlotte High School.
EDUCATION
2020 Master of Fine Arts, Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Philadelphia, PA
2018 Bachelor of Fine Arts in Studio Art, Randolph College, Lynchburg, VA
2018 Bachelor of Arts in Art History, Minor in Religious Studies, Randolph College,
2014 International Baccalaureate, Myers Park, Charlotte, NC
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2020 AUTOMAT COLLECTIVE Fragments & Evidence Philadelphia, PA
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2020 Operating Systems Alternatives ’20 Art House Philadelphia, PA
2020 Young Space Body(No)Body London, England
2020 Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts Intuitive Play Philadelphia, PA
2020 Atelier FAS Jump Into the Fire Philadelphia, PA
2020 Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts Exercises in Ineffability Philadelphia, PA
2019 Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts Shaping Conversation Philadelphia, PA
2019 Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts Daydream Philadelphia, PA
2019 Marginal Utility, Exercises in Ineffability Philadelphia, PA
2019 Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts Summer Love Philadelphia, PA
2019 Philadelphia City Hall Variations on the Artist Book Philadelphia, PA
2019 Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts Circle of Care Philadelphia, PA
2019 Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts Secret Haunts Philadelphia, PA
2019 Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts Salon de Refuses Philadelphia, PA
2018 Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts Sense & Sensuality Philadelphia, PA
2018 Maier Museum of Art Convergence Lynchburg, VA
2017 Randolph College Emergence Lynchburg, VA
ONLINE PUBLICATIONS
2020 Digital zine, (EM)BODY Vol. 3
2020 Digital zine, (EM)BODY Vol. 2
2020 Young Space Body(No)Body London, England
2020 Digital zine, (EM)BODY Vol. I
2018 Cotton Xenomorph Journal, Soliloquies
2017 Cotton Xenomorph Journal, Rock, Paper, Moon
2017 Cotton Xenomorph Journal, Between Infinity
RESIDENCIES
2020 AUTOMAT COLLECTIVE, Philadelphia, PA
TEACHING EXPERIENCE
2020 IB Visual Arts, West Charlotte High School, Charlotte, NC
2020 Graduate Teaching Assistant, Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Philadelphia, PA
2019 Graduate Assistant, Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Philadelphia, PA
AWARDS, GRANTS, AND HONORS
2019 Philadelphia Center for the Book, Member
2018 Rachel Trexler Ellis ’44 Art Prize for Excellence, Scholarship & Prize
2018 Alumni Art Scholarship
2018 Omicron Delta Kappa Leadership Honor Society, Circle Member
2016 Rise Grant, study art in Florence, Rome, & Venice
2014 Book Award & Scholarship, Randolph College
