EDUCATION:

2013 MFA, University of Hartford, Hartford, CT

2006 BFA, George Mason University, Fairfax, VA

SOLO EXHIBITIONS:

2018 The Houston Center for Photography, Houston, TX

2018 Candela Gallery, Richmond VA

GROUP EXHIBITIONS

2022 (de)constructed, Candela Gallery, Richmond VA

2019 Radial Survey, Silver Eye, Pittsburgh PA

2019 Photo-Texts, Mary Duke Biddle Room, Duke University, Durham NC

2017 German Photography Book Award, Chulalongkorn University, Thailand

2016 (Im)Personal Landscape, Exposure 12, Germany

2016 Cornell University Faculty Exhibition, Johnson Museum of Art, Ithaca, NY

2015 Photography Now, Juried by David Bram, The Center for Photography at Woodstock, Woodstock, NY

2014 Infocus Photobook Exhibition: Phoenix Art Museum, Phoenix, AZ

2014 The Curve, Center for Contemporary Arts, Santa Fe, NM

2014 32nd Annual Juried Show Juried by Malcolm Daniels, Houston Center for Photography, Houston, TX

2013 Split Seconds, 25CPW, New York City, NY

2012 Long Lonely Swims, Kominek Gallery, Germany

AWARDS & HONORS:

2022 Aperture Portfolio Prize Finalist

2018 Arles Author Book Award Shortlist for What the Living Carry

2017 FOAM Paul Huf Award, Nominee

2016 Light Work Artist in Residence

2016 German Photography Book Award for Leviathan

2015 Photography Now Purchase Prize, Center for Photography at Woodstock, Woodstock, NY

2014 1st Place Choice Awards, Center, Santa Fe, NM

2014 Leviathan Shortlisted CDS/Honickman First Book in Photography, Duke University, Durham, NC

2012 Project Grant, Hartford Art School, University of Hartford, Hartford, CT

2011 Flash Forward Emerging Photographer, Magenta Foundation, Toronto, ON, Canada

2011 Review Santa Fe, Center, Santa Fe, NM

PUBLICATIONS:

2023 Jewish Currents, Spring Issue. Print pp 38 - 41

2023 British Journal of Photography, The Performance Issue, January-February. Print pp 98 - 113

2023 De Standaard, Negatief Belicht, April 8th 2023. Print

2022 Open/Iftah. Gnomic Book, USA. 152 pages, 16cm x 22cm, softcover in slipcase, edition of 750

2020 Radial Survey: Destiny of a Place Vol. 1. Silver Eye Center for Photography. November. Print pp 106 - 119.

2019 Genda #3: Endless Scenarios, Milano, Italy. Print pp 12 - 13.

2018 Spot Magazine, Houston Center for Photography, Fall. Print pp 26 - 35.

2018 Le Monde Magazine, Le Portfolio, August 11th. Print pp 40 - 47.

2018 and light followed the flight of sound, One Day Projects, Williamsburg, VA. 8"x6"x1" x 27', hardcover, edition of 150.

2017 What the Living Carry. Mack Books, United Kingdom. Morgan Ashcom, 144 pages 21.6 cm x 29.2 cm, hardcover, edition of 3000.

2017 Contact Sheet 192: Light Work Annual 2017. Light Work. August. Print. pp 04-12.

2015 Leviathan. Peperoni Books, Germany. Photographs by Morgan Ashcom; 74 pages, 1 gatefold, 33 color images, 29.7cm x 29.7cm, hardcover, clothbound with silkscreen print cover, edition of 700.

2014 The United States 2003-2013. Mossless Contemporary Photography Magazine, Issue 3, New York City, NY

2012 Long Lonely Swims. University of Hartford, Hartford, CT. Photographs by the 2013 MFA class. Nausea 1979 by Haruki Murakami. Introduction by Robert Lyons.

2011 Flash Forward 2011. The Magenta Foundation, Canada.

2011 Issue 4. Rooms Magazine, United Kingdom.

COLLABORATIONS:

2023 Timekeepers of the Anthropocene: TEWAME TIYOLICHA KAWITL, short film, duration 0:11:12. Collaboration with Federico Cuatlacuatl

2015 A New Nothing: Image Conversation with Justine Kurland

ART FAIRS & FESTIVALS:

2016 Breda International Photo Festival, Leviathan, Netherlands

2011 Lookbetween, Deep Rock, Virginia

TEACHING:

2017-2019 Lecturer, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA

2015-2016 Assistant Professor, Cinema, Photography & Media Arts Dept., Ithaca College, Ithaca, NY

2015-2016 Visiting Lecturer, Architecture, Art, and Planning, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY

2014 Adjunct Faculty, Western Connecticut State University, Danbury, CT

LECTURES:

2022 Cornell University. Architecture, Art, and Planning. Color Photography. Ithaca, New York

2022 Kenyon College. Photography II. Gambier, Ohio

2022 Rhode Island School of Design. Advanced Photography. Providence, Rhode Island

2021 Hammer Museum, Art + Activism: A Collaborative Learning Project. Los Angeles, CA

2018 Wesleyan University, Department of Art and Art History, The Documentary Tradition, Middletown, CT

2018 Texas State University, Department of Art, San Marcos, TX

2018 University of Houston, Department of Art, Houston, TX

2018 Virginia Commonwealth University, Department of Photography and Film, Richmond, VA

2018 University of Virginia, Department of Art, Charlottesville, VA

2015 Cornell University, Architecture, Art, and Planning, Ithaca, NY

2014 Color Photography, University of Hartford, Hartford, CT

2014 Zane Bennett Contemporary Art, Santa Fe, NM

2014 Salt Institute for Documentary Studies, Portland, ME

2012 Color Photography, University of Hartford, Hartford, CT

INTERVIEWS/REVIEWS/PRESS:

2023 This Photographer Salvaged a Disaster and Made Something Exquisite from it - The Washington Post

2023 OPEN - Jewish Currents

2023 Morgan Ashcom's Open - The Brooklyn Rail

2023 Morgan Ashcom - Open, C4 Journal

2022 Oppression/Resistance: A Review of Morgan Ashcom's "Open", Mondowiss

2019 The Sound of the Seen, Lens Culture, Book Review

2018 Morgan Ashcom Seeks the Truth Through Fabrication, Glasstire, Texas

2018 Le bruit et la torpeur: En hommage à William Faulkner, Le Monde Magazine, Print. August 11th, pp 40-47

2018 Fact, Fiction, and Finesse of Morgan Ashcom, Ignant, Berlin, Germany

2017 PDN, Photo of the Day, What the Living Carry

2015 Interview with Stanley Walukau-Wanambwa, Paper Journal, United Kingdom

2015 Colin Pantall, “Photobook Review: Leviathan” Photo-Eye

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