Nyeema Morgan

Nyeema Morgan (born 1977, Philadelphia, PA) is a visual artist and Assistant Professor of Sculpture at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. She attended the Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture, earned her BFA from the Cooper Union School of Art, and an MFA from the California College of the Arts. Morgan’s work is driven by a deep curiosity about how articulations of power are woven into our banal encounters with images, objects, and information. Through a conceptually layered practice that moves across drawing, sculpture, installation, and print-based media, she questions the mechanics of representation and cultural signification, referencing familiar material such as jokes, recipes, canonical artworks, fables, and traps.

Morgan’s twenty-year art practice has been acknowledged through grants, fellowships, and residencies from the Art Matters Foundation, Artadia, Foundation for Contemporary Arts, Harpo Foundation, and the Lower Manhattan Cultural Council. Her work has been featured in solo and two-person presentations at Neubauer Collegium, Chicago, IL; PATRON Gallery, Chicago, IL; Philadelphia Art Alliance at the University for the Arts, Philadelphia, PA; Boulder Museum of Contemporary Art, Boulder, CO; and Grant Wahlquist Gallery, Portland, ME; as well as in group exhibitions at the Hessel Museum of Art, Annandale-on-Hudson, NY; Worcester Museum of Art, Worcester, MA; Bowdoin College Museum of Art, Brunswick, ME; Marlborough Gallery Viewing Room, NYC; The Green Gallery, Milwaukee, WI; Galerie Jeanrochdard, Paris; and The Drawing Center, NYC, among others. Morgan has been the recipient of the Joan Mitchell Foundation's Painter and Sculptors Grant, and was an Artist-in-Residence at the Joan Mitchell Center in New Orleans, where she co-curated the exhibition History or Premonition (2025) for the Center’s 10th anniversary and Joan Mitchell’s centennial.