About the Artist

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    Morgan Osburn creates ceremonies of disembodiment & dissection, remaking and reclaiming the body through assemblage and installation. She grew up all over the US, and now resides in Charlotte, NC.  She received her Bachelor of Fine Arts degree in Studio Art and Bachelor of Arts degree in Art History from Randolph College in 2018, and her Master of Fine Arts from the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts in Philadelphia, PA, in 2020.  She recently completed a June 2020 residency at AUTOMAT COLLECTIVE in Philadelphia, PA, followed by her first solo show, Fragments & Evidence. She is a recipient of the Rachel Trexler Ellis ’44 Art Prize for Excellence in 2018, and the Rise Grant in 2016.

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            Selected group exhibitions include Jump Into the Fire!, Atelier; Shaping Conversation, PAFA; Exercises in Ineffability, Marginal Utility; Variations on the Artist Book, Philadelphia City Hall; Secret Haunts, PAFA; Action Verbs > Actions Words, Grizzly Grizzly; and B.A.S.E., Anna Zorina. She has several digital publications, including (EM)BODY Vol. 1-3; and Body(No)Body, Young Space.  She currently teaches IB Art & Beginning Visual Art at West Charlotte High School.

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www.morganosburn.com

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