Artist Biography
Andre von Morisse photographed by Adolfo Doring in the West Village, NYC
Andre von Morisse (Norwegian-American, b. 1966, Oslo Norway, lives and works in the U.S.), is a conceptual painter, interested in exploring aspects of human psychology and how we interact with the world. Andre von Morisse came to America in 1978. In 1990, he graduated cum laude from the Art Center College of Design in Pasadena, CA and moved to New York in 1991. His works were featured in many group shows in galleries and museums in the US: Kunstnerenes Hus Oslo, Norway; The Gibbes Museum of Art, Charleston, SC; Mobile Museum of Art, Mobile, AL; Leigh Yawkey Woodson Art Museum, Wausau, WI; Museum of Southwest Texas, Midland, TX ; Art Museum of South Texas, Corpus Christi, TX. In 2005, Von Morisse was the recipient of the Best New Contemporary Artists Award 2005, at the Kunstnerenes Hus Museum, Oslo, Norway.
Von Morisse has had solo exhibitions in New York with Silas Von Morisse Gallery (2018 & 2016), McKenzie Fine Art (2005 & 2003) and James Graham and Sons (2000, 1997). His work was reviewed in: Artsy (2018), Artcritical (2018), Two Coats of Paint (2018), Artnet Nws (2017), The Vienna Psychoanalyst (2016), Photograph (2016), The New York Times T Magazine (2014), ELLE Girl Japan (2014), Blouin Art Info (2014), Luxe Immo (2013), Art News (2007), The Morning News (2007), Art in America (2005), New York Magazine (2003), Artnet (2000), and Review (1997). His art has often been featured in Norway’s main dailies Aftenposten and VG, Kunst Art magazine (2013), as well as Norwegian-American newspaper & the Norway Times.
Von Morisse’s paintings are held in prominent private and corporate collections in the US: Kemper Funds Art Collection, Zurich Kemper Investments, Chicago, IL; Nycomed, New York, NY; Ron Bailey (former Whitney Museum Trustee), James Cameron (Director of Titanic, Avatar), Renny Harlin, (Director), to name a few. His work is also in a prestigious International Private Museum Collection in Kuala Lumpur Malaysia.
The artist resided in New York City Manhattan from 1991 until 2019. He presently lives in the U.S. with his wife, artist and galeriste, Silas Shabelewska-Von Morisse.
Andre von Morisse, PICNIC (d’après Edouard Manet, Le Déjeuner sur l’herbe), 2013, Private Museum Collection, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.