Simon Morris

Background

About Simon Morris

Simon Morris is Professor of Art in Leeds School of Arts, Leeds Beckett University. He is Director of Research for Unit 32: Art & Design - History, Practice & Theory, leading the research submission for sixty-six academics for REF 2021. In 2002, Morris founded the publishing imprint 'information as material'. He is the author of numerous experimental books, including; Bibliomania (1998); The Royal Road to the Unconscious (2003); Re-Writing Freud (2005); Getting Inside Jack Kerouac’s Head (2010); and Pigeon Reader (2012) and curated the exhibition Reading as Art (2016). He is an occasional curator and a regular lecturer on contemporary art and also directed the documentary films sucking on words: Kenneth Goldsmith (2007) and making nothing happen: Pavel Büchler (2010). He has had solo shows at the Freud Museum in London and Printed Matter Inc, New York City. He regularly gives talks on his work and was recently invited to speak at; The Royal Academy in the Hague, Holland; Warsaw Museum of Modern Art in Warsaw, Poland; the Kelly Writer’s House at the University of Pennsylvania; USA, Cabinet Gallery in Brooklyn, New York City, USA, Harvard University, Boston, USA; The Royal College of Art, London, UK; the Bartlett School of Architecture, London, UK; and the Literaturwerkstatt in Berlin, Germany. In 2020, Morris founded [with Gill Partington & Adam Smyth] the new academic journal, Inscription: the Journal of Material Text - Theory, Practice, History.