ABOUT THE ARTIST

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Joseph Morris is a Brooklyn-based artist whose work spans sculpture, installation, and interactive media. Blending traditional craftsmanship with coding and electronics, he creates responsive systems that explore perception, communication, and the shifting boundaries between human and machine.

Since 2006, Morris has worked with electronics as a sculptural medium—beginning with collaged gears and motors, and later integrating custom software and hardware into interactive forms. A self-taught programmer and relentless tinkerer, he builds machines that translate movement, sound, and data into poetic, embodied experiences.

His installations and performances have been presented nationally and internationally in New York, Chicago, Brazil, New Haven, New Mexico, and Arizona, with organizations such as the Downtown Brooklyn Partnership, Ulterior Gallery, Harvestworks Digital Media Arts Center, Chazan Family Gallery, Creative Arts Workshop, Gibney Dance Center, 4heads, ACRE Projects, and Oi Futuro.

He is a recipient of the 2020 Downtown Brooklyn Public Art and Placemaking Fund, 2018 STEAMplant residency at Pratt Institute, a 2017 NYFA Fellowship in Electronic and Digital Media, a NYSCA Electronic Media grant, and the Harvestworks New Works Residency.

He is professor of 3D Design and Sculpture at SUNY Westchester Community College and serves as the Digital and Media Arts Advisor on the Artist Advisory Committee for NYFA (New York Foundation for the Arts). He holds an MFA in Art and Technology Studies from The School of the Art Institute of Chicago and a BFA in Sculpture from SUNY Purchase College.

NOTABLE EVENTS, AWARDS, & ACCOLADES

STEAMplant Resident artist

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Fellowship recipient, Pratt Institute Math and Science
Brooklyn, NY