Claire Morgan

Claire Morgan is an Irish artist based in Gateshead, UK, whose practice incorporates sculpture, installation, drawing, painting, printmaking and writing, to engage deeply with notions of transience and the human condition.

Her international exhibition history spans 20 years and includes museum shows in Europe, Asia, Australia and the States. Solo shows include Hold me tightly lest I fall, State Gallery of Lower Austria (Krems AT, 2024), Joy in the Pain, Saarlandmuseum Moderne Galerie (Saarbrücken DE, 2021), As I Live and Breathe, The Horniman Museum (London GB, 2019), Stop Me Feeling, Frist Art Museum (Nashville US, 2017).

 
Works have featured in group exhibitions at Fondazione Giorgio Cini, Venice, IT; Museum of Arts and Design, New York, US; MONA, Tasmania, AU; MoCA, Busan, KO; Lentos Kunstmuseum, Linz AT; Towner, Eastbourne, UK; Château d’Oiron, Oiron, FR; La Casa Encendida, Madrid, ES; Langen Foundation, DE.
Morgan was elected Fellow of the Royal Society of Sculptors in 2024. She was awarded an Arts Council England DYCP Grant in 2025, a Virginia A. Groot Foundation Grant in 2022 and won the Fondation Guerlain Drawing Prize in 2019.

Works are in collections including Centre Georges Pompidou, Fondation Guerlain, and MONA. In 2022, Claire Morgan and Catherine Bertola initiated Hypha, a supportive and critically engaged community of women artists based in the North East of England.