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Robert J. Morrison

Robert J. Morrison (1941–2018) was an American sculptor, painter, and printmaker, best known for his modernist abstraction, his site-specific exhibitions of “sensory experience”—sound sculptures, and his dedication to his students. He lived in California and attended California State University in Fresno and Stanford University as well as the University of California, Davis where he completed his post-graduate work in painting and sculpture. In the late 1960s, Morrison joined the faculty in the Department of Art at the University of Nevada, Reno, as a Professor and then Chairperson of their sculpture department, where he pursued a long and productive career, nearly fifty years in length, as a teaching fine artist.

Morrison created and showed his work for over five decades in many group and one-person exhibitions locally and nationally, including Los Angeles, San Francisco, Las Vegas, Florida, Texas, and New York. He earned a bachelor’s degree from California State University, Fresno, a master’s degree from Stanford University, and did post-graduate studies at the University of California, Davis. The National Endowment for the Arts awarded Morrison a Visual Arts Fellowship in 1990 and the Nevada Arts Council awarded him Visual Arts Fellowships in 1990 and 1984.