Jeffrey Morabito is a NYC based painter that depicts subjects as signifiers of a greater meaning in what society values or discards in what he refers to as “Psychic Landscapes”. Born in Bronxville, half Hong Kongese and half Italian, he spent his early years traveling between New York and Hong Kong. He returned to Asia in 2006, to apprentice with a calligraphy master in Seoul, South. Korea. This allowed Morabito’s painting to be reevaluated down to individual brush strokes. He then spent six years in Beijing, beginning with a Red Gate Gallery Residency, in 2009, while teaching art at Capital Normal University. Morabito returned to New York in 2016 to pursue an MFA at the New York Studio School of Drawing, Painting, and Sculpture, which he completed in 2016.
– Courtesy of Morabito’s website bio
Solo Exhibitions
2016 “Another Layer of Thinking in Painting” Cipa Gallery, Beijing, China
2014 “Ideas are Like Fish” Beijing American Center, U.S. Embassy, Beijing, China
2013 “Kunsthandlung Osper” Gallery Osper, Cologne, Germany
2011 “Into the Wild” Thread Gallery, 798, Beijing, China
2009 “Exhalted Ceremonies” Jay Gallery, Seoul, South Korea
Group Exhibitions
2015 “Anthology”, Van Der Plas Gallery, New York, New York
2014 “Dialog Between Chinese and International Artist, Taihangshan – Huangshan” Renmin University Museum, Beijing, China
“Eagerland” Yan Huang Museum, Beijing, China
2013 “New Positions”, Projektraum Knut Osper, Cologne, Germany
2012 “Levels of Abstraction” Matthias Kuper Galleries, Beijing, China
“The:Artist:Network BJ” Art Beijing, Beijing, China
Education
2006 The Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts, Philadelphia, PA
Certificate in Painting
- Parsons School of Design, New York,
Teaching
2010- Beijing Capital Normal University, AP Art Teacher, Beijing, China
Present
Awards & Residencies
2015 The League Residency at Vytlacil, Sparkill, New York
2014 Ruth Katzman Scholarship
2014 Taihangshan, National Art Museum, Henan, China
2013 Dawang Cultural Highland Residency, Shenzhen, China
2012 Vermont Studio Center Residency, Johnson, VT
2009 Red Gate Residency, Beijing, China