Morris Fox (he/they)
Queer-Gothic Artist/Writer | PhD Candidate, Interdisciplinary Humanities, Concordia University
Montréal (Tiohtiá:ke-Mooniyang) | morris.fox@gmail.com | portfolio: www.morrisfox.net @morsefaaks
Snapshot: Morris Fox is an interdisciplinary artist, poet and writer interested in gothic queer culture and haunting nature through craft, time-based media, machinima, chainmaille, collage, eco-poetry, and object-making. Fox explores queer worldbuilding, self-fashioning, and ecological grief through a gothic queer sensibility, or dark camp aesthetics, via Necropastoral studies.
Education
2022–Present: PhD Candidate, Interdisciplinary Humanities (Research-Creation), Concordia University, Montréal, QC
2018: MFA Studio Arts, Low Residency, School of the Art Institute of Chicago, IL
2010: BFA Studio Arts, Extended Credit Program, Concordia University, Montréal, QC
Selected Awards & Collections
2024: CUNY Digital Resource Collection: The Necropastoral w/ Joyelle McSweeney
2024: Concordia Merit Scholarship
2024: Ontario Council for the Arts, Exhibition Assistance
2024: FRQSC Doctoral Research Scholarship, Visual Arts, 2024-2028
2022: R. Howard Webster Foundation Scholarship 2022-2023
2022: Concordia Merit Scholarship
2022: WindsorEssex Community Foundation Community Impact Grant
2022: Mourning Star, Private collection, Bill Johnston
Selected Exhibitions
Solo and Duo Exhibitions:
2022: My Gay Mediaeval Times, (solo), Spacemaker II, Toronto, ON
2022: Vestiges & Remains, (solo), Artcite Inc., Windsor, ON
2019: Velvet Fields (duo w/ Alex Dooley), Marin Gallery, Waterloo, IA. Curator: Janice Marin
Group Exhibitions:
2025: Spring Ahead!, Wick Gallery, Minneapolis, MN. Curator: Tessa Wick
2024: Gravity’s Lost, United Contemporary, J Spot with Sky Fine Foods, Toronto, ON
2023: LANPony LANParty, Vector Festival, Interaccess, Toronto, ON. Curator: Ponyhaus
2023: Bad 2 the Bone, QueerSoftOrange Collective, the plum, Toronto, ON
2023: Sex Ecologies: Becoming Plastic, Stoveworks, Chattanooga, TN. Curator: Leah Dalton
2023: A Psionic Hope…, Trinity Square Video, Toronto, ON. Curator: Philip Ocampo
2019 An Archive of Feeling. Chandler Gallery, Randolph, VT. Curator: Jordan Turk
2018 SAIC MFA Low Residency Show, Sullivan Galleries, Chicago, IL. Curator: Kate Pollasch
Community Engagement, Auctions & Public Programs
2025: ArtAttack! Auction, Buddies in Bad Times, Toronto, ON. Curator: Thomas Schneider
2025: Digital Decay, Workshop, Milieux Institute, Montréal, QC. W/ Alexey Lazarev
2024: Interfacing AI Text & Textile, Milieux Institute, Montréal, QC w/ Zeph Thibodeau
2023: Regarde!, Public Exhibit, Montréal, QC. Curators: Jacques Bellavance & Chi-Chien Wang
2023: “Chainstitch,” The Commons, Milieux Expo’ 23, 4th Space, Montréal, QC.
2022: Found Poems, workshop, Art Windsor-Essex, Windsor, ON
2022: Memento Workshop & Artist Talk, Artcite Inc. Windsor, ON
2022: Online Auction, Peripheral Review, Toronto, ON. Curator: Angel Callander
2022: Long Winter 10th, Toronto, ON & Paris, IDF (Online). Curator: Together Apart
2021: Plumbraiser 2.0, the plumb gallery, Toronto, ON
2021: ArtAttack! Auction, Buddies in Bad Times, Toronto, ON. Curator: Noah Gano
2021–2020: Selected online programming including Hotwheelz Festival: Gothwerk Revelation (Online), Sky Fine Food: Superhighway (VR), and Claudia Hart & Hyphen Hub: Ludicy: An Evening of Post-Pandemic Liberation (VR).
Residencies & Workshops
2025: Artist Residency, Gibraltar Point Centre for the Arts, Toronto Islands, ON
2024: Cruising/Crusading, Visualization Studio, Webster Library, Montréal, QC
2024: Writer’s Residency, Milieux Institute, Montréal, QC
2020: Textile Intern, Icelandic Textile Centre, Blönduós, IS
2020: HotWheelz Festival Residency, Chicago, IL, w/ Curator Maggie Wong
2019: Artist Residency, NES Residency, Skagaströnd, IS
2019: Textile Artist Residency, Icelandic Textile Centre, Blönduós, IS
2018: Artist Residency, Gibraltar Point Centre for the Arts, Toronto Islands, ON
2017: Making Out, SITE Gallery, Chicago IL, w/ HIVE collective, Curator: Sarah Skaggs
2013: Wreck City: An Epilogue for 809, Calgary, AB. Curator: Brandon Dalmer
Additional Residencies: Roundtable Residency, Toronto, ON, Ghost Hole IV Artist Residency, Toronto Islands, ON,
Eight-O-Nine Gallery, Calgary, AB
Select Publications/Writing
2026: “Crafting a Haunted Floriography: Ghosts Demand,” Book chapter in Craft and Home,
edited by Elaine Paterson and Molly-Claire Gillett, Bloomsbury.
2025: Morgan Sears-Williams fixed in place, Factory Media, Hamilton, ON
2023: “We’re Lost in Music: Disco as…Mediated Memory in Josi Smit’s We Should be Dancing”
Exhibition Text, Forest City Gallery, London, ON
2022: Femme Art Review, Issue 2, We Are QueerSoftOrange (collective manifesto)
2022: Feels Like Heaven; Kara Güt: Plainchant For Paper Hands, Exhibition Text, Éphémère, Montréal, QC
2021: Owning Your Okayness, Nicholas Zirk, Exhibition Text, Mark Christopher Gallery, Toronto, ON
2018: editor, Roundtable Residency Artist Directory 2013-18, Toronto, ON, w/ Rebecca Noone
Selected Press/Reviews
2025: Ornamentum, “Chainmaille: A Queer Protective,” Writer: Gladys Lou
2025: Esse Journal, #113, “Plastics,” artist portfolio. Writer: Austen Henderson
2023: Psionic Hope, Astonishing Dream, Toronto, ON, Editor: Philip Ocampo
2023: Cornelia Magazine Issue 13, QueerSoftOrange. Interviewer: Craig Jennex
2023: Off Centre, Review of Morris Fox’s Vestiges and Remains, Writer: Imogen Clendinning.
2023: Never Fake It Issue 001, Every Dying and Yet Reborn. Interviewer: B. Wijshiher
2022: “Morris Fox’s Vestiges and Remains: A Queer Goth Crypt or an Act of Care,”
in Low Resolution .JPGS and Collaborative Networks: Dreaming a Sustainable Digital Archive, MA Art History Thesis,
The University of Western Ontario, London, ON. Writer: Imogen Clendinning.
2017: “A look inside…studios of five Long Winter artists,” Toronto Life. Writer: Jessica Bloom
Talks, Panels & Professional Activities
2025: Presenter w/Adrien Crossman, UAAC Conference, Friendship as Method, York University
2025: Panel Chair, Woven Stories, Milieux Institute, Concordia University Faculty of Fine Arts, National Gallery of Canada, Montréal, QC
2025: Member, Centre for Oral History and Digital Storytelling, Montréal, QC.
2024: Queering Nature Studies, CISSC working group, Concordia U, Montréal, QC. w/ Aaron McIntosh
2024: Panel Chair, UAAC Conference, Queer Grievance, University of Western Ontario
2024: Presenter, Expanded Practices Symposium, 4th Space, Concordia U, Montréal, QC, w/Molly-Claire Gillett
2024: Artist Talk, Musée McCord, Montréal, QC, w/ Séamus Gallagher
2023: Presenter, UAAC Conference, Teaching Queerly, Banff Centre for the Arts, Banff, AB, w/ Adrien Crossman
2023: Panel Chair, Home/Making Symposium, 4th Space, Concordia U, Montréal, QC
2022: Vestiges & Remains Community Roundtable, Artcite Inc., Windsor, ON
2019: QueerSoftOrange Artist Collective, Canada
2018: Roundtable Residency Co-founder (est. 2013), Board member. Toronto, ON
2015 Hive Collective, Chicago, IL, w/ C Alex Clarke, Maggie Wong, Brendan Getz, Morgan Green and Nancy Spicer.