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Selected Solo Photography Exhibitions

2026 Requiem: The Remains of the Day, August 4, 2021, Fresno Art Museum (Jan 31 - June 28)

2025 Requiem: The Remains of the Day, August 4, 2021, Holter Museum of Art, Helena, MT (August 8th - Oct. 6)

2023 All My Relations, Grass Valley Center for the Arts, Grass Valley, CA
Requiem: The Remains of the Day, August 4, 2021, Richmond Art Center, Richmond, CA (April 2023)
Excerpts from San Quentin and San Francisco County Jail, 2W Gallery, Lightsource SF, San Francisco, CA

2019 Piqua Shawnee, Cultural Survival in Their Homeland, Lancaster, Ohio

2018 Piqua Shawnee, Cultural Survival in Their Homeland, Berea College, Traveling Exhibition
Ohlone Elders and Youth Speak II, A California Legacy II, City College of San Francisco

2017 Ohlone Elders and Youth Speak II, A California Legacy II, De Anza College
The Welcome Home Project, John O’Lague Galleria, Hayward
The Welcome Home Project, Albany Library

2016 The Welcome Home Project, Fremont Library
Ohlone Elders and Youth Speak II, A California Legacy II, Coyote Hills Recreation Center

2015 Ohlone Elders and Youth Speak II, A California Legacy II, Vallejo Naval and Historical Museum, Vallejo, CA
The Welcome Home Project, Sacramento Re-entry Conference
Ohlone Elders and Youth Speak II, A California Legacy, San Francisco Public Library, Jewett Gallery, Traveling Exhibition

2014 The Welcome Home Project, Oakland City Hall, Oakland, CA

2011 Ohlone Elders and Youth Speak, I, Coyote Hills Recreation Center
Ohlone Elders and Youth Speak, I, Presidio San Francisco, CA

2007 Celebrating The Gospel Tradition, Photos and Text, The Cathedral of St. John the Divine, Harlem, New York, NY, Traveling exhibition
If They Came For Me Today…, The Japanese American Internment Project, San Francisco Public Library, Main Branch, San Francisco, CA

2006 Harlem is Music, February 2006, Lincoln Center, New York, NY

2005 Harlem is Theater, Museum of the City of New York, New York, NY
Harlem Is… Celebrating 30 Harlemites, Tribeca Performing Arts College Gallery, New York, NY

2004 The Long Walk to Freedom, December 4–September 5, 2004, Melville Gallery, South Street Seaport Museum, New York, NY
The Long Walk to Freedom, October 4, 2004, Hostos Center for Arts and Culture, New York, NY
The Long Walk to Freedom; Portraits of Civil Rights Activists, Columbia University, New York
Latin Roots: East Harlem, Grand Central Station, New York, NY

2003 Latin Roots: East Harlem, Museo de Bario, New York, NY

200l The Long Walk to Freedom, Queens Museum of Art, Queens, New York, NY

2000 The Long Walk to Freedom, Portraits of Civil Rights Activists, Aaron Davis Hall, New York, NY
The Long Walk to Freedom, Portraits and Text of Civil Rights Activists, Chase Bank, New York, NY

1999 Maximum Security, Modesto Junior College of Art. Two Person Show

1988 Invisible People, The Work of Ruth Morgan and Jim Goldberg, Museum of Photographic Arts, Balboa Park, San Diego.

1987 San Quentin, Maximum Security, Moore College of Art, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
San Quentin, Maximum Security, North Light Gallery, Tempe, Arizona

1986 Biennial: The Bay Area, 12 Solo Shows, Newport Harbor Museum, Newport Beach, CA
San Quentin Maximum Security, Chico Museum of Art, Chico, CA

1985 San Quentin, Maximum Security, Matrix Gallery, University Art Museum, Berkeley, CA

Selected Group Exhibitions

2015 A Sentence Unseen, Alcatraz Island, San Francisco, CA
A Sentence Unseen, African American Museum and Library, Oakland, CA

2001 Immigrant Portraits, Richmond Health Center, Richmond, CA

2000 Kresge Art Museum, Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI

1997 Photographs from the Raimer Collection, Luther Burbank Center

1996 Current Events, Blue Sky Gallery, with Les Krims, Steve Hart, Gail Rebhan, Marylhurst College, The Art Gym, Portland, OR

1995 10 X 10 Ten Woman Ten Prints: Ruth Morgan, Mildred Howard, Carrie Mae Weems, Faith Reingold, Berkeley Art Center, Berkeley, CA

1994 Body and Soul, Berkeley Art Center, Berkeley, CA (three solo shows)
Sharing our Lives N.Y./South Africa, Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, New York, NY

1991 Big Pictures, Contemporary Large Scale Photography with Carrie Mae Weems. Tecoah Bruce Gallery, California College of Arts and Crafts, Oakland, CA

1988 Crosscurrents—Cross County, Photographic Resource Center, Boston, MA and San Francisco, CA

International Exhibitions

1987 Troisième Triennale Internationale de la Photograhie, Charleroi, Belgium, Museum de la Photograhie, Belgium

Selected PUBLIC ART Exhibitions

2000 60 billboards on BART stations, bus kiosks and freeways, San Francisco, CA

1999 150 bus billboards, bus shelter kiosks, and billboards, Creative Work Fund, San Francisco, CA

1995 Record Breaker, 24 Kiosks along Market Street, Market Street Art in Transit, San Francisco, CA

1993 A Sense of Place, Public Art Project, collaboration with Kim Anno, Richmond Art Center, Richmond, CA

Selected COLLECTIONS

Anna Deveare Smith, San Francisco, CA

Dr. Barry Raimer Collection, San Francisco, CA

Houston Museum of Art, Houston, TX

Kevin Consey, Newport Beach, CA

Kresge Art Museum, East Lansing, MI

Menil Foundation, Houston, TX

Musée de la Photographie, Charleroi, Belgium

Museum of Photographic Arts, San Diego, CA

Oakland Museum of California, Oakland, CA

San Francisco Museum of Art, San Francisco, CA

selected publications and articles

2023 “Can You See What Is Not There?” by Robbin Légère Henderson. Requiem: The Remains of the Day, Richmond Art Center, 2023.
“Introduction,” by Roberto Martinez. Requiem: The Remains of the Day, Richmond Art Center, 2023.
“Through the Fire,” by Lou Fancher, East Bay Express, May 17, 2023. https://eastbayexpress.com/through-the-fire.

2022 The KunstWorks, Ruth Morgan: San Quentin and Ohlone Elders Photo Collections. September 6, 2022.
https://issuu.com/kunstworks/docs/ruth_morgan_san_quentin_and_ohlone

2019 Piqua Shawnee: Cultural Survival in Their Homeland, Barnes and Noble

2018 Californian, April, Charlene Eigen-Vasquez

2017 Ohlone Elders and Youth Speak, Desktop book

2015 The Welcome Home Project

2015 Creative Work Fund, “Ruth Morgan and the City and Country of San Francisco Sheriff’s Department,” by Frances Phillips,
September 26, 2014. https://creativeworkfund.org/?portfolio=ruth-morgan-and-the-city-and-county-of-san-francisco-sheriffs-department

2012 Prison Photography, “PPOTR Dispatch # 11: Interview with Ruth Morgan,” March 12, 2012.
https://prisonphotography.org/2012/03/12/ppotr-dispatch-11-interview-with-ruth-morgan/.

1995 “10 X 10”, portfolio of screen print images of 10 artists, screen printed by Jos Sances

1988 Women Artists News, “Women at the Cutting Edge,” Art for the Ninetiess, Leah Ollman

1986 Newport Harbor Biennial, Philip Gefter, Newport Beach, CA

1985 Matrix 87, Jean McMann, University Art Museum at Berkeley. September/November Issue
https://bamlive.s3.amazonaws.com/MATRIX_87_Ruth_Morgan.pdf
ZYZZYVA Quarterly, “Cultural Context—The Work of Ruth Morgan and Jim Goldberg,” Jean McMann, feature article, Summer

selected grants and awards

2017 National Endowment for the Arts

2015 Christensen Fund Award

2014 California Humanities Grant

2001 Outstanding Award from The California Arts Council for twenty years of arts distinction

1999 Creative Work Fund Grant: In Visual Arts (Haas and Columbia Foundations)

1996 Nominated for the Adeline Kent Award

1995 Market Street Art in Transit Award, S.F. Art Commission

1983 San Francisco Foundation Grant, San Quentin Project
California Arts Council Documentary Project

education

BA Sociology, San Francisco State University

University of Wisconsin. Madison

work history

1994–present, Founder and Executive Director of Community Works West

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