Mila Morton

Mila Morton

Hong Kong, na, Hong Kong

About Mila Morton

Visual artist specializing in paintings. Abstract expressionist. My work is about patterns in the world around us, finding abstractions in the complex and complexity in the apparently simple, and about repetition/universality and singularity/now. I grew up on the edge of the Eurasian steppe, where my first views of the world were of the dome of the sky, the curving yet level horizon and the flatness of the desert. At art school in Moscow and living in Asia, I have studied cave paintings, icons, the Russian realist painters and the Asian landscape tradition, and my work is another manifestation of their truth: that representation is always multi-layered, incomplete but in its own way having meaning. At the same time, I love the physicality of technique, from mosaic to painting to film and the new world of electronic images, I am always exploring new methods to address the age-old questions of art and of life as expressed by art. "The wind goeth toward the south, and turneth about unto the north; it whirleth about continually, and the wind returneth again according to his circuits. All the rivers run into the sea; yet the sea is not full; unto the place from whence the rivers come, thither they return again. All things are full of labour; man cannot utter it: the eye is not satisfied with seeing, nor the ear filled with hearing. The thing that hath been, it is that which shall be; and that which is done is that which shall be done: and there is no new thing under the sun. Is there any thing whereof it may be said, See, this is new? it hath been already of old time, which was before us. There is no remembrance of former things; neither shall there be any remembrance of things that are to come with those that shall come after."

Education:

MA in Fine Art
Faculty of Painting, Surikov Academic Institute of Art, Moscow at 2011

Events:

MMOMA, Moscow Museum of Modern Art, Gogolevsky 10, Moscow, Russia
Project Desertification on view until 30 August
Amsterdam International Art Fair,
25 Aug 2017 - 26 Aug 2017, Upcoming
The Other Art Fair London
5 - 8 October 2017, Upcoming
Old Truman Brewery, London, United Kingdom

Exhibitions:

SELECTED EXHIBITIONS | SOLO SHOWS
EARTH AND WATER 2011, Domjour, Moscow, Russia

FIRST SOLO SHOW, 2006
Central Exhibition Hall, Astrakhan, Russia

SELECTED EXHIBITIONS | GROUP EXHIBITIONS

MASTERSKAYA 17, 2017
On view until 30 August
MMOMA, Moscow Museum of Modern Art, Gogolevski br, Moscow, Russia
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AMSTERDAM INTERNATIONAL ART FAIR, 2017
25 - 26 August, Upcoming
Amsterdam, Netherlands
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THE OTHER ART FAIR, LONDON, 2017
5 - 8 October, Upcoming
Old Truman Brewery, London, United Kingdom
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THE BEATING ART OF SAI YING PUN, 2017
Geneyclee Gallery & The Desk, Hong Kong, Hong Kong

MOST EXHIBITION AND AUCTION, 2016
Krasnodar Region Museum of Art, Krasnodar, Russia

DISCOVERIES, 2015
Jewish Museum & Tolerance Center, Moscow, Russia

INTERNATIONAL ART FAIR 2014
Lenexpo Exhibition Center, St. Petersburg, Russia

POET AND ARTIST, 2009
The Gallery On Solyanka, Moscow, Russia

HEIRS OF THE MASTERS, 2009
The Russian Academy of Arts, Moscow, Russia

YOUNG ARTISTS OF RUSSIA, 2008
State Vysotsky Museum, Moscow, Russia

CITIES OF RUSSIA, 2007
British Embassy, Moscow, Russia

ARTISTS UNION OF MOSCOW - YOUNG ARTISTS OF MOSCOW , 2007
Begovaya Exhibition Center, Moscow, Russia

ARTISTS UNION OF ASTRAKHAN, 2006
Astrakhan State Museum of Art, Astrakhan. Russia

DIOCESE OF ASTRAKHAN, 2005
Central Exhibition Hall, Astrakhan, Russia