Artist Statement:Delicate threads twisted together become strong- perhaps humanity’s first technological revelation: not just a tool but evidence of an interior life reaching outward, beyond the limits of the body. They recall early humans as makers, mothers working, teaching. Forms of twisting and entanglement speak to human striving: cables, ropes, and roads, but these same forms are equally biological – the branching of a nervous system, of vein and artery. I feel this entanglement embodied within me: my hair, my tension with time, my mortality. This series acts as spiritual artifacts: personal incantations that collaborate with the protective energy of a hive, the transformational power of snakeskin, and the oldest pigments known to man. Biography:Lily Morris (b. Martha’s Vineyard, Massachusetts) is a painter and interdisciplinary artist whose work investigates the mythologies of labor, material memory, and the cosmic feminine. She received her BFA from Massachusetts College of Art and Design, Boston (2009) and her MFA from the University at Albany (2026), and was in residence at the Millay Colony for the Arts, Austerlitz, NY (2016). Morris’s paintings have been exhibited at the European Museum of Modern Art (MEAM), Barcelona, at Eric Firestone Gallery, New York with Featuredpublications in Chronogram Magazine (2024), Martha’s Vineyard Magazine (2019), and Arts & Ideas Magazine (2017). She currently lives and works in New York’s Hudson Valley. Education & Residencies● Master of Fine Arts in Painting, University at Albany, Albany, NY, 2026● Millay Colony for the Arts, Austerlitz, NY, 2016● Red Gate Residency, Beijing, China, 2010● Bachelor of Arts in Painting, Mass College of Art and Design, Boston, MA, 2009 ExhibitionsSolo / Two-Person Shows:● “Witch Craft”, MTN Space Gallery, Lake Worth, FL, 2023● “Aeria Signum”, Thompson Giroux Gallery, Chatham, NY, 2021● “American Dream”, A Gallery, Martha's Vineyard, MA, 2017● "Emergence", A Gallery, Martha's Vineyard, MA, 2012 Group Shows:● “RAW”, Eric Firestone Gallery, New York, NY, 2024● “Facing the Unknown: Imagination in the Time of Pandemic”, Lightforms Art Center, Hudson, NY, 2021● “Here and Now”, Wonder Fair, Miami, FL, 2018● “Her”, Old Sculpin Gallery, Edgartown, MA, 2018● “The Salon”, Sweet Rickey 33 Union Street, Boston, MA, 2017 (A collaboration of the Peabody Essex museum and curator Olivia Ives-Flores)● “Sound Source”, Moma’s PS1, Long Island City, NY, 2014● “Culture Fix”, Superchief Gallery, New York, NY, 2013● “The Young Collectors Exhibition”, Leila Heller Gallery, New York, NY, 2012● "IT'S ALL GOOD!! Apocalypse Now", Sideshow Gallery, Brooklyn, NY, 2011 TV & Film Commissions● Commissioned artwork for the HBO original series The Perfect Couple starring Nicole Kidman, 2023● Commissioned artwork for the HBO original series The Undoing starring Nicole Kidman and directed by Susanne Bier, 2020● Commissioned and licensed artwork for the NETFLIX original film Bird Box, starring Sandra Bullock and directed by Susanne Bier, 2018