A self-taught artist, Christopher Colm Morrin produces intimate and lyrical works across various media, including poetry, painting, music composition, and drawing. His work embraces the often hidden, underlying patterns of life and the shifting nature of reality—states such as mutability, impermanence, and ambiguity. Abstract and small in scale, the paintings often use elemental shapes and raw saturated colours, praised for their careful and sensitive understanding of composition and the ways in which forms and colours relate in different arrangements and styles. All of his work is united by an open, loose, and untethered exploration of what painting is and what it can do.
In 2024 and 2025, Morrin was awarded the Josef & Anni Albers Foundation artist-in-residence program, Carraig-na-gCat. His publications include Poems and Drawings, Actes Nord Editions, Belgium, and contributions to Real Life. Ilse D’Hollander, Hopper & Fuchs / Gallery Sofie Van de Velde. Alongside his visual practice, Morrin has released several music compositions under his own name and pseudonyms. In 2018, he received the Prize for Best Original Music at Cinéma du Réel for his score for the film The Image You Missed, and at the end of 2024 he released the album Sketches with the Berlin label Stray Signals.
Solo exhibitions include White Room, Gallery Sofie Van de Velde, Antwerp, 2026; notes, Gallery Sofie Van de Velde, Antwerp, 2024; Witnessing Change, Galerie Mutter Fourage, Berlin, 2023; and Unknown Landscapes, Köthener Str. 28, Berlin, 2022.
Selected group exhibitions include Songs of Innocence and Experience Part II, Ingleby Gallery, Edinburgh (2026); D’apès Manet, Galerie Michael Haas, Berlin (2026); Words are Very Unnecessary, Gallery Sofie Van de Velde, Antwerp (2025); It’s All Right, Don’t Think Twice, Gallery Sofie Van de Velde, Antwerp (2024); Unfathomable, Althuis Hofland Fine Arts, Amsterdam (2023); Real Life, Gallery Sofie Van de Velde, Antwerp (2023); Different Shades of Abstraction, Althuis Hofland Fine Arts, Amsterdam (2022); and Days of Heartbreak, Pony Royal, Berlin (2021).
Morrin has a B.A. (Hons) in Psychology and Philosophy with a major in Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy. He was born in Dublin and lives and works in Berlin.
Represented by Gallery Sofie Van de Velde, Antwerp, Belgium
Contact: artist / morrin@morrinartist.com gallery / info@sofievandevelde.be