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Morgan Burton Johnson was born in Santa Monica, California, on November 25, 1952. He received his B. A. degree in Psychology from the University of California, San Diego, in La Jolla in 1974 after attending the Lycee du Universite au Dijon in Dijon, France, where he received a Certificate of Foreign Studies in culture in 1968. He has completed several murals, two of which are located at the UCSD campus in La Jolla, with one a competition design winner for Discovery Hall, Revelle College, 1971. He has been published in the San Diego Union (1971), the La Jolla Light (1976), the Advocate (1978), the Long Beach Tribune (1978, 1996), the Medford Tribune (1993, 2011), the San Francisco Bay Times (1994).
First Prize, Department of Recreation & Parks Summer Show, Los Angeles, September 1965, May 1966
Honorable Mention, Northridge Cultural Arts & Historical Association, CA, May 1970
First Prize(s), Long Beach Art Association Selected Members, March & June 1977 Second Prize, Long Beach Art Association Selected Members, May, 1977
Honorable Mention, Downey Art Museum, August, 1977
Third Prize, Downey Art Museum, April, 1978 Second Prize, Long Beach Art Association, April, 1978
Second Prize, Lakewood Artist Guild, June, 1979
Honorable Mention, Dogwood Arts Festival, April, 1984
Second Place, AAUW Grants Pass Museum show, August, 2004
Honorable Mention, Celebrate Arts!, FEC, Florence, OR, November, 2008, 2011 Honorable Mention, Coos Art Museum, Western Regional, OR, November, 2011 Judge’s Choice Award ($500), Art Ability, Bryn Mawr Rehab Hospital, Malvern, PA, January, 2014
Honorable Mention & People's Choice Award, Firehouse Gallery, RCC, Grants Pass, OR, August, 2014
Children Choice Award, White River Museum, Auburn, WA, December, 2014
Second Place, Theme Award, Art Ability, Bryn Mawr Rehab Hospital, Malvern, PA, January, 2022
San Diego Art Institute, August, 1975, Annual Open Competition
Tarbox Gallery, June, 1976 First one-man show featuring pointillist paintings and poetry
R.L. Elliott Smith Gallery, August, 1976, celebrating San Diego’s annual Fiesta and the bicentennial
Long Beach Art Association, June, 1977, First Place Show
Downey Museum of Art, August, 1978, Round Robin Invitation
Mills House Art Gallery, City of Garden Grove, January, 1979,“Depth: Its Structure and Interpretation”
San Bernadino Museum of Art, November, 1980 and 1981, Annual Southern California Exhibition
Embarcadero Center, San Francisco, CA, September, 1982, Annual “ Made In San Francisco” Show
The Dogwood Arts Festival, Knoxville, TN, April, 1984
Lawson-McGhee Library, Knoxville, TN, May, 1984
Celebrate America ‘84, Tallahassee, July 4th, 1984, Regional Invitational
Cal Poly State University, San Luis Obispo, June 1985, Invitational, “Neo-Impressionism and Beyond”
Pacific Grove Art Center, October, 1985, West Coast Biennial
Cunningham Memorial Art Gallery, Bakersfield, CA, October, 1985, Fall National Hayward Arts Association, Hayward, CA, June, 1986, Regional Open Competition Medford Center, OR, May, 1993, “Reality and Interpretation: Then and Now”
Britt Music Festival, Jacksonville, OR, August, 1994, “Pictures At An Exhibition”
First Congregational Church, Long Beach, May, 1996, Invitational One-man show Oregon State University, Corvallis, OR, Nov. 2002, Educational show 'Icons of Emotion, Poetry of Style'
Expressions West, Coos Bay, OR, June, 2003, Coos Art Museum annual juried show Pacific Northwest Annual, Eugene, OR, 2005, 2006, juried competition
VSAArts, Seattle, WA, 2005-2006, No Boundaries traveling show
International Abilities Festival, Toronto, Canada, November, 2005, Carrier Gallery VSAArts, Seattle, WA, 2007-2009, No Boundaries, Revelations traveling show Florence Events Center, Florence, OR, 2008 Educational show 'From Realism to Pluralism' Florence Events Center, Florence, OR, 2010 Educational show 'Art In The Digital Age' Florence Events Center, Florence, OR, May, 2012 Educational show 'Inspiration and Realization'
Firehouse Gallery, Rogue Community College, Grants Pass, OR, March, 2013; one man educational show
Coos Art Museum, Coos Bay, OR, June-August, 2013; Expressions West juried regional
Bryn Mawr, Malvern, PA November, 2013-January, 2014; Art Ability
Llano County Historical Museum, Llano, TX, Oct., 2013-Jan., 2014; “Western Trappings On the Llano”
Coos Art Museum, Coos Bay, OR, 2015 Expressions West
Walker Art Museum, Garrett, KS, 2015 Art At The Walker
Bryn Mawr, Malvern, PA November, 2014-January, 2015; Art Ability
Llano County Historical Museum, Llano, TX, Oct., 2014-Jan., 2015; “Western Trappings On the Llano”
White River Museum, Auburn, WA, December, 2014 Small Works, Big Gifts Stephen F. Austin University, Nacogdoches, TX, 2016 Texas National
Coos Art Museum, Coos Bay, OR, 2016 Expressions West
Coos Art Museum, Coos Bay, OR, 2016 Maritime Museum Annual Exhibition
OMSI, Portland, OR, April-August, 2016 Oceans Exhibit, Turbine Hall
Bryn Mawr, Malvern, PA November, 2016-January, 2017; Art Ability
The Phipps Center for the Arts, Hudson, WI, Oct.-Nov. 2016 National Parks Centennial Coos Art Museum, Coos Bay, OR, 2017 Expressions West
Attleboro Arts Museum, Attleboro, MA, June, 2017 Line Exhibition
Crooked Tree Arts Center, Petrosky, MI, Oct. 2017-Jan. 2018
Bryn Mawr, Malvern, PA November, 2017-January, 2018; Art Ability
Coos Art Museum, Coos Bay, OR, 2018 Expressions West
Lake Charles Artist Association, Lake Charles, LA, June, 2018; Through My Eyes Umpqua Valley Arts Association, Roseburg, OR, Artworks Northwest, 2018
Gallery 114, Portland, OR, June, 2018; Everything We Do Is Music
Bryn Mawr, Malvern, PA November, 2018-January, 2019; Art Ability
Tomahawk Ridge Community Center, Overland Park, KS, April, 2019: City of Overland 2019 National
Coos Art Museum, Coos Bay, OR, 2019 Expressions West
Coos Art Museum, Coos Bay, OR, 2019 25th Annual Maritime Exhibition
Bryn Mawr, Malvern, PA November, 2019-January, 2020; Art Ability
Rice Gallery, Indianapolis, IN, Feb-Apr, 2020: Art of the Human Figure
Hoopland Center for the Arts, Springfield, IL, Mar-April, 2020: Go Figure!
R Gallery, Boulder, CO, May-June, 2020 (online)
Gallery 110, Seattle, WA, June, 2020: International Pride
Lan Su Chinese Gardens, Portland, OR, Oct-Nov 2020 one man show (canceled due to Covid-19)
TAG 120 Gallery, Taylor, TX, Sept.-Oct., 2020: Far Country
Bryn Mawr, Malvern, PA November, 2020-January, 2021; Art Ability
Coos Art Museum, Coos Bay, OR, April, 2021 Expressions West
Hilliard Gallery, Kansas City, Mo., April-May, 2021 An Exhibition of Things Called Art
Old Courthouse Arts Center Woodstock, IL, May-June, 2021 TOGETHER: a national fine art exhibition
Elisabeth Jones Art Center, Portland Oregon, For The Seventh Generation Coastal Artwork show, August-November, 2021
Bryn Mawr, Malvern, PA November, 2021-January, 2022; Art Ability
Red Bluff Art Gallery, Red Bluff, CA, Feb 18-May 18, 2022; annual Flora and Fauna show
Tubac Center for the Arts, Tubac, AZ, February-March, 2022, Shock of the New West
MVA Gallery, Bethlehem, PA, October, 2022, Grandeur of Color Art Show
Curry Public Library, Gold Beach, OR, April-June, 2022 Invitational One Man show
Bandon Public Library, Bandon, OR, February-March, 2023 One Man Show
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