PATRON is pleased to announce Nyeema Morgan’s take my wife…PLEASE!, the artist’s second exhibition with the gallery following 2022’s The Set-up. Across a body of work including sculptures, drawings, and print media, Morgan apprehends narrative structures as scaffolding for systems of power. take my wife…PLEASE! unfolds through inquisitive framing devices, mechanisms, and studies. With reflections and deflections, subtle set-ups, and alterations of the gallery space, Morgan’s works catalyze the inherent vulnerability and tension in our relationship with images, words, objects and architecture.

NYEEMA MORGAN (b. Philadelphia, PA) lives and works in Chicago, IL. Morgan earned an MFA from the California College of the Arts in San Francisco, CA, and a BFA from the Cooper Union School of Art in New York, NY and attended the Skowhegan School of Painting & Sculpture, Madison, ME.

Select solo and two-person presentations include: Mike Cloud & Nyeema Morgan: Story Structure, Pt. 2, Neubar Collegium for Culture & Society at University of Chicago, Chicago, IL (forthcoming); take my wife…PLEASE!, PATRON, Chicago, IL (forthcoming); The Set-Up (2022), PATRON, Chicago, IL; Soft Power. Hard Margins. (2022), Grant Wahlquist Gallery, Portland, ME; between friends (with Mary Simpson) (2022), David Peterson Gallery, Minneapolis, MN; Nyeema Morgan : Like it Is (2021), The Philadelphia Art Alliance at the University of the Arts, Philadelphia, PA; THE STEM. THE FLOWER. THE ROOT. THE SEED. (2020), Boulder Museum of Contemporary Art, Boulder, CO; Asian Smaisians and Other Abstract Racial Slurs (with Mike Cloud) (2019), Marlborough Gallery Viewing Room, New York, NY and horror horror (2018), Grant Wahlquist Gallery, Portland, ME. 

Select group exhibitions include: Errata (2024), PATRON, Chicago, IL; Objects and Power (2024), Institute of Contemporary Art, Maine College of Art and Design, Portland, ME; Us We Them | Race Ethnicity Identity (2022), Worcester Museum of Art, Worcester, MA; Second Sight: The Paradox of Vision in Contemporary Art (2019), Bowdoin College Museum of Art, Brunswick, ME; Signal from Noise (2015), Hessel Museum of Art, Annandale-on-Hudson, NY;  The Intuitionists (2014), The Drawing Center, New York, NY; and Project Gutenberg (2012), Galerie Jean Roch Dard, Paris, France.

Morgan is the recipient of the Foundation for Contemporary Arts Grant to Visual Artists (2026), Harpo Foundation Visual Artist Grant (2023),the Chicago Artadia Award (2023), a Joan Mitchell Painters & Sculptors Grant (2022, 2016) and an Art Matters Grant (2013). Her work is included in the public collections of The Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, MN, Bowdoin College Museum of Art, Brunswick, ME; The Menil Collection, Houston, TX (in collaboration with William Cordova and Otabenga Jones & Associates); and Worcester Museum of Art, Worcester, MA.