Guto Morgan (b. 1991) is an artist based in Ystrad Meurig, Wales. He gathers and paints inherited, foraged and sometimes contrasting motifs in an attempt to map the ever-mosaic present. He is interested in the transactions between materials, their histories and their social impact, and in the tensions and spaces that are found between the pre-digital past and the ever elusive present. For Morgan, the canvas is an open, contemplative site and a window for reflection.

Recently, he presented the solo exhibition Tir (2023) at MOMA Machynlleth. Here he explored the formal and relational cues of his native, farmed landscape, its industrial, lived past, and socially charged present. Recent exhibitions include group shows such as Euro Starz in TICK TACK, Antwerp (2024) and Canaletto: Idyll and Industry at The National Library of Wales, Aberystwyth (2024).

Morgan has exhibited individually and collectively at institutions such as The Royal Scottish Academy, Edinburgh, Aberystwyth Arts Centre and galleries such as Canfas Gallery, Aberteifi and 3812 Gallery London. His work is held in both private and public collections, including The National Library of Wales’s picture collection. In 2019 he was selected for the 2020 RSA: New Contemporaries annual exhibition and in 2020 he was selected for the first ever Young Welsh Artists annual exhibition at MOMA Machynlleth. He was awarded the Prestigious Heatherwick Studio Residency at Aberystwyth Arts Centre in 2021, shortlisted for the Stephanie Fribourg Prize in 2023 and his work Frayed Roots was selected for the digital Olymp’Arts exhibition by the World Olymp’Arts Council and the Royal College of Art in 2023.

He holds a Master of Arts (RCA) in Painting from the Royal College of Art, as well as a BA in Fine Art Painting and Printmaking from The Glasgow School of Art.