Bio
Molly Morin is a sculptor, fiber artist and educator based in Western Massachusetts. Her object making practice considers and critiques technology-enabled systems that amplify and extend power imbalances already present in social, political and art-world contexts. Morin has given invited lectures at the Center for Research Computing at the University of Notre Dame, The Society for Science, Literature and the Arts, and the National Academy of Science. She has exhibited nationally and internationally including solo exhibitions at The Collaboratory at UC Santa Barbara, Wittenberg University, Lamar University, the University of Dallas, and the Utah Museum of Contemporary Art. She is currently a visiting assistant professor at Hampshire College.
Methods
Machine Knitting
CNC Cutting
Parametric Drawing
Needle Felting
Creative Coding
Experimental Weaving
Machine Drawing
Sewing
Soft Sculpture
Processing
Exhibitions
Solo unless noted
Made en Mass
South Gallery, Greenfield CC
Greenfield, MA
2026
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with Nikko Stevens
HASTAC 2023 at Pratt Institute
Brooklyn, NY
2023
Bradford Butterflies,
The Space on Main
Bradford, VT
2023
Information Density
Utah Museum of Contemporary Art
Salt Lake City, UT
2018
Flying Machines
Patrajas Contemporary
Ogden UT
2018
A Short-Lived Escape from Gravity
The Collaboratory at UC Santa Barbara
Santa Barbara, CA
2018
Invisible Things
with Stephen Wolochowicz
Whitespace Gallery
Ogden, UT
2015
Red Balloons
with Stephen Wolochowicz
Clemson University Center for Visual Arts Greenville, SC
2014
Comma nd Plus
with Nia Davies
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curated online space
2014
Traces of Awe,
Whittenberg University
Springfield, OH
2013
Labs, Research and Working Groups
The Center for Lagging Technology
founding member
The Three Fates textile design game
consulting member
Liberation + AI Think Tank
member
Black Sound Lab
lead fabricator
Press
A Cohort not a Curriculum, Processing Community Day (2019)
Role/Play: Collaborative Creativity & Creative Collaborations, Studio International (2018)
Review: Heavy Lifting: Works by Molly Morin, Kia McGinnis Wray, Slug Magazine (2018)
Information Density
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Information Density and Strong Correlations draw upon my experience as a competitive weightlifter and coach. It
presents weightlifting movements, equipment, and competition results
through felt sculpture, data visualization, performative drawing, and
digital fabrication. While maintaining fuzzy borders between
information, mark-making, visualization and metaphor, this project
addresses the sport of weightlifting as a practice in which fleshy,
complicated, physical bodies are intimately connected to data sets and
analysis. The work is both a celebration of powerful bodies a
reflection on the ways in which we collect and represent the rapidly
increasing volume of personal information that technology enables.