Morgan Sorne is a multi-disciplinary, award-winning prolific visual artist, musician, actor and filmmaker, boasting an unparalleled vocal range with perfect pitch. He brings listeners to tears with his hypnotic angelic falsetto, and has churned crowds into a writhing frenzy with his bone-rattling dynamicism and range.
Sorne has been featured in Rolling Stone magazine’s top 50 finds at South By Southwest in 2015 and Art in America for the 2009 Texas Biennial. He has performed and shown his work at some of the most prestigious venues in America and Europe, winning over the hearts and minds of audiences at Art Basel Miami, Irving Plaza in New York and the legendary Fillmore Theatre in San Francisco.
A Rock N’ Roll Hall of Famer in the making, SORNE’s meteoric success has truly made him one to watch. He is destined for the world stage.
At the age of twenty-three, and within the first six months of relocating to Austin, he was one of the youngest emerging artists to represent contemporary art in Texas, chosen by Art in America for the Texas Biennial. He was one of sixty-three selected artists, beating out thousands of submissions by mid-career and veteran artists.
Having performed on the stage since the age of three, Morgan has passionately pursued his career at all levels, earning a BFA in studio art, and has achieved the critical acclaim of noteworthy musicians and creative titans of the performing arts. To date, he has received Avant Garde Artist of the Year by the Austin Music Awards, successfully funded and fulfilled a Kickstarter for his epic, six-album opera, House of Stone and was invited to perform at Art Basel in Miami.
In addition to his impressive live performances, SORNE has produced, directed, written and starred in multiple short films, including the critically acclaimed, “Children of the Black Mountain” which he filmed with a small crew in the deserts of West Texas.
Children of the Black Mountain
He is currently illustrating a 200-page graphic novel with actor, poet and musician Saul Williams entitled "Martyr Loser King" to be released internationally through First:Second Books in 2019.
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EDUCATION
2006 BFA, Studio Art, Florida State University Tallahassee, FL
RECOGNITION
2013 Avant Garde Artist of the Year, Austin Music Awards
2013 NPR "7 to Watch"
2009 Featured Artist, 2009 Texas Biennial
SELECTED EXHIBITIONS / PERFORMANCES
2016 Cordesa Fine Art, Los Angeles, CA
2016 PYO Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
2015 Hall Barnett Gallery, New Orleans, LA
2015 Yerba Buena Performing Arts, San Francisco, CA
2014 "Songs From the House of Stone" - Solo Exhibition, G Gallery, Houston, TX
2013 Art Basel, Courtesy of Chandran Gallery, Miami, FL
2012 Art Night - The Jones Center, Austin, TX
2012 Display Gallery, Gainesville, FL
2011 2011 Texas Biennial - Farm 2 Market Arts, Lubbock, TX
2011 Mexican American Cultural Arts Center, Austin, TX
2011 Nave Museum, Victoria, Texas
2011 "H2H Houston to Hyderabad" - Muse Gallery, Hyderabad, India
2011 Mad is Mad Gallery, Madrid, Spain
2011 "Quick Draw" - G Gallery, Houston, TX
2010 "Musical Chairs" - Curated by Aimee Friberg, Magic Carpet Gallery, San Francisco, CA
2010 Art Outside Fair - Curated by Travis Rice, Apache Pass, TX
2009 2009 Texas Biennial - Curated by Michael Duncan of Art in America, Austin, TX
2009 "News from Nowhere" - Good Children Gallery, New Orleans, LA
2009 "Ghostsongs" - Pump Projects, Austin, TX
2008 "One Someone Anyone" - Galleri Urbane, Marfa, TX
2007 "Time for Change" - 621 Gallery, Tallahassee, FL
2007 Red Door Gallery, Tallahassee, FL
2006 Museum of Fine Arts, Tallahassee, FL |

“In the 45 years I have lived in LA, it’s the best thing I have ever seen.”
-Jay Levine, Founder of LA Weekly
"It's as if Freddie Mercury, David Byrne, an early David Bowie, Afrika Bambaataa, and the Cure's Robert Smith had gotten together and had a baby. He (Morgan Sorne) is an enigma, chanting like an ancient tribesman, stomping like he's dancing for rain, and whirling like a helicopter, while his voice scales the ranges of the mesmerizing and hypnotic, to almost unnaturally Edith Piaf high notes."
-Stephen Macmillan Moser of Austin Chronicle
“Nonconformist in nature, brilliant in execution. This is absolutely phenomenal in every sense of the word. Music cannot get more unique and authentic as this.”
-Sputnik Music
SELECTED PRESS
RollingStone Magazine - 50 Best Things We Saw At SXSW
Juxtapose - Art Basel Miami
Austin Chronicle Music Awards - Avant Garde Artist of the Year
The Daily Dot - The Mythic Universe of SORNE
Newfound - A Constant State of Awe
SORNE - A Guide to New Lands Within Yourself
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