How can I buy a work by William Morris?

Bruno David Gallery handles the sale of available works by William Morris. For prices and availability, email info@brunodavidgallery.com or call +1 314 696 2377.

Where can I see work by William Morris in person?

At Bruno David Gallery, 7513 Forsyth Boulevard, Saint Louis, Missouri 63105, during public hours or by appointment. His work is also in the collections of RISD Museum.

What does William Morris make?

Single-channel videos built by reworking existing footage such as home movies, found film and television news, in which meaning comes from the editing, from layered and intercut images and from carefully chosen music rather than from conventional narrative.

Where is William Morris based?

William Morris lives and works in St. Louis, Missouri.

Has William Morris had an exhibition at Bruno David Gallery?

Yes. Compendium (6 March to 11 April 2026); re:memory (20 January to 4 March 2023) are among his exhibitions at the gallery.

William Morris

William Morris (born 1960) is a St. Louis-based video artist who makes single-channel videos, often by reworking existing footage such as home movies, found film and television news. He favors experimentation over conventional narrative: meaning comes from the editing, from layered and intercut images and from music chosen with as much care as the pictures. Recurring themes include memory, family history, identity, politics and the media.

Immediacy of Distance (2016) pairs Super 8 films his mother shot in north St. Louis in the 1970s with audio interviews in which she recalls her childhood in a Mississippi sharecropping family. The Protest Project (2020) opens with a scene from the 1976 film Network, then layers television coverage of the COVID-19 pandemic with footage of the protests that followed the killing of George Floyd. In re:memory, shown at the gallery in 2023, overlapping found footage from the 1930s to the 1980s is set to music by percussionist Henry Claude. A lo-fi, experimental approach links these works to his earliest videos.

Born in St. Louis, Morris earned a B.F.A. from Washington University in St. Louis in 1985 and an M.F.A. in video art from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago in 1988. He then worked at Kartemquin Films in Chicago as an assistant editor on Golub and a production assistant on Hoop Dreams. He has been a visiting artist at Washington University, a guest lecturer at Webster University and a guest instructor for Contemporary Art Museum St. Louis.

His videos have been screened at the Saint Louis Art Museum, Wesleyan University, the St. Louis International Film Festival and the Mildred Lane Kemper Art Museum, and the RISD Museum acquired Immediacy of Distance in 2022. His awards include a 2015 Creative Stimulus Award from Critical Mass for the Visual Arts and a 2019 Regional Arts Commission Artist Fellowship. Morris has shown at Bruno David Gallery since 2010, with solo exhibitions including Immediacy of Distance (2016), The Protest Project (2020) and re:memory (2023). Compendium (2026), his seventh solo exhibition there, surveyed twenty-five videos made between 1988 and 2025.

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