Sarah Morris’ paintings allude to structures and systems that capture phenomena and convert them into patterns, using a vast range of references from architecture to industrial design, cartographic iconography, language, sociological diagrams, systems, and game theory. Thus, cities worldwide have their atmosphere and ambiance converted into color schemes; the reading of an audio signal becomes a pattern, and the constructive typology of the capitalist city is decomposed into lines and curves and passes onto Morris’ surfaces. Roundabouts and street networks compose a shared vocabulary between the city’s macroscopic scale and the painting’s surface. 

Among her solo exhibitions are Transactional Authority, Nakanoshima Museum of Art, Osaka, Japan (2026); All Systems Fail, Kunstmuseen Stuttgart, Germany; Zentrum Pal Klee, Bern, Switzerland (2024); Sakura, Nakanoshima Museum of Art, Osaka, Japan (2023); As Slow As Possible, Escape Louis Vuitton, Munich, Germany (2023); Today we find ourselves at an impasse, Fortes D’Aloia & Gabriel | Carpintaria, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil (2019) and Finite and Infinite Games, LUMA Foundation, Zurich, Switzerland (2018). She has also taken part in the group shows Untitled (Pictures from Paradise) , MARCO – Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Monterrey, Monterrey, México (2025); Cinco Ensaios sobre o MASP – Geometrias, MASP – Museu de Arte de São Paulo Assis Chateaubriand, São Paulo, Brazil (2025); Endeavours and Masterpieces, Frac Sud – Cité de l’art contemporain, Marseille, France (2024) and The Echo of Picasso, Museo Picasso, Málaga, Spain (2023). 

Sarah Morris has works in important public collections, including Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, USA; Centre Pompidou, Paris, France; Museum of Modern Art, New York, USA; Tate Modern, London, UK; Museum für Moderne Kunst, Frankfurt, Germany; Kunsthalle Bremen, Bremen, Germany; San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, USA; Luma Foundation, Arles, France; Victoria and Albert Museum, London, UK; Kunstmuseum Ravensburg, Ravensburg, Germany; Kunstmuseum Wolfsburg, Wolfsburg, Germany; Osaka City Museum of Modern Art, Osaka, Japan; Museum of Contemporary Art of San Diego, San Diego, USA; Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam, Netherlands; Musée d’Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris, Paris, France; Jumex Museum, Ciudad de Mexico, Mexico; Fondation Louis Vuitton, Paris, France; Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, Saadiyat Island, Abu Dhabi; Städtische Galerie im Lenbachhaus, Munich, Germany; Beyeler Stiftung, Basel, Switzerland; Stuttgart Museum of Modern Art, Stuttgart, Germany; Sammlung Hoffmann, Berlin, Germany; National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne, Australia; UBS Collection, New York, USA; British Council, London, UK; F.R.A.C. Bourgone, Dijon, France; F.R.A.C. Poitou-Charentes, Angoulême, France; Saatchi Collection, London, UK; Sammlung DaimlerChrysler, Berlin, Germany; Sammlung Goetz, Munich, Germany; Schaulager, Basel, Switzerland; Centre d’Art Contemporain, Dijon, France; Miami Art Museum, Miami, USA and Dallas Museum of Art, Dallas, USA.