Anthony Morton

Anthony Charles Morton (b. 1992, Durban, South Africa) is an artist based in Bergen, Norway. Morton approaches painting through a naturalistic cosmology, with matter forming 13.8 billion years ago and image-making 73,000 years ago. Through theory and painting, he explores image-space as a way the universe expresses itself, where a mode of reality is rendered explicit by the image. If existence discloses itself to us as visual, what then beckons from within the realm of the image?

Morton studied in Japan, Norway, and South Africa, and holds an MA in Fine Art (2019), specialising in painting, and an MA in Philosophy (2023), with research focused on artistic progress in image-making, both from the University of Bergen. Morton has exhibited in Italy, China, Norway, and South Africa, and his work is held in several private and public collections, including Ooh La Art (China), Nandos (Malaysia), and Spier (South Africa). He is the director of The Place of Shade, recently published in the Nordic Journal of Artistic Research (VIS #11), with a film to debut in October 2026.