morgan nash

I am

My name is Morgan (otherwise known as “Mo” or “Mx. Mo”), and I am a Pittsburgh-born-and-raised artist making, learning, and teaching through sculpture. I attended Carnegie Mellon University’s School of Art (2026), where I received a BFA (Bachelor of Fine Arts) with a concentration in SIS (Sculpture, Installation, and Site Work).

I am currently based mostly in Saugatuck, Michigan, where I live, work, and make at Ox-Bow School of Art & Artists’ Residency. During the off-season, I teach with Arts Greenhouse—a CMU-based nonprofit that provides arts and humanities education to underresourced middle schoolers throughout Pittsburgh. I cannot articulate how grateful and excited I am for these opportunities; it feels like I’ve struck the perfect balance of creating and educating, working and playing, living entirely with nature and also within the great Paris of Appalachia.

I have had a relentless love of objects since before I can remember: biting and chewing things that ought not go in one’s mouth, creating perfectly curated stuffed animal nests each night before bedtime, and collecting miscellaneous squishy things in a special, buttery-yellow box. My behaviors and relationships with the tangible world—whether man-made items or naturally occurring creatures and things—have been a vital aspect of my navigating this strange life.

Only recently, I was diagnosed with autism, which gives me a clearer perspective of why I’ve relied so heavily on objects as regulatory mechanisms. This insight has also given me an incredibly useful framework for understanding why I communicate and miscommunicate the way I do, and how my art practice is, at its core, an externalization of these introspective musings. Using subtractive and additive craft processes, like wood and foam carvings, polymer clay, and silicone, I translate my internal processing of the confusing, absurd, and intangible into physical forms.

I digest, reassemble, and then expel these intangibilities into literal beings that create opportunities for others to explore incongruity and peculiarity, and through interactions with them, maybe even cherish the humor and vulnerability often found in uncertainty. People are encouraged to squish, push, pull, hold, hug, or otherwise touch many of the art objects I make. In sharing these embodied versions of my many unanswered questions, I hope others might ask their own, or at least get closer to themselves and others through the process.