Chris Morrey has taught sculpture and architecture, worked as a gallery worker, concrete laborer, fire alarm systems technician and designer, as a master electrician, a wild bird rehabilitator, and an educator.

He was President of the Board of one of the oldest co-operative galleries in the country, and founder of Dogwood Artist Workspace, a low-cost artist studio that operated for over a decade, housing as many as seven artists at a time and holding monthly exhibits for local artists.

He has lived all over central North America, from western Canada to southern Arizona. He has maintained a studio and art practice all of his life. He teaches and works at the University of Oklahoma in Norman, Oklahoma, where he lives with his family.