Background
Carlos Amorales was born in 1970 in Mexico City.
Carlos Amorales was born in 1970 in Mexico City.
Amorales studied at the Gerrit Rietveld Academy and the Rijksakademie in Amsterdam from 1992 to 1996.
He currently lives and works in Mexico City. Amorales works in a variety of media, including video, animation, painting, drawing, sculpture, and performance. Much of his work examines contemporary Mexican culture and values.
Since 1998, Amorales has been building his "Liquid Archive", a digital database of his drawings in the form of vector graphics which he uses produce visual compositions in various media.
The graphics, birds, spiders, trees, kneeling figures in blacks, reds, and grays reappear throughout his work and provide his signature style. In 2007, Amorales lent his "Liquid Archive" to the Dutch graphic design duo Mevis & Van Deursen (Armand Mevis and Linda van Deursen) who collaborated with Amorales to produce the book "Carlos Amorales: Liquid Archive, Why Fear The Future".
His early works also featured masked Mexican wrestlers inspired by the Lucha libre performing in wrestling rings throughout the world. In 2003, the wrestling performance Amorales v.
Amorales was staged at the Tate Modern in London, the Pompidou Center in Paris and the San Francisco Museum of Modern Artist
His animation piece, Useless Wonder (2006) was shown at the Miami Basel art fair. Recently, Amorales has had solo exhibitions at the MALBA in Buenos Aires, the Milton Keynes Gallery in Milton Keynes United Kingdom, Yvon Lambert Paris, the MUCA in Mexico City, the Philadelphia Museum of Artist In 2008, his exhibition Discarded Spider toured at the Contemporary Arts Center, Cincinnati.
Foreign this show, Amorales also staged a performance with the Cincinnati Ballet.
In 2015, his work Triangle Constellation was installed in the Calderwood courtyard of the Harvard University Art Museums. Amorales has exhibited in many solo and group exhibitions, including:
Select solo exhibitions
Germinal, Museo Rufino Tamayo, Mexico City (2013)
Four Animations, Five Drawings, and a Plague, Philadelphia Museum of Art (2008)
Select group exhibitions
50th Venice Biennale, Dutch Pavilion (2003)
PERFORMA07, New York (2007)
Martian Museum of Terrestrial Art, Barbican Centre (2008)
Manifesta 9 (2012)
Sharjah Biennial 11 (2013)
Liverpool Biennial (2014)
The artist"s work is featured in many public collections, including:
MoMA in New York
Louisiana Colección Jumex in Mexico City
Cisneros Foundation Collection in New York
Margulies Collection in Miami
Irish Museum of Modern Art in Dublin
Philadelphia Museum of Art
Amorales is represented in Paris and New York by Yvon Lambert Gallery and by kurimanzutto in Mexico City.