Carlos Amorales

Born in 1970 in Mexico City. Lives and works in Mexico City, Mexico.

Carlos Amorales’ work with mixed media – video, painting, animation, drawing, sculpture and performance – experiments with language and the limits between image and sign. Using his database “Liquid Archive” as the basis for many explorations since 1998, Amorales constructs his own visual language, with shapes, lines and nodes instead of words, which the artist uses to create and translate an array of outcomes. Influenced by traditional, popular and conceptual representations, Amorales’ works range from texts and drawings to wrestling performances and emphasises the repetitveness of the image.

Amorales graduated from the Gerrit Rietveld Academy and the Rijksakademie van Beeldende Kunsten, both in Amsterdam. He has been recipient of the Smithsonian Artist Research Fellowship program and represented Mexico in the 57th Venice Biennale. Amorales’ work has been included in other biennales, such as the Shanghai Biennale; Berlin Biennale; Sharjah Biennial; Havanna Biennale; SeMA Biennale Mediacity Seoul; and Moscow International Biennale of Contemporary Art.

The artist has had solo exhibitions in institutions such as the Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam; Museo Kaluz, Mexico City; Fondazione Adolfo Pini, Milan; MUAC – Museo Universitario de Arte Contemporáneo, Mexico City; Museum of Art, Philadelphia; Museo Tamayo, Mexico City; MAC/ VAL, Vitry-sur-Seine, among others.

His work is part of collections of institutions such as the Museum of Modern Art, New York; the Cisneros Foundation Collection, New York; Colección Jumex, Mexico City; Tate Modern, London; Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, among many others.