Carlos Amorales

Mexico 1970

Carlos Amorales
b. 1970, Mexico City

Carlos Amorales is a multidisciplinary artist working across video, animation, painting, drawing, sculpture, and performance. He studied at the Gerrit Rietveld Academie and the Rijksakademie in Amsterdam, and lives and works in Mexico City.

Since 1998, Amorales has developed his ongoing Liquid Archive — a vast digital database of drawings and vector graphics, populated by recurring motifs of birds, spiders, trees, and kneeling figures rendered in blacks, reds, and greys, which form the artist’s signature visual language. His practice probes the limits of language and translation, moving fluidly between image and sign, fantasy and reality, the personal and the universal.

Amorales represented Mexico at the 57th Venice Biennale (2017) with Life in the Folds, and his work has been presented at the Tate Modern, the Centre Pompidou, San Francisco MoMA, the Stedelijk Museum, and MUAC, among others. His work is held in the collections of the Museum of Modern Art, Tate, and the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, and he is represented by kurimanzutto, Mexico City.