Biography

Amorales studied at the Gerrit Rietveld Academie

Gerrit Rietveld Academie

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 and the Rijksakademie in Amsterdam

Amsterdam

Amsterdam is the largest city and the capital of the Netherlands. The current position of Amsterdam as capital city of the Kingdom of the Netherlands is governed by the constitution of August 24, 1815 and its successors. Amsterdam has a population of 783,364 within city limits, an urban population...

 from 1992 to 1996.

Works

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 digitial 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 earlier works featured masked Mexican wrestlers performing in wrestling ring

Wrestling ring

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s throughout the world, including at the Tate Modern

Tate Modern

Tate Modern is a modern art gallery located in London, England. It is Britain's national gallery of international modern art and forms part of the Tate group . It is the most-visited modern art gallery in the world, with around 4.7 million visitors per year...

 in London and the Pompidou Center

Centre Georges Pompidou

Centre Georges Pompidou is a complex in the Beaubourg area of the 4th arrondissement of Paris, near Les Halles, rue Montorgueil and the Marais...

 in Paris.
His latest animation piece, Useless Wonder (2006) was shown at the Miami Basel art fair.
Recently, Amorales has had solo exhibitions at the MALBA

MALBA

The Latin American Art Museum of Buenos Aires is a museum located on Figueroa Alcorta Avenue, in the Palermo section of Buenos Aires.Created by Argentine businessman Eduardo Constantini, the museum is operated by the not-for-profit Fundación MALBAConstantini, and was inaugurated on September 21,...

 in Buenos Aires

Buenos Aires

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, the Milton Keynes Gallery in Milton Keynes

Milton Keynes

Milton Keynes , sometimes abbreviated MK, is a large town in Buckinghamshire, in the south east of England, about north-west of London. It is the administrative centre of the Borough of Milton Keynes...

 UK, Yvon Lambert Paris, the MUCA in Mexico City, the Philadelphia Museum of Art

Philadelphia Museum of Art

The Philadelphia Museum of Art is among the largest art museums in the United States. It is located at the west end of the Benjamin Franklin Parkway in Philadelphia's Fairmount Park. The Museum was established in 1876 in conjunction with the Centennial Exposition of the same year...

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His exhibition Discarded Spider, toured at the Contemporary Arts Center, Cincinnati, The Orange County Museum of Art.

The artist's work is featured in many public and private collections, including the MoMA

Moma

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 in New York, La Colección Jumex in Mexico City, the Cisneros Foundation Collection in New York, the Margulies Collection in Miami and the Irish Museum of Modern Art

Irish Museum of Modern Art

The Irish Museum of Modern Art also known as IMMA, is Ireland's leading national institution exhibiting and collecting modern and contemporary art. The museum opened in May 1991 and is located in Royal Hospital Kilmainham, a 17th-century building near Heuston Station to the west of Dublin's city...

 in Dublin.
He is represented in Paris and New York by Yvon Lambert Gallery

Yvon Lambert Gallery

Yvon Lambert Gallery is a contemporary art gallery founded by Yvon Lambert in 1966. There are two locations; one in Paris and the second in New York City.-History:...

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External links

• Page on Amorales's solo exhibit at the Museum of Latin American Art of Buenos Aires (in Spanish)
• Article from the BBC's "collective" (culture magazine)
• Carlos Amorales in ArtNexus Magazine
• Carlos Amorales at Kunsthalle Fridericianum, Kassel
• "Carlos Amorales", Artnet
• Carlos Amorales at Highpoint Center for Printmaking, Minneapolis