BEATRIZ MORALES

* 1981 in Mexico City, D.F.

Born and raised in Mexico City, Beatriz Morales left her native country in 2001 to pursue largely autodidactic studies in painting and fashion design in Europe. Morales combines an investigative, abstract-expressionist approach with textile art, fibre art and conceptual components, often realized in monumental installations. As part of her practice, the artist incorporates traditional, pre-hispanic dyeing techniques, both in her work with plant fibers as well as when painting on canvases.

Morales’ painting Wonderland II was presented at the Museum of Contemporary Art Rufino Tamayo Mexico City and Oaxaca as part of the Mexican Painting Biennial 2017. She made her major art fair debut shown at Zona Maco in 2018, followed by multiple appearances at Dallas Art Fair, Zona Maco, Art Karlsruhe as well as exhibitions in numerous galleries across Europe and North America. Beatriz Morales’ recent exhibitions include Bienal Sur, the Chancellery Museum in Mexico City and the Museum of Contemporary Art MACAY in Merida (which dedicated its main exhibition hall to a large scale installation by the artist), and a participation in the group exhibition “The King is Dead, Long Live the Queen” at Frieder Burda Museum, Baden Baden, Germany. Other notable exhibitions include an intervention of a traditional Trullo in Southern Italy (Dep Art Out, Puglia Art Projec), solo exhibitions at Praxis Gallery New York, and Kunstverein Dresden and an intervention of the iconic Edith Farnsworth House by Mies van der Rohe in Plano Illinois, USA. Morales created a monumental 3 x 8 meter agave fiber mural for Gabriela Cámara’s Caracol de Mar in Mexico City.

Beatriz Morales published her first major monography “Color Archaeology” on Kerber Publishing in December 2021, available now in bookstores internationally.

Her paintings and installations are held in institutional collections including Yunes Collection, Sao Paulo, Perez Collection, Miami, Eckelmann Art Collection, Hamburg and Groeninghe Collection, Belgium as well as private collections in Mexico, Germany, Austria, Switzerland, France, Lebanon, Dubai, Canada and the USA. Her work was featured in numerous print and online publications. Beatriz Morales lives and works in Berlin and Hidalgo, Mexico.

Instagram: @beatriz__morales

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