Artists
Beatriz Morales
K30112 Quimera, agave fiber, natural dyes, ink, acrylic and cotton embroidery on jute, 270 x 490 cm / 106 x 192 in, 2024
K30109 Tecuani II, agave fiber, natural dyes, ink, acrylic and cotton embroidery on jute, 233 x 116 cm / 92 x 46 in each, 2024
K30108 Sounds I'll never hear VIII.II, acrylic, ink and cotton embroidery on canvas, 147 x 198 cm / 58 x 78 in, 2024
K30107 Sounds I'll never hear VIII.I, acrylic, ink and cotton embroidery on canvas, 147 x 198 cm / 58 x 78 in, 2024
Born and raised in Mexico City, Beatriz Morales left her native country in 2001 to pursue largely autodidactic studies in painting, pottery and fashion design. Morales combines an investigative, abstract-expressionist approach, at times combined with figurative and illustrative components, creating a concretely conceptualized body of work.
“Beatriz Morales’s series Tecuani—a Nahua word meaning ‘beast,’ ‘man-eater,’
‘jaguar,’ or ‘undomesticated animal’—are made with agave fiber, a material sacred in
pre-Hispanic Mexico and central to Indigenous cosmologies. Drawing from the vegetal world, Morales incorporates raw fiber into her work to create textures that resemble animal fur or human hair. Engaging the fiber’s organic unpredictability, she foregrounds its ancestral character and resistance to full control. Color is introduced through natural dyes—such as orange extracted from palo de Brasil and deep hues obtained from blends of pomegranate and campeche—further rooting the work in processes shaped by harvests, water, and the rhythms of nature. In her work embroidery and gesture coexist: delicate white stitches form linear marks and scattered points, while expansive areas of textile—stitched, layered, and textured—generate a painterly surface. The work is animated by contrasts—between chaos and order, artisanal and industrial, raw and refined—unfolding across multiple scales, where minute, controlled details emerge within vast fields of fiber and color.”
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Beatriz Morales (Mexico City, D.F., 1981)
Her 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. Morales made her major art fair debut shown at Zona Monaco in 2018. Her work was shown at Dallas Art Fair 2019 and in numerous galleries across Europe and North America. Beatriz Morales’ recent exhibitions also include a major solo exhibition at Circle Culture Berlin and two major museum shows at 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. Upcoming highlights include participation in the group exhibition The King is Dead, Long Live the Queen at Frieder Burda Museum (Baden Baden, Germany). Morales published her first major monography Color Archaeology on Kerber Publishing in December 2021.
Solo exhibitions
2024 Unbound, Praxis, New York, NY
2024 Beatriz Morales: Árbol de Agave / Agave Baum, Kunstverein Dresden, Germany
2022 Where the Wild Things Grow, Barlach Halle K, Circle Culture Gallery, Hamburg, Germany
2020 Museum of Contemporary Art MACAY, Mérida, Mexico
2019 Exhibition Galería Drexel, Monterrey, Mexico
2019 Museo de la Cancillería, Mexico City, Mexico
2018 Galerie NH, Paris, France
2017 Gallery Weekend Mexico City, Galería Obra Negra, Mexico
2017 In Touch, Forum Kunst und Architektur, Essen, Germany
2016 Things We Hide In Water, ICM, Vienna, Austria
2015 Hidden, Mexican Embassy, Berlin, Germany
2015 Color Fields, Bosshardt/Sikemeier, Binningen, Switzerland
2014 Bordeaux Portrait, Bosshardt/Sikemeier, Binningen, Switzerland
2012 Kunstraum Tapir, Berlin, Germany
2009 Sensitivo, Takt Gallery, Berlin, Germany
2009 Fondo de Cultura Económica Rosario Castellanos, Mexico City, Mexico
2006 Salone del Gusto, Turin, Italy
2006 Universitá UNISG Pollenzo, Italy
2001 Casa Lamm, Salon Proust, Mexico City, Mexico
Group exhibitions
2024 Edith Farnsworth House, Praxis, Plano (IL), USA
2024 Zona Maco, Praxis Gallery, Mexico City, Mexico
2023 The King is Dead, Long Live the Queen, Museum Frieder Burda, Baden Baden, Germany
2023 Dallas Art Fair, Booth: Drexel Galería, Dallas, USA
2023 Art Karlsruhe, Circle Culture Gallery, Karlsruhe, Germany
2022 The Way Things Go, Kunsthalle Dessau, Germany
2022 Circle Culture Gallery, Gallery Weekend Berlin, Germany
2022 Love Is in the Air – Vol.3, Heart Ego, Monterrey, Mexico
2022 Standing Wave, Caleta, Mexico City, Mexico
2022 Drexel Galería, Monterrey, Mexico
2021 Behind Bars – Strange New World, Forcalquier, France
2021 La Voluntad de la Materia, Zamora 15, Mexico City, Mexico
2021 Dallas Art Fair, Booth Drexel Galería, Monterrey, Mexico
2020 Dallas Art Fair, Drexel Galería Booth, Dallas, USA
2020 Due To, Lage Egal, Berlin, Germany
2020 Memories of Now, Art Perspectives, Am Tacheles, Berlin, Germany
2020 Guava Fangs, Berlin, Germany
2019 Museo de Arte Moderno – Arte Vivo 2019, Mexico City, Mexico
2019 Espacio Unión – Sueños, Mexico City, Mexico
2019 Foreign Affairs by Art Perspectives, Berlin, Germany
2018 Konjuktionen, FONCA, Berlin, Germany
2018 Beirut Art Residency Open Studio, Beirut, Lebanon
2018 Zona Maco, Nuevas Propuestas, Mexico City, Mexico
2017 XVII Bienal Tamayo, Museo de Arte Contemporáneo Rufino Tamayo, Mexico City, Mexico
2016 XVII Bienal Tamayo, Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Oaxaca MACO, Mexico
2014 Mexico Vivo, Museo de Arte Moderno, Mexico City, Mexico
2013 AU Gallery Exhibition, Berlin, Germany
2012 Berliner Liste Contemporary Art Fair, Berlin, Germany
2011 BlOOOM, Art Fair Cologne, Germany
2011 Gruppenausstellung Druckgraphik-Atelier, Berlin, Germany
2011 Gruppenausstellung Kunstraum Tapir, Berlin, Germany
2010 Berliner Kunstsalon 07, Takt Gallery, Berlin, Germany
2010 Gruppenausstellung Druckgraphik-Atelier, Berlin, Germany
2009 Gruppenausstellung, Gallery Lavagna, St. Paul de Vince, France
2008 Gruppenausstellung, Gallery Iris Schuhmacher, Berlin, Germany
