BIOGRAPHY
Born in 1970 in Mexico City
Lives and works in Mexico City
EDUCATION, RESIDENCIES AND DISTINCTIONS
1992- 95
Gerrit Rietveld Academy, Amsterdam, NL
1996-97
Rijksakademie van Beeldende Kunsten, NL
2010
SARF, Smithsonian Artists Research Fellowship, Washington D.C, US
2011
Production Residency at Mac/Val, Val-De-Marne, FR
2012
Production Residency at the Atelier Calder, Saché, FR
Since 2008 he is advisor of the Rijksakademie van BeeldenKunsten, Amsterdam, and from 2008 until 2011 a member of the National System of Art Creators, Mexico city
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2013
Tamayo Museum, Mexico city, MX
2012
La Langue des Morts, Galerie Yvon Lambert, Paris, FR
2011
Carlos Amorales : Silent films, Song Eun Art Space, Seoul, KR
Supprimer, modifier et préserver, Mac/Val, Vitry-sur-seine, FR
Lovecraft, Centro Fotografico Manuel Alvarez Bravo, Oaxaca, MX
Los Guerreros / The Warriors, Festival Internacional de Cine de Guadalajara, Cineteca Nacional, Mexico City, MX
2010
Vivir por fuera de la casa de uno, Museo Amparo, Puebla and MARCO, Monterrey, MX
Remix, Palazzo Delle Exposizioni, Rome, IT
Afthermath, Yvon Lambert Gallery, New York, US
Skeleton Images Tossed by Chance, Highpoint Center for Printmaking, Minneapolis, US
Vertical Earthquake, Annet Gelink Gallery, Amsterdam, NL
Manimal, Herzliya Museum of Contemporary Art, Herzliya, IL
El estudio por la ventana, Galería Kurimanzutto, Mexico City, MX
Discarded Spider, Cornerhouse, Manchester, UK
To whom it may concern/ A quien corresponda, Museo Amaro, Puebla, MX / MARCO, Monterrey, MX, Highpoint, Minneapolis, Hirshhorn Museum, Washington DC, Yvon Lambert Gallery, New York, US
2009
Working Class Today… Tomorrow Nuevos Ricos! Kunsthalle Fredericianum, Kassel, DE
Black Cloud, Espacio de Arte Veronicas, Murcia, ES
Discarded Spider, Orange County Museum of Art, Newport Beach, US
Broken Animals: Revisited Animations by Carlos Amorales, Meet Factory, Prague, CZ
The Skeleton Image Constellation, Cabaret Voltaire, Zurich, CH
2008
Carlos Amorales / Praneet Soi, Project 33, Mumbai, IN
Subconscious City, Yvon Lambert Gallery, London, UK
Discarded Spider, Cincinnati Art Center, Cincinnati, US
Psicofonias, with Julian Lede, OPA, Guadalajara, MX
Four Animations, Five Drawings and a Plague, Live Cinema, Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia,US
Dark Mirror, Irish Museum of Art, Dublin, IE
2007
FACES, The Moore Space, Miami, US
Black Cloud, Yvon Lambert Gallery, New York, US
Dark Mirror, Daros Exhibitions, Zurich, CH
2006
Carlos Amorales, MALBA, Buenos Aires, AR
Spider Web Negative, MK Gallery, Milton Keynes, UK
Broken Animals, Galerie Yvon Lambert, Paris, FR
¿Por qué temer al futuro? MUCA Campus, Mexico City, MX
Useless Wonder, Power Plant, Toronto, CA
Carlos Amorales, Queens Museum of Art (QMA), New York, US
2005
¿Por qué temer al futuro? Casa de America, Madrid (SP) Artium, Vitoria-Gasteiz , ES
Nuevos Ricos Franchise, Galeria Kurimanzutto/ Annet Gelink Gallery, ARCO, Madrid, ES
2004
The Forest, The 59th minute, Creative Time, Times Square, New York, US
The Nightlife of a Shadow, Annet Gelink Gallery, Amsterdam, NL
Nuevos Ricos, in collaboration with Julian Lede, Chiesa di San Matteo, Associazione Prometeo, Lucca, IT
2003
Carlos Amorales, Festival international de nouvelle danse (FIND), Montreal, CA.
The Bad sleep well, Yvon Lambert Gallery, New York, US
Turbulencias, Galeria Enrique Guerrero, Mexico city, MX
Stage for an Imaginary Friend, Galerie Yvon Lambert, Paris, FR
2002
Sympathy, Serge Ziegler Gallery, Zurich, CH
Simpatia por el Diablo, SKUC, Lubjana, SI
Solitario, Le Studio, Galerie Yvon Lambert, Paris, FR
Fighting Evil (with style), SFU Contemporary Art Museum,Tampa, US
2001
Open, Galerie Serge Ziegler, Zurich, CH
Cabaret Amorales, Migros Museum, Zurich, CH
Cuerpo sin alma, Galeria Nina Menocal, Mexico City, Mexico.
2000
Funny 13, Galerie Micheline Szwajcer, Antwerpen, BE
A World All Too Familiar, new projects by Carlos Amorales and Christine Hill, CCS Museum, Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson, New York, US
1999
Stoplight Pastimes, Marres Centrum, Maastricht, NL
Carlos Amorales, Project room, Museo Carrillo Gil, Mexico City, MX
As Amorales, Galerie Fons Welters, Amsterdam, NL
1998
Amorales Interim, Galerie Micheline Szwajcer, Antwerpen, BE
PERFORMANCE PROJECTS
2010
Blind Spots / Puntos Ciegos, VIII SITAC, Teatro Julio Prieto, Mexico City, MX
2009
Felix Kubin en Concierto, Pasaje America y Museo de Arte Contemporaneo, Mexico City, MX
2008
Discarded spider webs, Performance with Cincinnati Ballet, organized by Cincinnati Art Center, Cincinnati, US
Nuevos Ricos presenta Damo Suzuki, Pasaje America, Mexico City, MX
2007
Spider Galaxy, Museo Rufino Tamayo, MX, Performa Biennial, New York, US
Escultura Social: A New Generation of Art from Mexico City, Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, US
Presentation of records by Dick el Demasiado, Silverio and Jessy Bulbo, Nuevos Ricos at La Burbuja, Mexico City, MX
Mugre en Concierto, Residencias Local, Torres Tequendama, Bogota, CO
Noche Blanca”, Presentacion de Nuevos Ricos en colaboracion con Carlos Amorales, Matadero, Madrid, ES
2006
Art Perform, Art Basel Miami Beach, Miami, US
Nuevos Ricos vs. New Moldavians, in collaboration with Pavel Braila, Schauspielfrankfurt, Frankfurt, DE
Nuevos Ricos, Apettite, Buenos Aires, AR
Explotando Gueros Tour, various cities, MX
Hiperpop, Processos Oberts Festival, Terraza, ES
Transit, Performance program, Frankfurt Fine Art Fair, Frankfurt, DE
2005
In Gold We Trust, Nuevos Ricos wintertour 2005, New York, Madrid, Barcelona, Geneva, Mexico City
including: Nuevos Ricos / USA, organised by Creative Time, Gavin Brown’s Passerby, New York , US
and Nuevos Ricos en Concierto, Casa Encendida, Madrid, ES
Titan, NR label presentation, Nacional Financiera, Mexico City, MX
Aux Raus in Mexico, Nuevos Ricos, various venues, Mexico City, MX
Capitalismo Barato, Nuevos Ricos at Lunario, Mexico City, MX
2004
Localismos, Mexico City, MX
Working Class Today… Mañana Nuevos Ricos!, KBB, Barcelona, ES
Nuevos Ricos Franchise, Musik Total III, De Appel, Amsterdam, NL
Carlos Amorales and Julian Lede play Nuevos Ricos, SonarLab, Sonar, Barcelona, ES
2003
Amorales vs Amorales, Challenge 2003, Tate and Egg Live, Tate Modern, London, UK, SF MoMa, San Francisco, US, Hebbel Theatre, Berlin, DE
UK is almost OK, 24-7 Gallery, London, UK
Devil Dance, Museum Boijmans van Beunigen, Rotterdam, NL
2002
Living like a lover with a radar phone, Project, Dublin, IE
2001
Amorales vs Amorales, The Overexcited Body, Sesc Pompei, Sao Paolo, BR
Amorales vs Amorales, Insite 2000, Tijuana, MX, San Diego, US
2000
Amorales vs Amorales, Au delà du spectacle, Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris, FR
Los Mutantes / 2, in collaboration with Michael Blum, Mexico City streets and El Caracol, MX
1999
Amorales vs Amorales, Peace, Migros Museum, Zurich, CH
Los Mutantes / 1, in collaboration with Joan Jonas, Mexico City streets and El Caracol, MX
1997
Amorales in conversation with… Superbarrio, performance/lecture, De Balie ,W139, RABK, Amsterdam, NL
Niet de kustvlaai, Interim Performance, Westergas Fabriek, Amsterdam, NL
GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2013
Order, Chaos and the Space Between Contemporary Latin American Art from the Diane and Bruce Hall collection, Phoenix Art Museum, Phoenix, US
Book Machine, Nouveau festival 2013, Centre Pompidou, Paris, FR
Ya veremos como todo reverbera, 2012, Sharjah Biennal 11 (curated by Yuko Hasegawa), Sharjah, AE
2012
Les chefs d’oeuvre de la donation Yvon Lambert, Collection Lambert, Avignon, FR
Safari – Le lieu unique, Nantes, FR
Manifesta 9, Koolmijn van Waterschei, Genk, BE
Time out of Mind, Irish Museum of Modern Art (IMMA), Dublin, IR
Posada bis Alys, Mexikanische Kunst von 1900 bis heute, Kunsthaus Zürich, CH
Tour d’Horizon, Werke aus der Sammlung migros museum für gegenwartskunst, Migros Museum für Gegenwartskunst, Zürich, CH
Extranjerias, Museo Universitario de Arte Contemporaneo, MUAC, Mexico city, MX
2011
Now: Obras de la Coleccion Jumex, Instituto Cultural Cabanas, Guadalajara, MX
Highpoint Editions – Decade one, Highpoint Center for Printmaking, Minneapolis, US
Rewriting worlds: Dada Moscow, A special project of the 4th Moscow Biennale, Barbarian Art Gallery, Zürich, CH
Mexico – Poesi & Politik, Nordiska Akvarellmuseet, Skärhamn, SE
Mexico: Expected/Unexpected, Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego, MCASD La Jolla, La Jolla, US, Museum of Latin American Art, Long Beach, US
Of Bridges and Borders, CCBA, Buenos Aires, AR
Two Versions of the Imaginary, Annet Gelink Gallery, Amsterdam, NL
Distant Star, Regen Projects, Los Angeles, US
Estrella Distante, Kurimanzutto, Mexico City, MX
Cartografías de arte contemporáneo, Instituto Coahuilense de Cultura, Saltillo, MX
Proyecto Juarez, Matadero, Madrid, ES
Nuit Blanche, Lycée Jacques Decour, Paris, FR
Tiempos Violentos, Museo de Arte Carrillo Gil, Mexico City, MX
2010
I believe in Miracles, 10th anniversary of the Lambert Collection, Collection Lambert, Avignon, FR
Covering the wall, Contemporary Wall papers, Musée du design et d’arts appliqués contemporains (MUDAC), Lausanne, CH
The Metamorphosis – International Contemporary Art Exhibition, Other Gallery Shanghai Space, Shangai, CN
[Re]wind 4.0 : Contemporary Video Art, 2000-2009, DePauw University Campus, Greencastle, US
Twilight Of The Idols, Galería Casado Santapau, Madrid, ES
Lenguajes en papel, Galeria Fernando Pradilla, Madrid, ES
Still/Moving, The Israel Museum, Tel Aviv, IL
Al calor del pensamiento, Daros Latinamerica Collection at Sala de Arte Ciudad Grupo Santander, ES
Repeat All, Centro Cultural Chacao de El Rosal, VE
La Trama se Complica, MARCO, Monterrey, MX
Modelos para Armar. Pensar Latinoamerica desde la Coleccion MUSAC, MUSAC, León, ES
El Efecto Dracula, Museo Universitario del Chopo, Mexico City, MX
These Gifts Must Always Move, Sutton Gallery Project Space, Melbourne, AU
Touched: Liverpool Biennial, special project graphic intervention, Liverpool, UK
Historias en Movimiento > video. cine. animación. Sonido, Museo Provincial de Bellas Artes de Santiago del Estero, AR
¡Afuera! Arte en Espacios Públicos, different spaces, Cordoba, AR
¡Sin Techo está pelón!, Festival Internacional Cervantino, Guanajuato, MX
Hareng Saur: Ensor and Contemporary Art, MSK and SMAK, Ghent, BE
Cauce Critico, Casa Metropolitana, Mexico City, MX
2009
Mythologies, Haunch of Venison, London, UK
Un Certain Etat du Monde? Garage, Moscow, RU
10 Bienal de la Habana, Havana, CU
Trienal Poligráfica de San Juan, San Juan, PR
Repeat All, Museu da Imagem e do Som, São Paulo, BR
El Ser y La Nada, La Coleccion Jumex, Mexico City, MX
This is Sculpture, Tate Liverpool, Liverpool, UK
Extranjerias en la Cultura, Fundación Telefónica, Buenos Aires, AR
Artisterium, National Art Center, Tbilisi, GE
Constellations: The First Beijing 798 Biennale, Beijing, CN
Acciones Disolventes, Centro Cultural Cachao, Caracas, VE
Slash: Paper under the Knife, Museum of Art and Design, New York, US
Eerie & languid- explorations about responsibilities and values, Artisterium, Tbilisi, GE
Where do we go from here? Selections from la Coleccion Jumex, Bass Museum of Art, Miami, US
Mexico: Expected/Unexpected, Collection Isabel and Agustin Coppel, Stedelijk Museum Schiedam, NL, TEA Tenerife Espacio de las Artes, Santa Cruz de Tenerife, ES
2008
Locked in, Casino Luxembourg, LU
Martian Museum of Terrestrial Art, Barbican Art Gallery, London, UK
The Rocky Mountain People Show, Galleria Civica di Arte Contemporanea, Trento, IT
La Era de la Discrepancia, MALBA, Buenos Aires, AR
El Norte del Sur, Galeria Baró Cruz, São Paulo, BR
Turn and Widen, 5th Seoul International Media Art Biennial, Seoul, KR
Distopía, Museo de Arte, Universidad Nacional de Colombia, Bogota, CO
Mexico: Expected / Unexpected, La Maison Rouge, Paris, FR
Viva La Muerte!, Centro Atlantico de Arte Moderno, Las Palmas de la Gran Canaria, ES
Pasions Privadas, Visions Publicas, MARCO, Vigo, ES
The Promised Land, Chelsea Art Museum, New York, US
Escultura Social: A New Generation of Art from Mexico City, Alameda Art Museum, San Antonio, US
Apertura de la Nueva Galeria, Kurimanzutto, Mexico City, MX
RISK Cinema, Harn Museum of Art, Gainesville, Florida, US
In Transition Russia, National Center for Contemporary Art (NCCA), Moscow Branch, RU
Psychedelic, Southeastern Center for Contemporary Art, Winston-Salem, North Carolina, US
41 Salon Nacional de Artistas, Cali, CO
Animal Roto, Museo de Arte Moderno, Ciudad de México, MX
In Transition Russia 2008, National Center For Contemporary Art, Moscow, RU
Zonas de Riesgo, Coleccion de Arte Contemporaneo Fundacion La Caixa Forum, Barcelona, ES
Le réveil des oiseaux, Collection Lambert, Avignon, FR
Drift, National Center for Contemporary art (NCCA), Moscow Branch, Moscow, RU
KISSS, Castlefield Gallery, Manchester, UK
Bird in Hand with Praneet Soi, Project 88, Mumbai, IN
Recent Gifts to the Student Loan Art Collection, MIT List Visual Arts Center, Cambridge, US
Geopoliticas de la Animación, Museo de Arte Contemporanea de Vigo, Vigo, ES
2007
Star Power, Museum as Body Electric, Museum of Contemporary Art, Denver, US
All About Laughter, Mori Art Museum, Tokyo, JP
Escultura Social: A New Generation of Art from Mexico City, Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, US
La Era de la Discrepancia, MUCA, Mexico City, MX
Wherever We go, San Francisco Art Institute, San Francisco, US
We Are Your Future, Moscow Biennial, Moscow, RU
Viva Mexico! Zacheta Art Gallery, Warsaw, PL
Reconstructions II, Sudeley Castle, UK
Repeat All II, Matucana 100, Santiago de Chile, CL
Proyecto Juarez, Ciudad Juarez, MX
Dark Mirror, Montevideo/ TBA, Amsterdam, NL
Viva La Muerte!, Kunsthalle Wien, Wien, AU
Geopoliticas de la Animación, Centro Andaluz de Arte Contemporáneo, Sevilla, ES
Theater of Cruelty, White Box, New York, US.
New Perspectives in Latin American Art, 1930–2006: Selections from a Decade of Acquisitions, Museum of Modern Art, New York, US
Existencias, Musac-Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Castilla y León, León, ES
Paperback. Ediciones baratas, Fundación Luis Seoane, Coruna, ES
La planta, Arte Contemporaneo Omnilife, Guadalajara, MX
Performa 07, Biennial, New York, US
The rite of spring / voci dalla luna: omaggio a Federico Fellini, Museo d’Arte di Nuoro, Nuoro, IT
IKF Latin American Art Auction 2007, CIFO, Cisneros Fontanais Art Foundation, Miami, US
Histories animades, Caixa forum Palma, Palma de Mallorca, ES
2nd Moscow Biennale of Contemporary Art, , Moscow, RU
Histoires animées, Le Fresnoy, Studio national des arts contemporains, Tourcoing
2006
Hot Spots, International Film Festival Rotterdam, NL
Speed, Gallery Barbara Thumm, Berlin, DE
Image Bank for an Everyday Revolutionary Life, Red Cat, Los Angeles, US
Anagramme, MAC’s Grand Hornu – Musée des Arts Contemporains, Hornu, BE
Melancholie. Genie und Wahnsinn in der Kunst, Neue Nationalgalerie, Berlin, Neues Museum Weimar, DE
Video installations by Carlos Amorales & Javier Viver, Location One, New York, US
Videopulsiones. Tecnologias do sentimento, Galería da ESAD, Caldas da Rainha-Portugal, PT
Los Angeles-Mexico Complejidades y Heterogeneidad, Fundacion / Coleccion Jumex, Mexico City, MX
Historias Animadas, Caixa Forum, Barcelona, Sala Rekalde, Bilbao, Spain; Le Fresnoy, Tourcoing, FR
Art Ulimited, Basel Art Fair, Basel, CH
Human Game, Fondazione Pitti Immagine, Stazione Leopolda, Florence, IT
Propia Vision (Our Vision), The Queens Museum of Modern Art, New York, US
Distor, Museo Carrillo Gil, Mexico City, MX
Cruce de miradas. Colección Patricia Phelps de Cisneros, Museo del Palacio de Bellas Artes, Mexico City, MX
Esquiador en el fondo de un pozo, La Coleccion Jumex, Mexico City, MX Repeat All, Totti du Monde, Vevey, CH Wherever we go », Spazio Oberdan, Milan, IT.
SF International Animation Showcase, SF MOMA, San Francisco, US The Exotic Journey Ends, Foksal Fundation, Warsaw, PL Version Animée, Centre pour l’image contemporaine, Saint-Gervais Genève, CH.
Danke Schön, Museum voor Moderne Kunst Arnhem, Arnhem, NL
Heterotopias, Plataforma 2006, varias sedes, Puebla, MX
I’m Sorry, Pilar Parra & Romero Galeria de Arte, Madrid, ES
New Order, Regards sur la culture contemporaine, Ginebra, CH
Color Aside, Luhring Augustine Gallery, New York, US
The Exotic Journey Ends, Kurimanzutto, Mexicoc city, MX
Wherever we go, Spazio Oberdan, Milan, IT
Sound & Vision, Museo della Citta, Perugia, IT
Message personnel, Galerie Yvon Lambert, Paris
Carlos Amorales and Javier Viver, Manimal and the Audience, Location One, New York, US
2005
Zero Interest /Interessi Zero, Galleria civica de Arte Contemporanea, Trento, IT
Identità e nomadismo, Palazzo delle Papesse-Centro Arte Contemporanea, Siena, IT
Exhibicion de Reapertura, Museo Experimental el ECO, Mexico City, MX
Nuevos Ricos, V Bienal de Mercosur, Puerto Alegre, BR
Threat Zone, Triange Project Space, San Antonio, Texas, US
Gabriel Orozco, Carlos Amorales, Damian Ortega : Memoria de la Creacion del Eco, EL Museo Experimental El Eco, Mexico city, MX
Detonantes, curated by Guillermo Santamarina e Inaki Bonillas, OPA, Guadalajara, MX
T1: The Pantagruel Syndrome, curated by Francesco Bonami and Carolyn Christov-Bakargiev. Castello di Rivoli Museo d’Arte Contemporanea, the GAM Galleria Civica d’Arte Moderna e Contemporanea di Torino and the Fondazione Sandretto Re, Torino, IT
In The Air: Projections Of Mexico, Guggenheim Museum, New York, US
Deriva Mental, Museo Tamayo Arte Contemporáneo, Mexico City, MX
Amsterdamned, Kunsthallen Braanderigarden, Viborg, DK
“5 ANS” Les oeuvres de la Collection Lambert en Avignon, Collection Lambert, Avignon
Mexico Attacks! Museo de Arte y Diseno Contemporaneo, San José, MX
Multiplo_1 – daily endless multiple made recyclable, N.O. Gallery, Milano, IT
2004
Origami Bomb, Project Room, Annet Gelink Gallery, ARCO, Madrid, ES
A Fripon, Fripon et demi, Collection Lambert, Avignon, FR
Imagine Limerick, EV+A, Limerick, IE
Moving Outlines, Contemporary Museum, Baltimore, US
We Are the World, Museum Boijmans van Beunigen, Rotterdam, NL
Don’t call it performance, Centro Andaluz de Arte Contemporaneo, Sevilla, Spain; Museo de Barrio, New York, US
Netherlands Film Festival, Central Museum Utrecht, Utrecht, NL
Dicen que finjo o miento. La ficcion revisada, Central de Arte Guadalajara, MX
Contested Fields, Des Moines Art Center, Des Moines, US
Democracy was fun, White box, New York, US
MEMORABLE MEMORY, Migros museum Collection, Kunst Halle Sankt Gallen, St.Gallen, CH
Psychic Landscape, Yvon Lambert Gallery, New York, US
La Colmena, Galeria de Fundacion/ Coleccion Jumex, Mexico city, MX
Open/ Invited e v+ a 2004 – ev+a, Limerick, IR
2003
We Are the World, Dutch Pavillion, Venice Biennial, Venice, IT
Armour, Fort van Asperen, NL
Mexico Attacks! Chiesa di San Matteo, Associazione Prometeo, Lucca, IT
M_ARS, Graz Kunstverein, Garz, AU
Independence, South London Gallery, London, UK
Mexico Iluminado, Freedman Gallery, Albright College, Philadelphia, US
Limes, Periferia, Magyar Muhely Galeria, Budapest, HU
No lo llames performance, Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofia, Madrid, ES
No lo llames performance, Centro Parraga, Murcia, ES
Summer Show, Annet Gelink Gallery, Amsterdam, NL
INTER.PLAY – - Museo de Arte de Puerto Rico, Santurce, PR
Advertising. Intervenciones en el Espacio Publico, Museo de Arte de Sabadell, Sabadell, ES
50th International Art Exhibition Venice Biennale / Biennale di Venezia, Venezia, IT
2002
Coartadas/ Alibis, Witte de Wit, Rotterdam, NL
Telepathic Journeys, MIT List Art Center, Cambridge,US
Mexico City : An Exhibition about the Exchange Rates of Bodies and Values, PS1, New York, US, Knustwerke, Berlin, DE
20 Million Mexicans can’t be wrong, South London Gallery, London, UK
Fuora di Uso, Pescara, IT
Busan Bienial, Busan, KR
INTER.PLAY – - The Moore Space, Miami, US
Sublime Artificial, Nou art de Mexic, Institut de Cultura de Barcelona, La capella, Barcelona, ES
Mesoamerica oscilaciones y artificios, centro Atlantico de Arte Moderno (CAAM), Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, ES
Hot Summer, Media Lounge, Contemporary Museum Baltimore, Baltimore, US
Attachment+ - Kunsthalle Lophem, Loppem – Zedelgem, BE
2001
Kunst macht Spass, Wolfsburg Museum, Wolfsburg, DE
The Overexcited Body, Palazzo dell’Arengario, Piazza del Duomo, Milan, IT
Sesc Pompei, Sao Paolo, BR
We in FLAMES, Berlin Biennial 2, Berlin, DE
House of Games, Festival a/d Werf, Utrecht, NL
Sportcult, Apex Art, New York City, US
1st Tiranna Biennial, National Gallery, AL
Sport in der zeitgenossischen Kunst, Kunsthalle Nürnberg, Nürnberg, AL
Imagescape: Contemporary Mexican Art, Artsonje Center, Seoul, KR
Let’s be friends, Migros Museum für Gegenwartskunst, Zürich, CH
2000
Makeshift, ArtPace, San Antonio Texas, US
Unlimited NL-3, De Appel, Amsterdeam, NL
Territorios ausentes, Casa de America, Madrid, ES
Let’s Entertain, itinerant exhibition: Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, US
Ideas for Living, De Paviljoens, Almere, NL
Au-delà du spectacle, Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris, FR
Insite 2000, San Diego, US, Tijuana, MX
1999
Peace, Migros Museum, Zurich, CH
1998
Not strictly private, Shed im eisenwerk, Frauenfeld, CH
Faces and Names, Exedra, Hilversum, NL
1997
Dialogues, W139, Amsterdam, NL
Open Ateliers, Rijksakademie van Beeldende Kunsten, Amsterdam, NL
1996
Open Ateliers, Rijksakademie van Beeldende Kunsten, Amsterdam, NL
1994
Western Non Western, Smart Project Space, Amsterdam, NL
PUBLIC COLLECTIONS
Museum of Modern Art (MoMA), New York, US
Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, US
Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia, US
Walker art Center, Minneapolis, US
Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington, DC, US
Weisman Art Museum, Minneapolis, US
Queens Museum of Art, New York, US
Tate Modern Collection, London, UK
Hiscox Art Projects, London, UK
IMMA (Irish Museum of Modern Art), Dublin, IE
Castello di Rivoli/ Fundazione Arte Moderna/Contemporanea, Turin, IT
Fondazione Morra Greco, Napoli, IT
Museum Boijmans van Beuningen, Rotterdam, NL
NIMK – Netherlands Media Art Institute, Amsterdam, NL
Museum voor Moderne Kunst Arnhem, Arnhem, NL
Daros Latinamerica Collection, Zürich, CH
Migros Museum Collection, Zurich, CH
FNAC Collection, Paris, FR
Kadist Art Foundation, Paris, FR
SMAK, Gent, BE
MUDAM, Luxembourg, LU
MUSAC (Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Castilla y León), Leon, ES
Israel Museum, Jerusalem, IL
Museo Rufino Tamayo, Mexico City, MX
Museo de Arte Moderno, Mexico City, MX
CIAC (Coppel) Collection, Mexico, MX
BIBLIOGRAPHY
Articles, Interviews, Reviews
Amor, Mónica, Carlos Amorales (preview Contemporary Arts Center, Cincinnati), Art Forum, september 2008.
Clarinval, France, Prisons intérieures et extérieures, Le quotidien, Luxembourg, April 22, 2008.
Vogel, Sabine, Messer im Kopf: in Zurich seziert Carlos Amorales kollektive Klischees, Monopol, Germany, #7 – July 2007.
Debroise, Olivier, Carlos Amorales : 100 Latin American Artists, Exit Publicaciones, Spain, 2006.
Blanco, Sergio, Invita Amorales a leer el futuro, Reforma, Mexico, May 10, 2006.
MacMasters, Merry, Carlos Amorales busca detonantes para crear fantasiadelante del espectador, La Jornada, Mexico, May 23, 2006.
Arozqueta, Claudia, Border Scenes. Testimony, Social Art and Activism along Mexico’s Northern Border, ARTL!ES, Houston, Texas, No. 48, Winter 2005.
Laddaga, Reinaldo, Almost Brothers: Inventions of a collective life in Latin America, Flash Art International, Vol. XXXVIII, July-September 2005.
Von Taube, Annika, Everything you’ve ever wanted to know about yourself but were afraid to ask, Sleek Magazine, Germany, Summer 2005.
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Crespo, Txema G, El Artium confronta las visions de Amorales y Sáez, El País, Madrid, June 2005.
“Del dibujo me atrae que no tiene espacio”. Interview, ABD/abcd: Todas las artes y las letras, Spain, June 25, 2005.
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Helguera Pablo, La generacion XX y su doble encurcijada, Exit Mexico, 2005.
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Schmelz, Itala, Arco 2005: Los mecanismos del poder, La Jornada, Mexico, February 19, 2005.
Marín-Medina, José, Carlos Amorales, un dibujo cargado de futuro, El Cultural, Madrid, February 17, 2005.
Zamudio, Raul Carlos Amorales, Art Nexus, #53 Volumen 3, 2004.
“Amorales” Mister Motley, #4, The Netherlands, 2004.
Tettero, Siebe, Carlos Amorales, Contemporary Magazine, # 63, 2004.
Brookhart Beyer, Melisssa, Amorales vs Amorales, Tema Celeste # 98, Italy, 5/10/04.
Robecci, Michele, Nuevos Ricos, Flash Art Italyn Issue, Italy, 03/2004.
Wood, Catherine, Amorales vs Los Infernales, Lucha Libre, Luna Cornea # 27, 2004.
Medina, Cuauhtémoc, Gore de Barriada, Reforma, Mexico,1-10-2003.
López, María Luisa, Carlos Amorales representará a Holanda en la Bienal de Venecia, Milenio, Mexico, Abril 7, 2003.
Gibbons, Fiachra, Wrestling with identity: Tate Modern celebrates ‘violence and ritual movement, The Guardian, London, April 26, 2003.
Reynolds, Nigel, Wrestling at the Tate? At least it’s on canvas, The Daily Telegraph, London, Mayo 10, 2003.
Lack, Hannah, Wrestle with the medium, Dazed & Confused, London, Vol. 2, Issue #1, May
2003.
Mexican wrestles with art at Tate, BBC News, London,10-05-2003.
González, Berenice, Nueve mexicanos rumbo a la Bienal de Venecia, El Independiente, Mexico, June 8, 2003.
Springer, Jose Manuel Fuera Mascaras! Interview, Reforma, Mexico, 5-04- 2003.
Hernandez Edgar,Van nueve mexicanos a Bienal de Venecia, Reforma, Mexico, 1-04-2003.
Gauthier Léa, Exposition monographique de l’artiste mexicain Carlos
Amorales, Mouvement, 08-04-2003.
Thely Nicolas, Carlos Amorales: “Le Diable c’ est Bush« , Le Monde, 03/ 2003.
Gellatly, Andrew, 20 Million Mexicans can’t be wrong, Frieze #72, London, 2002.
Rattemeyer, Christian, Method Masking, Cumulus, Parkett # 63, Zurich, 2002.
Macrí, Teresa, Postculture
Kolar, Damjana, Simpatia por el Diablo, Mladina, Slovenia 05-2002.
Faguet, Michele, The Fear of Returning and Being Misunderstood: On Carlos Amorales, Parachute 104 Mexico 10/11/12, 2001.
Ellis, Patricia, Versus Amorales, Metropolis M, Netherlands, Summer 2001.
Carlos Amorales Portfolio, Material Magazine #2, Zurich, 2000.
Hoffman, Jens, Aperto Performance, Flash Art, Vol.33 # 214, 10/2000.
Ideas for Living, publicación de la exposición, De Paviljoens, Almere, the Netherlands, 2000.
Lambrecht, Luc, Carlos Amorales, De Morgen, 05, Belgium, 2000.
Van Royen, Marjon, Held van de armen: buikje, cape en masker, NRC Handelsblaad, The Netherlands, 02-10, 1997.
Gieben, Sabine, Mexicaanse superheld, Elseviere Magazine, The Netherlands 10/ 1997.
CATALOGUES
Informe, exhibition catalogue, Museo Universitario de Arte Contemporáneo. Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Mexico, 2008.
Carlos Amorales: Discarded Spider. CCA Cincinnati, 2008.
Viva la muerte, exhibition catalogue, Kunsthalle Wien, Austria, 2007.
Escultura Social: a New Generation of Art from Mexico City, Exhibition catalogue, Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago, Chicago, 2007.
Carlos Amorales. Dark Mirror, exhibition catalogue, Daros- latinoamerica, Zurich, Hatje Cantz, Ostfildern, 2007.
Archivo Liquido – Liquid Archive. Por qué temer al futuro? – Why fear the future?, exhibition catalogue, Holland, 2007.
Ovunque Andiano, Wherever We Go – Art, Identity, Cultures In Transit, exhibition catalogue, 5 continents edition, Milano, Italy, 2006.
En Arco ’05, exhibition catalogue, ARCO, Madrid, Turner & Conaculta, 2005.
Contested Fields, exhibition catalogue, Des Moines Art Center, Des Moines, US, 2004.
La Panadería, Calderón, Miguel, McCormick, Carlo, Cuauhtémoc Medina, Abaroa, Eduardo, Fandanelli, Guillermo, , Yoshua Okon,Turner, Nashville, US, 2004.
Dreams And Conflicts: The Dictatorship Of The Viewer, La Biennale di Venezia, 50th International Art Exhibition, Marsilio editori, 2003.
We Are The World, Texts by Beltrán, Erick, Cuauhtemoc, Medina, Smits, Lisette, Exhibition Catalogue for the Dutch Pavillion, Venice Biennial, Artimo Foundation, 2003.
Inter-Play, exhibition catalogue, The Moore Building, Miami Design District, 2003.
M_Ars – Kunst Und Krieg. Catalogue, Neue Galerie, Graz, 2003.
Installation Art In The New Millennium, Texts by De Oliveira, Nicolas, Oxley, Nicola, Petry, Michael, Thames & Hudson Ltd., London 2003.
Mexico Attack! Exhibition catalogue, Associacione Prometeo, Lucca, Italy,2003.
Sport In Contemporary Art, Exhibition catalogue, Kunsthalle Nurnberg, 2002
Mexico City: An Exhibition About The Exchange Rates Of Bodies And Values. PS1 MOMA & Kunst-Werke Berlin, Klaus Biesenbach, 2002.
Ferrotell, Texts by Teresa Macri, Mario Codognato, Sandro Chia, Ed. Art& Nova, Fuoriuso 2002.
20 Million Mexicans can’t be wrong, Texts by Cuauthemoc Medina, Exhibition Brochure, South London Gallery, 2002
Tele-Journeys. Exhibition Catalogue, List Visual Arts center, MIT, Boston, MA, 2002.
Los Amorales Carlos Amorales. Catalogue, Stichting Artimo, Amsterdam, The Netherlands. Text: Patricia Ellis, Rein Wolfs, Cuauhtémoc Medina, Philippe Vergne.
Insite 2000. catalogue, San Diego/Tijuana, USA/Mex, 2001.
Berlin Biennial 2. Exhibition Catalogue, published by: Oktagon, Berlin, 2001.
Tirana Biennial. Exhibition Catalogue, Tirana, 2001.
The Overexcited Body. Exhibition Catalogue, Milán, 2001.
2000 Unlimited NL-2. Catalogue, Casa de América, Madrid, 2000.
Territorios Ausentes. Catalogue, Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, MN. Fresh Cream. Phaidon Press, London, England, 2000.
1999 Unlimited NL-2. De Appel, Catalogue, Netherlands, 1999.
Territorios Ausentes. Catalogue, Casa de America, Madrid, Spain 1999.
Let’s Entertain!. Catalogue, Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, USA, 1999.
Peace. Exhibition Catalogue, Migros Museum, Zürich 1999.