Beatriz Morales

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 a central part of her practice, the artist incorporates traditional, pre-hispanic weaving and dyeing techniques, both in her work with plant fibers as well as when painting on canvases. 

Beatriz Morales made her major art fair debut shown at Zona Maco in 2018, followed by multiple appearances at Dallas Art Fair, Zona Maco, Art Karlsruhe and others as well as exhibitions in numerous galleries across Europe and North America. She presented at the Museum of Contemporary Art Rufino Tamayo Mexico City and Oaxaca as part of the Mexican Painting Biennial 2017. Recent exhibitions include Bienal Sur in Mexico City, solo exhibitions at Praxis Gallery New York, Circle Culture Berlin as well as an intervention of the iconic Edith Farnsworth House by Mies van der Rohe in Plano Illinois. Other notable museum shows include a solo exhibition 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), the group exhibition “The King is Dead, Long Live the Queen” at Frieder Burda Museum, Baden Baden, Germany and Art for the Oceans at Sotheby’s, London (May 2025). Beatriz Morales published her first major monography “Color Archaeology” on Kerber Publishing in December 2021, available internationally.

Her paintings and installations are held in institutional and private collections in Mexico, Germany, Austria, Belgium, Switzerland, France, Canada and the USA, and were featured in numerous print and online publications. Beatriz Morales lives and works in Berlin and Hidalgo, Mexico. Recent acquisitions by institutional collections include the Perez Collection, Miami, Groeninghe Collection Belgium and Eckelmann Art Collection, Hamburg. 

Photo Credit: Giulia Daley

Contact:
Beatriz Morales
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b.morales[at]berlin.bard.edu