Born in Mexico City, Mexico
Lives and works in Mexico City, Mexico
Gabriel de la Mora, born in 1968 in Mexico City where he currently lives and works, is best known for constructing visual works from found, discarded, and obsolete objects. In an obsessive process of collecting and fragmenting materials - eggshells, shoe soles, speaker screens, feathers - the Mexican artist creates seemingly minimal and often monochrome-looking surfaces that belie great technical complexity, conceptual rigor, and embedded information.
De la Mora has exhibited at the Drawing Center, New York, Museo Nacional de Arte (MUNAL), Mexico City, Mexico, Museo Jumex, Mexico City, Mexico, King Abdulaziz Center for World Culture - Ithra, Dhahran, Saudi Arabia, and the Museo Amparo, Puebla, Mexico, among others. His work is part of collections including the Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, New York; El Museo del Barrio, New York; Colección Jumex, Mexico City; the Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles; the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston; and Pérez Art Museum Miami, among others.
education
2006
Work residency, École Régionale des Beaux-Arts Saint-Étienne, Saint- Étienne, France
2001-2003
MFA in Photography and Video, Pratt Institute, New York, NY, USA
1987-1991
BA in Architecture, Universidad Anáhuac del Norte, Mexico City, Mexico
solo shows
2024
- Gabriel de la Mora: Élan vital, Perrotin, Paris, France (forthcoming)
2023
- FRAGMENTXS, Timothy Taylor, London, U.K.
- Horizonte Móvil, Simões de Assis, Sao Paolo, Brazil
2022
-The Philadelphia Art Alliance of the University of the Arts, Philadelphia, PA, USA
- PSICOTROPICAL, Proyectos Monclova, Mexico City, Mexico
2021
- LEPIDOPTERA, Perrotin New York, NY, USA
- El poeta es el autor que desaparece..., Museo Francisco Goitia, Zacatecas, México
- Unearthing the Mirror, Sicardi Ayers Bacino, Houston, TX
2020
- Neornithes, Timothy Taylor, London
- Originalmentefalso, Museo Nacional de Arte, Mexico City, Mexico
2019
- ÉCHO, Perrotin, Paris, France
- Sofie Muller: Pentimento, Proyectos Monclova, Mexico City, Mexico
- Inevidencias, curated by Esteban King, Casa de México en España, Madrid, Spain
- TNTR AA, Perrotin, New York, NY
2018
- Gabriel de la Mora: Técnicas y Contextos, Pinacoteca de la Universidad de Colima, Mexico
- Entropías, Proyectos Monclova, Mexico City, Mexico
2017
- Crystals of Inevidence, Sicardi Gallery, Houston, TX
2016
- Gabriel de la Mora; Sounds Inscriptions on Fabric, The Drawing Center, New York, NY
- Gabriel de la Mora: Serial, Timothy Taylor, London, UK
2015
- (f), Galeria OMR, Mexico City, Mexico
2014
- Lo que no vemos lo que nos mira, Museo Amparo, Puebla, Mexico
- Lucíferos, Sicardi Gallery, Houston, TX
2012
- T.O.E.F.M.U.T.I.T.O.A.I.I., Sicardi Gallery, Houston, TX
- Exposición Panamericana, N.C. Arte, Bogotá, Colombia
- Señales Aleatorias/Ruido Blanco, Museo de Arte de Sonora (MUSAS), Mexico
2011
- Ruido Blanco/White Noise, curated by Kerstin Erdmann, Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Oaxaca (MACO), Oaxaca, Mexico
- Originalmentefalso, Galería OMR, Mexico City, Mexico
- Frágil/Fragile: project room, cuated by Cecilia Fajardo Hill, Museum of Latin American Art (MoLAA), Long Beach, CA
2008
- d.i.b.u.j.o.s., C.C. Bastero Kulturgunea, Andoain (Gipuzkoa), Spain
- 39-G.M.C.-23.sept.07, Conner Contemporary, Washington D.C.
- Blind Lines, Sicardi Gallery, Houston, TX
2007
- Brújula de cuestiones, Galería OMR, Mexico City, Mexico
2006
- Extensions, Galerie La Serre, École Régionale des Beaux-Arts Saint-Étienne, France
2004
- 00-04, Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Colima, Colima, Mexico
2003
- G.M. antes y después, Ministry of Culture of the state of Colima, 10 venues in Mexico
2001
- Homenaje a Robert Mapplethorpe, Galería Nina Menocal, Mexico City, Mexico
1997
- The Form Without Form, Art Museum of the Americas, Washington, D.C.
1996
- La Inconciencia de la Vista, Museo Regional de Historia, Colima, Mexico
group shows
2023
- Something Beautiful: Reframing La Colección, El Museo del Barrio, New York, USA
- COLECCIÓN JUMEX: TODO SE VUELVE MÁS LIGERO, Museo Jumex, CDMX, Mexico
- Tender Loving Care / Contemporary Art from the Collection, MFA Boston, Massachussets, USA
- I Feel The Way You Feel, Perrotin, Shanghai, China
2022
- Trauma Dreams Scape, Curated by Marcello Dantas, XIII Mercosur Biennial, Porto Alegre, Brazil
- Blanc des Blanc, curated by Gregor Hildebrandt, Villa Schöningen, Potsdam, Germany
- Remaining: New Perspective, UBS Art Gallery, New York, USA
- Seeing and Perceiving, Ithra, King Abdulaziz Center for World Culture, Dhahran, Saudi Arabia
2021
- Schnee Fällt Hinterm Berge, curated by Gregor Hildebrandt, Avlskarl Gallery, Copenhagen, Denmark
- Colección Jumex: Temperatura Ambiente, Curated by Sofía Táboas, Museo Jumex, Mexico City, Mexico
- Break the Mold, North Carolina Museum of Art, Raleigh, North Carolina, USA
- Cien del MUAC, MUAC Museo de Arte Contemporáneo, Ciudad Universitaria, Mexico City, Mexico
- Seeing and Perceiving, King Abdulaziz Center for World Culture (Ithra), Dhahran, Saudi Arabia
- Subtext, Sicardi Ayers Bacino, Houston, TX
- Metamorfose: Sublimação e Transmutação, Simões de Assis, Curitiba, Brazil
- El tiempo en las cosas, Museo Amparo, Puebla, México
2020
- Latinoamérica al sur del Sur - Colección Permanente, MALBA, Buenos Aires, Argentina
- Nature, Sicardi Ayers Bacino, Houston TX
- Amexica, The Loft, Brussels, Belgium
- Dialogues, Sicardi Ayers Bacino, Houston TX
- EXODUS Part III Mexico in New York. From Orozco to Orozco, Whitebox Harlem, NY
- Yo era muy bueno tirando piedras, La Tallera, Cuernavaca, Mexico
- Colección Museo Tamayo, Museo de Arte Contemporáneo Rufino Tamayo, Mexico City, Mexico
2019
- Arte/Sano entre Artistas 5.0, Museo Arocena, Torreón, Coahuila, México.
- Sumatorio, curated by Mauricio Marcin, Anel Jiménez, Gilberto Pérez y Tomás Pérez Glez, Museo de Arte Carrillo Gil, Mexico City, Mexico
- Arte/Sano Entre Artistas 5.0, curated by Walther Boelsterly Urrutia, Museo Biblioteca PAPE, Monclova, Mexico
2018
- Generosidad y Compromiso: Donaciones al acervo del Museo de Arte de la SHCP 1999-2014. cur. Julieta Ruíz y Rafael Pérez. Museo de Arte de la SHCP Antiguo
Palacio del Arzobispado
- Arte Mexicano Contemporáneo. Sonora 2.0 / apuntes para una colección. curated by Edgardo Ganado Kim, MUSAS, Museo de Arte de Sonora, Sonora, México
- Modos de oír, Laboratorio de Arte Alameda & EX Teresa Arte Actual, Mexico City, Mexico
- Temporalidades. Arte Latinoamericano., Colección FEMSA, Museo de Arte e Historia de Guanajuato, León, México
- A New Way of Walking, Timothy Taylor, London, UK and New York, NY
- El cordón umbilical retiniano, curated by Willy Kautz, ESPAC, Mexico City, Mexico
- México: Pintura reactiva, Museo de Arte Carrillo Gil, Mexico City, Mexico
- Portrait, Sicardi Gallery, Houston, TX
- Arte / Sano ÷ Artists 5.0, Museo de Arte Popular,Centro Cultural Caja Real, San Luis Potosí, Mexico City, México
2017
- Home - So Different, So Appealing, curated by Chon Noriega, Mari Carmen Ramírez y Pilar Tompkis Rivas, Museum of Fine Arts, Houston. TX
- Sin Título (Untitled), curated by Dan Cameron, Jonathan Ferrara Gallery, New Orleans, LA
- Arte/Sano entre Artistas 5.0. Museo de Arte Popular. Ciuda de México. México
- Procesos en el arte 60 artistas contemporáneos, Museo de la Cancillería, Mexico City, Mexico
- Something other than a Narrative: architects’ voices and visions, Galería José Luis Benlliure, Facultad de Arquitectura, UNAM, Mexico City, Mexico
- Animal Versión, Galería Fernando Pradilla, Madrid, España
- FORMASOBREFONDO, Proyectos Monclova, Mexico City, Mexico
- Home - So Different, So Appealing, LACMA, Los Angeles, USA and The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, TX
- MINIMAL MOSTLY, Deborah Ronnen Fine Art & R1 Studios, New York, NY
- Crooked Bazar, Proyectos Monclova, Mexico City, Mexico
- Tres décadas de arte en expansión, 1980 al presente, Colección de Arte del Banco de la República, Bogotá, Colombia
- Carbon, Fox Jensen Gallery, Sydney, Australia
2016
- Everyday Reflections in Abstraction, curated by Cecilia Fajardo-Hill and Greg Attaway, SPACE Collection, Irvine, CA
- Tres pies: el enigma de la sucesión. Envejecimiento y retiro, curated by Felipe Zúñiga and Víctor Palacios, Museo de Arte de Sinaloa, Culiacán, Mexico
- Arte para la Nación, Galería Nacional, Palacio Nacional, Mexico City, Mexico
- Poéticas del Decrecimiento. ¿Cómo vivir mejor con menos?, Centro de las Artes, XII Bienal FEMSA, Nueva Léon, Monterrey, Mexico
- Divergent, Sicardi Gallery, Houston, TX
- +52. Paisajes recientes, Fundación Calosa, Irapuato, México
- Lenguajes en papel VII, Galería Fernando Pradilla, Madrid
2015
- 10o Bienal de Mercosur: Mensaje de una Nueva América, Porto Alegre, Brasil
- La Trampa de la sonrisa, Colección Artium, Centro Museo Vasco de Arte Contemporáneo, Spain
- Monochrome Undone, Space, Curator: Cecilia Fajardo-Hill, Irvine, CA
- The Authority of Death, Jensen Gallery, Sydney, Australia
- Mas allá de la abstracción, Fundación ArtNexus, Bogotá, Colombia
- Mexico Circa 2000, Jose Pinto Mazal Collection, Instituto Cultural de México, París, France
- Plaza Río de Janeiro 54, 1983-2015, OMR Gallery, Mexico City, Mexico
- Todo por ver, Foto Museo Cuatro Caminos, Mexico City, Mexico
- Tres pies: el enigma de la sucesión. Envejecimiento y retiro, Casa del Lago Juan José Arreola, México City, Mexico
- Líneas de la Mano, Sicardi Gallery, Houston, TX
2014
- Tres décadas de arte en expansión, 1980 al presente, Colección de Arte del Banco de la República, Bogotá, Colombia.
- Reigning Cats and Dogs, Rena Bransten Gallery, San Francisco, CA
- Visible Invisibilizacion, Museo de Arte Contemporaneo Alfredo Zalce, Morelia, Michoacán, Mexico
- Affective Architectures, Aluna Art Foundation, Miami, FL
- Ilusión Óptica, Museum of Modern Art, Mexico City, Mexico
- Ruta Mística, Curator: Gonzalo Ortega, Museo Amparo, Puebla, Mexico
- Mex pro Mexico Art Project, Museo Revoltella, Trieste, Italy
- Permission To Be Global / Prácticas Globales: Latin American Art from the Ella Fontanals-Cisneros Collection, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA
- Fontanals-Cisneros Collection, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA
2013
- Permission To Be Global / Prácticas Globales: Latin American Art from the Ella Fontanals-Cisneros Collection, CIFO, Miami, FL
- Surface Core, Elastic Gallery, Malmö, Sweden
- Ruta Mística, Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Monterrey (MARCO), Monterrey, Mexico; Museo Amparo, Puebla, Mexico
- Tropicalia Negra, Curator: Willy Kautz, Museo Experimental El Eco, Mexico City, Mexico
- 2013 California-Pacific Triennial, Orange County Museum, CA
- El eco de la tropicália entre el todo y la nada, Museo Experimental El Eco, Mexico City, Mexico
- Moca's Permanent Collection: A selection of recent acquisitions, Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, CA
- Opinione Latina, Francesca Minini, Milan, Italy
- Materia Sensible, Museo de Arte Carillo Gil, Mexico City, Mexico
- Intersections, Museum of Latin American Art (MOLAA), Long Beach, CA
- Tactility, Nils Staerk Gallery, Copenhagen, Denmark
- Confetti Make up, curated by Osvaldo Sánchez, Museo Universitario del Chopo, Mexico City, Mexico
2012
- Privacy, curated by Martina Weinhart, Schirn Kunsthalle Frankfurt, Germany
- Bajo el volcán, Curator: Raúl Zamudio Taylor, Andrómeda Contemporáneo, San Jose, Costa Rica
- Tell me a story, Museum of Latin American Art (MoLAA), Long Beach, CA
- Sin límites, Instituto de México en España, Madrid, Spain
- Una mirada múltiple: selecciones de la Colección Ella Fontanals-Cisneros, Museo Nacional de Bellas Arte, Havana, Cuba
- Pobre Artista Rico, Casa del Lago Juan José Arreola, Mexico City, Mexico
- Obsessive Worlds, Alexandria Museum of Art, Alexandria, LA; Art Museum of Southeast Texas, Beaumont, TX
2011
- The space between now and then, Galería OMR y el 52, Mexico City, Mexico
- Destello, La Colección Jumex, Mexico City, Mexico
- Obsessive Worlds, curated by Sarah Hamilton, Art Museum of Southeast, Texas.
- Primera Bienal de El Fin: Colapso, El 52, Mexico City, Mexico
2010
- Primera Bienal de El Fin: Colapso, El 52, Ciudad de México, México
- Art on Paper 2010 Biennial, Weatherspoon Art Museum, Greensboro, NC
- Cosmopolitan Routes: Houston Collects Latin American Art, curated by Gilbert Vicario, Mari Carmen Ramírez and Elizabeth Cerejido, The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston (MFAH), Houston, TX
- Hot to Cold / Cold to Hot, Charles H. Scott Gallery, Emily Carr University, Curator: Greg Bellerby, Vancouver, Canada
- Darker than Night, Casino Metropolitano, Mexico City, Mexico
- Latin American Artists Shed Light on Drug War, Other Complexities, Sicardi Gallery, Houston, TX
- Constante: La Nueva Babilonia, Museo de Arte de Zapopan, Jalisco, Mexico
- Twilight of the Idols, Galería Casado Santapau, Madrid, Spain
- Project Birch Forest / The Waste land, Whitebox Gallery, New York, NY
- The Metamorphosis, Other Gallery, Shanghai, China
- Superficies del deseo, Museo Universitario Arte Contemporaneo (MUAC), Mexico City, Mexico
- The Visceral Body, Vancouver Art Gallery, Vancouver, Canada
- Efecto Drácula, curated by Victor Zamudio Taylor, Museo Universitario del Chopo, Mexico City, Mexico
- Afecto diverso: géneros en flujo, curated by Karen Cordero, Museo Universitario del Chopo, Mexico City, Mexico
2009
- 89 Km CGAC Collection, MARCO Museo de Arte contemporánea de Vigo, Spain
- Voces y Visiones, curated by Elvis Fuentes, El Museo del Barrio, New York, NY
- White Noise, DePauw University, Greencastle, IN
- Cruz-Diez, Glassford, Tomasello, de la Mora, Sicardi Gallery, Houston, TX
- Colección FEMSA, Museo Arocena, Torreón, Coahuila, Mexico
- North Looks South: Building the Latin American Collection, curated by Mari Carmen Ramirez and Gilbert Vicario, The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston (MFAH), Houston, TX
- Fleeting, Williams Tower Gallery, Houston, TX
- (sic), Tragos y Textos, Galería OMR, Mexico City, Mexico
- First 798 Beijing Biennial: “Constellations,” Beijing, China
- Hecho en casa/Homemade, Museo de Arte Moderno, Mexico City, Mexico
2008
- Garden of Delights, 2008 Yeosu Art Festival, Yeosu, South Korea
- XIV Bienal de Pintura Rufino Tamayo, Museo Tamayo, Mexico City, Mexico
- A-B, curated by Gonzalo Ortega, Museo Universitario de Arte Contemporáneo (MUCA-Roma), Mexico City, Mexico
- 89 Km CGAC Collection, Centro Galego de Arte Contemporanea, Santiago de Compostela, Spain Marked Pages II: Drawings, Sicardi Gallery, Houston, TX
- Talent Preview 09, 5 Gallerists-5 Curators= 25 artists, White Box, New York, NY
- New Aquisitions, The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston (MFAH), Houston, TX
- Marked Pages II: Drawings, Sicardi Gallery, Houston, TX
2007
- Cada uno para sí y Dios contra todos, Galería OMR, Mexico City, Mexico
- Una Excursion Mexicana, curated by Lioba Reddeker, Hangart 7, Salzburg, Austria
- A e O: Da Von Gloeden a Pierre et Gilles, curated by Eugenio Viola, Palazzina Reale, Florence, Italy
- O debuxo por diante, CGAC Centro Gallego de Arte Contemporáneo, Spain
2006
- II Bienal Nacional de Artes Visuales de Yucatán 2006, Mérida, Mexico
2005
- Momentito, Jamaica Center for the Arts and Learning, Queens, NY
- Nuevas Adquisiciones, Centro Gallego de Arte Contemporáneo (CGAC), Santiago de Compostela, Spain
- Points of View, Photography in El Museo del Barrio ́s Permanent Collection, El Museo del Barrio, New York, NY
2004
- New Acquisitions of the Collection, El Museo del Barrio, New York, NY
- XII Convocatoria de Artistas Jóvenes, Galería Luis Adelantado, Valencia, Spain
2003
- Far Away, Up Close, Rome Arts Gallery, New York, NY
- Art in General Video Project, National Center for Contemporary Art, Ekaterinburg, Russia; Museum of Contemporary Art, Kalingrad, Russia; Pro-Arte, St. Petersburg, Russia; Moscow New Media Lab, Moscow, Russia
2002
- XI Bienal de Pintura Rufino Tamayo, Museo Rufino Tamayo, Mexico City, Mexico
2001
- Premio Omnilife 2001, Salón de Octubre, Guadalajara, Mexico
2000
- Pluralidades, Convergencias Múltiples, Museo de Arte Moderno, Mexico City, Mexico
1999
- A Visual Dialogue through the Americas, Hickory Museum of Art, Hickory, NC
- Mastering the Millennium, Art Museum of the Americas, Washington, D.C.
- Vistas y Conceptos, aproximaciones al paisaje, Museo de Arte Moderno, Mexico City, Mexico
1998
- New York Mexican-Latin American Art Show, Belenky Gallery, New York, NY
1997
- Pasión al Rojo Vivo, Museo de Arte Moderno, Mexico City, Mexico
public collections
Albright-Knox Art Gallery, New York, USA
Amparo Museum, Puebla City, Mexico
Art Museum of the Americas, Organization of American States, Washington, USA
ARTIUM, Centro-Museo Vasco de Arte Contemporáneo, Vitoria-Gasteiz, Spain
Centro Gallego de Arte Contemporáneo, Santiago de Compostela, Spain
Cisneros Fontanals Art Foundation (CIFO), Miami, USA
Colección Banco de la República, Bogotá, Colombia
Colección Ella Fontanals-Cisneros, Miami, USA
Colección FEMSA, Monterrey, Mexico
Colección Fundación Televisa, Mexico City, Mexico
Colección SIVAM, Mexico City, Mexico
Colección Universidad de Colima, Mexico
Colección WTC Artfest, Mexico City, Mexico
El Museo del Barrio, New York, USA
Fundación/Colección JUMEX, Mexico City, Mexico
Fundación Neme / Programa NC-Arte, Bogotá, Colombia
King Abdulaziz Center for World Culture (Ithra), Dhahran, Saudi Arabia
Museo de Arte Abstracto Manuel Felguerez, Zacatecas, Mexico
Museo de Arte Carrillo Gil, MACG, Mexico City, Mexico
Museo de Arte Contemporaneo Alfredo Zalce, Michoacán, Mexico
Museo de Arte Contemporaneo Internacional Rufino Tamayo, Mexico City
Museo de Arte Contemporaneo de Oaxaca, Oaxaca, Mexico
Museo de Arte Latinoamericano de Buenos Aires, Buenos Aires, Argentina
Museo de Arte Moderno, Mexico City, Mexico
Museo de Arte Moderno de Bogotá, Bogotá, Colombia
Museo de Arte de Sonora (MUSAS), Hermosillo, Mexico
Museo de Arte Zapopa, Zapopan, Mexico
Museo de la Cancillería, S.R.E., Mexico City, Mexico
Museo del Palacio del Arzobispado, Mexico City, Mexico
Museo Universitario de Arte Contemporáneo (MUAC), UNAM, Mexico City, Mexico
Museum of Contemporary Art (MOCA), Los Angeles, USA
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston (MFAB), Boston, USA
Museum of Fine Arts, Houston (MFAH), Houston, USA
Museum of Latin American Art (MoLAA), Long Beach, USA
Perez Art Museum Miami Collection, Miami, USA
Richard E. Peeler Art Center, De Pauw University, Greencastle, USA
Sayago Pardon Collection, California, USA
Secretaría de Cultura del Estado de Colima, Colima, Mexico
Sonora Museum of Art, Hermosillo, Mexico
Speed Art Museum, Louisville, Kentucky
awards
2012
Sistema Nacional de Creadores de Arte Grant, Consejo Nacional para la Cultura y las Artes, Mexico City, Mexico (Two year grant)
2006
WTC Artfest 06, II Concurso Internacional de Arte Contemporáneo, Mexico City, Mexico (First prize)
2005
VII Bienal de Monterrey FEMSA, Monterrey, Mexico (First prize)
SIVAM (Sociedad Internacional de Valores del Arte Mexicano A.C.), Mexico City, Mexico (First prize)
2001
Fulbright García Robles Grant, Visual Arts section
Jacques and Natasha Gelman Scholarship, School of the Art Institute of Chicago, IL, USA
2000
Jóvenes Creadores 2000, Colima, Mexico (Grant)
1997
III Bienal de Pintura de Occidente Alfonso Michel, Colima, Mexico (First prize)
