Beatriz Morales

Beatriz Morales (b. 1981, Mexico City) is a visual artist whose practice combines painting, textile art, plant fibers, and large-scale installations. Born and raised in Mexico City, she moved to Europe in 2001, where she pursued largely autodidactic studies in painting and fashion design. Her work merges an investigative approach related to abstract expressionism with conceptual and textile-based processes, often resulting in monumental installations. Morales incorporates traditional pre-Hispanic dyeing techniques into her artistic practice, applying them both to plant fibers and to painting on canvas. Through these methods, her work explores the materiality of color, the dialogue between ancestral knowledge and contemporary art, and the relationship between nature, memory, and cultural heritage. Her painting Wonderland II was presented at the Museo de Arte Contemporáneo Rufino Tamayo in Mexico City and Oaxaca as part of the Mexican Painting Biennial in 2017. She made her major art fair debut at Zona Maco in 2018 and has since participated in international fairs including Dallas Art Fair and Art Karlsruhe, alongside exhibitions in galleries across Europe and North America. Recent exhibitions include a major solo show at Circle Culture (Berlin), museum exhibitions at the Museo de la Cancillería in Mexico City and the Museo de Arte Contemporáneo MACAY in Mérida, and participation in the group exhibition The King is Dead, Long Live the Queen at the Frieder Burda Museum in Baden-Baden. Her monograph Color Archaeology was published by Kerber Publishing in 2021. Morales lives and works between Berlin and Hidalgo, Mexico.