Moris

Moris
Mexico City, 1978

Moris’s work revolves around themes that point to representation, social and subjective will, urban issues and marginal cultures, usually taken for granted in conventional societies. Informed by constant fieldwork, the themes Moris investigates have been part of his life since childhood and are pertinent to both his personal and professional backgrounds.

The street and social space are his laboratory for research, data collection and clues, analysis of visual cultures and vernacular aesthetics. Observing, integrating and learning from the diverse social codes of the marginal classes of Mexico City. Their dialects and semiotics, their survival strategies and the informal use of aesthetics in their environment in order to make routine life more humane and dignified, are the driving values of Moris’ work.

He has participated in the São Paulo and Havana Biennales, as well as in group exhibitions at Fundación Jumex, Mexico; CIFO Fontanals Cisneros, Miami; Artium, Vitoria; and MUSAC, León. He has also held solo exhibitions at the Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles; Museo Carrillo Gil, Mexico City; Sala Siqueiros, Mexico City; and Stadtgalerie Saarbrücken, Germany.

His work can be found in the collections of MoMA, New York; Pérez Art Museum, Miami; Fundación Jumex; CIFO Fontanals Cisneros; SMAK; CA2M; Artium; MOCA, Los Angeles; Museo Amparo, Puebla; Museo de Arte Moderno, Mexico City; Museum of Contemporary Art, San Diego; Isabel and Agustín Coppel Collection, Mexico City; David Chipperfield Collection, London; among others.

Moris – Portfolio 2026

Moris
Sangriento ladronzuelo
2021
Collage, concrete and transfer on canvas
200 x 150 cm