Carlos Amorales was born in 1970 in Mexico City where he continues to live and work. Using a broad range of media such as performance, animation, and installation, Amorales evolves stories into which he often weaves cultural symbols drawn from his native Mexico. His works are dark poetic fantasies, allegorically representing scenarios of social injustice. Amorales creates paired-down worlds in which the forces of good and evil face off under the same mask. These take the form of animated silhouettes set against a graphic backdrop, or real lucha libre wrestlers fighting inside a live ring, as in ‘Amorales vs. Amorales’ (1999). The artist describes himself as a director. For ‘Dark Mirrors’ (2005), Amorales commissioned a score-composer and an animator to produce a video using his personal archive of images. His practice also includes running a production studio as well as the record label ‘Nuevos Ricos’.

Carlos Amorales has had recent solo exhibitions at the Philadelphia Museum of Art, Pennsylvania (2008), the Contemporary Arts Center, Cincinnati, Ohio (2008), Yvon Lambert, London (2008) and The Power Plant, Toronto (2007). His work has been shown as part of Performa 07, New York (2007), “Historias Animadas” at Caixa Forum, Barcelona and Sala Rekalde, Bilbao, Spain and Le Fresnoy, Tourcoing, France (2006), “Propria Visión / Our Vision” at The Queens Museum of Art, New York (2006) and “The Pantagruel Syndrome”, T3 – Torinotriennale tremusei, Turin (2005). His major performance project with traditional Mexican wrestlers was exhibited in, amongst other venues, the Centre Pompidou, Paris and Tate Modern, London (2003), the same year he represented The Netherlands in the 50th Venice Biennale exhibition “We are the World”.

Carlos Amorales is represented by Yvon Lambert, Paris, London and New York, Annet Gelink Gallery ,  Amsterdam, and Kurimanzutto, Mexico City.