Julio César Morales
BIOGRAPHY
By deploying a range of media and visual strategies, Julio César Morales (b. 1966, Tijuana) investigates issues of migration, underground economies, and labor on the personal and global scales. Morales’ practice explores diverse mediums specific to each project or body of work. He has painted watercolor illustrations that diagram human trafficking methods, employed the DJ turntable, produced video and time-based pieces, reenacted a famous meal–all to elucidate social interactions and political perspectives.
Morales’ artwork has been shown at venues internationally, including; San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, CA; Museo Rufino Tamayo, Mexico City; Los Angeles County Museum of Art, CA; Hammer Museum, Los Angeles, CA; MUCA Roma, Mexico City; Prospect 3 Biennale, New Orleans, LA; Lyon Biennale, France, and Istanbul Biennale, Turkey. His work is in private and public collections including The Museum of Modern Art, New York; Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, TX; Pérez Art Museum, Miami, FL; The Los Angeles County Museum of Art, CA; The Kadist Foundation, San Francisco and Paris, and Deutsche Bank, and among others. In May 2018, Morales was awarded the Phoenix Art Museum’s Arlene and Morton Scult Contemporary Forum Award, which culminated in a major solo exhibition in 2019. In 2021, a solo exhibition of Morales work will be presented at the Museum of Contemporary Art, Tuscon, AZ.
Julio César Morales, Installation view, The Armory Show, Javits Center, NY, NY, 2022.
Julio César Morales, Celestinos Cayendo, 2023, permanent pigment print on Hahnemühle 350 gsm paper with acrylic plexiglass glass, 11 x 14 inches each
Julio César Morales, Celestinos Cayendo, Installation view, Gallery Wendi Norris, San Francisco, CA, 2023.
Julio César Morales, Line Cutters, 2019, permanent pigment print on Hahnemühle 350 gsm paper, 20 x 24 inches each (50. 8 x 61 cm each), edition of 3 + 2AP
Julio César Morales, La Luz Entre Nosotros/The Light Between Us, 2021, 79 x 46 ¼ x 5 ½ inches (200.6 x 117.3 x 13.9 cm)
Julio César Morales: Invaders, installation view, Phoenix Art Museum, Phoenix, AZ, March 1 - August 4, 2019
Julio César Morales: This World is Not For You, installation view, Gallery Wendi Norris Offsite, Torre Cube, Floor 13, Guadalajara, Mexico, February 2 - 28, 2018
Julio César Morales: This World is Not For You, installation view of We are the Dead and We are the Dead: Part Two, Gallery Wendi Norris Offsite, Torre Cube, Floor 13, Guadalajara, Mexico, February 2 - 28, 2018
Julio César Morales, We are the Dead: Part 2, 2018, video still of HD video, 8:23 minutes, edition of 3 + 2AP
Julio César Morales, Installation view, Cuatro Caminos, 2017
Julio César Morales, Day Dreaming #5, 2017, permanent pigment print on Hahnemühle 350 gsm paper, 8 x 10 inches (20.32 x 25.4 cm), edition of 3 + 2AP
Julio César Morales: Emotional Violence, installation view of Boy in Suitcase, Gallery Wendi Norris, San Francisco, CA, November 5, 2015 — January 22, 2016, photography: John Janca
Julio César Morales, Mr. Potato Head Full of Ecstasy (Narco Headlines Series), 2015, watercolor and ink on paper, 22 x 30 inches (55.9 x 76.2 cm)
Julio César Morales, Installation view, This World is Not For You, Gallery Wendi Norris Offsite, Torre Cube, Floor 13, Guadalajara, Mexico, February 2 - 28, 2018
Julio César Morales, Ketamine Holy Water (Narco Headlines Series), 2015, watercolor and ink on paper, 22 x 30 inches (55.9 x 76.2 cm)
Julio César Morales, Installation view, Narco Headlines Series, 2015, watercolor and ink on paper, 22 x 30 inches each (55.9 x 76.2 cm each)
Julio César Morales, Bag of Lollipops with Heroin (Narco Headlines Series), 2015, watercolor and ink on paper, 22 x 30 inches (55.9 x 76.2 cm)
Julio César Morales, Boy in suitcase, 2015, video still of HD Video, 3:33 minutes
LOS JAICHACKERS (Eamon Ore-Giron & Julio César Morales), Subterranean Homesick Cumbia (still), 2014, Video (2 channel HD, stereo audio), TRT 23 min, Commissioned by Prospect New Orleans
LOS JAICHACKERS (Eamon Ore-Giron & Julio César Morales), Subterranean Homesick Cumbia (still), 2014, Video (2 channel HD, stereo audio), TRT 23 min, Commissioned by Prospect New Orleans
LOS JAICHACKERS (Eamon Ore-Giron & Julio César Morales), Subterranean Homesick Cumbia (still), 2014, Video (2 channel HD, stereo audio), TRT 23 min, Commissioned by Prospect New Orleans
LOS JAICHACKERS (Eamon Ore-Giron & Julio César Morales), Night Shade/Solanaceae (still), 2013, Video, Commissioned by Pérez Art Museum Miami
LOS JAICHACKERS (Eamon Ore-Giron & Julio César Morales), Ice Sculpture after Jamaican Sound Systems, 2013, Installation view: Night Shade/Solanaceae, December 5, 2013, Pérez Art Museum Miami, FL
Julio César Morales, We are the Dead, 2013, video still of HD video, 14:29 minutes, edition of 3 + 1AP
Julio César Morales: Forever Now!, installation view, Gallery Wendi Norris, San Francisco, CA, May 2 — June 29, 2013
Julio César Morales: Forever Now!, installation view, Gallery Wendi Norris, San Francisco, CA, May 2 — June 29, 2013
Julio César Morales: Forever Now!, installation view, Gallery Wendi Norris, San Francisco, CA, May 2 — June 29, 2013
Julio César Morales: Emotional Violence, installation view, Gallery Wendi Norris, San Francisco, CA, November 5, 2015 — January 22, 2016, photography: John Janca
Julio César Morales: Emotional Violence, installation view, Gallery Wendi Norris, San Francisco, CA, November 5, 2015 — January 22, 2016, photography: John Janca
Julio César Morales, Undocumented Interventions #21, 2011, watercolor and ink on paper, 30 x 40 inches (76.2 x 101.6 cm)
Julio César Morales, Undocumented Interventions #17, 2010, watercolor and ink on paper, 14 x 11 inches (36 x 28 cm)
Julio César Morales, Undocumented Interventions #8, 2007, watercolor and ink on paper, 12 x 9 inches (36 x 28 cm)
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