Following meticulous and self-created methodologies, Gabriel de la Mora researches, collects, classifies, catalogs, and manipulates remarkably diverse materials. These materials are familiar, sourced from quotidian objects—his ongoing series The weight of thought, for example, repurposes leather and rubber shoe soles. de la Mora’s materials of choice are those often considered waste or residue: collected artifacts and antiques, obsolete mechanical and utilitarian objects, parts, corporeal matter, architectural scrap. Through these, the artist explores finitude and permanence, the passing of time, it’s bracketing, and the transformation of matter and energy alike. The formal outcome of these processes plays with pre-established notions of drawing, painting, and sculpture. Characterized by their visual potency, the resulting bodies of work complicate theoretical and historical art terms (the ready-made, the objet-trouvé, the monochrome, the peinture en plein air, among others). As such, they establish an ironic spin on the abstract and minimalist aesthetics and inquire about the ever-changing notion of painting as a phenomenon. Can painting originate itself with the passing of time and without any intervention from the artist’s hand? This apparent negation of painting and other ontological musings formulated by de la Mora’s oeuvre is extended to artistic practice at large: When is an artwork born and when does it reach its conclusion? What is the role of the artist within the creative act? Coupled with equally methodical and strict processes, Gabriel de la Mora has constituted a practice in which the role of the artist is not to create nor to destroy, but to transform.
Gabriel de la Mora was born on September 23, 1968 in Mexico City, where he lives and works. He earned an MFA in Painting (2001-03) from Pratt Institute, NY and a BFA in Architecture (1987-91) from Universidad Anáhuac del Norte, Mexico City. He has been a Fulbright García-Robles grant recipient, a grantee from the Jacques and Natasha Gelman Foundation, and a member of the National System of Creators-FONCA (2013-15), Mexico.
His work is part of public and private collections in Mexico and abroad, among them: Fundación/Colección JUMEX, Museo de Arte Contemporáneo Internacional Rufino Tamayo, Museo de Arte Carrillo Gil, Museo Universitario Arte Contemporáneo-MUAC, and Museo de Arte Moderno, Mexico City; Museo Amparo, Puebla, Mexico; Museum of Contemporary Art-MOCA, Los Angeles, CA; The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, TX; El Museo del Barrio, NYC, NY; Albright-Knox, Buffalo, NY; Perez Art Museum, Miami, FL; Speed Art Museum, Louisville, KY; Centro Gallego de Arte Contemporáneo, Santiago de Compostela; Colección Banco de la República and Museo de Arte Moderno de Bogotá, Bogotá; Museo de Arte Latinoamericano-MALBA, Buenos Aires, M+ Hong Kong, China.
He is represented by PROYECTOS MONCLOVA (Mexico City),PERROTIN (Paris, New York, Seoul, Tokyo, Shanghai, and Hong Kong), Sicardi Ayers Bacino (Houston) and Simões de Assis (Curitiba, Brazil)
GSTAAD ART FAIR – GSTAAD, SWITZERLAND
MAZE / ART GSTAAD
JEAN-MARIE APPRIOU, GENESIS BELANGER, ANNA-EVA BERGMAN, MAURIZIO CATTELAN, LYNN CHADWICK, JOHAN CRETEN, GABRIEL DE LA MORA, JEAN-PHILIPPE DELHOMME, JENS FÄNGE, BERNARD FRIZE, LAURENT GRASSO, GREGOR HILDEBRANDT, KLARA KRISTALOVA, LEE BAE, TAKASHI MURAKAMI, OTANI WORKSHOP, JEAN-MICHEL OTHONIEL
FEBRUARY 19, 2026 – FEBRUARY 22, 2026
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Featured Artists Include |
Bharti Kher
Gabriel de la Mora Mr. X Takashi Murakami Takashi Murakami Jean-Michel Othoniel Paul Pfeiffer Paola Pivi Gabriel Rico Mark Ryden Cinga Samson AYA TAKANO Pieter Vermeersch |
OPENING
THURSDAY, MARCH 5TH 5 – 8PM
130 ORCHARD STREET
NEW YORK
EXHIBITION UNTIL APRIL 11
Proyectos Monclova Gallery is pleased to announce its participation in Frieze Los Angeles 2026, where the gallery will present a curated group exhibition featuring works by Gabriel de la Mora, Eduardo Terrazas, Chantal Peñalosa, Circe Irasema, Michael Sailstorfer, and Willy Kautz.
For this year’s edition, the gallery presents for the first time at Frieze L.A. a curated group presentation. The exhibition brings together artists whose practices explore perception, identity, and material transformation, with a strong emphasis on abstraction, reflection, and conceptual inquiry. The presentation reflects the diversity, rigor, and experimental spirit of the gallery’s program.
Proyectos Monclova Gallery announces its participation in ZⓈONAMACO 2026, the most important contemporary art platform in Latin America. In this edition, and celebrating our presence at home, the gallery will present a broad and representative exhibition bringing together works by more than 22 artists from different generations, nationalities, and multidisciplinary practices.
The presentation includes works by Brenda Cabrera, Ramiro Chaves, Gabriel de la Mora, James Benjamin Franklin, Guillermo García Cruz, Gabriel Garcilazo, Víctor Hugo Pérez, Circe Irasema, Néstor Jiménez, Willy Kautz, Ivan Krassoievitch, Ricardo Mazal, Josué Mejía, Yoshua Okón, Edgar Orlaineta, Hilda Palafox, Juan Parada, Andrés Pereira Paz, Eduardo Terrazas, Alejandra Venegas, Macaparana, and Tercerunquinto, offering a diverse and solid overview of the gallery’s program and the complexity of the contemporary Latin American and international art scene.
GABRIEL DE LA MORA @ ZⓈONAMACO 2026
BOOTH D 108
GALERÍA SIMÕES DE ASSIS
February 4 – 8, 2026
Centro Banamex, Mexico City
Gabriel de la Mora will lead a special tour of La Petite Mort, sharing stories, reflections, and key aspects of his creative process. We invite you to take part in this unique opportunity to gain firsthand insight into the artist’s vision and the importance of materials in his practice.
In this conversation, artist Gabriel de la Mora will share reflections on his artistic practice, exploring both the technical and conceptual processes, as well as the materials and methodologies that define his work. Drawing from key examples of his career and from works presented in the exhibition La Petite Mort, he will address the notions of transformation, memory, and trace that shape his production.
Jean-Marie Appriou, Iván Argote, Cristina BanBan, Genesis Belanger, Anna-Eva Bergman, Sophie Calle, Maurizio Cattelan, Johan Creten, Gabriel de la Mora, Jean-Philippe Delhomme, Jens Fänge, Nick Goss, Laurent Grasso, Hans Hartung, Thilo Heinzmann, Gregor Hildebrandt, Bharti Kher, Klara Kristalova, Jean-Michel Othoniel, Kathia St. Hilaire, Aya Takano, Xavier Veilhan y Lee Bae
Wednesday at SOMA
January 14 | 7:30 pm | Free admission
Gabriel de la Mora is a Mexican visual artist whose practice is characterized by the development of meticulous methodologies of searching, collecting, and transforming materials. Through objects drawn from everyday contexts and elements that have become obsolete, his work explores the passage of time, finitude, and permanence, while questioning preconceived notions of painting, sculpture, and authorship, as well as the role of the artist within processes of material transformation.
At this edition of Wednesday at SOMA, Gabriel de la Mora will speak about two solo exhibitions he is currently presenting in Mexico and Brazil: Gabriel de la Mora: La Petite Mort at Museo Jumex in Mexico City, and VEEMENTE: Gabriel de la Mora at the Oscar Niemeyer Museum in Curitiba, Brazil. Drawing from these projects, he will share reflections on the conceptual and material processes that articulate both exhibitions, as well as on their dialogue with different institutional and spatial contexts.
