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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FEBRUARY 26 – MARCH 1 |
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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.
Fabiola Iza
OUT OF FRAME
TEXTS
FABIOLA IZA
CECILIA FAJARDO HILL
EDITOR
FABIOLA IZA
IMAGE MANAGEMENT
ALFREDO GALLEGOS
EDITORIAL DESIGN
ESTEBAN GÉRMAN
COPYEDITING
ROBIN MYERS
GABRIEL DE LA MORA STUDIO
JORGE HERNÁNDEZ, MIGUEL HERNÁNDEZ, SANDRA MARTÍNEZ, GLADYS MAURICIO, KARINA MAURICIO Y ARTURO SOTO
Out of Frame is a monographic study of Gabriel de la Mora’s recent production. Consisting of three essays and accompanying images, the publication analyses the working methods that lie behind the artist’s material output. Instead of aiming to offer another reading of his series of works, mainly made of debris and discarded materials and which seek to erase the boundaries between drawing, painting, and sculpture. Thus this book distinguishes itself as contributing to the study of his working methods or processes rather than to an object-oriented focus on his finished artworks. Therefore, Out of Frame focuses on the influences that nourish de la Mora’s work along with the methodologies he devises to manipulate countless raw materials. The essays tackle questions regarding topics such as animism and the role of the collector, finitude, commodification and the ontology of the art object through the lens of the artist’s production. Fuera de Cuadro / Out of Frame will be the first in a series of digital publications that the artist will produce in collaboration with young curators and writers about his work, with this initial title also giving name to the budding series. The Fuera de Cuadro publication series seeks to to unveil the physical and mental processes entwined in De la Mora’s creative process. Each invited curator/writer will determine the scope of each book ultimately offering their interpretations on the “out of frame” theme.
Download the book here:
http://gabrieldelamora.com/fueradecuadro/fueradecuadro-eng.html
PROYECTOSMONCLOVA
PUBLICADO CON MOTIVO DE LA EXHIBICIÓN:
/ PUBLISHED ON THE OCASSION OF THE EXHIBITION:
Gabriel de la Mora: Entropías
06.02.2018 – 10.03.2018
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© El artista, los autores, los fotógrafos,
y PROYECTOSMONCLOVA
© The artist, the authors, the photographers,
and PROYECTOSMONCLOVA
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TEXTO / TEXT
Eliza Mizrahi Balas
FOTOGRAFÍA / PHOTOGRAPHY
Estudio Gabriel de la Mora
ASESORÍA EN CONSERVACIÓN
Ana Lizeth Mata
VIDEO
Javier Velázquez, Ramiro Chaves
IMÁGENES / IMAGES
Alfredo Gallegos
EDITORA / EDITOR
Elizabeth Calzado
TRADUCCIÓN DEL INGLÉS / ENGLISH TRANSLATION
Christopher Fraga
DISEÑO / DESIGN
Esteban Gérman
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Impreso en México en los talleres de Offset
Rebosán / Printed in Mexico at the workshop
of Offset Rebosán
It is available at PROYECTOSMONCLOVA gallery.
Brett Littman - Jace Clayton.
The Drawing Center
July 15 – September 2, 2016
Main Gallery
Gabriel de la Mora
Sound Inscriptions on Fabric
Curated by Brett Littman
Drawing Papers 127
Essays by Brett Littman and Jace Clayton
ISBN 978 – 0 – 942324 – 97 – 6
To place an international order
Please contact to Bookstore Manager, Kate Robinson at krobinson@drawingcenter.org.
Willy Kautz
LO QUE NO VEMOS LO QUE NOS MIRA / WHAT WE DO NOT SEE, WHAT LOOKS BACK AT US
ISBN: 978-607-95918-4-7
Edición bilingüe: Inglés / Español, 236 páginas a color
Diseño: Nicolás Pradilla
Traducción: Richard Moszka (cap 1-5) / Michael Parker Stainback (cap 6-7)
Edición: Museo Amparo (2015)
Francisco Reyes Palma
El libro, Gabriel de la Mora, Originalmentefalso / Originallyfake encara una problemática que desborda la escena del arte contemporáneo pues, no obstante la magnitud de falsificaciones que saturan el mercado de arte, la crítica, la institución, la galería y el coleccionismo suelen optar por el silencio.
En la búsqueda obsesiva de materia prima para su proyecto de incorporar una serie de obras falsas a la esfera de la creación legítima, Gabriel de la Mora se sumerge en el complejo submundo del mercado negro del arte y mantiene contacto con una amplia gama de coleccionistas y con los archivos de algunas galerías, casas subastadoras y talleres de restauro que apoyan su propuesta.
Esta publicación es asimismo un intento por acercar al lector al proceso creativo de cada obra, de manera que su comprensión y disfrute se mantengan abiertos, sobre todo por tratarse de una estética agresiva, liminal, donde conviven las síntesis formales y las revisiones postconceptuales, el refinamiento y la abyección.
El intenso y prolongado diálogo entre Gabriel de la Mora y Francisco Reyes Palma, refiere a una exploración en los bordes de lo artístico, que muestra también otros modos de relación entre el artista y el crítico, las lógicas de exposición y la historia del arte. Exploración que aún se mantiene abierta.
Edición bilingüe, inglés y español.
112 páginas.
Co-editada por Conaculta y Literal Publishing.
Diseño de Nicolás Pradilla.
Traducción de Christopher Michael Fraga.
ISBN: 978-0-9897957-4-6 Literal Publishing
ISBN: 978-607-516-360-4 CONACULTA
Sergio Rodríguez Blanco y Gabriel de la Mora
Alegorías Capilares recibió el Premio Bellas Artes de Literatura Luis Cardoza y Aragón para Crítica de Artes Plásticas 2009. Sergio Rodríguez Blanco construye una travesía por el universo estético que despliega el pelo humano utilizado como materia para el arte en el trabajo del artista mexicano Gabriel de la Mora. Un viso de perversión palpita detrás del esteticismo y la sorprendente destreza técnica de algunas de sus obras realizadas con fibras capilares de seres humanos.
2011 | Primera Edición
160 páginas
Español
16.5 x 22.5 cm
Encuadernación: Pasta dura
ISBN: 978-607-7663-25-6
Editorial TRILCE Ediciones (2012)
Willy Kautz, Miguel González Virgen, Gilbert Vicario, Robert C. Morgan, María Minera y Gabriel de la Mora
Interpretar el trabajo artístico de Gabriel de la Mora es como buscar la huella de un crimen con la sospecha de que éste nunca tuvo lugar. En sus obras, la precisión y la ejecución parecen maniobras conceptuales a la vez que formales.
Si todo parece estar en su sitio, ¿qué es lo perturbador y lo maravilloso de su trabajo?, ¿qué es lo que nos conduce a una experiencia de lo siniestro? Su trabajo guarda relación con el lado oscuro de la psique, su lado interno, al margen de las proposiciones cínicas e irónicas tan comunes al arte contemporáneo.
Este libro recorre la obra de Gabriel de la Mora, su trabajo explora la identidad personal y cultural a través de diferentes líneas de investigación que trazan el hilo conductor de su obra: la originalidad, lo paranormal, la identidad, la memoria, el retrato y el cuerpo, que forman parte del juego entre dicotomías (figuración-abstracción, barroco-minimalista, inocencia-crueldad, tradicional-experimental) representadas en sus obras. En ellas, la línea y el punto se vuelen elementos fundamentales que generan un dialogo entre dibujo y escultura, entre lo bidimensional y lo tridimensional.
Páginas 224
Medidas 21,5 x 28 cm
Encuadernación Tela con sobrecubierta francesa
2 Ediciones Español /Inglés
ISBN
Castellano 978-84-7506-964-7
Inglés 978-84-7506-965-4
Editorial TURNER (2011)
