Gabriel de la Mora

Mexican artist Gabriel de la Mora began his career as a practicing architect, designing for five years before transitioning to visual art after receiving his painting MFA in New York. Since the turn of the century, de la Mora has collected various detritus and found objects, including shoe soles, hair, photographs and painted scraps, transforming them through painstaking craftsmanship. Experimenting with the nature of art and object-hood, de la Mora intertwines conceptual forms with modernist abstraction, often removing or re-purposing his materials into a surreal experience. The original function of his found objects is disrupted and repurposed, tapping into the enigmatic origins of his offbeat materials.

Gabriel de la Mora’s work has been featured in numerous exhibitions, including the Museum of Latin American Art (MOLAA), Long Beach, CA, Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Houston, TX, Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Oaxaca (MACO), Oaxaca, Mexico, Art Museum of the Americas, Washington, DC, and Amparo Museum, Puebla, Mexico.