Lives and works in Mexico City.
irak morales lives and works between Mexico City, the State of Mexico, Oaxaca and wherever possible. He has exhibited in museums, cultural centers, and autonomous spaces in Mexico, Colombia, Ecuador, Guatemala, Argentina, Brazil, Los Angeles, New York, Spain, France, and Italy, including: Museo Cabañas, Guadalajara, Mexico (2022); Center Culturel Maison Visinand, Montreux, Switzerland (2021); MUME, Mexican Museum, Vienna, Austria, (2020); Kurimanzutto, Mexico City, (2020); Palais de Tokyo, Paris, France, 2019; Cultural Center, Gare Saint Sauveur,Lille France (2019); MUAC, Contemporary Art University Museum, UNAM, Mexico, (2018); Rinomina, artist/run/space, Paris, France, (2018); NERI/BARRANCO, nomadic contemporary art gallery, Mexico City, 2018; MUCA, Uni- versity Museum of Sciences and Art, UNAM (2018); HUMAN RESOURCES, Los Angeles California, USA (2018); Alumnos 47 Foundation. Mexico City (2017); SPACE 776, Brooklyn, New York (2016); Coaty Building, Salvador Bahia, Brazil (2016); BIQUIINI WAX EPS, Mexico City (2016); Fondazione Giorgio Cini, Venice Biennale, Italy, (2015); University Center for Art, Architecture and Design, University of Guadalajara, UDG, Jalisco (2015); MIAMI Contemporary Practices Gallery, Bogotá Colombia (2014); SOMA Project Room, Mexico City (2014); MUPO, Museum of Oaxacan Painters, Oaxaca, Mexico (2013); Home. Center for the Arts of San Agustín, Oaxaca, Mexico (2012); Diego Rivera Anahuacalli Museum, Mexico City (2011); Metropolitan Cultural Center, Quito, Ecuador (2011); National Museum of Death, University Cultural Center, UAA. Aguascalientes (2010), among others.
Self-taught in the arts and later professional, graduated from the Educational Programs Sincrónico Atlas Alumnos 47 (2015-2017) and SOMA (2014−2016); Postgraduate, Specialty in Contemporary Art from the Autonomous University of Oaxaca and La Curtiduría (2011−2013); In parallel, he studied the Diploma in Visual Arts Production at the San Agustín Center for the Arts, C.a.S.a. Coordinated by Laureana Toledo and L.F.O. (2011-2012); He received his Bachelor of Visual Arts at the Autonomous University of Guadalajara, UDG (2010).
His work is part of important contemporary, national, and international, public and private art collections, some of which are: Jumex Collection, Cincinnati Art Museum Collection, Imago Mundi - Fondazione Luciano Benetton Studi Ricerch, Fundación Alumnos47 Collection, University Collection Autónoma de Guadalajara, Collection of the Pinaco- teca of the Autonomous University of Guerrero, Collection/archive, Museum of Oaxacan Painters, Collection of the Community Museum of Sierra Hermosa, Zacatecas, Collection of the Biblioforever’s Public Library, Collection of the Casa de Mi Museum Head, Collection of the Moxviquil Botanical Orchidarium, and the private Collections of Haydée Rovirosa and Patricia Bessudo.
