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Residencia Carlos Amorales x Fundación Careyes
In the heart of Mexico’s Pacific coast, where the jungle meets the sea and sky, The Careyes Foundation Art Program will host a landmark residency with artist Carlos Amorales in 2025–2026. This visionary initiative blends artistic excellence with environmental awareness, deep community engagement, and cultural relevance.
The Careyes Foundation Art Program is a site-specific initiative rooted in environmental and community-based practice. By offering free contemporary art workshops for children (ages 9–14) and their families in the Costalegre region of Jalisco, Mexico.
June 2025
Arrecife de formas
Ocean & Coastal Kowledge
This residency will explore the ocean as a living archive of ecosystems, memory, and cultural narratives. It will delve into the biodiversity of reef systems and examine how coastal communities relate to marine life through scientific understanding, oral histories, maritime folklore, and daily practices. A key element of the project will be the creation of a modular reef installation, inviting participants to collectively imagine and build new worlds from the sea.
Amorales will lead a collaborative and interdisciplinary creative process anchored in field research, co-creation with local communities, and a culminating public exhibition, all happening in 4 phases beginning June 2025, and ending in May 2026 in a public exhibition at the Careyes Art Gallery.
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Carlos Amorales
Carlos Amorales is one of Mexico’s most internationally acclaimed artists. His interdisciplinary practice spans installation, video, drawing, sound, and animation, often exploring collective memory, myth, and language. His work has been exhibited at institutions including MoMA (New York), Centre Pompidou (Paris), and the Stedelijk Museum (Amsterdam). In 2017, he represented Mexico at the Venice Biennale.
His poetic and participatory approach makes him the ideal artist to lead this residency in Careyes.
Join a movement that reimagines the future of coastal communities through art. Support a world-class engaging with one of Mexico’s most biodiverse and culturally rich regions.
Sponsors will receive recognition across all communications platforms, invitations to preview events and artist talks.
Help us continue the work of The Careyes Foundation in bringing art, ecology, and education to life on Mexico’s Pacific coast.
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residency
Phase 1
La costa es el lugar donde la tierra y el océano se encuentran.
Phase 1. June 8-18
Field research with local environmental scientist, and co-creation workshops with children and families in Punta Pérula, Chamela, La Fortuna and Tenacatita.
Creation of the Baroque LEGO modular reef installation with laser-cut wooden pieces. Led by Carlos Amorales and educator Jaime Ruíz Martínez.
Phase 2
La costa es esencial porque nos da alimentos, facilita el transporte y el comercio y es un lugar para vivir y disfrutar.
Phase 2. July - October 2025
Monthly community workshops designed by Amorales and facilitated by The Careyes Foundation Team.
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Phase 3
la costa protege la biodiversidad y nos permite estudiar el mundo.
Phase 3. November 2025
Final community sessions and preparation of the exhibition. Installation at the Careyes Art Gallery.
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Phase 4
Public exhibition featuring the community-built reef sculpture, children’s prints, and Amorales’ studio works.
