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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 hosted a landmark residency with artist Carlos Amorales in 2025. 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, the program strengthens cultural participation and nurtures creativity across generations.
June 2025
Arrecife de formas
Ocean & Coastal Kowledge
This residency explored the ocean as a living archive of ecosystems, memory, and cultural narratives. It delved into the biodiversity of reef systems and examined how coastal communities relate to marine life through scientific understanding, oral histories, maritime folklore, and daily practices. A key element of the project was the creation of a modular reef installation, inviting participants to collectively imagine and build new worlds from the sea.
Amorales led a collaborative and interdisciplinary creative process anchored in field research, co-creation with local communities, workshops, and a culminating public exhibition at the Careyes Art Gallery opening on December 2025 and ending on May 2026.
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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.
Community
Involvement
The process inspired deep community involvement. Parents and members of local fishing cooperatives joined with remarkable enthusiasm, discovering new ways to connect with the sea and their environment through art.
These collective works will form the heart of the exhibition opening December 28, 2025, at the Careyes Art Gallery, presented alongside new pieces by Amorales. The project has also been developed with the participation of Kurimanzutto gallery, reinforcing its connection to Mexico’s contemporary art landscape.
Join a movement that reimagines the future of coastal communities through art. Support a world-class art program engaging with one of Mexico’s most biodiverse and culturally rich regions.
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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