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From his studio based in Chandler, Arizona, Julio César Morales investigates issues of migration, underground economies, and labour on personal and global scales. His practice explores diverse mediums specific to each project or body of work. In his ongoing series Undocumented Interventions, Morales highlights the harrowing conditions migrants endure for clandestine passage into the United States. Rendered in hand-drawn lines and watercolour, these works reference the “interventions” employed by migrants while highlighting their ingenuity, determination, and dedication—qualities the United States purports to seek.
Morales’s work has been exhibited widely, including by the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art; Museo Rufino Tamayo, Mexico City; Los Angeles County Museum of Art; Hammer Museum, Los Angeles; Lyon Biennale, France, and Istanbul Biennale, Turkey. His work is held in such private and public collections as the Museum of Modern Art, New York; Museum of Fine Arts, Houston; the Los Angeles County Museum of Art; and the Kadist Foundation, Los Angeles. Morales was awarded the Phoenix Art Museum’s Arlene and Morton Scult Contemporary Forum Award in 2018, and the Joan Mitchell Foundation Painters and Sculptors Grant in 2020.
We asked the artist to share their favourite things | Le pedimos a cada artista que comparta sus cosas favoritas
