CARMEN MORA
RESUME
Madrid, Spain (1985)
The Spanish plastic artist was born in Madrid in 1985. She began her artistic training at Saint Martins School in London, and currently researches and trains in Post-nature and Contemporary Creation at the Institute for Postnatural Studies. Her line of research focuses on experimentation with materials to find new, intimate, and personal relationships with our environment and with ourselves, formalized in installations and sculptures.
Her first solo exhibition was in Madrid, at the Espacio Valverde gallery in February 2020. Since then, she has held two solo exhibitions: “Intervención 20-01” at Habitación Número 34 gallery in Madrid in March 2022, and “Piel con Piel” at Hispánica gallery in Mexico City in April 2022. In March 2025, she will present the solo exhibition “Quiénes Somos” at Picnic gallery (Madrid).
She has participated in several group exhibitions, notably Edén, an intervention in Madrid's Casa de Campo park curated by Casa Antillón in 2020, and lastly in Háptica in México City. She also has participated in different international art fairs, such as Urvanity 2024 (Madrid), where she was selected for the main booth, ARCO 2023 (Madrid), ARCO 2021 (Madrid), and Art Lima (Peru) in 2020. She has been selected for Salón Acme 2025.
Her work has been published in media such as Descubrir el Arte, Exibart, Canal Extremadura, Art Viewer, Relieve Contemporáneo, Plataforma de Arte Contemporáneo PAC, Vanity Fair Cultura, and Fuera de Serie.
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DescriptioIn a context where the natural and the human are increasingly perceived as intertwined, Carmen questions the boundaries of the structures that shape our experience as human beings and seeks to dissolve their forms. These structures—understood as exclusionary, binary, and generalizing systems of classification—often give rise to states of both physical and psychological anxiety. Her practice proposes to take apart these classifications, make way for new possible connections, emerge from what is real, intimate, and personal, and in the meantime create a new imagination.
Through these reflections, her work focuses on material experimentation to explore new ways of relating to the environment and the self. This ongoing research takes shape through installations and sculptures, conceived as spaces for sensory, emotional, and symbolic connection.
Her first solo exhibition occurred at Espacio Valverde (Madrid) in February 2020. Since then, she has presented Intervención 20-01 at Habitación Número 34 (Madrid, March 2022) and Piel con Piel at Galería Hispánica (Mexico City, April 2022). In March 2025, she opened her solo exhibition Quienes Somos at Galería Picnic* (Madrid).n text goes here
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Artistic Education
°Seminar of Postnature and Contemporary Creation in the Institute for Postnatural Studies, March 2021 - June 2022
°Ways of Life Laboratory by Alfredo Aracil and Espositivo, 2020-2021
Exhibitions:
°Individual exhibition “Intervention 20-12” at the gallery Habitación Número 34 (Madrid), March 2022
°Artistic residence Proyecto T and individual exhibition “Skin to Skin” at the gallery Hispánica (Mexico City), April 2022
°International Art Fair (La Rioja, Spain) with Espacio Valverde gallery, October 2021
°International Art Fair ARCO 2021 (Madrid) with Espacio Valverde gallery, July 2021
°Collective exhibition Edén, an intervention of the Casa de Campo park (Madrid) curated by Casa Antillón, 13 June 2020
°Art Lima (International Art Fair of Lima), Peru, with Espacio Valverde gallery, April 2020
°Individual exhibition at Espacio Valverde gallery (Madrid), February 2020
Featured:
°Harpers Bazaar "Women in the Arts", March 2025
°Discovering Art, February 2022
°Interview at Canal Extremadura para la Nave Va, October 2020
°Art Viewer, September 2020
°Relieve Contemporáneo, July 2020
°I-D Vice, July 2020
°Plataforma de Arte Contemporáneo “PAC”, June 2020
°Vanity Fair Culture, January 2020