Julio Morales

Portland State University MFA Monday Night Lecture Series

Julio César Morales is an artist, educator and curator whose photography, interactive media, public art and video installations have been shown extensively in California and internationally. Inspired by the design, popular music and street life of his native Tijuana, Mexico, Morales has taught and created art in a variety of settings, from probation offices to public schools to museums and to alternative nonprofit galleries.

Morales has received awards from the Rockefeller Foundation, Artadia Foundation, The San Francisco Arts Commission, The Fleishhacker Foundation, National Endowment for The Arts, Fellows of Contemporary Art and the Creative Work Fund amongst others.

He is a graduate of the San Francisco Art Institute, where he studied in the New Genres department. His work has been exhibited at the UCLA Hammer Museum in Los Angeles, Harris Lieberman Gallery in New York City, The Rooseum Museum of Art in Sweden, the Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego, Fototeca de Havana in Cuba, Peres Projects in Los Angeles, Espacio C in Spain, and the Museo Universitario de Ciencias y Arte Roma in Mexico City. Group shows include the 2006 Singapore Biennale, San Juan Triennial in Puerto Rico, Frankfurter Kunstverein in Germany and most recently at The Tenth Annual Istanbul Biennale with upcoming shows at The Los Angeles County Art Museum, Ishibashi Museum of Art, Tokyo, Japan and Museo Rufino Tamayo in Mexico City.

Morales’ curatorial projects include the Yerba Buena Center for the Arts in San Francisco, the Los Angeles Museum of Contemporary Art, The Pasadena Museum of California Art, the San Francisco Arts Commission, Southern Exposure and the San Francisco Museum of Craft and Folk Art, among many others. Morales is co-founder and curator for Queens Nails Annex, an artist run project space in San Francisco.

Portland State University's Art Department offers free public lectures every Monday night of the school year. This is the sixteenth lecture in the PMMNLS for this season. The PSU MFA Monday Night Lecture Series is supported in part by PICA, Reed College, PNCA, Lewis and Clark College, PSU's Department of International Studies, and Ben Rosenberg Studio. If you or your organization are interested in becoming a supporter of the lecture series please let us know.

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