Lorena Morales is a multidisciplinary visual artist currently based in Houston, Texas. Her work relates to the evolving nature of home and the significance of what this carries for an individual and their identity in a rapidly changing world. Through a variety of materials, she explores the relationship between personal and collective experiences, stories, and contexts, challenging the viewer to further discover the simultaneously positive and negative feelings surrounding home by exploring spaces that are intangible, metaphoric and psychological.
Born in Maracaibo, Venezuela, Morales holds certificates in painting and sculpture from the Glassell School of Art at the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, as well as a degree in business administration. She completed the Block XIX Program at the Glassell School of Art, and was also awarded a grant by the Carlos Cruz-Diez Foundation and the Glassell School of Art for participation in an advanced seminar in contemporary art. She was one of the selected 2021/22 artists-in-residence at the L’AIR Arts Research Residency in Paris, France, and in 2023, she joined the hybrid art residency Mar Adentro at Puertas Adentro in Punta del Este, Uruguay.
Morales’ work has been exhibited extensively in art galleries, nonprofit organizations, and art museums in Texas, as well as nationally and internationally, in Venezuela, France, Uruguay, and Germany. Her work is held in the permanent collection of the George R. Brown Convention Center in Houston, City of Houston’s Civic Art Collection, George Bush Intercontinental Airport, and in many other public and private collections. More recently, Morales was selected as the 1st Place winner for The Wendy Wagner Foundation 2024 Fall Trio Creative Grant. Her work is represented by Hooks-Epstein Galleries in Houston, Texas, and Contemporaneo Gallery in Asheville, North Carolina.
To learn more about Lorena Morales, visit https://www.lorenamorales.com/.
Lorena’s residency was generously sponsored in part by Phyllis Childress.
