Carlos Morales is a photographer and mixed media artist who resides in New York. His interest in photography began with his participation in Unseen America, a collaboration between the Workplace Project and Stony Brook University. Capturing critical moments of the anti-immigrant movement, his photographs were first published in the arts and literature journal Hybrido (2008), and by the Southern Poverty Law Center (2009). For his advocacy work, he was honored as a recipient of the NYCLU’s Suffolk Chapter Equality Award (2010).
Having left his own country at a young age, Carlos’ experiences play a significant role in what he observes and how he portrays the interchange between solitude and space. He has had two solo shows, Entre Sombras at fotofoto gallery (2015), and Rosie which won 1st place in the Mills Pond Juried Documentary Photo exhibit (2018). Several images from La Ruta, a video installation series, were selected for exhibition at the Pingyao International Photography Festival (2019). Carlos’ most recent projects include serving as Director of Latino Arts of Long Island (LALI); exhibiting Out of the Pandemic, an outdoor video projection at Gallery North (2020); and developing and teaching The Class (2020 - ), ongoing virtual photography workshops for underprivileged communities in five Latin American countries. Carlos has presented at the Pollock-Krasner house (2022) as well as the Universidad Autónoma de Querétaro (2022), and was chosen to be part of the 2023 cohort of the NYFA Immigrant Artist Mentoring program. Most recently, he presented on the artist panel for the ¡ESTAMOS! symposium held at the Long Island Museum (LIM) in Stony Brook, where two of his pieces were exhibited as part of Somos/We Are: Latinx Artists on Long Island (2023).
Carlos completed his BFA in Photography and Related Media at the Fashion Institute of Technology (2019) and is nearing completion of his MFA in Integrated Media Arts at Hunter College. Selected as an IMA Make Space Fellow (2023 - ), he mentors undergraduate students in the Mellon Public Humanities and Social Justice Scholars program at Hunter in media making and collaborative storytelling.