About

Dalos Dov was born in Veracruz, Mexico, and has spent the last twenty years in Guadalajara. He grew up in a home where art was part of everyday life. His mother, an artist who paints, sculpts, photographs, and works across countless mediums, was always learning and creating new work. Watching her, Dalos absorbed something important early on: that making things is a valid way of existing in the world.

However, he didn’t act on it for a long time. Instead, he majored in industrial engineering, training himself to think in systems and processes, to optimize, and to make things faster and more efficient. He worked as a consultant, where the work eventually became boring, and the hunger to create something of his own, rather than optimizing someone else’s processes, kept growing. So he opened a restaurant, drawn by the need to make something, to bring something into the world rather than improve what was already there. For the first time, creative agency felt real. But efficiency followed him in through the back door. Targets. Margins. Always room to improve.

The further he moved from engineering, the clearer it became what he had been looking for all along: a place where efficiency was simply beside the point. The shift happened gradually as a slow realization: not everything needs to be efficient. Not everything should be faster, stronger, better. The things that matter most resist acceleration. They take the time they take, or they are the way they are. And there is immense value in that.

Art became that place. And while it didn't ask him to make things faster or stronger or more efficient, it asked for something he hadn't expected: to look inward. Engineering had always pointed outward. At systems, processes, other people's problems. So had the restaurant. But art pointed directly at himself. He had grown up watching his mother reach inward and bring things into the world, making it look as natural as breathing. However, when he finally began doing it himself, he understood what that required and why it had taken so long. Going inward was unfamiliar. Uncomfortable, at first. But what he found there surprised him. That art could be a lens into his own soul, and at the same time a mirror for someone else's. That realization changed everything for him, and he has been doing it ever since.

Dalos has been a full-time artist since 2024. Working with generative systems of all kinds, he makes work that uses the technology of this moment as a lens to examine what has always been human, and what will remain so long after the technology changes.