Oswaldo Ruiz

Oswaldo Ruiz studied architecture, a profession he would soon abandon to pursue photography. Interested in expanding his knowledge, he completed postgraduate studies in psychoanalysis, philosophy and history of art at the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona (UAB) and later in 2006 he studied his master's degree in Fine Arts at Central Saint Martins College, London.
By using the dark of the night as a subject for his photographic work, from 2004 to 2012, he developed different projects with which from a kind of archeology of the everyday, he explored the light / dark, conscious / unconscious, life / death dualities.
In 2015, after two years of searching and experimenting with new languages, he began to work as an assistant to Graciela Iturbide, who led him to rethink his photographic work with more complexity and to reprise analog photography, which he now combines with digital images and video.
With Welcome to Paradise, his most recent project, he portrays different enclaves of Latin America to deconstruct the idea of city and to extract images of some of the archetypes that inhabit them, where ruins and images of science fiction dialogue together.
He has had multiple solo exhibitions among which stand out: Welcome to Paradise (Centro de la Imagen, Mexico, 2017); Espacio que cabe entre dos tiempos (Heart Ego Gallery, Mexico, 2016); Anudamientos (Museo de la Ciudad de México, Mexico, 2013); Frecuencia natural (Luis Adelantado Gallery, Mexico, 2011), Oswaldo Ruiz 2002-2009 (Fototeca Nuevo León, Mexico, 2010) and Last Night (Irish Museum of Modern Art, Ireland, 2010).
His photographs have received different awards such as the SIVAM Award (2006), the Petrobras-Buenos Aires Photo Award (2006) and the Acquisition Prize at the II Biennial of Visual Arts in Yucatan (2004). It has also been published in various books, magazines and catalogs, and exhibited at national and international fairs.

Submitted by Patricia Conde Galería