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Patricia Conde Galería
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San Miguel Chapultepec I Secc.
Mexico City, 11850, Mexico
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Heart Ego
Lázaro Garza Ayala 511, Casco Urbano, 66230
San Pedro Garza García, N.L., Mexico
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Oswaldo Ruiz was born in Monterrey, Nuevo León, in 1977. An early interest in space led him to study architecture at the Universidad Autónoma de Nuevo León (UANL), a profession that he quickly abandoned in order to focus on photography. Interested in broadening his understanding of the image, he completed graduate studies in psychoanalysis, philosophy and art history at the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona (UAB). Later, in order to advance his explorations of visual media, he enrolled in the Master of Fine Arts program at Central Saint Martins College in London. From 2015 and 2018 he was the studio assistant of the Mexican photographer Graciela Iturbide.
His artistic practice undertakes an anthropological and conceptual exploration of landscape, utilizing both analog and digital photography, as well as video. This exploration delves deep into the intricate connections between physical space, its historical context, and its social dimension
He has had over a dozen solo exhibitions, including: Talking Fields (Soco Gallery, Charlotte, USA, 2024); El chamán y la presa (Bodegón Cultural Los Vilos, Chile, 2023); La memoria de la sustancia (Galería Patricia Conde, Mexico City, 2023); Nostalgia de catástrofes (Galería Patricia Conde, Mexico City, 2018); Welcome to Paradise (Centro de la Imagen, Mexico City 2017 and Fototeca de Nuevo León 2018); Espacio que cabe entre dos tiempos (Galería Heart Ego, Monterrey, 2016); Anudamientos (Museo de la Ciudad de México, Mexico City, 2013); Frecuencia natural (Galería Luis Adelantado, Mexico City, 2011); Oswaldo Ruiz 2002-2009 (Fototeca Nuevo León, Monterrey, 2010) and Last Night (Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin, 2010).
He has also participated in over fifty group shows, including: Constitución mexicana 1917- 2017. Imágenes y voces (Galería del Palacio Nacional, Mexico City, 2017); Tlaxotlali: Alternancia de ciclos (Casa del Lago, UNAM, Mexico City, 2017); the XII FEMSA Biennial / Poéticas del decrecimiento, ¿cómo vivir mejor con menos? (Centro de las Artes, Parque Fundidora, Monterrey, 2016); Develar y detonar. Fotografía en México ca. 2015 (Centro Cibeles, Madrid and Centro Nacional de las Artes, Mexico City, 2015); Existe todo lo que tiene nombre (Camera Works, San Francisco, California, 2015); Dirty, Poorly Dressed and Filled with Love (Erehwon Center for the Arts, Quezon City, Philippines, 2013); El vértigo de la abundancia (Casa del Lago, unam, Mexico City, 2013); Basado en una historia verdadera (Museo Salvador Allende, Santiago de Chile, 2012); Umbrales (Instituto de México en París, Paris, 2010); Registro 02. Mirar por segunda vez (Museo marco, Monterrey, 2009) and the XIII Bienal de Fotografía (Centro de la Imagen, Mexico City, 2009).
His work has received awards both nationally and internationally, including the Acquisition prize of the XVIII Photography Biennial of Centro de al Imagen (2018), SIVAM prize (2006), the Petrobras-Buenos Aires Photo Prize (2006), and the Acquisition Prize at the 2nd Bienal de Artes Visuales de Yucatán (2004). Recently he published the book Welcome to Paradise (La Caja de Cerillos Ediciones and Fundación BBVA Bancomer, Mexico City, 2017). His work has also been published in many books, magazines and catalogues, and shown at the international fairs Madrid Foto (2011 and 2012) and Paris Photo (2006 and 2007). He is a Member of the National System of Art Creator, of SACPC in the editions 2018 and 2023.
Master in Fine Arts, Central Saint Martins College, London, UK.
Postgraduate courses in Contemporary Art and Psychoanalysis. Universitat Autonoma de Barcelona, Spain.
Architecture, Universidad Autónoma de Nuevo León, Monterrey, Mexico.
Member of the National System of Art Creators, of the System of Support for Creation and Cultural Projects, Ministry of Culture, Mexico.
Acquisition prize in the XVIII Photography Biennial at Centro de la Imagen, Mexico City, Mexico.
Member of the National System of Art Creators, FONCA, Mexico.
FORCA Northeast grant to do a residency in Santiago de Chile.
Special Mention on the XIII Photo Biennial, Centro de la Imagen, Mexico City, Mexico.
First Prize SIVAM, by the International Society of Values of Mexican Art, Mexico City, Mexico.
Second Prize Petrobras-Buenos Aires Photo 2006.
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Special Mention on the VII Monterrey Biennial FEMSA, Monterrey, Mexico.
Acquisition Prize in the II National Biennial of Visual Arts of Yucatán, Merida, Yucatan, Mexico.
First Prize in the XXIV Reseña de la Plástica Nuevoleonesa, Monterrey, Mexico.
Museo de Arte de Sonora (MUSAS), Hermosillo, Sonora, Mexico.
Centro de la Imagen, Mexico City, Mexico.
The Museum of Contemporary Art of Monterrey (MARCO).
Cisneros Fontanals Art Foundation, Miami, USA.
Fototeca de Nuevo Léon, Monterrey, Mexico.
Central Saint Martins College of Art and Design, London, UK.
FEMSA Collection, Monterrey, Mexico.