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Studio Ruz

Herengracht 62 1015 BP Amsterdam The Netherlands

 

Artist Statement

 

Through my work I search for the common ground we ALL share. 

Discovering the multiple worlds that intertwine in our reality becomes the vehicle of discovering my own.

I step in another person's shoes in an attempt of unveiling the reality that surrounds us.

By giving the tools to those who are left out we are able to hear their voice that raise without words and to look through their eyes. It is then that we can see WE are not different.

 

RESUME

EDUCATION
Certificate in Film Production at Parsons the New School University, NY 2003
BA in Fine Arts at the Universidad Complutense, Madrid, Spain. 2001
Certificate in Photography at CEAC, Madrid, Spain. 1999
Certificate in TV Production at Centro de Formacion Audiovisual Septima Arts.
Madrid, Spain 1997
Certificate in Graphic Design at Nuevas  Tecnologias, Madrid, Spain. 1996



AWARDS, AND INVITATIONS

2007
Artist Enhancement Award, State of Florida, USA
SOLO CIRCA 07 International Art Fair, Puerto Rico, USA

2006
‘Firt reader-curated’ (30 artists selected from 10000) contemporary art show from the Saatchi Gallery and The Guardian Newspaper. London, Great Britain
Artist Residency at the South Florida Art Center, Miami Beach, USA


INDIVIDUAL EXHIBITIONS AND PROJECTS


2008
ETHEREAL REALITY, Zidoune-Nordine Gallery. Luxembourg November-December.2007
CIRCA 07,International Art Fair, Invited solo artist. Puerto Rico.2006Window Project, South Florida/Art Center, exterior window from 924 building on Lincoln RD, South Beach, Miami.

2000
Painting exhibition at X 1era Vez Gallery, Aldeasa Painting Competition. Madrid, Spain.

COLECTIVE EXHIBITIONS/ COLLABORATIVE PROJECTS

2008
Be-Coming Dutch, Collaboration Project with artist Surasi Kusolwong. Van Abbemuseum. Eindhoven, The Netherlands
Video Lounge Arte America Art Fair,  Mirando Limpiando Ventanas. Collaboration Project with artist Daan Noppen, and Guillermo Hernandez & Leonardo Mata. Art Connections. Miami, USA
PUI Mexico DF,  MIrando Limpiando Ventanas. Museo de La Ciudad, Mexico DF, Mexico

2007
NEW MEDIA FESTIVAL, TVLATA Moile Unit Installation, Hardcore Gallery. Miami, USA
ALTER-EGO, Ruth And Richard Shack Gallery, South Florida Art Center, Miami Beach, USA
CIGE 2007, International Art Fair, Beijing, China
Collateral Material, Museo Casa Blanca. Puerto Rico, USA
(re-) Creating History . Collaboration Project with artist Allard Van Hoorn. The Moore Space, Miami, USA
TVLATA, development of an experimental tv- channel on internet with the teenagers of the Non Profit Organization Bagunçaçu, favela Los Alagados, and NEOKINOK TV. Collaboration Project with artists Daniel Miracle, Félix Pérez-Hita e Iñigo Garcia, and The AECI. Salvador de Bahia, Brazil


 

PUBLICATIONS/ CATALOGUES

 

2008

OTTO REYES CASSANOVA COLLECTION CATALOGUE,  Museo de Arte Moderno, San Juan de Puerto Rico.

 

2007

CIGE 07, International Art Fair, Broadway Gallery, Beijing, China

CIRCA 07, International Art Fair, SOLO, Puerto Rico, USA

Arte Al Limite Magazine, pg 77, May-June, Chile

NY arts International Magazine, January 2007

NY arts International Magazine, April 2007


 

 

2006

Cover and Articule pg 30-31 NY Arts International Magazine, December 2006

 Renassence, Volume 2, Writing, pg 6 and 40, January 2006

 

 

1999/2001

 


FV Film and Video Magazine. Number 153, page75. Madrid -Spain May 2001

 

XXIII Certamen Nacional de Escultura Caja Madrid Catalogue. Madrid -Spain 1999



FILM FESTIVALS/ AWARDS

 


“Ilha do Rato” (Director of Photography, Camera Operator and Editor, short-film/Documentary “Ilha Do Rato”, Red Hook Productions in Collaboration with the non-profit Organization Bagunçaçu from Brazil. NY- Salvador Do Bahia, Brazil)

Quanta Award Best Production from Bahia – 32nd International Film Festival of Bahia

Silhouette Short Films Fest., Paris (France) 2005,

32nd Intl. Film Fest. From Bahia (Brazil) 2005.,

Festival Internacional de Curtas-Metragens de Sao Paulo 2006,

Los Angeles International Short Film Festival (EUA) 2006,

Moondance International Film Festival, Los Angeles, (EUA),

Montecatini International Short Film Festival Montecatini, Italy.


“29 POLEGADAS” (Director of Photography, Camera Operator and Editor short film “29 Polegadas”, film selected at the “Festival do Cinema Nacional do Recife” in Brazil, Produced by Red Hook Productions in Collaboration with the non-profit Organization Bagunçaçu from Brazil.)

Awards:

Best Short Film at Harlem Intl. Film Festival

Nominated for Best Short Film at The ARPA Film Festival in LA.

Official selection:

Ecrans Libres Toulouse-France

Cine-PE Recife, Brazil

Flint Intl Film Festival

Winnipeg Film Festival

Panorama Brasil Film Festival

Edinburgh Intl Film Festival

Festival de Sao Paulo, Brazil

IFP Market 2005, Angelika Theater, NY, USA

Los Angeles Intl Short Film Festival, LA, USA

Harlem Intl Film Festival, NY, USA

ARPA Film Festival, LA, USA

Los Angeles Latino Intl Film Festival, USA

Boston Latino Film Festival, USA

Anchorage Intl.Film Festival, USA

Juiz da Fora Primeiro Plano, Brazil

Festival de Campinas, Brazil

Annapolis Film Festival, Brazil

2005 London Latin American Film Festival, London, Great Britain

Nuevo Mexico Film Festival, USA

Florianopolis Audiovisual Mercosur, Florianopolis, Brazil 2006

”Curta Petrobras as Seis”, September of 2006 to July of 2007 :

Cinema Unibanco Arteplex in Porto Alegre

Cinema Intelig Telecom Academia in Brasilia

Cinema in Goiana

Cinema UCI Shopping Aeroclube in Salvador

Cinema Usiminas Belas Artes in Belo Horizonte

Cinemark Shopping Campo Grande in Campo Grande

Cinema in Cuiaba

Cinemark Studio 5 Festival Mall of Manaus

Unibanco Arteplex of Sao Paulo

Hoyts General de Cinema from Garulhos (SP)

Unibanco Arteplex in Rio de Janeiro

Unibanco Arteplex in Curitiba


 

 

 

LINKS

Projects

www.tvlata.org (project Brazil)

 

Art

www.galeriezidoun.com (gallery Paris, Luxembourg)

www.drawingcenter.org (curated drawing portfolio New York)

 

Organizations and Foundations

www.bagunsite.org.br (Collaborating nonprofit organization-Brazil)

www.4kenia.nl (Collaborating Foundation Kenya)

http://sweetsixteen4kenia.wordpress.com/ (Swee16 BLOG- Kenya)


 Artists

www.neokinok.tv (collaborating artist)

www.daannoppen.com (collaborating artist)

www.laiacabrera.com (collaborating artist)

www.tita-art.com (collaborating artist)

http://veronicafazzio.blogspot.com/

www.allardvanhoorn.com

www.manuellopezt.com

www.karimghidinelli.com

www.collinvandersluijs.com

www.spazuk.com