Miguélàngel Ruiz

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Throughout my education in the Visual Arts I have found that not all ideas can be communicated through the same medium. Certain ideas are best expressed in specific media. Because of this I like to explore different media. I feel obliged to share this with others. I do this through various means primarily exhibitions and classroom instruction. Art is a very broad concept for such a tiny word. I am grateful that my conception of what “Art” is and can be has allowed me to function, although in a limited manner, within this society.

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Born in Rio Piedras, Puerto Rico, Miguélàngel (miky) Ruíz has been working as an independent Visual Artist for several years. He has been involved in the field of Visual Arts in various capacities: Painter, Writer, Gallery Assistant, Exhibition Coordinator, Visiting Curator, Illustrator, Adjunct Professor, Art Instructor, Digital Video Artist, Freelance Artist, and Arts Consultant. He has participated in numerous exhibitions and events at The Bronx Museum of the Arts, El Museo del Barrio, Exit Art, Rush Arts Gallery and Resource Center, Art In General, Taller Boricua Gallery at Julia DeBurgos Latino Cultural Center, El Taller Latinoamericano, The International Center in New York, United Nations Staff Recreational Council, Boricua College, Yeshiva University, Bronx Council on the Arts, M-13 Gallery, Westbeth Art Gallery, Gallery 128, Gallery X, Lehman College Art Gallery, Queens College- Extension Center, Clemente Soto Velez Cultural Center, Jerome L. Greene Space, Cooper Union, Anthology Film Archives, Nuyorican Poets Cafe, Longwood Arts Project, and Fashion Moda. Mr. Ruiz has participated in traveling exhibitions and projects exhibited in New York, Virginia, Louisiana, Florida, Illinois, Maryland, Argentina, Turkey, Poland, Switzerland, Spain, Russia, Austria. He has collaborated on music videos and explored digital imagery through video, motion graphics, and printed matter. Mr. Ruiz currently serves as Art Instructor to children after-school and seniors at community centers in New York City. His recent works of Art have evolved into an exploration of his sense of displacement within the American diaspora. He has been working in multimedia to develop ideas concerning his Puerto Rican culture and its place within the broader American art scene by using elements from caribbean folk-lore combining them with traces of pre-columbian artifacts and modern contemporary aesthetics and story-telling and transforming them into art forms such as comic books, paintings, drawings, prints, costumes, masks, installations and performances. As a thematic title he has branded this body of work as Mythography Comics.