Painting + Printmaking presents a visiting artist lecture by
Gabriela Ruiz
Wednesday, March 18 at 12 PM [*THIS IS A CHANGE*]
VCU Student Commons Theater
907 Floyd Ave, Richmond, VA 23284
Gabriela Ruiz (b. San Fernando Valley, CA; lives and works in Los Angeles) is a multimedia artist working across performance, sculpture, video, and digital media. Ruiz has presented solo exhibitions at the Institute for the Humanities Gallery, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor (2023); Palm Springs Art Museum, Palm Springs (2022); Vincent Price Art Museum, Los Angeles (2019). Selected group exhibitions have been held at the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York (2026); Museo del Palacio de Bellas Artes, Mexico City (2026); Hammer Museum, Los Angeles (2025); Jeffrey Deitch Gallery, Los Angeles (2025, 2024, 2021); Pérez Art Museum Miami (2024); The Cheech Marin Center for Chicano Art & Culture, Riverside Art Museum (2023); Museo de Arte Carrillo Gil, Mexico City (2018); ICA LA, Los Angeles (2018); Commonwealth and Council, Los Angeles (2018); Museum of Contemporary Art Santa Barbara (2022); and CASTTL and Museum aan de Stroom, Antwerp (2019).
Ruiz has performed at the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York (2026); REDCAT, Los Angeles (2019); ICA LA, Los Angeles (2018); Centro Cultural Clavijero, Morelia (2018); and USC Roski School of Art and Design as part of Pacific Standard Time: Live Art LA/LA (2018). She has delivered lectures and participated in panels at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor (2023); The Cheech Marin Center for Chicano Art & Culture, Riverside (2023); University of California, Santa Barbara (2022); California Institute of the Arts, Valencia (2022); University of Southern California, Los Angeles (2019); and California State University, Northridge (2018). Ruiz has participated in residencies at Pioneer Works, New York (2026); Fountainhead Residency, Miami (2025); the Institute for the Humanities, University of Michigan (2023); and the Outburst Program at Palm Springs Art Museum (2022). She is a recipient of the Fountainhead Arts Forum Award (2025) and the California Community Foundation Fellowship for Visual Artists (2024).
Ruiz’s work is in the collections of the Detroit Institute of Arts, Hammer Museum, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, and Palm Springs Art Museum.
