Ariel Ruiz i Altaba

E-mail: ariel@ruizialtaba.com

Education:

Born in Mexico City, 1962
Grew up in Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain
AB, Columbia College, NY 1984
PhD, Harvard University, MA 1989

Group shows:

2000
WallStreet Viewing Room, New York - Fifty-two Artists We Like
Ricco/Maresca Gallery, New York Circles - Seeds and Houses

2001
Cooper Union, New York - Mindmatters
The Viewing Room, New York - Art Miami

2002
Nexus Gallery, New York - Photography 2002
Photo-eye Gallery, Santa Fe - MicroCosmic: From the Stellar to the Cellular
Ricco/Maresca Gallery, New York - The Bird Show
Ricco/Maresca Gallery, New York - The Mütter Museum
Esther Woerdehoff Gallery, Paris - Paris Photo
Santa Barbara Museum of Art, CA - PhotoGenesis-II

2003
Scene Nationale- Bar-le-Duc, France - Tacites ou insoupçonnées, Des intelligences furtives
Esther Woerdehoff Gallery, Paris - Art Brussels
Esther Woerdehoff Gallery, Paris - Summer show
Ricco/Maresca Gallery, New York - The Home Show
New York Academy of Sciences - Look up! Contemplating the skies
San Francisco Camerawork - Mütter Museum: Photographs
ADM Gallery, Philadelphia - 50% Gray

2004
Latincollector, New York - Field of Depth
Appleton Museum of Art, Ocala,Florida,USA - Extraordinary Bodies: Photographs from the Mütter Museum

2005
The List Gallery, Swarthmore College, PA, USA - Extraordinary Bodies: Photographs Swarthmore, from the Mütter Museum
Sacred Heart University, Conn., USA - WetLab: The new nexus between art and science
Benham Gallery, Seattle - Photo L.A.
Freedman Gallery, Albright College Reading, PA, USA  -  Extraordinary Bodies: Photographs from the Mütter Museum
Crocker Art Museum, Sacramento, CA  -  Extraordinary Bodies: Photographs from the Mütter Museum
Esther Woerdehoff Gallery, Paris - Paris Photo
The Gallery for Contemporary Art, SC Uni. - Wetlab
The Bill Hunt Collection, Arles, France - Sans Regard

2006
The Bill Hunt Collection - Sans Regard, Le Musée de L'Elysée, Lausanne, Switzerland
Esther Woerdehoff Gallery, Paris - ArtParis
Albin O. Kuhn Library and Gallery U.Maryland, Baltimore, MD - Extraordinary Bodies: Photographs from the Mütter Museum
Galerie Fallet, Geneva - Présences et Traces
Technische Universität Dresden, Germany  Wahr-Zeichen. Fotografie und Wissenschaft
Esther Woerdehoff Gallery, Paris- Art Cologne
Photo NY - Daneyal Mahmood Gallery, New York

2007
The Albuquerque Museum of Art and History, Albuquerque, New Mexico - Extraordinary Bodies: Photographs from the Mütter Museum
Esther Woerdehoff Galerie - Bestiarium
Photo LA - Daneyal Mahmood Gallery, New York

2008
The Mütter Museum, Philadelphia, USA - Extraordinary bodies from the Mutter Museum

Solo shows:

2003
The Benham Gallery, Seattle - Identities
Esther Woerdehoff Gallery, Paris - Biophilia

2004
Visual Arts Gallery, University of Alabama - Embryonic Landscapes
Université de Genève, Switzerland - Genome and Identity

2005
Bernstein Gallery, Princeton University - How we look

2006
National Academy of Sciences, Washington DC, USA

2007
Galerie Fallet, Ginebra - Entre individualité et identité
Swissnex San Francisco, California - Minimal Landscapes

2008
The Korea Foundation Center, Seoul, South Korea - Minimal landscapes
United Nations University, Tokyo, Japan - Minimal Landscapes
Marunouchi Cafe, Tokyo, Japan - Minimal Landscapes
Swiss Embassy, Tokyo, Japan
Singapore
Lyon, France (November)

Museums and Collections:

Bibliotheque Nationale de France, Paris
Museum of Fine Arts, Houston
Bill Hunt, New York
Madeleine Millot-Durrenberger, France
Jackson Labs, Maine
Museum of Fine Arts, Philadelphia
National Academy of Sciences, Washington, USA
SwissnexSF, Swiss Embassy, San Francisco, USA

Organizational, curatorial and editor work:

Founding director of WetLab: a new forum for art and science 2003
Guest curator for PhotoVision magazine 2004

Publications:

Books
Press