BIOGRAPHY

Nacho Ruiz Born in Valencia. (Spain) Based in Valencia. (Spain)

EDUCATION

1991- 1996 Degree in Fine Arts. University of San Carlos, Valencia.
 
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2005
“Artista ABSOLUT” Installation. Valencia 2005

2002    
Sala Naranja, Valencia.

2001
Porte de Versailles, Paris.
Els Porxets, Sueca.

2000
Fluidos 2. Espai d´Art. Carmen, Valencia.
Centro Cívico Boca Nord. Visuals on the Christophe Havel work. Barcelona.

1999
Fluidos. Espai d´Art. Carmen, Valencia.
 
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2009
Forja-Arte . Beautiful freaks . Valencia
Anniversary Gallery “La nave del Arte” Madrid. Collective
“Inmaterial” Photography. Finland . Sao Paulo

2008
Digital-Media .Valencia
“Periferias” .Huesca . Silhouette “Hombre Bala” optic fibre.
Grand Prix Formula 1 Valencia . “Umbracle” Installation
“Balneario de las Arenas” Installation
Installation . “Centro del Carmen” . Cavas Murviedro

2007
Kanazawa Collective .Japan. Photography
“La Familia” Finland Collective. Alter-arte Festival. Photography. Murcia

2006
“O eres tu John Wayne o lo soy yo” La sala naranja .
“Art in evolution” Capilla Mosen Sorell . Valencia
“Desafios” Kanazawa. Japan.
Clip _ Station . Support catalogue. different locations
Festival “Agroerotic” Instalatión. Alcudia

2005
“Plotart” Travelling exhibition. Rome, Neppi Modern Art Centre.
KIRON Gallery, Paris.
“Habitaciones de saldo” Industria 33.Installation. Sueca
“Complementos y artificios” Play-boy Club . Valencia

2004
"Tendencias: 2004" Nave del Arte Gallery, Madrid.
FAP Festival public art installation. Optic Fibre with Victor Bonet.
“Event” . Barcelona Festival performance. Installation optic fibre with Janina.
“Amor Fou” Scenery for Taiat Danza.
Recycle of Art. Castellon
“Retiro” Underground. Madrid

2003 
MUA, Alicante Museum.
“Sala Naranja” , Valencia
“Pronostica”, Ibiza Modern Art Museum.
“Nada” Scenery for “Taiat Danza”.

2002
“Nave del Arte”, Madrid
Observatori, MUVIM, Valencia
Art and Nature, Bétera

2001
Observatori. MUVIM, Valencia.
“Nave del Arte”. Madrid.
Caja España Cultural Centre. Palencia, Zamora, Ponferrada.
Teatro Calderón Exhibition Hall. Valladolid.
Vértice Gallery. Oviedo.

2000
Cajastur Cultural Hall. Gijón.
Avilés Cultural centre.
Science Museum “Principe Felipe”. Valencia.
City Museum. Valencia.

CURATORIAL PRACTICE
2006
Vidi-festival 2006. Video art Festival . Valencia. September
VIA_LAB . Festival in Don Benito. Badajoz. Juni
2005
“Complementos y Artificios” play-boy Club. 30 artists. Catalogue

2004
“Industria 33”. “El” Pecadero. Multidisciplinary meeting in a block of flats in the Industria road, Valencia. 54 artists participated.
Arte al margen del Turia. 9th-13th October 2004. Ribarroja, Valencia. Public art, more than 70 artists, 5 educational workshops and conferences
2003
“Encontres art al voltant del MUA”. 1st meeting of art and nature at the University of Alicante Museum. 19th-21st February 2003. 22 artists participated.

3 days multidisciplinary art. “El lado enfermo”. 2003. More than 60 artists from different areas (sculpture, painting, video art, photography, performance, etc) participated.
A photography Group exhibition. "Lo que no se ve" 2004. 48 photographers.

2002
(Encontres) art baix la garrofera. Art and nature 1st meeting in Bétera. Valencia. 34 guest artists. 11th,12th and 13th October 2002.

ADWARDS 
2000    
I Prize III Context Fundación Mainel.

2001
Selected XVIII Prize “BANCAJA de Pintura y Escultura”. “Sala de la Muralla” , IVAM.
Selected, XXV National Painting Competition Vila de Pego.
II Prize San Juan Alicante.

2002
Selected, Painting Prize Vila de Pego, Valencia

2003

Selected, Painting Prize Gestores, Valencia

COLLECTOR
2010 Acquisition and maintenance of private collection of Valencian artists “Nacho Ruiz Collection”.

ART PROJECT
2011 Project “HYGIENE” . Laboratory of ideas and artistic projects.