At the beginning of the 1970s, Gerardo Ruiz was a student of the first generation  of the Visual Arts degree at the then Academy of San Carlos, now the Faculty of Visual Arts of our national university. He completed his bachelor’s and master’s degrees and taught classes to students of subsequent generations for 9 years in Visual Education and Basic Design.

As a sculptor, he has received one of the awards of the National Salon of Visual Arts, National Sculpture Triennial Section 1979-INBA.

As a painter and graphic artist, he has participated in more than 50 solo exhibitions and over 200 group exhibitions in Mexico and abroad.

He currently continues teaching in his private workshop of Painting, Drawing, Printmaking, and Sculpture.

For Maestro Ruiz, his work is the result of creative impulses that, at the moment they arise in his mind as memories in images and colors, he tries to represent them in a way that approaches his formal sensibility more than the real appearance of the memory itself.

From the conception of the formal solution or the composition, he experiments with materials and techniques that work best to approximate as closely as possible the original remembered image. Thus, we could say that the works Ruiz creates are more products of lived experience than of reality, whether figurative or not.