Eduard Ruiz. Sant Boi de Llobregat, 1990

Eduard Ruiz is a visual artist and educator. He holds a degree in Fine Arts and a Master’s in Artistic Production and Research from the University of Barcelona. He has completed several artist residencies at Centre d’Art La Panera (Lleida), V2_Institute for the Unstable Media (Rotterdam), the Centro Cultural de España Juan de Salazar (Asunción, Paraguay), Fabra i Coats (Barcelona), Cal Gras (Avinyó), Can Castells Art Center (Sant Boi de Llobregat), and NauEstruch (Sabadell). He is currently a research member of the Hybrid Ecologies working group of the Llobregat Delta.

His artistic practice explores how we inhabit territory and the symbolic and material forms that shape it. He works with maps, official documents, and landscapes printed on banknotes, passports or coins, as well as found materials and residual elements. Through these, he investigates the invisible policies that regulate space and shape the behaviour of, and relationships between, human and non-human living beings. Often rooted in natural environments altered by industrialisation, his work takes the form of installations, sculptures and photographs. A constant in his practice is the use of materials that are considered banal or utilitarian. By removing their conventional meaning, he allows objects intended for specific uses to be seen as autonomous artworks.

In 2025, he won the XII Girona Art Biennial for his work Passepartout (Danaus plexippus). He was previously a finalist for the Valentín de Madariaga Emerging Artists Award (2020), the 52nd Pollença Biennial (2019) and the Miquel Casablancas Award (2018), and was selected for the XXI Catalan Contemporary Art Biennial (2018). He has also received the OSIC grant for developing artistic projects (2024), the Sala d’Art Jove creation grant (2015) and the Can Felipa Civic Centre’s visual arts production grant (2015).