Carlos Ruíz Valarino
San Juan, PR 1967
San Juan, PR 1967
Photographer and video artist. Earned a master’s degree at Rochester Institute of Technology in New York in 1999. He completed his bachelor’s degree in art at the University of Puerto Rico and studied at Interamerican University of Puerto Rico and Complutense University of Madrid, Spain. Teaches Fine Arts at the University of Puerto Rico. In 2009, he received the Award for Best Photography Exhibition from the International Association of Art Critics, Puerto Rico Chapter and the Lexus Award in 2005.His works form part of the permanent collections of Museo de Arte de Puerto Rico and Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Puerto Rico. His work is characterized by the continuous search for the Puerto Rican cultural identity and its portrayal through the photographic image.
Through this series, I wanted to critically reflect on the objectivity of the mass reproduction mediums, as photography, in the digital age of manipulation and indiscriminate assembly of fragments of images. This strategy is not just an elaboration on the correspondence between reality and similarity, but a way of dealing with identity as a visual fiction. Through this approach the use of the computer in the context of contemporary photography, promotes the reconstructive aesthetic, biotechnology and digital engineering, malleable and flexible identities. These allow the possibility of changing a face and a body for another, as if in changing hats.
Source: Exhibiciones Visitors/Visitantes BCN- Visitors/Visitantes SJU 2006
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López Pagán, Pedro. “Glamour con underground”. Primera Hora (San Juan, PR), 12 de septiembre de 2006.
“Nueva savia en el MAC”. El Nuevo Día (San Juan, PR), 31 de agosto de 2006.
Trelles, Carmen M. “Tres propuestas innovadoras”. Primera Hora (San Juan, PR), 7 de septiembre de 2006.
Rodríguez, Jorge. “El retorno de los premios AICA”. El Vocero (San Juan, PR), 11 de febrero de 2006.
López Pagán, Pedro. “Los visitantes”. Primera Hora (San Juan, PR), 9 de febrero de 2006.
Martínez Mercado, Eliván. “Musa sobre ruedas”. El Nuevo Día (San Juan, PR), 27 de noviembre de 2005.
Trelles Hernández, Carmen M. “Arte móvil”. Primera Hora (San Juan, PR), 20 de octubre de 2005.
Pérez Rivera, Tatiana. “Rasgos de la identidad borincana”. El Nuevo Día (San Juan, PR), 15 de octubre de 2004.
“Grabados impresionantes”. Primera Hora (San Juan, PR), 2 de octubre de 2004.
Trelles Hernández, Carmen. “Imágenes de introspección”. Primera Hora (San Juan, PR), 23 de febrero de 2003.
Weinstein, Joel. “Noh News”. Rotund World, Cyber art magazine (San Juan, PR), 2006.
Weinstein, Joel. “There’s Still Time”. Rotund World, Cyber art magazine (San Juan, PR), 2006.
Rodriguez, Mabel. “Tag Rom: Exploración del arte en Arte y en el Espacio”. Art Premium (San Juan, PR), vol. 3, núm. 13, 2006.
Jiménez, Ingrid. “Carlos Ruiz-Valarino/ Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Puerto Rico”. Art Nexus (Miami, EU), vol. 3, núm 57, 2005.
VideoFormes 2006 XXI International Video and New Media Event- Projections Paralleles and Videotheque Ephemere, Clermont-Ferrand Cedex 1, Francia, 2006
Prog:ME 1st. Festival of Electronic Media of Rio de Janeiro, Centro Cultural Telemar, Rio de Janeiro, Brasil, 2005.
“Trienal Poli/Gráfica de San Juan: Latinoamérica y el Caribe”, Instituto de Cultura Puertorriqueña, San Juan, Puerto Rico, 2004.
¡Impresionante! Innovative Prints by Contemporary Puerto Rican Artists, International Print Center New York, N.Y.C., U.S.A., Por Deborah Cullen y Harper Montgomery, 2004
“Colección Permanente del Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Puerto Rico”, Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Puerto Rico, San Juan, Puerto Rico, 2003.
100 años de Historia, Arte y Enseñanza, Museo de Historia, Antropología y Arte, Universidad de Puerto Rico, San Juan, Puerto Rico, 2003.
Colección Permanente del Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Puerto Rico, San Juan, Puerto Rico, 2003.