ALEJANDRA RUIZ SUAREZ
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Artist, textiles unmaker, materials designer, sustainability researcher.





Alejandra Ruiz is and artist and designer from Medellin - Colombia.

After obtaining a degree in Fashion Design from Universidad Pontificia Bolivariana in 2013, she began providing independent professional services, collaborating nationally and internationally in projects related to conscious consumption, sustainable design education, and revalorization of waste.

In 2021 she decided to pursue a Master of Fine Arts (MFA) in Design at the University of California Davis, graduating in 2023. Her MFA work and research focused on repurpose-driven materials design was awarded the prestigious Ann Savageau Award by the UC Davis Design Department.

Her work has been featured in group and solo exhibitions in Colombia, Chile, Mexico, Brazil, Portugal, The Netherlands and The United States.

Alejandra is currently a doctoral researcher at Politecnic University of Turin.

STATEMENT

“My early interaction with textiles and subsequent training in fashion design led me to explore questions of sustainable production and consumption in the fashion industry, eventually evolving into a broader interest in deconstructive practices.

In my work I involve processes of unmaking and remaking. I consider materials as archives and explore their potential to record time.

Through my practice, I investigate the multiple “textile” scales that structure human life—from the intimacy of the body and garments to domestic spaces, architecture, and urban environments. 

I consider social constructs, symbols, ideologies, and conceptual systems as forms of weaving that shape collective experience.”

EXHIBITIONS
  • 2025 - “Casa Colonial” in Connector, collective jewelry exhibition at Gallery Le Loupe. New Jersey, USA.


  • 2023 - “Nicrocosms, Studies on scavenging and renewal". Collective exhibition in collaboration with Tracie Hayes, UC Davis PhD in Ecology and Billinski Fellow. Bodega Bay, USA .

  • 2022 - “Waste Atlas Project” in the collective exhibition Tools for a Warming Planet. ISEA22 & Arts Santa Monica, Barcelona, Spain. Ars Electronica Festival, in Linz, Austria.

  • 2017 - De La Mano Gallery Medellín, Colombia “Pétreo”, an individual exhibition.


  • 2016 - “Jugaad Conmigo” in collective exhibition El Dorado SXXI - La colecta MX. Puebla, Mexico.

  • 2015 - “Joyería Contemporánea, Discursos en Construcción” lecture in Knowledge Pabillion, Colombiatex de las Américas 2015. Medellín, Colombia.
    

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