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Paloma Ruiz Chong is a Mexican artist born in Hermosillo, Sonora, where she has had two solo exhibitions including “Soy Constelación” (Casa Ganfer, 2021) and the Distrito 60 later that year. Ruiz is the recipient of two Elizabeth Greenshields Foundation grants which she received in 2021 and 2023. She moved to Vancouver in 2021 to begin her professional painting career where she is currently pursuing her BFA at Emily Carr University.

Ruiz’s work plays with large fields of color and shapes to explore the ways that color can activate itself; Activations that can happen in and outside of the canvas. Her embodied process is what keeps driving her to create.

She is prompted by moments, life instances, thoughts, wounds, the humanness of existing. The bits that linger and that leave marks, she lets make their way into her paintings.