Alan Ruiz
Part-time Lecturer, Visual Studies
Email
ruiza@newschool.edu
Office Location
A - 66 West 12th Street
Profile
Alan Ruiz is a visual artist whose work explores architectural space as both a perceptual and a political medium.
Degrees Held
MFA Yale University, New Haven CT.
BFA Pratt Institute, Brooklyn, NY.
Recent Publications
Ruiz, Alan "With Dreams We Will Have Realities" Organisational & Social Dynamics. Vol.25.1, 2025
Ruiz, Alan. “Love, Refusal and Reparation, Michel Parmentier” ER Publishing, Ed. Molly Warnock. 2023
Ruiz, Alan. “Extraction”, Institute for Studies on Latin American Art (ISLAA). 2022
Ruiz, Alan. “Load Bearing Subjects: On the work of Grupo Escombros”, Institute for Studies on Latin American Art (ISLAA). Bilingual text with translation in Spanish. 2022
Ruiz, Alan. “Ambient Conditions of Everyday Life”. Chinati Foundation. 2021
Ruiz, Alan. Thank You For Your Flexibility. Movement Research Performance Journal (Issue 54). 2020
Ruiz, Alan. Context Contingent: Ghislaine Leung Interviewed by Alan Ruiz. BOMB Magazine. 2019.
Ruiz, Alan. "What is a Screen, What Does it Do?" Gulf Coast Journal. Fall 2018.
Ruiz, Alan. Indirect Action. 2018. Omnipresence Catalogue, Whitney Museum
Ruiz, Alan System Failure: Paul Sharits Works from the Emily Harvey Collection and Archive . Millennium Film Journal (Issue 68) Fall 2018.
Ruiz, Alan Spatial Alchemy. 2018. Ed.
Ruiz, Alan "Life After Sundown: Disco Architecture in the Global City". 2017. Archinect.
Ruiz, Alan. “Radical formalism” in Women & Performance: a journal of feminist theory. Volume 26.2-3: Living Labor: Marxism & Performance Studies. 2017
Ruiz, Alan. "Uneven Development: On Beirut and Plein Air" Queens International 2016 Catalogue. Queens Museum. 2016.
Ruiz, Alan. ""Western Standards" TDR: The Drama Review, Volume 59, Number 4, New Materialism and Performance. Winter 2015 (T228), pp. 2-3. MIT Press.
Ruiz, Alan. "No-Stop City". Invisible Culture: An Electronic Journal for Visual Culture, Issue 23: Blueprints, Rochester University. 2015.
Ruiz. Alan. "Tom Burr by Alan Ruiz". BOMB Magazine. Winter 2015.
Current Courses
- Systems Aesthetics
LVIS 3030 - Fall 2026 - Graduate Core: Group Critique
PGFA 5050 - Fall 2026
Past Courses
- Graduate Core: Studio Visits
PGFA 5000 - Spring 2026