Gerardo Ruiz

Art School

Painting classes in San Miguel de Allende

Painting classes in San Miguel de Allende: Painting classes, engraving, sculpture and drawing classes

The Teacher

Gerardo Ruiz

Painting classes in San Miguel de Allende

Gerardo Ruiz Maldonado was born in 1948 in Puebla, Mexico. He studied at the famous San Carlos Academy in Mexico City, the first art school established in the Americas (founded in 1781).

After graduating from the Academy of San Carlos, he received a scholarship to continue his graduate studies in Sculpture and began his career as a professor of Visual Arts in San Carlos.

Gerardo’s artistic work includes sculpture, painting, etchings and multimedia techniques. He has shown his work in more than 25 solo exhibitions and more than 150 collective exhibitions in Mexico and outside his native country. His works are part of permanent collections in museums in Venezuela, Bulgaria and Spain.

Since 1993, he works and teaches in his studio located in San Miguel de Allende, Guanajuato.

Painting classes in San Miguel de Allende

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The identity of the Institute Gerardo Ruiz in Mexico focus on a broad conception of art, capable of understanding the different aspects of a creativity totally immersed in contemporaneity. Painting classes in San Miguel de Allende by professor Gerardo Ruiz Maldonado.

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“My work at the Art School is a perfect opportunity to create a philosophy of art in which artistic and cultural elements of the past and present are mixed”