Jose Tence Ruiz is a multimedia artist and an alumnus of prestigious Ateneo de Manila and University of Santo Tomas, Manila. For over 30 years, Ruiz has been involved in various multimedia and visual practices such as paintings, sculpture, installation, performance as well as media presentations, book illustration, publication design or set design. The artist is also well known for his political cartoons which he submitted for the editorial pages of major newspapers across the Philippines and Singapore (The Manila Times, The Manila Chronicle, and Singapore Straits Times, among others).
In its formal aspects, Ruiz’s practice draws from different sources: Social Realism, botanical and industrial debris from both rural and urban environments of the Philippines as well as the Chaos Theory and the aesthetics of fractals - symmetrical geometric compositions, described by the study of mathematician Benoit Mandelbrot. Strangely poetic in its form, Ruiz’s work is strongly embedded in the political and social landscape of the Philippines.
