Ruth Aragón (Mexico, 1993)
Ruth is a visual artist whose practice explores the relationship between the body, materiality, and the natural world as sites of resistance and transformation. Through textiles, ceramics, video, and digital processes, her work examines how bodies develop strategies of protection in response to violence, exposure, and hostile environments.
She holds a degree in Industrial Design (2015) and a degree in Arts (2018) from the University of Monterrey, and is currently pursuing an MFA at Arizona State University (2024–2027).
Raised in Monterrey, a city shaped by industrial expansion, speed, and architectures of glass, steel, and concrete, Aragón’s work emerges in tension with this context. Her use of soft materials, slow processes, and handcrafted techniques responds critically to an environment where nature is often reduced to a distant image framed by windows or screens.
Rather than depicting nature as an idyllic refuge, her practice reimagines it as an active system capable of defense, mutation, and coexistence. Within speculative narratives and material experiments, the body appears as a hybrid space that absorbs, resists, and transforms, proposing alternative ways of inhabiting environments marked by extraction, control, and acceleration.
Ruth is a visual artist whose practice explores the relationship between the body, materiality, and the natural world as sites of resistance and transformation. Through textiles, ceramics, video, and digital processes, her work examines how bodies develop strategies of protection in response to violence, exposure, and hostile environments.
She holds a degree in Industrial Design (2015) and a degree in Arts (2018) from the University of Monterrey, and is currently pursuing an MFA at Arizona State University (2024–2027).
Raised in Monterrey, a city shaped by industrial expansion, speed, and architectures of glass, steel, and concrete, Aragón’s work emerges in tension with this context. Her use of soft materials, slow processes, and handcrafted techniques responds critically to an environment where nature is often reduced to a distant image framed by windows or screens.
Rather than depicting nature as an idyllic refuge, her practice reimagines it as an active system capable of defense, mutation, and coexistence. Within speculative narratives and material experiments, the body appears as a hybrid space that absorbs, resists, and transforms, proposing alternative ways of inhabiting environments marked by extraction, control, and acceleration.
Photo: Deni Ríos
EDUCATION
2024-2027
MFA in Art
Arizona State University, Arizona, USA
2018
BA Arts
Universidad de Monterrey. Monterrey, Mexico
2015
BA Industrial Design
Universidad de Monterrey, Monterrey, México
2024-2027
MFA in Art
Arizona State University, Arizona, USA
2018
BA Arts
Universidad de Monterrey. Monterrey, Mexico
2015
BA Industrial Design
Universidad de Monterrey, Monterrey, México
SCHOLARSHIPS AND AWARDS
2024-2026
CONAHCYT Scholarship to study abroad
2025
CONARTE Scholarship to study abroad
2024
CONARTE Scholarship to study abroad
2022
Jóvenes Creadores, Sistema de Creadores: Fondo Nacional para la Cultura y las Artes.
2024-2026
CONAHCYT Scholarship to study abroad
2025
CONARTE Scholarship to study abroad
2024
CONARTE Scholarship to study abroad
2022
Jóvenes Creadores, Sistema de Creadores: Fondo Nacional para la Cultura y las Artes.
SOLO SHOWS
2024
Con agua y sol me he criado, Galería Heart Ego, Monterrey, México.
2023
A todo color, Comercio Popular, Chicago, USA.
2022
Bajo el cielo despejado después de la lluvia (Doble Trama), Galería Castilla Klyuyeva, Monterrey, México.
2018
Silla de plástico blanca, B4-Lugar común, Monterrey, México.
2024
Con agua y sol me he criado, Galería Heart Ego, Monterrey, México.
2023
A todo color, Comercio Popular, Chicago, USA.
2022
Bajo el cielo despejado después de la lluvia (Doble Trama), Galería Castilla Klyuyeva, Monterrey, México.
2018
Silla de plástico blanca, B4-Lugar común, Monterrey, México.
GROUP SHOWS Selection
2025
Terraforma, Tempe Center for the Arts, Tempe, AZ, USA.
2025
MIXibition, Mix Center ASU, Mesa, Arizona, USA.
2025
Galbut Prize Exhibition, Harry Wood Gallery, ASU, Tempe, AZ, USA.
2025
Remainders and Disasters, Humanities Institute, ASU, Tempe, USA.
2024
Fibras: tierra, agua y sol, Arde Arte, Monterrey, México
2023
Cuarteo: Cerámica Mexicana Contemporanea, Ballista Space, San Miguel De Allende, México.
2022
Salón Cosa, Monterrey, México.
2021
Salón Cosa, CDMX, México.
2021
El triunfo de la pintura, Pinacoteca de Nuevo León, Monterrey, México.
2025
Terraforma, Tempe Center for the Arts, Tempe, AZ, USA.
2025
MIXibition, Mix Center ASU, Mesa, Arizona, USA.
2025
Galbut Prize Exhibition, Harry Wood Gallery, ASU, Tempe, AZ, USA.
2025
Remainders and Disasters, Humanities Institute, ASU, Tempe, USA.
2024
Fibras: tierra, agua y sol, Arde Arte, Monterrey, México
2023
Cuarteo: Cerámica Mexicana Contemporanea, Ballista Space, San Miguel De Allende, México.
2022
Salón Cosa, Monterrey, México.
2021
Salón Cosa, CDMX, México.
2021
El triunfo de la pintura, Pinacoteca de Nuevo León, Monterrey, México.
FAIRS
2022
Feria de Arte Mexicano Accesible FAMA, Monterrey, México.
2020
Just Mad Art Fair, Madrid, España.
2019
Feria de Arte Mexicano Accesible FAMA, Monterrey, México.
2018
Feria de Arte Mexicano Accesible FAMA, Monterrey, México.
2022
Feria de Arte Mexicano Accesible FAMA, Monterrey, México.
2020
Just Mad Art Fair, Madrid, España.
2019
Feria de Arte Mexicano Accesible FAMA, Monterrey, México.
2018
Feria de Arte Mexicano Accesible FAMA, Monterrey, México.
TEACHING & WORKSHOPS
2025
We are Growing Thorns, in collaboration with UnRíoEnElRío organization, Online workshop.
2024 - Present
Assistant professor at Arizona State University for the classes Pictorial Investigations and Color Theory, and Introduction to textiles.
2022-2024
Professor at Universidad de Monterrey for the classes Modeling and digital fabrication, Relief and Mold, and Roughing and assembling.
2023-2022
Textile Art (aimed at older adults), Art Universes (aimed at teenagers), Textile Sculptures (aimed to kids). Pinacoteca de Nuevo León, Monterrey, México.
2025
We are Growing Thorns, in collaboration with UnRíoEnElRío organization, Online workshop.
2024 - Present
Assistant professor at Arizona State University for the classes Pictorial Investigations and Color Theory, and Introduction to textiles.
2022-2024
Professor at Universidad de Monterrey for the classes Modeling and digital fabrication, Relief and Mold, and Roughing and assembling.
2023-2022
Textile Art (aimed at older adults), Art Universes (aimed at teenagers), Textile Sculptures (aimed to kids). Pinacoteca de Nuevo León, Monterrey, México.