Alma Ruiz

Alma Ruiz is a Guatemalan-American curator based in Los Angeles who has primarily focused on contemporary art from the post-war period in Italy and Latin America. She was the Senior Curator at the Museum of Contemporary Art in Los Angeles from 1984 to 2015, where she curated exhibitions featuring Lygia Clark, Magdalena Fernández, Hélio Oiticica, and Gabriel Orozco, among others. In 2016 she curated the 20 Bienal de Arte Paiz in Guatemala City, and she is currently Senior Fellow at Sotheby’s Institute of Art Los Angeles/Claremont Graduate University.