Ruth Mora

I work in mixed media, using printmaking and installations to explore identity, migration, and shared human experience. My practice seeks to foster empathy and connection beyond language and borders, translating lived experience into sensory forms.
My work is divided between printmaking and inhabitable sculptures/installations. In my two-dimensional work, I explore screenprinting and weaving through wabi-sabi, using anatomical and natural imagery to reflect cycles of change, memory, and transformation. These layered works are open and symbolic. My installations extend these themes through space and body, encouraging reflection and self-awareness.
I am interested in the tension between digital precision and manual intervention, combining techniques such as embroidery, weaving, and laser processes to develop a language that bridges tradition and contemporary practice.
My recent work explores Japanese and Latin American symbolism, reflecting on displacement, adaptation, and cultural exchange through nature and anatomy as shared languages.

Pratt Institute, Master of Fine Arts, New Forms Emphasis (with Honors)
LEED (Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design), Accredited Professional
University of Toronto, Master of Architecture
Simón Bolívar University, Bachelor in Architecture

Honors & Awards
2013 Master of Fine Art’s Outstanding Merit Award, from Pratt Institute, Brooklyn, NY.
2013 Juror’s Choice Award, Toronto Off Site Festival, to Ruth Mora &Gaston Soucy (SUMO
Project) Installation for Come Up To My Room, Toronto, Canada
2013 International Student Scholarship, from Pratt Institute, Brooklyn, NY
2013 Fine Arts Department Scholarship, from Pratt Institute, Brooklyn, NY
2011 Urban Design Award for Stantec Window Gallery, as Curator
2011 Stantec Prize for Excellence in Design & Technical, for performance in the Stantec
Architecture Office, Toronto, Canada

SELECTED:
-2026 ‘Friendship through Culture / 文化がわかる。心がかよう。’Group show at the Japanese Canadian
Cultural Centre (JCCC) gallery in Toronto. March 1 – May 29, 2026.
-2025 ‘The Colours Are Inside” Solo Show and Discussion Panel, at MIDORI.so Gallery in Tokyo, Japan. May
10-18, 2025.
-2025 An Invincible Sun, window exhibit at AKB Architects for DesignTO/ 182D St. Helens Avenue, Toronto.
Jan 25–Feb 07 2025
-2024 Rooted Knots, Blended Threads (Claudia Gutiérrez, Ruth Mora Izturriaga, Ixchel Suarez, and Sarabeth Triviño), Sur
Gallery, Toronto, Canada. May 2- July 6, 2024. Curated by Tamara Toledo.
-2023 ‘Roots’ silkscreens, at Open Studio, Project Space Gallery, at 401 Richmond, Toronto. An exhibition directed
to artists who identify as Black, Latinex, Indigenous, and People(s) of Colour.
-2023 XVII BIENAL DE MINIATURAS GRÁFICAS (Biennial of Graphic Miniatures) Organized by: TAGA, Taller de
Artistas Graficos Asociados (atelier of associated graphic artists) Caracas, Venezuela -April 30-August 31