Ruth Mora

Ruth is a Latin American artist, based in Toronto, and a member of SUMOfc Art Collective,
She is an MFA graduate from Pratt Institute in ‘New Forms’ concentration (non-traditional
forms of art)*where she was distinguished with both the MFA’s Outstanding Achievement
Award and the Pratt Circle Award. She generally works in two distinctive media: inhabitable
sculptures/installations and printmaking. She belives in the dialogue between art and built
form and is interested in the ‘human adaptative condition’ to place, in relationship with
individual and collective identity.

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

Runnymede Subway Station. 2017 Toronto, Ontario
2017 Toronto Design Off site Festival (TO DO) 2017. (Jan 16-22) with “Comfort Food” Mixing Latin American and Canadian Design Traditions
http://todesignoff site.com/event/comfort-food/
2016 Artist Project Opening Night (Feb 18) “Our Critique of Everyday life” (performance/installation)
http://www.theartistproject.com/gp_artists/ruth-mora-rachel-delph/
2016 Toronto Design Offsite Festival (TO DO) 2016. (Jan 18-24) with the
“Leonia” luminaire http://todesignoffsite.com/event/leonia/
2016 “Artist for Refugees” Fundraiser Exhibition (Oct 24th, 2015) Participant and co‐curator (with Gaston Soucy and Robert Gaudette) at Studio 223a
2015 (May 29) Musical performance : N A V I /Stage design / Video, 3D Mapping and projection :Derooted Creative Agency, SUMO Project and Javier Lovera Photography. As part of NXNE 2015,NAVI performs the first two of three movements from the debut album ‘Derelict_528.’https://www.facebook.com/derooted.creative/videos/10153376220186789/
2015 (January 24 – June 7, 2015) “A Dawn for Leonia ” installation for ‘Rewild: Architecture
Defines a New Landscape” at Harbourfront Centre, Toronto
2015 “Chroma”(January 22‐25) artistic highlight of ‘Access America Desi...