Samuel Ruiz is a contemporary Argentine artist whose practice explores the relationship between nature, energy, and human emotion. He studied art in Colombia and Europe under several notable masters, including Mario Bustamante (Colombia, 1976), Rodolfo Abularach (Guatemala), Marcos Irizarry (Colombia, 1983), Manuel Avillón (Spain, 1985), and Juan Valladares (Paris, 1988), among others.

Between 2005 and 2014, Ruiz lived and worked in Puerto Rico, where his work gained significant recognition for its transparency, layered textures, and meditative use of form and light.

Over a career spanning more than four decades, he has presented numerous solo exhibitions in Colombia, the United States, Germany, Taiwan, Puerto Rico, and the United Arab Emirates (Abu Dhabi). His work has also been featured in major collective exhibitions such as the International Fine Art & Antiques Fair (Abu Dhabi National Center, 2007), VI Nominees Salon, Alzate Avendaño Prize (1989), Taiwan Biennial (1988), Fomento al Turismo (Colombia, 1982), Salon del Desquite (Colombia, 1983), Centro de Arte Actual (Colombia, 1983), Candelaria Biennial (Colombia, 1984), Ollantay Gallery (New York, 1986), Gilberto Alzate Avendaño Foundation (Colombia, 1989), Galerie Rita Theiss (Germany, 1993), and Banco Ganadero Gallery (Colombia, 1994).

Among his distinctions, Ruiz received First Prize at the Salon del Desquite (Colombia, 1993), a Mention of Honor at the Taiwan Biennial (1987), and a Special Mention from the Gilberto Alzate Avendaño Foundation Great August Art Show (1987).

Ruiz’s work centers on a reimagined human figure—one detached from naturalistic representation and born of a free, rigorous, and deeply personal creative process. Through transparency, texture, and layered composition, he seeks to make the invisible visible, transforming emotion and energy into form. His art reveals an intimate, expressionist, and timeless visual language in which the compositions transcend literal narrative. They invite silence, contemplation, and that fertile emptiness where the visible merges with the internal. Each figure appears suspended, as if emerging from a dream or a shared memory, and its chromatic palette—sometimes contained, sometimes intense—reflects emotional states that transcend the work itself.