Ruby Rumié

Ruby Rumié (born 1958) is a Colombian artist. She studied at the School of Fine Arts of Cartagena de Indias and the David Manzur Academy in Bogotá. She has exhibited around the world in places such as Colombia, Chile, the United States of America and France.

Her work was shown in the international section of the First Biennial of Contemporary Art of Cartagena de Indias, Colombia

In 1978, she developed the short film "Magola" with Director Ricardo Cifuentes and was part of La Pandonga Theatre Group from 1980 to 1981 in Cartagena de Indias. She developed a strong relationship with the materials and the techniques she used and soon transformed her methods into more conceptual ones. As the artist confronted the question of what's an artist duty to society and the issues in social structures, she started including the community more in her artwork and thus allowing the community to think about their place in society, question their surroundings and their social situations. Her projects began to be based on the impacts of modern life on everyday people, injustice, gentrification, hierarchies, race inequalities and violence against women.

Projects: Retratos (1990) Ensamblajes (1996) Obra Negra (1998) Colombia Se Vende y Se Arrienda (2000) Espíritu Gimaní (2000) Historias Horizontales y Poemas Verticales (2001) Fachadas (2001) Teselas (2001–2004) Camina Sobre Ella (2004- 2005) No Se lo Digas a Nadie (2006) Lo Real de Las Cosas (2007) Rumié photographed all the inhabitants of a popular street from Cartagena, Colombia and asked them to pick one of their favorite objects to create Lo Real de las Cosas. Ruby Rumié brings to the foreground the image of someone who is used to being rejected and ignored by doing this she challenges the social norm and problems such as gender violence, gentrification, social barriers and discrimination.

Awards Ruby Rumié received first place in the Colombian open call, "Colombian.Image" in 2004 in Paris, France.

In 2016, she received the Rockefeller Foundation Fellowship and did a residency on human behavior at Bellagio Lake Como.

In 2017, Rumié received a Women Together Award from the United Nations in New York.

Recent solo exhibitions In 2010, Ruby Rumié showed at the Museo de Artes Visuales in Santiago Chile, " Common Place".

In 2001 she showed at "Fair," Centro de Formación de la Cooperación Española (CFCE), Cartagena de Indias.

From 2011 to 2012, "Common Place" was shown at the Art Museum of the Americas in Washington D.C.

In 2012, "Getsemani: Subject/Object," was exhibited at NH Galería, Cartagena de Indias.

In 2014, "Hálito Divino," was shown at the Centro de Formación de la Cooperación Española in Cartagena de Indias and the Nohra Haime Gallery, New York.

In 2016, NH Galería showed "Art Paris, Hálito Divino" in Paris.

From 2016 to 2017, "Tejiendo Calle," was exhibited at the NH Galería in Cartagena de Indias.

In 2017, she had a show at the Museo de Arte Moderno in Cartagena de Indias, " Tejiendo Calle- Weaving Streets" was shown at Nohra Haime Gallery in New York and she had a self-titled show at El Nogal Bogotá.

In 2018, she showed at La Tertulia Museum in Cali, Colombia and Museo Rayo in Roldanillo, Colombia.

Recent group exhibitions Rumié has also been part of many group exhibitions in place such as Nohra Haime Gallery in New York, NH Galería in Colombia, Lyme Academy of Fine Arts in Connecticut, Atrium Gallery in Saint Louis, Missouri, ArtBo, Bogotá, PULSE Miami Beach in Florida, International Biennial of Contemporary Art of Cartagena de Indias, Art Madrid and Colección Banco de la República in Cartagena de Indias.

Teaching, panels, talks and lectures Ruby Rumié is involved with the community not only through her art but also through teaching, being part of panels, talks and lectures.

In '2010, she did a talk for participating graduates at the Universitaria de Bellas Artes in Cartagena de Indias Colombia, that same year she did a lecture called, " The Individual body and the Social Body" for the Contemporary Studies of Dance at the Colegio del Cuerpo in the University of Jorge Tadeo Lozano in Cartagena de Indias, in collaboration with Justine Graham she did a talk about the project "Lugar Común" for the psychology students at the University of Chile and held a multidisciplinary panel on the relation between the housekeeper and her employer in Latin America at the Museo de Artes Visuales in Santiago, Chile. She also held a conversation on the Getsemani neighbors, along with the exhibition of the Caribbean Contemporary Art Collection of the Banco de la Republica.

In 2011, Ruby Rumié gave two talks in Colombia, one at Bucaramanga, "La fábrica de la mirada" and at "Fair" Centro de Formación de la Cooperación Española.

In 2012, Rumié was part of a multidisciplinary panel for the exhibition Getsemani: Sujeto / Objeto at NH Galería and "Propuesta: En que nos parecemos?" a talk about artistic practices in context at the Universidad Jorge Tadeo Lozano Caribe.

In 2014, she was part of a talk during International Women's day at the Centro de Formación de la Cooperación Española in Cartagena called "Halito Divino: Violencia de Género - Miradas desde el Arte," and " Sin mujeres no hay paz" at the same space.

In 2015, she was part of the jury, Stimuli Grants, BIACI in Cartagena.

In 2016, she was part of "The Body in Art" Fepal Symposium of Latin American Psychoanalytic Association at the Escuela de Bellas Artes in Cartagena, a Women Empowerment talk at the Bellagio Center in Italy for the Rockefeller Foundation and "Women and Dignity" at the Centro de Información de la Cooperación Española in Cartagena de Indias. And in 2017, "Weaving Streets" at the Humanese in Envigado Colombia and conversation with Alberto Abello Vives on "Weaving Streets" at the NH Galería in Cartagena, Colombia.

Public collections Ruby Rumié's work is owned by AMA I Art Museum of the Americas AMA Collection, Washington, D.C., Andreas and Mecky Dybowsky Collection, Korweiler, Germany, Centro Cultural de la Guajira, Guajira, Colombia, Centro de Formación de la Cooperación Española, Cartagena de Indias, Colección BANREP, Banco de la República, Cartagena de Indias, Imago Mundi, Treviso, Italy, Mayor's office, Cartagena de Indias, Museo de Arte Moderno, Cartagena de Indias.