Alberto Ruiz Villar
BIO
Alberto Ruiz Villar (b. 1970, Barcelona) is a Spanish artist based in Barcelona. Trained in graphic design at L’Escola Massana, he has worked as an art director and photographer and currently teaches Art Direction at IED Barcelona. His practice explores the intersection between structure and instinct, constructing a visual language that maps fear, time, and memory.
Ruiz Villar’s work emerges from a crossing between maps, strata, and scars—three states that reveal the marks of confinement, chance, and continuity. Each composition unfolds as a layered territory where the surface becomes both wound and architecture. His paintings have been exhibited at Rhodes Contemporary Art (London) and The Invisible Line Gallery (London), alongside artists such as Banksy, Damien Hirst, and Nick Smith. His works are represented in private collections across Europe, North America, and the Middle East.
What inspires Alberto?
Ruiz Villar draws inspiration from the passage of time, the emotional architecture of fear and memory, and the fragile balance between order and accident. His use of arches, proportion, and geometric precision reflects an affinity with Ricardo Bofill’s La Fábrica and the metaphysical spaces of Giorgio de Chirico — translating architecture into painting and painting into a map of the self.
