Nohra Haime Gallery Honors Ruby Rumié with Rockefeller Fellowship

RUBY RUMIÉ has been invited to the Rockefeller Foundation Bellagio Center in Como to their Arts Resident Fellow Program this summer for their Human Behavior thematic month.

The Rockefeller Foundation Bellagio Residency Program offers academics, artists, thought leaders, policymakers, and practitioners a serene setting conducive to focus, goal-oriented work, and the unparalleled opportunity to establish new connections with fellow residents from a wide array of backgrounds, disciplines, and geographies. The Foundation's Bellagio Residency Program has a track record for supporting the generation of important new knowledge addressing some of the most complex issues facing our world, and innovative new works of art that inspire reflection and understanding of global and social issues.

Ruby Rumié develops projects based on injustice and psychology, and the impact of modern life in the daily lives of common people. Rumié focuses her research on the locals of Getsemaní, a historical neighborhood in Cartagena de Indias, Colombia. Getsemaní is where she finds her conceptual material - analyzing the impact of gentrification and progress, and suggesting a new role for the artist: that in which there is not only an aesthetic and poetic revelation, but also a search of how to manage social and psychological problems through creation.

She recently exhibited her series "Divine Breath" at ArtParis at the Grand Palais in Paris where she received well-deserved press coverage.