Enrique Ruelas

Enrique Ruelas Mancha is originally from Puerto Vallarta, Jalisco, México. He studied Sociology at the University of Guadalajara and received a Master’s degree in Cognitive Sciences from the Autonomous University of the State of Morelos. Enrique is a former university professor in the field of Social Sciences and explores through teaching and research the multiple dimensions of human complexity. 

His approach to art has been as an outsider, guided more by intuition and direct experience than institutional frameworks. He began his sculptural practice in the workshop of the late sculptor Juan Francisco Curiel Quintero, where Enrique was his last apprentice. This mentorship deeply shaped his understanding of artistic work as a form of existential inquiry.  

Both in academia and in the arts, his work engages the tensions between the individual and the collective, revolving around the central question: why are we the way we are?