Ruth Castilla Mora
Born in 1976 in Barcelona, Spain.
B.F.A. (Bachelor’s Degree in Fine Arts) from the University of Barcelona. After starting the
practice of far-east painting and calligraphy in Paris in 2007, she studied Chinese traditional
landscape painting at the International College of China Academy of Arts in Hangzhou
(2010-2012). She lives and works in Barcelona.
In her pictorial approach, the influences of two aesthetic traditions, the Western and Far-
Eastern, are merged, and its essential subject is nature.
EXHIBITIONS
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2017 Transitions, Galerie New Image, Paris, France.
2016 Paysages d’eau, Galerie New Image, Paris, France.
2015 L’esprit de l’encre, Galerie New Image, Paris, France.
GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2016 La Petite Galerie. Bourron-Marlotte, Fontainebleau, France.
Promenade dans la montagne, with Qixiang Zhou, Galerie New Image, Paris, France.
FAIRS
2015 Salon d’art de La Bellevilloise, Paris, France.
PUBLICATIONS
2016 Publishing of calligraphies and an extended article about Chinese calligraphy and
poetry in Alga nº 75, a specialized poetry review. Castelldefels, Barcelona, Spain.
2009 Illustrates the book Zen, tradition vivante. Promenade philosophique autour du
Genjô kôan de Maître Dôgen, by Yoko Orimo. Temple de la Chaux-de-Fonds,
Switzerland.
2000 Publishing of poems in the Portuguese literary magazine Anto, a biannual culture
magazine. Amarante, Portugal.
OTHERS
2015 Artistic direction and set design of the play El espíritu de las aguas. Espai Ku, Poetry
Festival of Barcelona, Spain.
