Visual Artist and Illustrator | Creating Captivating Visual Experiences with Vibrant Nuance
Yanin Ruibal is a visual artist and illustrator born in Tijuana in 1989 and raised in Hermosillo, Sonora, México. In 2008, she moved to Puebla to pursue a Bachelor's degree in Visual Arts at the Universidad de las Américas Puebla. After two years, she left the program and spent a year in Los Angeles taking courses at OTIS College of Art and Design.
In 2012, Yanin relocated to Mexico City, where she worked in two creative agencies before transitioning to a full-time freelance career. By 2014, she was supporting herself through illustration and painting. Since then, Yanin has participated in exhibitions across Mexico City, Los Angeles, New York, Miami, Austin, and other cities, and is a regular participant in The Other Art Fair New York.
In 2020, Saatchi Art named her one of their “35 Under 35 Rising Stars.” She has also collaborated on two successful NFT projects with Saatchi Art and has worked with a variety of Mexican and international brands.
In March 2025, she presented a critically and commercially successful solo show in her hometown of Hermosillo. She is currently developing a sculpture project in collaboration with Sonoran artisans, exploring the intersection of personal narrative, material tradition, and regional identity.
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STATEMENT
Yanin Ruibal finds her artistic drive in existence itself, a kind of existence, that in its most honest version, knows how to go from the most aesthetic and sublime angles, to the most chaotic and dark. It is therefore, an evolutionary art, with memory and inspired in personal experiences; that go hand in hand with a cultural and family heritage that question and impact not only the discourse and the concept, but also the composition and aesthetics.
The duality of femininity, the sensory world and emotion are the constant stimuli in her visual stories. An artistic process determined by personal learning, motivated by affectivity and the need to find liberation through the tension expressed in symbolism and contrasts.
Based on the possibility of deeply assimilating her purpose in the present moment, Ruibal is the reflection of a collective reality, of the woman who seeks the essence of her being; that addresses with determination and courage, the challenges, conflicts and limitations of the contemporary world.
Human nature and its animal reflection, seen internally and externally, are an active part of the pictorial definition that determines elements of composition, color, shape and structure in each work. Her artistic practice evokes the need to establish links between fiction and reality, thus allowing each viewer to interact personally and privately with her work, distancing herself from stereotypes and simple assimilations of what is represented.
The duality of femininity, the sensory world and emotion are the constant stimuli in her visual stories. An artistic process determined by personal learning, motivated by affectivity and the need to find liberation through the tension expressed in symbolism and contrasts.
Based on the possibility of deeply assimilating her purpose in the present moment, Ruibal is the reflection of a collective reality, of the woman who seeks the essence of her being; that addresses with determination and courage, the challenges, conflicts and limitations of the contemporary world.
Human nature and its animal reflection, seen internally and externally, are an active part of the pictorial definition that determines elements of composition, color, shape and structure in each work. Her artistic practice evokes the need to establish links between fiction and reality, thus allowing each viewer to interact personally and privately with her work, distancing herself from stereotypes and simple assimilations of what is represented.
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CV
EDUCATION:
Bachelor of Visual Arts, Universidad de las Américas Puebla, 2008-2010. Bachelor of Visual Arts (Transferred), Universidad de Sonora, 2010-2011 (Incomplete).
GROUP EXHIBITIONS:
Spring Art & Design Collective exhibition Vol. 3, Ginocchio Gallery Los Cabos, April 2025.
The Western Mystique, Dorado 806 Projects, March 2025.
Escenas Silvestres, Torrente Galería, San Miguel de Allende, Guanajuato. February 2025.
Decir Adiós al Viento, Galería Alfredo Ginocchio, September 2024
Art Fest, online NFT exhibition by World of Women and Saatchi Art, February 2023.
Todos Ponen Feria, exhibition of artists from the northwest of México. Culiacán, Sinaloa, November 2022.
The Other Art Fair, Global Edition, March 2021.
Spring Forward Art Exhibition, Revelation Gallery, New York, NY, March 2021.
Visiones Femeninas @ De Kooning Studio. All-women group show. New York, May 2019.
The Other Art Fair by Saatchi Art at Brooklyn Expo Center, New York, NY, May 2019.
CDMX Group Show @ Volcom Garden by Juxtapoz Clubhouse. Austin, Texas, April 2019.
The Other Art Fair by Saatchi Art at Brooklyn Expo Center, New York, NY, November 2019
Juxtapoz Clubhouse, Miami Art Week. Miami, FL, December 2018.
Finalist at Bienal de Ilustración by Pictoline, Centro de Cultura Digital. Mexico City, May 2018.
LIBRE, all-women exhibition at MUTEM, Museo del Tequila y el Mezcal. Mexico City, May 2018.
Abrazo para México, benefit exhibition for the victims of the September 19 earthquake. Pugseal Hotel, Mexico City, October 2017.
IT’S A PINK WORLD AFER ALL vol.2, all-women exhibition at Rojo Bermelo Gallery. Mexico City, February 2017.
Talento Mexicano Contemporáneo, Galería CC186. Mexico City, March 2016.
Surf en Pavimento by Cultura Colectiva and Kai Longboards. Mexico City, May 2014.
100th Room by Camel, Mexico City, November 2013.
SOLO EXHIBITIONS:
Dura y Frágil, Galería Lucita Aguilera, Hermosillo, Sonora. March 2025.
Similitudes, Pugseal boutique Hotel, Mexico City, October 2018.
Al que Alimentas parte II, Galería CC186, Mexico City, October 2015.
Al que Alimentas, Galería Corazón, La Plata, Buenos Aires, Argentina, May 2015.
YO / TÚ, Galería CC186, Mexico City, September 2014.
Downtown L.A. Art walk, The Medallion Gallery, Los Angeles, CA, June 2012.
BRAND COLLABORATION
AT&T: Mural at flagship store in Masaryk, Polanco, Mexico City, 2016.
Verizon: Illustration of astronaut Ellen Ochoa for an advertising campaign celebrating Latinx Heritage Month, 2018.
El Palacio de Hierro: Illustration for El Libro Amarillo, 2019.
De la Viuda Hot Sauce: Illustration for a social media advertising campaign, 2021.
Palominos Restaurante: Illustrations for wine and bacanora bottles, murals in restaurants in Hermosillo and Palmas,
Mexico City, 2015-2021.
Mexico City, 2015-2021.
Las Reinas Boutique Apícola: Packaging design for gourmet honey collection, 2022.
EDITORIAL ILLUSTRATION:
Cover illustration for the poetry book We Borrowed Gentleness by J. Estanislao López, published by Alice James
Books.
Books.
Illustrations for El Sueño del Cóndor, a children’s book (ages 8+) about conservation efforts to preserve the
California condor, created as part of a collection celebrating the 100th anniversary of Chapultepec Zoo, published
by Libros para Imaginar, 2022.
California condor, created as part of a collection celebrating the 100th anniversary of Chapultepec Zoo, published
by Libros para Imaginar, 2022.
Cover illustration for the novel La Tierra sobre tus Huesos by Suzette Celaya, published by La Navaja Suiza
Editores, 2022.
Editores, 2022.
Illustrations for “Korima es Compartir”, a children’s book (ages 8+) about friendship in different languages and the
lives of the Rarámuri people in the north of Mexico.
lives of the Rarámuri people in the north of Mexico.
Illustrations for the book "7 Veces Adiós", based on the acclaimed play produced by Alan Estrada, May 2025.
AWARDS & RECOGNITIONS:
Winner of the Phoenix Sister Cities International Young Artists Showcase, 2007.
Winner of the TRASHed at Coachella contest by Global Inheritance, 2012.
Finalist in the first Pictoline Illustration Biennial, 2018.
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