Ruth Estévez is a curator, educator, and set designer. She is currently the co-director of the Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture. Previously, Estévez was the artistic director of Amant, an alternative art space in Brooklyn (2020–2023), senior curator of the Rose Art Museum at Brandeis University (2018–2020), and co-curator of the 34th São Paulo Biennial (2021). She organized the performance festival “Idiorrhythmic” at MACBA in Barcelona (2017–2020) and was the gallery director and curator of REDCAT/Calarts (2012–2018). Estévez co-founded LIGA-Space for Architecture and Spatial Practices in Mexico City (2010–). She holds an MA in Art History from Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico (UNAM) and is currently finishing her PhD in Art, Education, and Research at the University of Castilla–La Mancha, Cuenca, focused on the aesthetic, social, and political shifts of collective creation in performance art, architecture, and theater.