About me
Marina Ruiz Molina obtained her degree in Paper Conservation in 2000 at the Escuela Superior de Restauración y Conservación de Bienes Culturales de Madrid, Spain. She completed her education through Internships at the Stedeljikmuseum and the Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam, The Netherlands. She was also recipient of fellowships at the Reina Sofía Museum and the National Institute of Conservation of Cultural Heritage in Madrid.
In 2008, Ms. Ruiz was invited by the Paper Conservation Department of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, to perform research on the materials and techniques used by Abstract Expressionist collage artists such as Esteban Vicente, Anne Ryan, and Franz Kline.
Since 2010, Ms. Ruiz works as a conservator at the Metropolitan Museum. She participates in the care of the museum collection and specializes in the conservation of drawings by the Louis Comfort Tiffany Studios.
Ms. Ruiz also worked as a consultant and conservator for the Esteban Vicente Foundation in New York under the auspices of the Smithsonian Institution. During the course of the last five years, she has deployed and implemented a Conservation Plan for the collection of collages and drawings by the Abstract Expressionist artist and presented talks on the subject at international forums.
