Director: Ruth N Burotte

Bio: Ruth Burotte was born in Queens, NYC, and lives and works in Miami, Florida. Burotte received a bachelor’s Degree in Art & Technology from the University of Florida in 2021. Burotte works in multiple mediums such as illustration, painting, digital art, 3D design, and animation with her focus on character design with inclusions of story-telling.

Ruth has been involved in local urban art projects to lead communities in a new cultural direction. Having debuted her first solo exhibition “Solo Not Alone” at the Swampspace Gallery in the Miami Design District during Art Basel (2021), Burotte’s work is driven by a desire to explore the intersection between art, technology, and society, and strive to create immersive experiences that showcase the absurdities of the place and time we currently reside in and to understand that many objects and concepts we interact with can become a part of our identity. 

“Influenced by Japanese anime, street style, and graffiti, I indulge in the visual language of character design to examine the ideas of capitalist consumption, identity, and self-awareness of first-world culture. Developing characters that are underrepresented, usually black and female, and subverting the aggressive archetypes to overtake expectations. My work is driven by a desire to explore the intersection between art, technology, and society, and I strive to create immersive experiences that showcase the absurdities of the place and time we currently reside in and to understand that many objects and concepts we interact with can become a part of our identity. I use anime to explore and exist outside concepts such as prejudice, mental health, and generational trauma as a medium to channel these complex notions into contemporary works and share experiences of Caribbeans living in America.My pursuit is to share diverse characters so that people can see parts of themselves in various ways.”

e where through careful curation new visions can be realized.

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