Adolfo Ruiz Tosar is an artist, researcher, and educator. He investigates issues of contemporary entanglement, human-environmental relations and interculturalism through drawing, installation and film. His engagement with media is informed by multifaceted experiences in the graphic design industry involving illustration, art direction and moving image production. His work is also informed by arts-based research projects that he co-creates with various urban and subarctic communities. Since 2012 he has worked with elders, educators and youth from the Tłı̨chǫ Dene region, Northwest Territories in ongoing cultural initiatives involving oral history and land-based learning.

His work in the north was supported by the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada. His film work has been screened on the Franco-German cultural channel, Arte, and writing published in the Journal for Artistic Research. He holds an MFA from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, and degrees in Design (MDes) and Human Ecology (PhD) from the University of Alberta. He is Associate Professor of Design at MacEwan University in Edmonton (Amiskwacîwâskahikan), Canada.