María Ruido (Xinzo de Limia, Ourense, 1967) is a visual artist, researcher, and cultural producer, and a professor at the Faculty of Fine Arts of the University of Barcelona. Since 1998, her interdisciplinary practice mainly in video, video action, and video installation has explored the social construction of the body and identity, post-Fordist labor systems, and collective memory through critical use of archival materials, interviews, and personal narratives.