Alberto Ruiz de Samaniego (A Coruña, 1966) holds a PhD in Philosophy (Autonomous University of Madrid), a Master's degree in Aesthetics and Theory of the Arts (Institute of Aesthetics and Theory of the Arts, Autonomous University of Madrid), and is a tenured professor of Aesthetics and Theory of the Arts (University of Vigo). A curator and cultural critic, he was Director of the Luis Seoane Foundation in A Coruña (2008-2011), co-directs the Larva collection (Maia-Abada Publishers), and curated the Spanish Pavilion at the 52nd Venice Art Biennale.

Among others, he has published the following books: Maurice Blanchot: An Aesthetics of the Neutral (University of Vigo, 1999), Seeds of Time (Pontevedra, 1999), The Postmodern Inflection: The Margins of Modernity (Akal, 2004), James Casebere (Mimesis, 2005), Beauty from Another World: Notes on Some Poetics of Immobility (Cendeac, 2005), To Be and Not to Be: Figures in the Domain of the Spectral (Micromegas, 2013), The Beautiful Hours: Writings on Cinema (Abada Publishers, 2015), and Jorge Molder's Black Theater (Sistema Solar, 2015).

She has curated exhibitions of Antón Lamazares, Xesús Vázquez, Chema de Luelmo, and Manuel Vilariño, as well as several group exhibitions of contemporary art. She has directed numerous courses and seminars and written for anthologies and catalogues of artists such as Antón Lamazares, Manuel Vilariño, Jorge Molder, Alberto Carneiro, Antonio Murado, Anne Heyvaert, Ana Soler, José Manuel Ciria, and Antón Patiño, among others. She has contributed to the following magazines and publications: Art and part, Western Magazine, Pencil, Sibyl, Archipelago, anthropos, Gorgeous, Dart, Worth, Alpha Paper,  The Grouse, The Creation, Diary 16, The Galician Post, Ars Mediterranea, Exit, Border D.

He is a translator of Maurice Blanchot, Jean Christophe Bailly and the Dictionary of Aesthetics from the Akal publishing house.