Rita Sixto Cesteros (Trives, 1962), is Professor in the Department of Drawing at the Faculty of Fine Arts of the University of the Basque Country.

With the direction of Adelina Moya she defended her Doctoral Thesis Instante y duración. Aproximación a la temporalidad fotográfica in 1998. She is already very interested in the relationship between art and time and in images in general.

She works on the research dimension of artistic process. She is especially interested in the processes of observation and memory, as part of the poietic process.

She coordinates the project El lugar del sujeto en la investigación artística basada en la práctica.