Acting as subject, artist, and muse, Martine Gutierrez transforms physical space and the composed self to investigate personal and collective identity. Interested in gender and relationship fluidity, she employs diverse narratives of intimacy, heritage and feminine ideology. Gutierrez uses a variety of mixed media that fuses dance, photography, video, set and costume design to fabricate imagined narratives. She pursues genuine, non-ironic representations of pop-cultural tropes such as the ‘pop star’ or ‘super model’, as she casts herself in these roles. Affirming LGBTQ beauty in the Latin community, Gutierrez works against the historic representation of trans and gay artists represented as ‘other’.

Gutierrez (born 1989) received her Current and recent exhibitions include her first solo museum exhibition at Contemporary Art Museum Raleigh, North Carolina; Disturbing Innocence, The FLAG Art Foundation, New York; and About Face: Self-Portraiture in Contemporary Art, Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover. Her work has been acquired by the Hood Museum of Art for their permanent collection. Gutierrez is also a published musician and producer. She is represented by RYAN LEE Gallery in New York.

Martine Gutierrez (born 1989 Berkeley, California) is a visual and performance artist who lives and works in Brooklyn, New York. She received a BFA in Printmaking from the Rhode Island School of Design. Born to a Guatemalan father and white American mother, her cross-cultural background informs her fluid self-navigation as she has always straddled both cultures. Recent solo shows include: FOCUS: Martine Gutierrez, Museum of Modern Art Fort Worth, TX; Life; Martine Gutierrez: Body en Thrall, Australian Centre for Photography, Darlinghurst, AU; and Indigenous Woman, RYAN LEE, New York, NY, among others. Her work was featured in many group exhibitions including The Cindy Sherman Effect: Identity and Transformation in Contemporary Art, Kunstforum Wien, Vienna, AT; Crack Up – Crack Down, Ljubljana Biennial of Graphic Arts, curated by Slavs and Tatars, Ljubljana, Slovenia; Transamerica/n: Gender, Identity, Appearance Today, McNay Art Museum, San Antonio, TX; MASK, Kunstmuseum Bonn, Germany; and May You Live In Interesting Times, 58th International Art Exhibition – La Biennale di Venezia, curated by Ralph Rugoff, Venice, Italy. Her work has been acquired by the Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, NH, for their permanent collection. Gutierrez is also a published musician and producer. She is represented by RYAN LEE Gallery, New York.