Martine Gutierrez

Guatemalan-American artist Martine Gutierrez (b. 1989, Berkeley, CA) produces staged photographic self-portraiture that seeps into culture at large via billboards, films and books as well as traditional gallery presentations. Gutierrez effortlessly creates a stage and a crucible where modern identity may take place. Her work elides hard taxonomical boundaries of gender, race, indigeneity and class, and looks forward to the future of femininity as it freely samples the textures and strategies of portraiture through history.

Martine Gutierrez lives and works in New York.

Education

2012

BFA with Honors, Rhode Island School of Design, Providence, RI

Solo Exhibitions

2024
Martine Gutierrez, Henry Art Gallery at the University of Washington, Seattle, WA

2023
ANTI-ICON: APOKALYPSIS, Josh Lilley, London
ANTI-ICON: APOKALYPSIS, RYAN LEE, New York, NY
ANTI-ICON: APOKALYPSIS, Fraenkel Gallery, San Francisco, CA
Indigenous Woman Magazine, Cairns Art Gallery, Cairns, AU

2022
Martine Gutierrez
, Outside the Box, Whitney Museum of American Art, NY
Hit Movie: Vol 1, Contemporary Art Museum St. Louis, St. Louis, MO

2021
Martine Gutierrez: ANTI-ICON, Public Art Fund, NY & IL
Martine Gutierrez: Radiant Cut, Blaffer Art Museum, University of Houston, Houston, TX
Martine Gutierrez, Museum of Contemporary Photography at Columbia College Chicago, IL

2020
Martine Gutierrez Takeover, Rockwell Museum, Corning, NY
Martine Gutierrez ‘Body en Thrall’, Australian Centre for Photography, Darlinghurst, AU

2019
FOCUS: Martine Gutierrez, Museum of Modern Art Fort Worth, TX
Life / Like: Photographs, Mount Holyoke College Art Museum, South Hadley, MA

2018
Indigenous Woman, RYAN LEE, New York, NY
Martine Jeans, RLWindow, RYAN LEE, New York, NY

2017
Martine Part I-IX, RYAN LEE, New York, NY
Humannequin, Anna Marra Contemporanea, Rome, Italy
Martine Part IV, RLWindow, RYAN LEE, New York, NY

2016
True Story, Boston University Art Gallery, MA
WE & THEM & ME, Contemporary Art Museum, Raleigh, NC
MartineJEANS, a public art billboard installation at 9th Avenue & 37th Street in Manhattan, International Studio & Curatorial Program in collaboration with the NY Community Trust Van Lier Fund, the NYC Department of Cultural Affairs, and NY State Council on the Arts, New York, NY

2015
Transcending Rhythm, curated by Rene Barilleaux, McNay Art Museum, San Antonio, TX
Can She Hear You, RYAN LEE, New York, NY

2014
RedWoman91, RLWindow, RYAN LEE, New York, NY

2013
Martin(e), RYAN LEE, New York, NY

2011
Martín Gutierrez, Benson Gallery, RISD, Providence, RI

Group Exhibitions

2024
(Forthcoming) Digital Witness: Revolutions in Design, Photography, and Film, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, CA
Turn My Way: Ethan James Green, Martine Gutierrez, Sam Penn, OCDChinatown, New York, NY
The Infinite Woman, Fondation Carmignac, Hyères, France
Liquid Gender, Sainsbury Centre, Norwich, UK
Of the Times, Hanes Gallery at Wake Forest University, Winston-Salem, NC

2023
Contested Bodies, University of Leeds, Leeds, UK
Collection survey, Pérez Art Museum, Miami, FL
People Watching: Contemporary Photography Since 1965, Bowdoin College Museum of Art, Brunswick, ME
PhotograpHER, Nerman Museum of Contemporary Art, Overland Park, KS Fashioning America: From Grit to Glamour, New Orleans Museum of Art, New Orleans, LA
Femme ’n isms, Part I: Bodies Are Fluid, Allen Memorial Art Museum, Oberlin, OH
The Performative Self-Portrait, RISD Museum, Providence, RI
Body Matters, Frances Lehman Loeb Art Center at Vassar College, Poughkeepsie, NY
Musical Thinking: New Video Art and Sonic Strategies, Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington, DC
In Bloom, Bellagio Gallery of Fine Art, Las Vegas, NV
What Now (Or Not Yet), The Loeb Art Center at Vassar College, Poughkeepsie, NY

2022
Power Play: Reimagining Representation in Contemporary Photography, Fralin Museum of Art at the University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA
art.now.2023, Hearst Galleries, New York, NY
Adorned, Nerman Museum of Contemporary Art, Oakland Park, KS
Art of Enchantment, Eretz Israel Museum, Tel Aviv, IL
Native America: In Translation, Hullfish Gallery at Princeton Unversity, Princeton, NJ; travelling to Cantor Fitzgerald Gallery, Haverford College, Haverford, PA; Milwaukee Art Museum, Milwaukee, WI (2023); University of South Florida Contemporary Art Museum, Tampa, FL (2023)
ritual being, RYAN LEE, New York, NY
Sonic Terrains in Latinx Art, Vincent Price Art Museum, Los Angeles, CA
Being Human, Internet Immigrant, PHOTO 2022, Cremorne, Australia
Think We Must, Düsseldorf Photo+, Düsseldorf, Germany
In Her View, Minneapolis Institute of Art, Minneapolis, MN

2021
True Pictures? Contemporary Photography from Canada and the USA, Sprengel Museum Hannover, DE
Interior Infinite, POLYGON Gallery, Vancouver, CA
Porno Chic to Sex Positivity: Erotic Content & the Mainstream, 1960 till Today, Museum of Sex, New York, NY
Go straight until you find the sea, K-Gold Temporary Gallery, Lesvos Island, GR Look! Revelations on Art and Fashion, Museum MARTa Herford, DE
Artists and Identity: Portraiture, Performance, Doppelgängers, and Disguise, Art & Culture Center of Hollywood, FL
SHE DEVIL X, Studio Stefania Miscetti, Rome, IT
Limitless! Five Women Reshape Contemporary Art, McNay Art Museum, San Antonio, TX
Kixpatla. Cambiar de vista, cambiar de rostro. Arte y Cosmopolítica, Colegio de San Ildefonso, MX
Like in Paradise, HÖHENRAUSCH, OÖ Kulturquartier, Linz, Austria
FORMAT21 International Photography Festival, Online
Transformations: New Acquisitions of Global Contemporary Art, Bowdoin College Museum of Art, Center Gallery, Focus Gallery, Brunswick, ME
Dress Codes: Black and Brown Women Artists Fashioning Identity, Artsy, Online Matrix — Fluid Bodies, Unlimited Thoughts, FORMAT21 Online
In Some Form or Fashion, The Momentary at the Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art, Bentonville, AR
In Her View, Harrison Photography Gallery at the Minneapolis Institute of Art, Minneapolis, MN

2020
Staging Identity: Between masquerade, body staging and role play, Institut Mathildenhöhe, Darmstadt, Germany
Infinite Identities: Photography in the Age of Sharing, Huis Marseille, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Never Done: 100 Years of Women in Politics and Beyond, The Frances Young Tang Teaching Museum and Art Gallery at Skidmore College, NY
Some Day is Now: Women, Art & Social Change, New Britain Museum of American Art, New Britain, CT
Queer Algorithms, Gus Fisher Gallery, University of Auckland, Auckland, NZ
The Cindy Sherman Effect: Identity and Transformation in Contemporary Art, Kunstforum Wien, Vienna, AT

2019
Crack Up - Crack Down, Ljubljana Biennial of Graphic Arts, curated by Slavs and Tatars, Ljubljana, Slovenia
Kiss My Genders, Hayward Gallery, Southbank Centre, London, UK
Transamerica/n: Gender, Identity, Appearance Today, McNay Art Museum, San Antonio, TX
Be Seen: Portrait Photography Since Stonewall, Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art, Hartford, CT
MASK, Kunstmuseum Bonn, Bonn, Germany
58th International Art Exhibition - La Biennale di Venezia, curated by Ralph Rugoff, Venice, Italy
Quiet as It’s Kept: Passing Subjects, Contested Identities, curated by Mary-Kay Lombino, The Frances Lehman Loeb Art Center, Vassar College, Poughkeepsie, NY
Shape of Light: Defining Photographs from the Frances Lehman Loeb Art Center, Vassar College, Poughkeepsie, NY
Bona Drag: An Incomplete History of Drag and Cross-Gender Performance in Film and Video Art, Spalter Media Gallery, RISD Museum, Providence, RI

2018
MOTHA and Chris E. Vargas: Consciousness Razing, curated by Johanna Burton and Sara
O’Keeffe with Kate Wiener, The New Museum, New York, NY
RAGGA NYC, Mercer Union, Toronto, Canada
Muse Muse, curated by Richie Shazam, Czech Center, New York, NY

2017
Il meglio del meglio, curated by Shara Wasserman, Temple University, Rome, Italy
Converging Voices, curated by Karen Albert, Lowe Gallery, Hofstra University, New York, NY
A Decolonial Atlas: Strategies in Contemporary Art of the Americas, curated by Pilar Tompkins
Rivas, Vincent Price Art Museum, Monterey Park, CA, traveling to Mandeville Gallery at
Union College, Schenectady, NY
23 Pairs: Considering Compare and Contrast, Arnot Art Museum, Elmira, NY
Fast Forward//Rewind, curated by Mary Stanley, Museum of Contemporary Art of Georgia, Atlanta, GA

2016
Shapeshifters, curated by Tim Goossens, Shulamit Nazarian, Los Angeles, CA
LOVE, Neiman Gallery, Columbia University, New York

2015
About Face, Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth University, Hanover, NH

2014
Disturbing Innocence, curated by Eric Fischl, Flag Art Foundation, New York, NY
Listen Up!, curated by Diana Campbell Betancourt and Tim Goossens, New Delhi, India

2012
Hands Up, Woods-Gerry Gallery, RISD, Providence, RI
RISD Film Animation Video Triennial, Woods-Gerry Gallery, RISD, Providence, RI
From This Point Forward, Gelman Gallery, Rhode Island School of Design, Providence, RI

2011
RISD Printmaking Triennial, Woods-Gerry Gallery, Rhode Island School of Design, Providence, RI

2010
6th Annual Art Auction, Yestermorrow Design/Build School, Waitsfield, VT

2009
RISD Foundation Studies, Woods-Gerry Gallery, RISD, Providence, RI

CV

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Elizabeth from ANTI-ICON: APOKALYPSIS by Martine Gutierrez, 2021
Magdalene from ANTI-ICON: APOKALYPSIS by Martine Gutierrez, 2021
Guadelupe from ANTI-ICON: APOKALYPSIS by Martine Gutierrez, 2021
Sacagawea from ANTI-ICON: APOKALYPSIS by Martine Gutierrez, 2021
Helena from ANTI-ICON: APOKALYPSIS by Martine Gutierrez, 2021
Gabriel from ANTI-ICON: APOKALYPSIS by Martine Gutierrez, 2021
Aphrodite from ANTI-ICON: APOKALYPSIS by Martine Gutierrez, 2021
Installation View: ANTI-ICON: APOKALYPSIS by Martine Gutierrez, undefined
Installation View: ANTI-ICON: APOKALYPSIS by Martine Gutierrez, undefined
Installation View: ANTI-ICON: APOKALYPSIS by Martine Gutierrez, undefined
Demons, Chin 'Demon of Lust,' p93 from Indigenous Woman by Martine Gutierrez, 2018
Demons, Yemaya 'Goddess of the Living Ocean,' p94 from Indigenous Woman by Martine Gutierrez, 2018
Installation View:  ANTI-ICON Public Art Fund 2021 by Martine Gutierrez, undefined
Installation View:  ANTI-ICON Public Art Fund 2021 by Martine Gutierrez, undefined
Installation View: ANTI-ICON Public Art Fund 2021 by Martine Gutierrez, undefined
Body En Thrall, p112 from Indigenous Woman by Martine Gutierrez, 2018
Body En Thrall, Blonde Shoe by Martine Gutierrez, 2020
Body En Thrall, p114-115 from Indigenous Woman by Martine Gutierrez, 2018
Body En Thrall, p104 from Indigenous Woman, 2019 Photography by Martine Gutierrez, 2018
Passing - Exhibition installation view by Martine Gutierrez, undefined
Passing - Exhibition installation view by Martine Gutierrez, undefined
Plastics, Brigitte by Martine Gutierrez, 2020
Plastics, Edith by Martine Gutierrez, 2020
Plastics, Izabel by Martine Gutierrez, 2020
Neo-Indeo, Legendary Cakchiquel, p20 from Indigenous Woman by Martine Gutierrez, 2016
Body En Thrall, p122-123 from Indigenous Woman by Martine Gutierrez, 2018
Neo-Indeo, Kekchí Snatch, p21 from Indigenous Woman by Martine Gutierrez, 2018
Neo-Indeo, Cakchi Lana Caliente, p29 from Indigenous Woman by Martine Gutierrez, 2018
Passing - Exhibition installation view by Martine Gutierrez, undefined
  Martine Gutierrez Queer Rage, Governor Ratcliffe and Pocahontas, p 70 from Indigenous Woman by Martine Gutierrez, 2018
Queer Rage, Imagine Life-Size, and I'm Tyra, p66-67 from Indigenous Woman by Martine Gutierrez, 2018
Quezalteca Especial Ad, p40-41 from Indigenous Woman by Martine Gutierrez, 2018

Exhibitions

ANTI-ICON: APOKALYPSIS at Josh Lilley,presenting Martine Gutierrez

ANTI-ICON: APOKALYPSIS

Solo Show