Martine Gutierrez
Guatemalan-American artist Martine Gutierrez (b. 1989) 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, Rhode Island
Solo Exhibitions
2024
ANTI-ICON: APOKALYPSIS, The Polygon Art Gallery, Vancouver, Canada
Hyundai Card First Look: Martine Gutierrez, Museum of Modern Art, New York
Martine Gutierrez, Henry Art Gallery at the University of Washington, Seattle, Washington
2023
ANTI-ICON: APOKALYPSIS, Josh Lilley, London, UK
ANTI-ICON: APOKALYPSIS, RYAN LEE, New York
ANTI-ICON: APOKALYPSIS, Fraenkel Gallery, San Francisco, California
Indigenous Woman Magazine, Cairns Art Gallery, Cairns, Australia
2022
Martine Gutierrez, Outside the Box, Whitney Museum of American Art
Hit Movie: Vol 1, Contemporary Art Museum St. Louis, St. Louis, Missouri
Martine Gutierrez: Indigenous Woman, Philbrook Museum of Art, Tulsa, Oklahoma
2021
Passing, Josh Lilley, London, UK
Martine Gutierrez: Anti-Icon, Public Art Fund, New York and Ilinois
Martine Gutierrez: Indigenous Woman, Blaffer Art Museum, University of Houston, Houston, Texas
2020
Martine Gutierrez Takeover, Rockwell Museum, Corning, New York
Martine Gutierrez ‘Body en Thrall’, Australian Centre for Photography, Darlinghurst, Australia
FOCUS: Martine Gutierrez, Museum of Modern Art Fort Worth, Texas
Life / Like: Photographs, Mount Holyoke College Art Museum, South Hadley, Massachusetts
2018
Indigenous Woman, RYAN LEE, New York
Martine Jeans, RLWindow, RYAN LEE, New York
2017
Martine Part I-IX, RYAN LEE, New York
Humannequin, Anna Marra Contemporanea, Rome, Italy
Martine Part IV, RLWindow, RYAN LEE, New York
2016 T
True Story, Boston University Art Gallery, Boston, Massachusetts
WE & THEM & ME, Contemporary Art Museum, Raleigh, North Carolina
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
2015
Transcending Rhythm, curated by Rene Barilleaux, McNay Art Museum, San Antonio, Texas
Can She Hear You, RYAN LEE, New York
2014
RedWoman91, RLWindow, RYAN LEE, New York
2013
Martin(e), RYAN LEE, New York
2011
Martín Gutierrez, Benson Gallery, RISD, Providence, Rhode Island
Group Exhibitions
2025
Deviations, James Fuentes, New York
Counter History: Contemporary Art from the Collection, MFA Boston, Boston, Massachusetts
There are other skies, Scottsdale Museum of Contemporary Art Scottsdale, Arizona
Uncanny, National Museum of Women in the Arts, Washington, DC
A field of bloom and hum, Tang Teaching Museum, Saratoga Springs, New York
Queer Histories, Museu de Arte de São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil
go to the limits of your longing, RYAN LEE, New York
2024
American Sunrise: Indigenous Art at Crystal Bridges, Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art, Bentonville, Arkansas
Shifting Landscapes, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York
Digital Witness: Revolutions in Design, Photography, and Film, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, California
art.now.2023, Hearst Galleries, New York
Fraenkenstein, Fraenkel Gallery, San Francisco, California
Transfeminisms (Chapter II - Radical Imaginations), Mimosa House, London, UK
re: collections, Six Decades at the Rose Art Museum, Rose Art Museum, Waltham, Massachusetts
Turn My Way: Ethan James Green, Martine Gutierrez, Sam Penn, OCDChinatown, New York
The Infinite Woman, Fondation Carmignac, Hyères, France
Liquid Gender, Sainsbury Centre, Norwich, UK
Native America: In Translation, Museum of Contemporary Photography, Chicago, Illinois and Blanton Museum of Art, Austin, Texas (touring)
2023
Contested Bodies, University of Leeds, Leeds, UK
Collection survey, Pérez Art Museum, Miami, Florida
People Watching: Contemporary Photography Since 1965, Bowdoin College Museum of Art, Brunswick, Maine
PhotograpHER, Nerman Museum of Contemporary Art, Overland Park, KS
Native America: In Translation, Milwaukee Art Museum, Milwaukee and Wisconsin and University of South Florida Contemporary Art Museum, Tampa, Florida (touring)
Fashioning America: From Grit to Glamour, New Orleans Museum of Art, New Orleans, Louisiana
Femme ’n isms, Part I: Bodies Are Fluid, Allen Memorial Art Museum, Oberlin, Ohio
The Performative Self-Portrait, RISD Museum, Providence, Rhode Island
Body Matters, Frances Lehman Loeb Art Center at Vassar College, Poughkeepsie, New York
Musical Thinking: New Video Art and Sonic Strategies, Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington, DC
In Bloom, Bellagio Gallery of Fine Art, Las Vegas, Nevada
What Now (Or Not Yet), The Loeb Art Center at Vassar College, Poughkeepsie, New York
2022
Power Play: Reimagining Representation in Contemporary Photography, Fralin Museum of Art at the University of Virginia, Charlottesville, Virginia
Adorned, Nerman Museum of Contemporary Art, Overland Park, Kansas
Art of Enchantment, Eretz Israel Museum, Tel Aviv, Israel
Native America: In Translation, Hullfish Gallery at Princeton Unversity, Princeton, New Jersey and Cantor Fitzgerald Gallery, Haverford College, Haverford, Pensylvania (touring)
ritual being, RYAN LEE, New York
Sonic Terrains in Latinx Art, Vincent Price Art Museum, Los Angeles, California
Being Human, PHOTO 2022, Melborne and Victoria, Australia
Think We Must, Düsseldorf Photo+, Düsseldorf, Germany
In Her View, Minneapolis Institute of Art, Minneapolis, Minnesota
2021
True Pictures? Contemporary Photography from Canada and the USA, Sprengel Museum, Hanover, Germany
Limitless! Five Women Reshape Contemporary Art, McNay Art Museum, San Antonio, Texas
Kixpatla, cambiar de vista, cambiar de rostro. Arte y Cosmopolítica, Colegio de San Ildefonso, Mexico City, Mexico
Dress Codes: Black and Brown Women Artists Fashioning Identity, Artsy (online)
Matrix — Fluid Bodies, Unlimited Thoughts, FORMAT21 (online)
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, Netherlands
Never Done: 100 Years of Women in Politics and Beyond, The Frances Young Tang Teaching Museum and Art Gallery at Skidmore College, New York
Some Day is Now: Women, Art & Social Change, New Britain Museum of American Art, New Britain, Connecticut
Queer Algorithms, Gus Fisher Gallery, University of Auckland, Auckland, New Zealand
The Cindy Sherman Effect: Identity and Transformation in Contemporary Art, Kunstforum Wien, Wien, Austria
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, Texas
Be Seen: Portrait Photography Since Stonewall, Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art, Hartford, Connecticut
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, New York
Shape of Light: Defining Photographs from the Frances Lehman Loeb Art Center, Vassar
College, Poughkeepsie, New York
Bona Drag: An Incomplete History of Drag and Cross-Gender Performance in Film and Video
Art, Spalter Media Gallery, RISD Museum, Providence, Rhode Island
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
A Decolonial Atlas: Strategies in Contemporary Art of the Americas, curated by Pilar Tompkins
Rivas, Vincent Price Art Museum, Monterey Park, California and Mandeville Gallery at Union College, Schenectady, New York
23 Pairs: Considering Compare and Contrast, Arnot Art Museum, Elmira, New York
Fast Forward//Rewind, curated by Mary Stanley, Museum of Contemporary Art of Georgia, Atlanta, Georgia
2016
Shapeshifters, curated by Tim Goossens, Shulamit Nazarian, Los Angeles, California
LOVE, Neiman Gallery, Columbia University, New York
2015
About Face, Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth University, Hanover, New Hampshire
2018
MOTHA and Chris E. Vargas: Consciousness Razing, curated by Johanna Burton and Sara O’Keeffe with Kate Wiener, The New Museum, New York
RAGGA NYC, Mercer Union, Toronto, Canada
Muse Muse, curated by Richie Shazam, Czech Center, New York
2014
Disturbing Innocence, curated by Eric Fischl, Flag Art Foundation, New York
Listen Up!, curated by Diana Campbell Betancourt and Tim Goossens, New Delhi, India
2012
Hands Up, Woods-Gerry Gallery, RISD, Providence, Rhode Island
RISD Film Animation Video Triennial, Woods-Gerry Gallery, RISD, Providence, Rhode Island
From This Point Forward, Gelman Gallery, Rhode Island School of Design, Providence, Rhode Island
2011
RISD Printmaking Triennial, Woods-Gerry Gallery, Rhode Island School of Design, Providence, Rhode Island
2010
6th Annual Art Auction, Yestermorrow Design/Build School, Waitsfield, Vermont
2009
RISD Foundation Studies, Woods-Gerry Gallery, RISD, Providence, Rhode Island
Public collections
Allen Memorial Art Museum at Oberlin College, Oberlin, Ohio
Amon Carter Museum of American Art, Fort Worth, Texas
Bowdoin College Museum of Art, Brunswick, Maine
Buffalo AKG Museum, Buffalo, New York
Cantor Arts Center, Stanford University, Stanford, California
Fralin Museum of Art, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, Virginia
The Frances Lehman Loeb Art Center, Vassar College, Poughkeepsie, New York
Hirschhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington DC
Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, Germany
Huis Marseille Museum voor Fotografie, Amsterdam, Netherlands
Los Angeles County Museumof Art, Los Angeles, California
Lucas Museum of Narrative Art, Los Angeles, California
McNay Art Museum, San Antonio, Texas
Middlebury College Museum of Art, Middlebury, Vermont
Milwaukee Art Museum, Milwaukee, Wisconsin
Minneapolis Insitute of Art, Minneapolis, Minnesota
Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth, Fort Worth, Texas
Mount Holyoke College Art Museum, South Hadley, Massachusetts
Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego, San Diego, California
Museum of Contemporary Photography at Columbia College Chicago, Illinois
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, Boston, Massachusetts
Museum of Fine Arts Houston, Houston, Texas
Museum of Modern Art, New York, New York
National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC
New Britain Museum of American Art, New Britain, Connecticut
Pérez Art Museum, Miami, Florida
Philbrook Museum of Art, Tulsa, Oklahoma
Rhode Island School of Design Museum of Art, Providence, Rhode Island
Rockwell Museum, Corning, New York
The Rose Art Museum, Brandeis University, Waltham, Massachusetts
Sainsbury Centre, Norwich, UK
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, California
Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington, DC
Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York
Tang Museum, Skidmore College, Saratoga Springs, New York
University of Richmond Museums, Richmond Virginia
Mahaney Art Center, Middlebury College Museum of Art, Middlebury, Vermont
Wake Forest University, Winston-Salem, North Carolina
Whitney Museum of American Art, New York
Yale Collection of Western Americana Beinecke Rare Book & Manuscript Library, New Haven, Connecticut
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