Martine Gutierrez

NY-based Gutierrez uses art to explore the intersections of gender, sexuality, race, and class as they inform her life experience. She uses costume, photography, and film to produce elaborate narrative scenes that combine pop culture tropes, sex dolls, mannequins, and self-portraiture to explore the ways in which identity, like art, is both social construction and an authentic expression of self. In this series “Indigenous Women,” shown at the 2019 Venice Biennale, Martine carves a place for herself, trying a fluid identity theme.

Neo-Indeo, Legendary Cakchiquel, p20 from “Indigenous Woman,” 2016
C-print mounted on Sintra, Edition of 8
54 x 36 inches

Neo-Indeo, Tzutujil Perezoso, p33 from “Indigenous Woman,” 2018
C-print mounted on Sintra, Edition of 8
54 x 36 inches

Courtesy of the ARTiST and RYAN LEE GALLERY, NY