Kiyo Gutiérrez is a Mexican multidisciplinary artist based in Guadalajara. Trained in history, she turned to performance art to explore the body’s potential as a tool of resistance. Her work emerged as a response to Mexico’s brutal realities, femicide, disappearances, and environmental devastation. Her ritual-performances often integrate archival research, sculpture, textile, sound and audience participation. Her work reexamines the construction of colonial history, uncovering how bodies and materials themselves bear the traces of extraction, exploitation, resistance and transformation. She is interested in the possibility of multi-species alliances and has collaborated with damaged bodies of water, pollinators and forests.
Kiyo performs often in public spaces and has participated in Performance Festivals and exhibitions in México, Brasil, Colombia, Bolivia, Spain, Italy and the United States. She has participated in Irrational Exhibits 13: Debates, an editorial project for Colección Cisneros, and is an alum of Georgetown University’s Laboratory for Global Performance and Politics and EMERGENYC. Kiyo is a recipient of the Franklin Furnace Fund, the Macomber Travel Grant, the Fulbright Scholarship, and was nominated for the Gilder/Coigney International Theatre Award. She received her MFA from USC Roski School of Art and Design.
