Miguel Gutierrez

Miguel Gutierrez (he/him) is an artist and educator living between Lenapehoking/Brooklyn, NY and Tovaangar/Los Angeles. His work continues and expands the legacy of experimental QTPOC artists and creates empathetic, irreverent, and reflective spaces that prioritize attention as a means to unravel normative belief systems. He is also fascinated by how capital interacts with art making, a topic he explored in his podcast Are You For Sale? Recent performance work includes I as another, which looks at the virtual architecture of memory, and sueño, a bilingual music project of melancholy songs, which was recently performed at Jacob’s Pillow. His work has been presented internationally for over twenty years in venues such as American Realness, Brooklyn Academy of Music, Chocolate Factory, Walker Art Center, Wexner Center for the Arts, American Dance Festival, On the Boards, REDCAT, Festival D’Automne in Paris, Festival Universitario in Colombia and as a selected artist for the 2014 Whitney Biennial. He is a Guggenheim Fellow, a United States Artists Fellow, and a recipient of a Foundation for Contemporary Art award, a 2016 Doris Duke Artist Award, a 2016 Frankie Award, and four New York Dance and Performance “Bessie” Awards. He has received project support multiple times through the National Performance Network, MAP Fund, and the New England Foundation for the Arts’ National Dance Project. He is an Associate Professor of Choreography and Vice Chair of the MFA in Choreographic Inquiry in the Department of World Arts and Cultures/Dance at UCLA. www.miguelgutierrez.org IG: @aboylikethat

Photo by Chloe Cusimano