Martine Gutierrez

Gutierrez's work has been exhibited in galleries and museums, notably the Central Pavilion at the 58th Venice Biennale.

Guiterrez's artworks were exhibited in the 58th International Art Exhibition - La Biennale di Venezia, curated by Ralph Rugoff.

They exhibited photographs from Indigenous Woman including images from their Body En Thrall and Demons series.

During the mid-1960s, the form of the mannequin experienced an artistic change in which it was used to "…convey a feeling of overwhelming reality, convincing spectators…that they may be standing next to a real person. This illusion would be achieved by suggesting movement through pose and through the display artist's staging of the mannequin in a way that felt 'real'."

Commenting on their usage of the medium, Gutierrez emphasizes the idealistic aspect of mannequins.

Martine Gutierrez (born Martín Gutierrez, April 16, 1989) is an American visual and performance artist whose work is about how identity is formed, expressed, and perceived.

They have created music videos, billboard campaigns, episodic films, photographs, live performance artworks, and a satirical fashion magazine investigating identity as both a social construct and an authentic expression of self.

Gutierrez received a BFA in printmaking from Rhode Island School of Design in 2012.

Following graduation, they moved to New York City.

Gutierrez's music has been used by Dior and Acne Studios in video editorials, and Saint Laurent set its 2012 resort collection video to their single "Hands Up."

Gutierrez's nine-part film Martine Part I-IX (2012–2016) dismantles gender identity through a semi-autobiographical story of their personal transformation.

In 2013 Gutierrez's Real Dolls (2013), a series of photographs depicting their performance of four different life-size sex dolls in various domestic settings, was exhibited alongside their multi-part video Martine Pt 1-3 in their first solo exhibition held at the Ryan Lee Gallery in New York.

Images from this series were shown in Disturbing Innocence, a group exhibition curated by Eric Fischl which took place at the FLAG art Foundation in 2014.

In 2014 Gutierrez created the photographic series Lineups, where they are dressed and posed to blend seamlessly with groups of glamorous female mannequins staged in highly stylized tableaux.

Miss Rosen, who interviewed Gutierrez about LineUps, writes, "Martine embodies some of the most seductive and alluring images of the feminine, revealing the ways in which the body becomes the work of art itself, ready to be cast in the shape of our ideals."

Girlfriends (2014) is a series of black-and-white photographs throughout which Gutierrez poses with a single mannequin, creating ambiguous characters within changing realities.

Composed and shot in upstate New York at the cottage of Gutierrez's grandmother, the photographs depict three different couples, each of whom Gutierrez appears to match with their mannequin counterpart.

Gutierrez's use of mannequins is apparent in Girlfriends, as with many of their artworks.

In 2014, Gutierrez's site-specific large-scale video installation RedWoman91 (2014), of Gutierrez posing in an "advertising red" jumpsuit, exuding "withering sexual power alternating with hesitant vulnerability", was installed in the windows of Ryan Lee Gallery New York, positioned to be visible to those walking on the High Line.

Gutierrez's Real Dolls images were also included in the 2015 exhibition About Face at Dartmouth's Hood Museum, which explored how contemporary artists have investigated identity as a culturally constructed phenomenon.

Gutierrez's 2015 exhibition at Ryan Lee Gallery, Martín Gutierrez: Can She Hear You, included photographs, an installation of disassembled mannequins, paintings, and music videos.

Through experimentation with various artistic techniques and processes, Gutierrez's artworks inspire and ignite a multitude of conversations relating to complex social topics and issues.

They collaborated with i-D in 2015, co-directing a music video with musician Ssion that stars Gutierrez alongside mannequins dressed in costumes by French designer Simon Porte Jacquemus.

The video "The Girl For Me" accompanies music written and produced by Gutierrez.

Beginning as an installation commissioned by Aurora in 2015, Gutierrez produced and performed in collaboration with musician Nomi Ruiz in Origin, a digitally streaming selfie performance simultaneously filmed in front of a live audience.

#MartineJeans (2016) was a 10 ft × 22 ft (3m × 6.7m) fictional advertisement Gutierrez produced for a billboard at the corner of 37th Street and 9th Avenue in New York City in December 2016.

Completed during their Van Lier Fellowship in residence at ISCP, Gutierrez's public art project was created with support from the New York Community Trust, Edward and Sally Van Lier Fund, the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs in partnership with the City Council, and the New York State Council on the Arts.

The billboard portraying them topless, wearing only jeans, was designed by Gutierrez to look like a real advertising campaign for a high-end fashion brand with themselves as model.

They spent six years creating the work and premiered the final segment in 2016 in their solo exhibition We & Them & Me, at the Contemporary Art Museum, Raleigh, North Carolina.

It was also exhibited in their solo exhibition True Story at the Boston University Art Gallery in 2016.

In a 2018 Vice interview with Gutierrez, Miss Rosen notes:

"Gutierrez uses art to explore the intersections of gender, sexuality, race, and class as they inform her life experience. The Brooklyn-based artist 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 a social construction and an authentic expression of self."

Gutierrez's interest in producing a body of work continuing the concept of #MartineJeans evolved into their satirical fashion magazine Indigenous Woman (2018).

Indigenous Woman (2018) is a 146-page art publication (masquerading as a glossy fashion magazine).

The art critic Andrea K. Scott writes of the project, "The [magazine's] front and back covers are clearly modeled on Andy Warhol's Interview, down to the jagged cursive font that spells out the title. Inside, a hundred and forty-six pages are filled with Vogue-worthy fashion spreads—and the ad campaigns that make them possible—featuring Gutierrez playing the roles of an entire agency's worth of models. In addition to posing, [Gutierrez] also took every picture, styled every outfit, and designed all the layouts."

For her FOCUS exhibition, the artist will present photographs from the Indigenous Woman series.

The music, produced by Gutierrez originally written for Ruiz to perform, also titled Origin, was released on iTunes in 2018.

Filmed in Brooklyn, Tulum, Oakland, and Miami, Gutierrez produced and directed the music video Apathy (2018) for their song of the same name.

In 2019 they wrote, produced, and performed in Circle, an immersive live performance series held at Performance Space New York.

The sci-fi thriller casts Gutierrez as Eve, an alien held captive by a secret bio weaponry cooperation known as Circle.