Born in 1990 in Cali, Colombia, Luis A. Gutierrez moved to the U.S as a teenager. He studied painting under the mentorship of artist Alfred Razza and attended Broward College. His passion for history and interest in social injustices and imperialism have influenced his work throughout his career. He currently lives and works in New York City.
Gutierrez is a 2021 recipient of the City Artist Corps Grant, an online resident at Silver Art Projects, and a 2020 AIM fellow artist at The Bronx Museum of the Arts. In 2019, He exhibited “Entre Sombras, From Figuration to Abstraction” (solo) at GoggleWorks Center for the Arts. He has also shown work in the Coral Springs Museum of Art, in private galleries, and Christie’s, New York. In 2016, Spectrum Miami Art Fair awarded him the Launchpad Artist Award and a site-specific installation. That year Gutierrez was a semi-finalist for the Bombay Sapphire Artisan Series.