Yolanda Gutiérrez

Yolanda Gutiérrez (born 1970) is a Mexican and German dancer, choreographer and installation artist.

Early life and education Gutiérrez was born in 1970 in Mexico City, Mexico, and was raised in Cuernavaca, Mexico. She studied contemporary dance in Mexico City, achieving a degree from the National School of Visual Arts at National Autonomous University of Mexico (MUAC). She also studied New Dance and Performance in Hanover, Germany. She lives in Hamburg, Germany.

Career In 1993, Gutiérrez won the Jóvenes Creadores fellowship from Mexico’s National Fund for Culture and the Arts in the category of sculpture. She exhibited at the 5th Havana Biennial in Havana, Cuba in 1994. Following this project, she was invited to exhibit an installation at the Royal Botanical Garden in Hamilton, Canada, during the 2015 Pan American Games. She was invited to the Netherlands to create a postcolonial city walk through Amsterdam. She also choreographed the Urban Bodies project in Munich, Germany, through her artistic platform Shape the Future.

Gutiérrez's installation art works have been exhibited at Museo Universitario Contemporáneo de Arte (MUAC) in Mexico City, Mexico, the World Bank in Washington D.C., United States, and the Universidad Politécnica de Valencia in Valencia, Spain.