Kiyo Gutiérrez is a Mexican performance artist from Guadalajara. She studied history because she wanted to understand where she was standing. But she couldn’t find any answers in heteropatriarchal narratives. Then she discovered her path was in the body and it’s potential as a tool of resistance. She draws on multiple mediums including video, photography, dance, poetry, sculpture and sound. Ecofeminist, provocative, earthy, political, her performance pieces question established order and power, and explore the ties between female oppression and the destructive exploitation of Planet Earth.

Kiyo performs often in public spaces and has participated in International Performance Festivals and exhibitions in Mexico, Colombia, Bolivia, Spain and the United States. She also participated in Debates, an editorial project for Colección Cisneros, is a current Fellow at the Laboratory for Global Performance and Politics of Georgetown University, a recipient of the Franklin Furnace Fund, the Fulbright Scholarship and was recently nominated for the Gilder/Coigney International Theatre Award. She is currently exploring the possibility of multispecies alliances and works in collaboration with more than 40 thousand honey bees and other pollinators.