Kiyo Gutiérrez is a Mexican multidisciplinary artist based in Guadalajara. Trained in history, she turned to performance to explore the body’s potential as a tool of resistance. Her work emerged as a response to Mexico’s brutal realities, femicide, disappearances, and environmental devastation. Her ritual-performances often integrate archival research, sculpture, textile, sound and audience participation. Her work reexamines the construction of colonial history, uncovering how bodies and materials themselves bear the traces of extraction, exploitation, resistance and transformation. She is interested in the possiility of multispecies alliances and has collaborated with damaged bodies of water, pollinators and burnt forests. Kiyo performs often in public spaces and has participated in International Performance Festivals and exhibitions in México, Brasil, Colombia, Bolivia, Spain, Italy and the United States. She also participated in Debates, an editorial project for Colección Cisneros, she is an alumni at the Laboratory for Global Performance and Politics of Georgetown University, a recipient of the Franklin Furnace Fund, the Fulbright Scholarship, the Macomber Travel Grant, and was nominated for the Gilder/Coigney International Theatre Award. She received her MFA in Fine Arts at the Roski School of Arts of the University of Southern California.