Luis Gutierrez is an American artist based in Los Gatos, California, USA.
Luis Gutierrez was born in Pittsburg, California to a Mexican-American family, in 1933. He received an A.A. degree from Diablo Valley College in 1954; a B.A. degree from San Jose State University in 1957; and an M.F.A. degree from the Instituto San Miguel Allende in 1958. He has taught at Pittsburg High School and San Jose City College.
Graduating from high school and having won a Bank of America merit award in art, Gutierrez enrolled at Diablo Valley College in 1952 and was mentored by an art teacher, who steered him towards obtaining a bachelor's degree from San Jose State University. Supported by the patronage of further art professionals, Gutierrez finished his graduate studies at the Instituto Allende in MexicoâÂÂs San Miguel de Allende, an outpost of Berkeley art instructors, GI Bill students, and international modernism. There, Gutierrez continued working through the influence of Picasso and Matisse. Returning to San Jose, he took a teaching job at San Jose City College, where he inspired students with unorthodox assignments, such as making a piece based on a shameful secret, or drawing with the left hand, so as to circumvent the censorious left brain and its obedient right hand. Gutierrez assimilated aspects of Abstract Expressionism, the Bay Area Figuration, Beat, Funk, and Pop into his practice. Gutierrez retired in 1995.
1958: Instituto Allende, San Miguel de Allende, Mexico<br> 1960: Saint Mary's College, Moraga, California<br> 1961: San Jose State College, San Jose, California<br> 1971: De Young Memorial Museum, San Francisco, California<br> 1973: Sonoma State University Art Gallery, Rohnert Park, California<br> 1974: Chico State University Art Gallery, Chico, California<br> 1979: Mexican Museum, San Francisco, California<br> 1989: Lucy Berman Gallery, Palo Alto, California<br> 1994: Lucy Berman Gallery, Palo Alto, California<br> 2000: Tercera Gallery, Los Gatos, California<br> 2007: Triton Museum of Art, Santa Clara, California<br> 2010: Axis Gallery, San Jose, California<br> 2011: Togonon Gallery, San Francisco, California
1960-1961: Oakland Museum, Oakland, CA<br> 1960-1964: San Francisco Museum of Art (now SFMOMA), San Francisco, CA<br> 1963: Richmond Art Center, Richmond, California<br> 1963: Palace of the Legion of Honor, San Francisco, California<br> 1965: University of Illinois Krannert Art Museum, Champaign, Illinois<br> 1965âÂÂ1966: Purdue University, Indiana<br> 1972: Oakland Museum and Mills College, California<br> 1973: San Jose Museum of Modern Art, San Jose, California<br> 1976: Bell Chicago Gallery, Chicago, Illinois; Witte Memorial Museum, San Antonio, Texas; De Cordova Museum, Lincoln, Massachusetts; Illinois State Museum, Springfield, Illinois; The Mexican Museum, San Francisco, California; Boise Gallery of Art, Boise, Idaho<br> 1976: Mary Porter Sesnon Art Gallery, Santa Cruz, California<br> 1983: San Jose City College Art Gallery, San Jose, California, Art Faculty Exhibition<br> 2002: Triton Museum, Santa Clara, California
1962 James D. Phelan Award, San Francisco, California<br> 1962 Ford Foundation Purchase Award, New York<br> 1966 Louis Comfort Tiffany Foundation Grant, New York City