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Luis (Gonzalez) Guiterrez (Born in 1933, Pittsburgh, California) (also known as Louis Gutierrez) is a Mexican-American artist working in the United States today. Guitierrez has lived and worked in both the U.S. and Mexico throughout his career. Gutierrez two main mediums are painting and assemblages, which he has explored and created over a span of forty years. During the 1960's and 1970's, Gutierrez garnered national recognition through the inclusion of his work in two prominent national survey show. Gutierrez earned his Bachelors of Fine Arts at San JoseState University in 1957 and his Masters of Fine Arts from the Instituto Allende at San Miguelde Allende Mexico in 1958. He taught at San Jose City College from 1969 until his retirement in 1955.

Early Life
Luis was born at the pinnacle of the Depression. Son of Mexican parents Albino Gutierrez and mother Domitila Gutierrez. Albino Gutierrez worked as a barber and died when Luis was five, leaving behind Luis, and two children aged three and one in the vicinity of San Jose, California. Luis' mother, Domitila Gutierrez, kept the family going with what work she could muster, supplemented by welfare for assistance. After high school, Luis took interest in the junior college that opened its doors in the San Jose Area. Luis attended college and earned an Associate Art Credential. He began a lifelong love of learning and art practice which continues today.

Education
In 1954-1957 Gutierrez received his BFA at San Jose University in San Jose, California and his MFA at the Instituto Allende San Miguel de Allende in Mexico from 1957-1958.

Art
While Gutierrez embraces his cultural heritage, his work does not reflect Chicano theme. Instead his work is informed by three life forces "Passion, Evolution, Liberation." Building on international avant-garde styles, Gutierrez creates pieces that reflect the cultural sentimentalities of the time. In his PTSD series, Gutierrez painted portraits of veterans with Post Traumatic Stress Disorder as a response to the war in Iraq. He works in a variety of Media media including drawing, painting, collage and assemblages. His energetic and intense assemblages incorporate objects from a lifetime of collecting reflecting his American life.

Selected Solo & Two- Person Exhibitions
Togonon Gallery, San Francisco, California 2011 Axis Gallery, San Jose, California 2010 Triton Gallery, Santa Clara, California, 2007 Tercera Museum, Los Gatos, California 2000 Lucy Berman Gallery, Palo Alto, California 1994 Mexican Art Museum San Francisco, California 1979 Chico State University Art Gallery, California 1974 Sonoma State University Art Gallery, Rohnert Park, California 1973 de Young Memorial Museum San Francisco, California 1971 Pacific Grove Art Center, Pacific Grove, California 1971 Pavilion Gallery, Los Gatos, California 1970 San Jose City College, San Jose, California 1969 Dominican College, San Raphael, California 1967 Valley Art Gallery, Walnut Creek, California 1967 Arleigh Gallery, San Francisco, California 1966,1967 San Francisco Art Center, California 1962,1964 San Jose State College, San Jose, California 1961 St. Mary's College, Moraga, California 1960 Lucian Labaudt Gallery, San francisco, California 1959 Instituto Allende, San Miguel de Allende, Mexico 1958

Selected Group Exhibitions
Triton Museum, Santa Clara, California 2002 San Jose City College Art Faculty Exhibition, 1983 Six Bay Are Chicano Artists, U.C. Santa Cruz, California 1976

Touring Show-17 Artists: Hispano  Mexicano-American Chicano, The Lobby Gallery, Illinois Bell Chicago, IL. 1976 White Memorial Museum, San Antoni, Texas 1976 De Cordova Museum, Lincoln, MA 1976 Illinois State Museum, Springfield, IL 1976 The Mexican Museum, San Francisco, CA 1976 Boise Gallery of Art, Boise, Idaho 1976

Three Chicano Artists Exhibition San Jose Museum of Art, San Jose, California 1973 Chicano Group Exhibition, Oakland Museum Chicano Group Exhibition, Mills College 1972 San Francisco Museum of Art (now SFMOMA), San Francisco, California 1970 SF Museum Rental Gallery 1967,1968 Small Painting Show, Purdue University, Indiana 1965, 1966 12th Contemporary American Painting & Sculpture, University of Illinois Krannert Art Museum, Champaign, Illinois 1965 Second Biannial Drawing USA, Minnesota 1964 Palace of Legion of Honor, San Francisco, California 1963 Phalen Awards Exhibition, San Francisco, California, 1963 Bay Area Art Exhibition, San Francisco, California 1963 California Richmond Center, Richmond, California 1963 Oakland Art Museum, Oakland, California, 1960,1961 San Francisco Art Festival, California 1960-1967 Walnut Creek Art Festival, California 1958-1966 California State Fair, Sacramento, California 1960-1966 San Francisco Museum of Art (now SFMOMA) 1960-1964

Awards
Louis Comfort Tiffany Foundation Grant, New York 1966 Walnut Creek Civic Art Annual, Purchase Award 1963 Ford Foundation Purchase Award 1963 James D. Phelan Award, San Francisco, California 1962 San Francisco Art Festival Purchase Award 1962

Selected Bibliography
Contemporary American Painting and Sculpture, 1965, Exhibition catalog, University of Illinois, Krannert Art Museum Champaign, Illinois.

Quirarte, Jacinto, PhD. The Humble Way: The Art of Mexican-America, Humble Oil Company 1970, Vol.IX No.2. The University of Texas Press, Austin, Texas.

Quirarte, Jacinto, PhD. Mexican American Artists, 1973. The University of Texas Press, Austin, Texas.

"Gutierrez at de Young", Alfred Frankenstein, San Chronicle 1971