Nelson Gutierrez is a Colombian born Artist; he holds a Masters degree in Fine Arts from Chelsea College of Art and Design in London, UK and a BA in Fine Arts from Universidad de Bogota Jorge Tadeo Lozano. Since the early 1990s, Nelson Gutierrez’s has focused on creating two and three-dimensional artworks, conceptual objects and installations, based on current sociopolitical issues. Through art he looks to better understand societal conflict and its implications psychologically and socially.

His art addresses issues of longing, fear, grief and vanity. He juxtaposes materials such as charcoal, ink, wood, metal, blood, wax, water, glass, light and photographs that together also have symbolic relevance to the issue he is exploring. He uses a variety of different mediums to express these feelings and tell a story that is universally understood to us all but experienced more intensely by a select few.

He has exhibited his artwork in different venues in USA, Colombia, Switzerland and UK. His work is part of different public and private collections including the Washington, DC’s Art Bank Collection. This work has also been chosen by Tricia Van Eck, Associate Curator at the Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago for the Saatchi Online project 100 curators 100 days.