Nelson Gutierrez (b. 1968, Bogota, Colombia) holds a BA degree in Fine Art from the Universidad de Bogota Jorge Tadeo Lozano in Bogota, Colombia and a MA degree in Fine Arts from Chelsea College of Art and Design in London, UK. He worked as a professor in the Fine Arts Departments at the Universidad de los Andes and the Universidad de Bogota Jorge Tadeo Lozano, in Bogota, Colombia. In 2002, he moved to the USA where he has kept developing and showing his artwork  in addition to working as a Teaching Artist for different organizations such as Arts for Learning in Miami, FL, and Children’s Studio School in Washington, DC. During this time, he also attended the Corcoran College of Art where he did coursework in the MFA program. His work has been exhibited around the US and also internationally in Colombia, the UK, and Switzerland, and it is part of private and public collections. 

He lives and works in Memphis, TN where he has served as an Exhibition Committee Member for the Brooks Museum of Arts, an Artist Advisory Council Member at ArtsMemphis, and an Official  Advisor for Locate Arts in Nashville, TN. He is the Founder of Future Project Art, formerly 2021 Projects, a Contemporary Art collective,  dedicated to increasing the awareness for, appreciation of, and involvement in, the visual arts in  the Mid-South.