GUTTMAN, k.g.

Launches January 28, 2026

k.g. Guttman (she/they) is an interdisciplinary artist and an educator, a solo mama, a shape-shifty dancer, a lover/maker of experimental performance, and a graduate of Leiden University’s PhD program in artistic research methodologies. k.g. is a white settler of Jewish and Irish descent, based in Tiohtiá:ke/ Mooniyang/ Montréal. She learned French as an adult and her young bilingual child corrects her constantly and keeps her humble. Their recent projects focus on site-specific performance, attending to personal and local memory, as well as broader settler colonial forces at work. Their process involves dance/ movement practices, defined as an inquiry into aliveness, of imagining ways of knowing and remembering. As an educator, k.g. has taught in the Department of Contemporary Dance, Concordia University, was a guest professor at the Royal Academy of Art in the Hague, and a guest at Toronto’s dance collective the Love-in, 2013-2015. They were the 2023-25 Artist-in Residence faculty at Concordia University in the Intermedia area of Studio Arts, and taught courses in video, performance art, and installation practices. In the context of Concordia University, an institution which is situated on the land stewarded by the Kanienkehá:ka nation, k.g. has had the opportunity to engage in continuous learning of decolonial pedagogy with educator Donna Kahérakwas Goodleaf. Past exhibitions and performances include work at Verticale Centre d’artistes, VIVA! Art Action Performance Biennale, Dazibao Centre Art, and LaCentrale in Tiohtiá:ke/ Mooniyang/ Montréal, Musée d’Art de Joliette, TPW Gallery, Blackwood Gallery, and Dancemakers, Toronto.