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k.g. Guttman (she/they) is an interdisciplinary artist, performer and teacher, a solo mother, and currently a 2023-24 Artist-in-Residence in the Intermedia area of Studio Arts (video, performance and electronic arts) at Concordia University, Montreal.

k.g. is a graduate of Leiden University's PhDArts program, the Netherlands, receiving funding from the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council for their work on situated performance in the settler colonial context of Canada.

From the social location of a white settler of Jewish and Irish descent, she works on the complexities of the local, encompassing collaboration, visiting, and radical hospitality. Current research into bodily memory and somatic practices in pedagogy and practice have been informed by circumstances in childhood/ young adulthood of generalized anxiety/ depression and an environment that disavowed emotions.

k.g.’s recent exhibitions, performances and publications were held at TPW Gallery and Blackwood Gallery in Toronto, Verticale, VIVA! Art action, Dazibao Centre Art, and LaCentrale in Tiohtiá:ke/ Mooniyang/ Montréal, Musée d’Art de Joliette, Klupko, Amsterdam, Galerie Khiasma and Palais de Tokyo, Paris. Choreographic residencies and commissions include l’Agora de la Danse and Tangente, Montreal, the Canada Dance Festival, Dancemakers, Toronto, LeGroupe Dance Lab, Ottawa, the University of Sonora, Mexico, BudaKustencentrum, Kortijk and Pointe Ephémère, Paris.