Sally Gutierrez Dewar

Sally Gutiérrez Dewar is a Spanish visual artist, researcher, and educator working at the intersection of contemporary art, visual essay, and documentary cinema. She earned her Fine Arts degree from Universidad Complutense de Madrid, and later developed her practice in Berlin’s independent art scene after the fall of the Wall. In 1998 she moved to New York on a Fulbright scholarship to complete a Master in Media Studies at The New School University, where she also participated in the Whitney Museum Independent Study Program and received a residency from the Lower Manhattan Cultural Council. Gutiérrez Dewar’s hybrid practice integrates visual art, essayistic approaches, and non-fiction filmmaking to explore themes of memory, language, coloniality, and social identity. Her work has been exhibited internationally in prominent institutions such as Matadero Madrid, Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía, MACBA (Barcelona), Jeu de Paume (Paris), Kunstwerke and Akademie der Künste (Berlin), and Whitebox Gallery and PS1 in New York. As a filmmaker, she has co-directed impactful documentaries. Tapologo (2008), co-directed with her sister Gabriela Gutiérrez Dewar, was screened at over 60 festivals worldwide and won multiple international awards. Her feature Ta acorda ba tu el Filipinas? (2017), which examines linguistic memory and post-colonial narratives in the Philippines, premiered in Manila and was featured at the SEMINCI Film Festival. She teaches at Universidad Europea de Madrid, is a member of the artistic collective Declinación Magnética, and belongs to the documentary cinema association DOCMA, actively participating in global interdisciplinary art and research projects that bridge contemporary art and cinema.