k.g. Guttman (she/they) is an artist and educator, a solo mother, and currently a 2023-25 Artist-in-Residence in the Intermedia area of Studio Arts (video, performance and electronic arts) at Concordia University, Montreal. They work and live on unceded Indigenous lands, traditionally stewarded by the Kanien’kehá:ka Nation.

k.g. is a graduate of Leiden University's PhDArts program, the Netherlands, receiving financial support from SSHRC for her work on site-situated performance. Her research examines hospitality as a political, somatic and poetic force in performance with analysis of white settler colonial impacts on embodiment and subjectivity.

From the social location as a white person of Jewish and Irish descent in the ongoing settler colonial context of Canada, she reflects on the complexities of the local, encompassing collaboration, visiting, and sacred hospitality. Her current work maps family history, bodily memory and site-situated performance research to produce encounter.

k.g. Guttman was Assistant Professor in the Contemporary Dance Department at Concordia University from 2008-2013. She currently works as a dramaturge in the community of experimental dance in Montreal, and is an ongoing learner of somatic practice for both her art practice and her pedagogy.

Exhibitions and performances held at TPW Gallery and Blackwood Gallery in Toronto, VIVA! Art action, Dazibao Centre Art, Verticale, and LaCentrale, Tiohtiá:ke/ Montreal, Musée d’Art de Joliette, Klupko, Amsterdam, Galerie Khiasma and Palais de Tokyo, Paris. Their 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, Buda Kustencentrum, Kortijk and Pointe Ephémère, Paris.

k.g Guttman (elle/iel) est une artiste de descendance colonisatrice, d'origine juive et irlandaise, diplomée du programme PhDArts de l'Université de Leiden et Royal Academy of Art à La Haye, aux Pays-Bas. Son travail, financé par le Conseil de recherche en sciences humaines (CRSH), considère le discours sur la territorialité, la pratique chorégraphique et les interventions in-situ.

De 2008-2013, k.g. occupait le poste de professeure adjointe au Département de danse contemporaine, Université Concordia. Son travail a été réalisé et présenté à l'échelle nationale et internationale grâce à des institutions telles que le Palais de Tokyo et à la Galerie Khiasma, Paris, Galerie d'art d'Ottawa, Galerie La Centrale et VIVA! Art action, Tiohtiá:ke/ Montréal, le Musée d’Art de Joliette, TPW Gallery, et Blackwood Gallery, Toronto. Ses œuvres chorégraphiques ont été commandées par le Festival Danse Canada et Dancemakers. k.g. reconnait qu'elle est située en territoire non cédé de Kanien’kehá:ka.