Palmira Miro Gutierrez

Palmira Miro Gutierrez (he/they) is an artist from Detroit, MI and Xalisco, MX who works in the mediums of tin-type and cyanotype photography. Mentors Marcia Freedman, Michelle Andonian, Martin (Marty) Quiroz at Casa de Unidad, and Grace Lee Boggs during Detroit Summer shaped Gutierrez’s foregrounding of people who were historically excluded from traditional early portraiture. His portraits affirm that queer, trans, and people of color’s bodies have always existed and should be acknowledged in the broader narrative of art history. Gutierrez’s photographs also feature Sonoran desert flora and symbolic objects such as local produce, wooden chairs, veils, hats, and floggers. A member of the Western Photographic Historical Society, Gutierrez’s work has been shown at Galeria Mitotera, Snakebite Creation Space, Communion on Convent, and Museo de Arte de Nogales. He is the recipient of a 2024 Night Bloom Grant from the Museum of Contemporary Art Tucson and a 2025 ARPA Artists Grant from the Arts Foundation of Tucson and Southern Arizona for his facilitation of Deep Rooted Guidance, a collaborative tin-type education program for QTPOC, Tuxon-based photographers.