Born in Mexico City (1973) and based in the city of Queretaro, Guylaine Couttolenc has been an artistic and commercial photographer for 30 years. She studied photography at the Centro Cultural de Arte Contemporaneo, the Kodak School, the Universidad Iberoamericana in Mexico City and at the Speos School of Photography in Paris.

She worked at the photo library of the Academia of  San Carlos, at Lowe&Partners advertising Agency and at Time Expansion Inc as photographic editor for Quien Magazine. She was the founder and director of Banco Mexicano de Imágenes (BMI), one of the leading image bank in Mexico.

Guylaine has participated in numerous exhibitions including a solo exhibition and 20 group exhibitions in the United States, Mexico and Japan. In 2017, she was selected as invited artist  at the UPA Gallery in the United States.

She has won several international awards and distinctions: Arte Joven (FONCA), gold medal in the Photographic Salon of Japan, gold medal in the ND Awards and honorable mention in the Tokyo International Festival Awards.

Her stock photography is represented by Getty Images.

She has been teaching photography at the ITESM University in the city of Queretaro for 18 years, evaluated as the best teacher for several years.

She has studied the Master of Fine Arts in Photography program, Cum Laude,  at the Academy of Art University in San Francisco, USA.

Guylaine Couttolenc