(b. Mexico City, Mexico, 1959).
Gruner obtained a Masters Degree from the Massachusetts College of Art in Boston, Massachusetts, and a BA in art at the Betzalel Academy of Art and Design in Jerusalem, Israel. She currently lives and works in Mexico City. From the beginning of her career, Gruner has worked in diverse media such as film, video, photography, painting, sculpture, performance and installation. Often using her own body, Gruner has explored multiple readings of the female body as it has been traditionally used to define spiritual, sexual, and national identity. Her work has involved the symbolic recreation and cultural reinterpretation of every day domestic and work objects, transforming the quotidian into fetishistic objects of cult or magic. Gruner's work establishes intimate and personal relationships with art and tradition by recontextualizing them within contemporary artistic problems, social and historical contexts, and public spaces. Her recent works examine the
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