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Indira Urrutia is a Chilean-born artist who immigrated to New Haven, Connecticut in 1986 with her entire family. She graduated in 1994, obtaining a Bachelor of Science degree in Studio Art in Photography from Southern Connecticut State University. Since then she has followed her passion for photography with explorations into other formats such as mixed media, installation art, and experimental video. Her passion for teaching allows her to transmit the importance of free artistic expression in a safe environment and guide the students in experimenting with their own creativity.

In 2012, Indira came back to the Bay Area after a four-year bicycle journey that brought across thirteen countries of the American continent, from San Francisco to Chilean Patagonia. She is co- founder of the project 2Greenprints.org, an itinerant photographic project which moves on bicycles across the American Continent (From Alaska to the Chilean Antarctic) in search of natural, social and cultural values that characterize the countries of the American Continent.

Upon her return to San Francisco, she got involved at the Red Poppy Art House as a Leadership Member for one year and continued for another year as full-time Creative Director in June of 2013. Indira also teaches in the public program at The de Young Museum. She is co-founder of Mi Cultura Art Project, an inquiry based educational initiative that provides programming and workshops about the diverse cultures around the world.