Alexis Guitierrez Gelabert is a painter, sculptor, and designer as well as a ceramist and cartoonist. She studied at the Element School of Plastic Arts and later at the San Alejandro School of Painting. She graduated from the Polytechnic Institute for Industrial Design in 1987 with an emphasis on informational design. She has shown her work in numerous personal and collective exhibitions, and she has collaborated as an illustrator in widespread Cuban newspapers and magazines.