Gutiérrez Carreola was born in the state of Oaxaca in a poor family.
[1] He was working in the lithography department of the Clemente Jacques food company, and in 1929 went to Mexico City to study art at the Central School of Plastic Arts (Old Academy of San Carlos).
He studied there under Isidoro Ocampo, Germán Gedovius, and Francisco Díaz de León.
[1][2] Simultaneously, he got a job at the library of the Academy of Fine Arts which was poorly paid.
[3] In 2005, 60 years after the death of the artist, a big retrospective exhibition was shown at Museo Nacional de Arte.