Mario Martinez (painter) explained

Mario Martinez
Birth Place:Phoenix, Arizona, US
Citizenship:Pascua Yaqui Tribe of Arizona and United States
Field:Painting
Training:MFA, San Francisco Art Institute
BA, Arizona State University

Mario Martinez (born 1953) is a Native American contemporary abstract painter. He is a member of the Pascua Yaqui Tribe from New Penjamo (in Scottsdale), the smallest of six Yaqui settlements, in Arizona. He lives in New York City.

Education

Martinez received his bachelor's degree from School of Art, Arizona State University in Tempe and his MFA from the San Francisco Art Institute.

Art career

His work has been exhibited in 2005 in a one-person retrospective at the Smithsonian's National Museum of the American Indian in New York. Notable group exhibitions include: "Who Stole the Tee Pee?" at the National Museum of the American Indian, New York; "AlieNation" at the American Indian Community House Gallery. His work was recently shown at "IN/SIGHT 2010" at Chelsea Art Museum, New York and "The Importance of IN/VISIBILITY" at Abrazo Interno Gallery, New York, 2009. In 2002 Martinez was one of the first non-Japanese artists to be invited to exhibit at the Contemporary Artists Federation Group Show at the Museum of Modern Art, Saitama, Japan.

In 2000, Martinez was a visiting professor of art at the University of Arizona in Tucson, and in 2001 he received the Native Artist in Residence Fellowship from the National Museum of the American Indian. In 2005, Martinez completed a commission for the Heard Museum in Phoenix, Arizona; a 22-foot mural called Sonoran Desert: Yaqui Home as part of "Home: Desert Peoples in the Southwest" exhibition. Martinez had a solo exhibition at Mesa Contemporary Arts in Mesa, Arizona, in 2010.

Selected exhibitions

Collections

Grants, Awards and Special Projects

Bibliography

External links

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Stretching the Canvas: Eight Decades of Native Painting . National Museum of the American Indian . 7 March 2021.
  2. http://amerinda.org/art/event.htm The Importance of IN/VISIBILITY recent work by Native American artists living in New York City
  3. http://www.kentlergallery.org/pages/history.html Native Voices: Contemporary Indigenous Art/Works on Paper, Kentler International Drawing Space
  4. http://www.momas.jp/022eng/e_index.htm Museum of Modern Art, Saitama
  5. https://web.archive.org/web/20110516142216/http://www.highbeam.com/doc/1P1-2367581.html American Indian Contemporary Arts Presents Yaqui Myths and Legends
  6. http://lcweb2.loc.gov/cocoon/legacies/AZ/200002734.html Yaqui Mural Project
  7. Web site: Past Residents Captiva Robert Rauschenberg Foundation. 2021-11-11. www.rauschenbergfoundation.org.
  8. Web site: 2014-12-09. EITELJORG ANNOUNCES 2015 CONTEMPORARY ART FELLOWS. 2021-11-11. Eiteljorg. en-US.