Daniel Joseph Martinez
Daniel Joseph Martinez (born 1957) is a Los Angeles–based visual artist and educator whose work explores individual and collective identity, as well as the tension between political activism and personal culpability, through a wide range of media that encompasses text, photography, painting, sculpture, video, performance, and even motorized animatronic self-portraits.
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Daniel Joseph Martinez
- Born
- 1957 · Los Angeles.
- Nationality
- United States
- Occupation
- painter · printmaker · sculptor · photographer · artist
- Education
- California Institute of the Arts
- Known for
- We Seemed To Be Waiting For
- Honours
- Berlin Prize · Guggenheim Fellowship
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Daniel Joseph Martinez (born 1957) is a Los Angeles–based visual artist and educator whose work explores individual and collective identity, as well as the tension between political activism and personal culpability, through a wide range of media that encompasses text, photography, painting, sculpture, video, performance, and even motorized animatronic self-portraits.
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Daniel Joseph Martinez (born 1957) is an American artist, painter and photographer, among other activities. The artist was born in Los Angeles.
Daniel Joseph Martinez studied at California Institute of the Arts. The artist worked for University of California, Irvine.
Works include We Seemed To Be Waiting For. Works by Daniel Joseph Martinez are held at Hessel Museum of Art, Los Angeles County Museum of Art and Museum of Modern Art, among others. The artist received Berlin Prize and Guggenheim Fellowship.
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Daniel Joseph Martinez studied at California Institute of the Arts. Employment is recorded with University of California, Irvine. Works named in the authority record are We Seemed To Be Waiting For. Work by Daniel Joseph Martinez is recorded in the collections of Museum of Modern Art, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Smithsonian American Art Museum, Hessel Museum of Art and Print Collection. Distinctions recorded are Berlin Prize and Guggenheim Fellowship.
Martinez grew up in Lennox, California, a working-class area of Los Angeles County near Los Angeles International Airport. After high school, he attended the California Institute of the Arts, where he received his BFA in 1979. During the 1980s, he worked as a freelance photographer, and spent time working with Harry Gamboa Jr. and ASCO.
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1957
Daniel Joseph Martinez born at Los Angeles.
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Collections
Martinez' work can be found in public collections in the United States and abroad including the Whitney Museum of American Art in New York; Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA); the Orange County Museum of Art, Newport Beach, California; Cisneros Fontanals Art Foundation, Miami, Florida; Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Texas; and the Pace Foundation, San Antonio, Texas.
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Honors
Daniel Joseph Martinez has received two National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) Individual Artist Fellowships (1990–91, 1995–96) and an NEA Project Support Grant (1990); a Getty Center Foundation Individual Artist Fellowship (1997–98); a Pollock-Krasner Foundation Individual Artist Fellowship (2001–02); a California Arts Council Individual Artist Fellowship (2003–04); an ArtPace Foundation Fellowship (2005); a Peter Norton Family Foundation Project Support Grant (1991) and five Norton Foundation Artist Fellowships (1997–2001); the First Prize Grant Award of the Tijuana Biennial (2000); and a Flintridge Foundation Individual Artist Fellowship (2000–01). In 2007 Martinez was awarded the United States Artists Fellowship, and in 2008–09, he received the Rasmuson Foundation Alaska Artist in Residence Award in 2009, the Fellows of Contemporary Art Fellowship in 2009; and the 2010 FOCA Fellowship Artist Grant and exhibition. In 2014 Martinez was awarded the Alpert Award in the Arts from the Herb Alpert Foundation in collaboration with the California Institute of the Arts. In 2016, Martinez participated in the American Academy in Berlin Fellowship, Berlin, Germany.
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- 1.Daniel Joseph Martinez. whitney.org.
- 2.Daniel Joseph Martinez - Hammer Museum. The Hammer Museum.
- 3.Benavidez, Max. Listening to the Militant Muse : The streets are Daniel Martinez's gallery. He loves to make waves about problems that are making waves for other people. Los Angeles Times. 6 February 1994.
- 4.The Brooklyn Rail. In Conversation: Daniel Joseph Martinez with Phong Bui. March 2008.
- 5.OC Weekly. Karen Finley, Glenn Kaino, Daniel Joseph Martinez, Martin Kersels at OCMA's 'Disorderly Conduct'. 14 February 2008.
- 6.Pasadena City College. Archive Exhibit: Daniel J. Martinez, "Through the wormhole.".
- 7.International Gallery of Contemporary Art. Alaska AIR.
- 8.Daniel Joseph Martinez | the Herb Alpert Award in the Arts. 12 March 2014.
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