Untitled
2022
Gabriel Martinez
Houston, Texas
Artworks shown are selected from works submitted by the artist in their grant or residency application. All works are copyright of the artist or artist’s estate.
About Gabriel Martinez
Gabriel Martinez was born near an atomic blast crater in the New Mexico desert. He graduated with an MFA from Columbia University and attended the Whitney Independent Study Program before moving to Houston as a Museum of Fine Arts Core Fellow and artist-in-residence at Project Row Houses. He is the director of Alabama Song, an experimental art space in Houston founded in 2012, for which he was awarded a Robert Rauschenberg SEED Grant. Martinez was a 2022 Robert and Stephanie Olmsted Fellow at MacDowell and was awarded the Joan Mitchell Foundation Painters & Sculptors Grant. His work has been exhibited at the Blaffer Art Museum, Artpace, the Houston Museum of African American Culture, and Rice University Media Center. He has performed at the Menil Collection, the Chinati Foundation, the Moody Center for the Arts, the Contemporary Arts Museum Houston, the Museum of Fine Arts Houston, The Orange Show, and MECA.
Program Participation
Painters & Sculptors Grant, 2019
Joan Mitchell Center Residency, 2025
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My art explores relationships produced by the built environment and the body's experience of history. The city is the site and material of my art, particularly those elements relegated to the margins visually, psychologically, and historically. Through the use of found materials and the history of specific contexts, the artwork explores the conditions of environmental injustice that disproportionately affect working-class Black and Brown bodies.”
