Annie Martin (artist)

Annie Martin
Born	Pittsburgh, PA, USA
Education	Concordia University
Known for	sound artist, installation artist
Awards	Millennium Prize
Years active	1995–present
Website	http://people.uleth.ca/~annie.martin/

Annie Martin is a Canadian artist who works with installation, audio, video and textiles. Her work has been exhibited throughout Canada and internationally. Martin lives in Lethbridge, Alberta where she teaches at the University of Lethbridge. ^[1] She previously lived and worked in Montreal.

Works

Martin's creative practice includes installation, audio and video art, textiles, drawing and performative practice. Her work privileges the senses, experimentation, speculation and the body using ephemeral materials and audio with elements of drawing, writing, listening and walking. ^{[1] [2]}

She collaborated with Nikki Forrest and Nelson Henricks on a video collaboration titled "My Heart" in 2001. ^[3] Since 2004 she has conducted listening walks as a form of research and a contemplative performance practice. ^[1] In 2008, Martin completed a residency at OBORO, where she produced two new audio CD projects titled music for insomniacs and symphonie interne. ^[4] Her exhibition (im) permeable (2008) featured a group of ladies' trench coats hanging spaciously on opposing walls of the Gallery. Each coat was wired to a separate live audio feed coming from elsewhere in the mall. Listeners needed to physically lean into each coat to hear the sound. Art writer Amy Fung reported that "the perception experienced is different from physically absorbing a crowd in the moment; the experience is more of a reception, akin to eavesdropping into a wholly other place and time." ^[5]

In 2009, Martin's work was featured in "Into the Streets," a series presented by the Southern Alberta Art Gallery, which included a number of city-based installations and performances. Martin presented guided Listening Walks of urban sounds alongside eight other Canadian artists (Kerri Reid, Rita McKeough, Kelly Andres, Ingrid Bachmann, James Graham, Lyla Rye, Allison Hrabluik, and Doug Scholes). ^{[6] [7]}

Exhibitions

Selected exhibitions: ^[8]

• flotilla, CASA, (2015) ^{[9] [10]}
• Dessins temporels, Galerie du Nouvel-Ontario, Sudbury, ON, (2014) ^[11]
• Everything that rises and temporal drawings, Pith Gallery, (2013) ^{[12] [13]}
• (im) permeable, New Gallery, Eau Claire Market, Calgary, AB, (2008)
• Collecting Everyday, University of Lethbridge Art Gallery, co-curated with Lorne Beug and Jennifer Stillwell. (2007) ^[14]
• Nocturne: silent video, Southern Alberta Art Gallery, co-curated with Michael Campbell, (2006)
• Exhilaration and Dysphoria: 3 Canadian Video Artists in Berlin, Optica at ArtForum Berlin, (2003) ^[15]
• Geoffrey Hendricks: A Retrospective of Performance Photographs, Galerie Articule, Montreal, QC, (1997)
• Craft by Artists, Galerie Articule, Montreal, QC, (1995)
• Queer Art Video Series, Image et Nation Gay and Lesbian Film Festival, Montreal, QC, (1995)

Bibliography

• Black, Anthea "From the trenches", FFWD, Calgary, AB, 2008
• Fung, Amy "(im)permeable by Annie Martin", shotgunreview.ca, 2008
• Black, Anthea "What if we heard everything? Nothing?", FFWD, 2007
• "48 rooms, 48 hours", CD ROM catalogue, 2002
• "Multiplier: Points de vue sur l'art actuel des femmes", Galerie La Centrale, 1998
• "Whisper in my Ear" Exhibition publication + CD ROM catalogue, AKA Gallery, Saskatoon, SK. 1997
• "Doors", Exhibition publication, Eyelevel Gallery, Halifax, 1997
• "Résidu", catalogue accompanying Résider, (Galerie La Centrale), Montreal, 1995
• Lamontagne, Valérie, "Résider", C Magazine, (Fall 1995), Toronto ON, 1995
• Lamontagne, Valérie, "Brand New Visions", Hour Magazine, Montreal, QC, 1994
• Lamontagne, Valérie, "Annie Martin and Freda Guttman", Parachute 76

References

1. "Martin, Annie - Faculty". University of Lethbridge . Archived from the original on 11 December 2025. Retrieved 18 December 2015.
2. "Annie Martin - Temporal Drawings- artist statement– Annie Martin". senselikeblueplace. 2014. Archived from the original on 3 December 2016. Retrieved 11 December 2025.
3. "Film: My Heart the Rock Star". Media Queer. 9 May 2015. Archived from the original on 12 August 2025. Retrieved 16 December 2015.
4. "Annie Martin: music for insomniacs et symphonie interne". OBORO. 2008. Archived from the original on 6 January 2025. Retrieved 18 December 2015.
5. Fung, Amy (20 May 2008). "(im) permeable by Annie Martin, May 17 - June 21, 2008 at The New Gallery". University of Lethbridge . Archived from the original on 1 September 2018. Retrieved 5 December 2015.
6. "Into the Streets: Avenues for Art". Canadian Art . 25 June 2009. Archived from the original on 22 December 2015. Retrieved 18 December 2015.
7. "Into The Streets: Avenues for Art". Southern Alberta Art Gallery. Archived from the original on 2015-12-22. Retrieved 2015-12-18.
8. "Annie Martin - CV". University of Lethbridge . Archived from the original on 25 May 2025. Retrieved 5 December 2015.
9. Amery, Richard (18 September 2015). "Annie Martin turns a house into a home with found objects in new exhibit". The Lethbridge Alberta Beat. Archived from the original on 4 March 2016. Retrieved 18 December 2015.
10. "ART NOW - Annie Martin Speaks October 14th, 2015 at Noon in the Recital Hall". University of Lethbridge . 14 October 2015. Archived from the original on 22 December 2015. Retrieved 18 December 2015.
11. "Dessins temporels". Galerie du Nouvel-Ontario . Place des Arts. 2014. Archived from the original on 4 March 2016. Retrieved 18 December 2015.
12. Averns, Dick (2013). "Annie Martin at Pith". Akimbo. Archived from the original on 22 December 2015. Retrieved 18 December 2015.
13. "Opening Reception for 'everything that rises and temporal drawings' by Annie Martin". Galleries West. 6 May 2013. Archived from the original on 20 September 2024. Retrieved 18 December 2015.
14. "Found | January 26 – March 2, 2007 Main Gallery | Centre for the Arts". University of Lethbridge Art Gallery . 26 January 2007. Archived from the original on 23 December 2015. Retrieved 18 December 2015.
15. "Karma Clarke Davis, Benny Nemerofsky Ramsay, Barbara Prokop". OPTICA. 2003. Archived from the original on 15 June 2021. Retrieved 18 December 2015. Curator: Annie Martin