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.
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.[3] 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.
IN/SIGHT 2010 A group show of contemporary art by American Indian Artists, Chelsea Art Museum, New York, NY, 2010.
The Importance of IN/VISIBILITY Recent work by Native American Artists living in New York City, Abrazo Interno Gallery, New York, NY, 2009.[5]
Native Voices: Contemporary Indigenous Art, Three Brooklyn Exhibitions, Kentler International Drawing Center, FiveMyles Gallery, Long Island University Salena and Humanities Gallery, New York, 2008.[6]
Mario Martinez and Steven Yazzie, Berlin Gallery, Heard Museum, Phoenix, AZ, 2007.
Native New Yorkers, NESUD Gallery, Suffolk University, Boston, MA, 2007.
Scottsdale/Penjamo Yaqui Mural Project, Scottsdale, AZ, 1999.[9]
Native Arts Research Fellowship, National Museum of the American Indian, NY, NY, awarded by ATLATL and the National Museum of the American Indian, 1998.
Robert Rauschenberg Foundation Residency, Captiva, Florida, 2015.[10]
Invited Artist, Eiteljorg Contemporary Art Fellowship, Eiteljorg Museum, Indianapolis, IN, 2015.[11]
Bibliography
New Tribe: New York/The Urban Vision Quest.Gerald McMaster, ed. Washington DC: NMAI Editions, 2005.
The American West: People, Places and Ideas. Suzan Campbell and Kathleen Ash-Milby, Rockwell Museum of Western Art, Western Edge Press, Santa Fe, NM, 2001.
Painting as a Language. J. Robertson and C. McDaniel, Harcourt College Publishers, 2000.
"Abstract Visions," featured article. Southwest Art, April, 2000.
Contemporary Native Art Calendar, 1998, Garfinkel Publications, Vancouver, BC, Canada.
Native American Painting in the 20th Century, E. Wade, Norman: University of Oklahoma Press.
The Telling of the Word. W.S. Penn, ed., Stewart; Tabori and Chang, New York, NY, 1996.
Native American Art. David W. Penney and George C. Longfish, Hugh Lauter Levin Associates, 1994.
I Stand in the Center of the Good: Interviews with Contemporary Native American Artists. Univ. of Nebraska Press, Lawrence Abbot, ed., 1994.
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