Born in Albuquerque, New Mexico, 1961. Moved to New York 1981. Living in Santa Fe since 2010.
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2016
Paintings, 2015-2016, El Zaguan Gallery, Santa Fe, NM
(Theme) Once Upon a Time, Center for Contemporary Arts, Santa Fe, NM
2015
Pretty Maids All in a Row, El Zaguan Gallery, Santa Fe, NM
2014
There’s a Ship Sailing Soon, El Zaguan Gallery, Santa Fe, NM
2013
Hard Rain’s A Gonna Fall, El Zaguan Gallery, Santa Fe, NM
2011
I Never Promised You A Rose Garden, El Zaguan Gallery, Santa Fe, NM
2010
Buffalo Girls, CSID idea detectives Sàrl, Combremont-le-Petit, Switzerland
2009
The Pursuit of Happiness (Is a Warm Gun), Christopher Henry Gallery,
New York, NY
Of Thee I See, Sangre de Cristo Arts Center, Pueblo, CO
2008
Don’t Fence Me In, Salina Art Center, Salina, KS
2007
Of Thee I See, The Tweed Museum of Art, Duluth, MN
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2016
LGBTQ Survival Guide, The Center, New York, NY
2015
El Retrato Nuevomexicon Ahora! New Mexican Portraiture Now! National Hispanic Cultural Center Art Museum, Albuquerque, NM
Benjamin J. Dineen III and Dennis C Hull Gallery, Hudson County Community College, Jersey City, NJ
Group Show, Gallery 520, Santa Fe, NM
2013
Six Years In: The Warehouse, Salina Art Center, Salina, KS
2011
The Living Room, El Zaguan, Santa Fe, NM
2010
London Biennial, Christopher Henry Gallery, New York, NY
London Underground, Broadway Gallery, New York, NY
2009
Anthropology: Revisited, Reinvented, Reinterpreted, Central Booking Gallery,
Brooklyn, NY
Collected, McColl Center for Visual Art and Innovation, Charlotte, NC
Painting the Americas-North and South of The Border, El Taller Latino Americano Grady Alexis Gallery, New York, NY
2008
Group Show, Christopher Henry Gallery, New York, NY
2007
Maravilla, Gala and Auction, National Hispanic Cultural Center, Albuquerque, NM
2006
American Diaspora, Victory Hall, Jersey City, NJ
2005
Fall Artists in Residence Exhibition, McColl Center for Visual Art and Innovation, Artist Talk, Mint Museum, Charlotte, NC
The Expression of Elemental Passions… Plus Ultra Gallery, New York, NY
Project Diversity, Curator: Danny Simmons, Tabla Rasa Gallery, Brooklyn, NY, Panelist Brooklyn Museum, “Diversity in the Art World”
2004
International Underground, The Whitney Young Cultural Center, San Francisco, CA
Only Human, Van Brunt Gallery, New York, NY
Irrational Exuberance, Stefan Stux Gallery, New York, NY, Curator David Hunt
2003
First Annual Latina/Latino Art Auction & Symposium, Hispanic Research Center, Arizona
State University, Tempe, AZ
2002
Artist to Artist, A Decade of the Space Program, The Marie Walsh Sharpe Art Foundation,
Ace Gallery, New York, NY, Catalog, Review, Roberta Smith, New York Times
Proper Villains, Space Untitled Gallery, New Haven, CT. Curator: David Hunt
Transversing Cultures: Observations in Time and Space, Tibetan Cultural Collaboration,
Henry Street Settlement, Abrons Art Center, New York, NY
2001
Kidsart, Clifford Smith Gallery, Boston, MA
Inside/Out, Open Studios, Atlantic Center for the Arts, New Smyrna, FL
Skowhegan Alumni Exhibition/Auction, Knoedler Gallery, New York, NY
The Art of the Collage, Wild Banana Gallery, Maui, HI
2000
One Community, Many Expressions, The Joe and Emily Lowe Art Gallery at The Hudson
Guild, New York, NY
Good Business is the Best Art, Twenty Years of the Artist in the Marketplace Program, The
Bronx Museum, Bronx, NY review, Holland Cotter, New York Times
Fast/Fat/Fun, Hit and Run 3, Curator Edward Winkleman, New York, NY
1999
Art and Passion, Richard Anderson Gallery, New York, NY
Domain Public 21, Methamodi Cockpit, Montpellier, France
Me and Thee, Leslie Lohman Gallery, New York, NY
Works on Paper, Hudson D. Walker Gallery, Provincetown, MA
1998
Skowhegan Benefit, Auction, David Bietzel Gallery, New York, NY
Citi-Art, Ethan Cohen Fine Art, New York, NY
1997
Home Is Where the Heart Is, Our Family Values, White Columns, New York, NY
Sentimentality/Brutality, Twin Sides of the Same Coin, The Joe and Emily Lowe Gallery at
The Hudson Guild, New York, NY
Through the Eyes of a Child, Elga Wimmer Gallery, New York, NY
Import/Transplant/Myth/Reality, Henry Street Settlement Abrons Art Center, New York, NY Guest Curator Paul Ha
Artist in Residence Open Studio, Henry Street Settlement Abrons Art Center, New York, NY
1996
Artist in the Marketplace Benefit, Auction, The Bronx Museum of the Arts, Bronx, NY
Latin American Art in the 90’s, St. John’s University, Jamaica, NY
Me, Myself and I/ a Self-Examination< La Mama La Galleria, New York, NY
Art Without Borders, Pumphouse Gallery, Hartford, CT
Community/Family, Borough of Manhattan Community College Chambers Street Gallery, New York, NY
Unity in Community, Manhattan Borough President, Ruth Messinger, President’s Gallery, New York, NY
1995
Artist in the Marketplace Exhibition, The Bronx Museum of the Arts, catalog, Marysol Nieves, Bronx
NY Review, Holland Cotter, New York Times
Visions, The Teahouse Gallery, New York Open Center, New York, NY
Opening Exhibition, VQSV Multi Media Art Gallery, Pasadena, CA
Max-Carlos Martinez
FELLOWSHIPS, AWARDS, RESIDENCIES
2013
Salina Art Center, Visiting Artist Fellowship, Salina, KS
2010
El Zaguan, Residency, Santa Fe, NM
2009
Artists’ Fellowship Inc., Grant, New York, NY
2008
Salina Art Center, Residency, Salina, KS
Robert M. MacNamara Foundation, Residency, Westport, ME
2005
National Association of Latino Arts and Culture, Artist Grant, San Antonio, TX
McColl Center for Visual Arts and Innovation, Charlotte, NC, Residency, Fellowship
Puffin Foundation Ltd., Teaneck, NJ, Project Grant
2002
International Cultural Collaborations, Trace Foundation, Henry Street Settlement Abrons Art
Center, Snug Harbor Cultural Center, Tibetan, American Artist exchange, Honorarium
2001
The Atlantic Center for the Arts, New Smyrna, Fl, Residency, Master Artist Kerry James Marshall
2000
The Wheeler Art Foundation, Artist Grant, Brooklyn, NY
1998
The Marie Walsh Sharpe Art Foundation, The Space Program, New York, NY
Year Residency
1997
The Marie Walsh Sharpe Art Foundation, The Space Program, New York, NY
Short Term Residency
Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture, Skowhegan, Maine
Residency, Skowhegan Fellowship
Puffin Foundation LTD. Teaneck, NJ, Project Grant
Change Inc., Grant, New York, NY
1995
Henry Street Settlement, Abrons Art Center, New York, NY
Artist in Residence Workspace Program, Teaching Assistant, Gallery Education
1994
The Bronx Museum of the Arts, Artist in the Marketplace Program, Bronx, NY
BIBLIOGRAPHY
2016
¡COLORES! New Mexico PBS, Interview, http://portal.knme.org/video/2365839159/
More Than White Men on Horses, Maggie Grimason, Alibi, May 5-11, Albuquerque, NM
2009
Max-Carlos Martinez, The Pursuit of Happiness (Is a Warm Gun), Jane Harris, Time Out NY,
October 22-28, New York, NY
Max-Carlos Martinez at Christopher Henry Gallery, Stephen Squibb, idiommag.com,
October 12, New York, NY
Tripping on the LES, Evans, Williams, Almeida, Martinez, P-Oriddge, Joanne Mattera Art Blog,
October 30, 2009
Family Man, Of Thee I See, Edie Adelstein, Colorado Springs Independent, Colorado Springs, CO
Traditions, Old and New, Roy Sennema, The Pueblo Chieftain, Pueblo, CO
Take It Off, ArtSpiel, by the Poet Spiel, P.U.L.P., Pueblo, Co
2008
History & Heritage, Gary Demuth, Salina Journal, Salina, KS
2007
Art Review, Of Thee I See, David Hopkins, Duluth.com, Duluth, MN
2005
Triumph of Our Communities: Four Decades of Mexican American Art, Bilingual Press Review, Gary D. Keller PHD. , Hispanic Research Center, Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ
2002
Artists to Artists, A decade Of the Space Program, The Marie Walsh Sharpe Art Foundation
Catalog; review Roberta Smith, The New York Times, New York, NY
2001
Contemporary Chicana and Chicano Art: Artists, Works, Culture and Education
Bilingual Press Review, Gary D. Keller PHD. , Hispanic Research Center, Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ
2000
Images of Ambiente, Homotextuality in Latin American Art, 1810-today
“Martinez produces a pictorial universe that is once frivolous and tormented.”
Rudi C. Bleys, Continuum Publications, London, New York
Good Business is the Best Art, Twenty Years of the Artist in the Marketplace Program
The Bronx Museum of Art, Bronx, NY, review, Holland Cotter, The New York Times , New York, NY
1997
Creating Art, Joe Rankin, The Kennebec Journal, Skowhegan, ME
1995
Eclectic Group New to the Limelight Holland Cotter, The New York Times
Artist in the Marketplace Exhibition, The Bronx Museum of Art, Bronx, NY
EDUCATION
Self Taught