GABRIEL MARTINEZ
Director of Alabama Song
Editor-in-Chief at Glasstire
EDUCATION
2010 Whitney Independent Study Program, New York, NY
2009 M.F.A. Columbia University, New York, NY
2006 Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture, Skowhegan, ME
2001 B.F.A. Corcoran College of Art and Design, Washington, DC
SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2024 Groundbreaker, solo performance at Rice University
2021 Desire Lines, Anya Tish Gallery, Houston, TX
2017 Everything Turns Away Quite Leisurely, Blaffer Art Museum, Houston, TX
2004 Cloud, Miami, FL
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2024 Soy de Tejas, Arts Fort Worth, Fort Worth, TX
2023 Resolution, Moody Center for the Arts, Houston, TX
2020 Make America What America Must Become, CAC, New Orleans, LA
2017 Mountain War Time, David Winton Bell Gallery, Providence, RI
2017 paratext, Byzantine Chapel, Menil, Houston TX
2015 Mountain War Time, Artpace, San Antonio, TX
2013 do it: Houston, Alabama Song, Houston, TX
2011 Common Love, Wallach Gallery, New York, NY
2010 Whitney Independent Study Program, Art in General, New York, NY
2001 Travesías Contextuales, ICAIC, La Habana Cuba
SELECTED SOUND/PERFORMANCE
2024 The Suzanne Langille Songbook, Artist Space, New York, NY
2024 Oliveros’ Scores, Lawndale, Houston, TX
2023 Tania Candiani: Lifeblood, Blaffer Museum/Buffalo Bayou Cistern, Houston, TX
2023 A Day of Meaningless Work, Menil Collection, Houston, TX
2022 Lê Quan Ninh: Blocs d’incidence, MATCH, Houston, TX
2022 Raven Chacon: American Ledger No 1, Moody Center for the Arts, Houston, TX
2022 Joe McPhee: (solo and quartet) Buffalo Bayou Park Cistern, Houston, TX
2021 Chinati Foundation: “Sounding the Untitled”, Marfa TX
2020 Harry Smith Early Abstractions, MECA, Houston, TX
SELECTED RESIDENCIES
2024 Loghaven Artist Residency, Knoxville, TN
2022 MacDowell Fellowship, Peterborough, NH
2017 Hyde Park Art Center, Chicago, IL
2015 Artpace, San Antonio, TX
2015 Bemis Center, Omaha, NE
2011 Project Row Houses, Houston, TX
2010 Core Program, Houston, TX
2008 Reloading Images Damascus, Damascus, Syria
2008 Fondazione Ratti, Como, Italy with Yona Friedman
2006 Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture, Skowhegan, ME
SELECTED GRANTS, FELLOWSHIPS, AND AWARDS
2022 Houston BANF Grant for Alabama Song
2020 Houston Arts Alliance Support for Artists and Creative Individuals
2019 Joan Mitchell Foundation Painters & Sculptors Grants
2018 Research Fellowship, Center for Mexican American Studies
2016 Robert Rauschenberg Foundation SEED Grant
2015 First Place: Art Car Parade – Music Category: NOISE Truck
2014 Idea Fund Grant, funded by Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts
2012 Meredith J. Long Core Program Award
TEACHING EXPERIENCE
2024 University of Houston, Visiting Lecturer Sculpture Department
2012 Rice University, Foundations Professor
2010 MICA, Adjunct Professor, Sculpture and Extended Media
2009 Columbia University, Teaching Fellowship, Co-professor with Daniel Boskhov
SELECTED PUBLICATIONS
Damascus: Tourists, Artists, Secret Agents A Collective Narrative (2009; Berlin: The Greenbox)
Common Love Aesthetics of Becoming Kaira M. Cabanas, ed. (2011; NYC: Wallach/ Columbia
University)
A Student’s Guide To Stealing Gabriel Martinez (2014; Houston: BookMachine/Onestar Press)
From The Disaster (Everything Turns Away Quite Leisurely) Gabriel Martinez (2018; Houston:
Blaffer)
Artpace at 25 Erin K. Murphy, ed. (2021; San Antonio: Artpace)
Impractical Spaces: Houston Pete Gershon, ed. (2022; Houston: Impractical Spaces/ Hyde Park
House)
SELECTED PRESS
The Suzanne Langille Songbook. The Suzanne Langille Songbook. (2024).
https://artistsspace.org/programs/the-suzanne-langille-songbook
Gabriel Martinez at Loghaven. Loghaven Artist Residency. (2024, June 17).
https://loghaven.org/artists/gabriel-martinez/
Clark, T. N., Greenstein, R., Kraft, M., Laszczynski, M., Evans, S., & Smith, M. (2024, January
2). Glasstire names Gabriel Martinez as editor-in-chief. Glasstire.
https://glasstire.com/2024/01/02/glasstire-names-gabriel-martinez-as-editor-in-chief/
Gabriel Martinez – MacDowell fellow in visual arts. MacDowell. (2022).
https://www.macdowell.org/artists/gabriel-martinez-2
Anya Tish Gallery | Gabriel Martinez. (2021). https://anyatishgallery.com/artist/gabriel-martinez
Gabriel Martinez: Everything turns away quite leisurely. Blaffer Art Museum. (2020, July 28).
https://blafferartmuseum.org/gabriel-martinez-everything-turns-away-quite-leisurely
Gabriel Martinez. Joan Mitchell Foundation. (2019).
https://www.joanmitchellfoundation.org/gabriel-martinez
Columbia University (2011). Common Love Gabriel Martinez. YouTube.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7iJrMapkTWw
Gabriel Martinez at Hyde Park Art Center. Hyde Park Art Center. (2017, October 26).
https://www.hydeparkart.org/directory/gabriel-martinez/