Gabriel Martinez
6705 Cresheim Road
Philadelphia, PA 19119
215.713.9974 Gmartinez1@aol.com

EDUCATION
2003 Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture, Skowhegan, ME.
1991 MFA, Photography, Tyler School of Art/Temple University, Elkins Park, PA.
1989 BFA, Photography, The University of Florida, Gainesville, FL.

SELECTED INDIVIDUAL EXHIBITIONS AND SOLO PERFORMANCE WORKS
2003 Confidence & Faith, Philadelphia Art Alliance, Philadelphia, PA.
2000 Bachelor (Anonymous), Artist Project, Rosenbach Museum and Library, Philadelphia, PA.
1998 Dominion over Gentility, Nexus Foundation for Today's Art, Philadelphia, PA.
Context (Performance presented in conjunction with Context), Nexus Foundation for Today's Art, Philadelphia, PA.
1997 A Slice of Heaven (Benefit Performance Event presented in conjunction with Heaven or Hell: The 1997 Benefit), Institute of Contemporary Art, Philadelphia, PA.
Here for your Amusement, Nexus Foundation for Today's Art, Philadelphia, PA.
1996 Especially for You (Interactive Performance presented in conjunction with In the Flow: Alternate Authoring Strategies) Franklin Furnace, New York, NY.
1995 100% Body Surface (Performance/Demonstration), White Columns, New York, NY.
100% Body Surface (Performance/Demonstration and Exhibition), Nexus, Phila.
1994 A Spectacle, Black Box Theatre, The University of the Arts, Philadelphia, PA. The Amusement Room, Challenge #1, Dene M. Louchheim Galleries, Samuel S. Fleisher Art Memorial, Philadelphia, PA.
Body & Steel (Installation/Performance), Samuel S. Fleisher Art Memorial, Philadelphia, PA.

SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2004 Super Salon, SamSon ProJects, Boston, MA.
Benadiction, Goliath Visual Space, New York, NY.
Parameters of Fear, Muu Gallery, Helsinki, Finland.
MuuMaanatai/Fear Fair II- videoteoksia, Muu Gallery, Helsinki, Finland.
The Bambi Project, Articule Gallery, Montreal, Canada.
Cintas Fellowship Exhibition, Miami Art Central, Miami, FL.
2003 Bambi, ICA Video Lounge, Institute of Contemporary Art, Philadelphia, PA.
lil' buddy, Project Room, Philadelphia, PA.
Viewpoints, Arthur Ross Gallery, Philadelphia, PA.
1 Bank Street, Philadelphia Fringe Festival Event at the 5Spot, Philadelphia, PA.
From This to That: Artist's Inspirations, Nexus Foundation for Today's Art, Phila.
2001 In Our Own Back Yard, Lancaster Museum of Art, Lancaster, PA.
2000 Achieving Failure: Gym Culture 2000 (catalog), (curated by Bill Arning),
Thread Waxing Space, New York, NY.
Achieving Failure: Gym Culture 2000, Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH.
MAN-MADE fabricating masculinity (catalog), Painted Bride Art Center, Philadelphia, PA.
About Face (catalog), Delaware Center for the Creative Arts, Willmington, DE.
Studio Visit: Philadelphia Artists at Work, Art in City Hall, Phila., PA (trav. exh.)
Snapshot (catalog), Contemporary Museum, Baltimore, MD.
1999 Pennsylvania Artists From the Permanent Collection,
The Fabric Workshop & Museum, Philadelphia, PA.
Place of Memory: an archaeology of site-specificity 1969-1999, Temple Gallery, Phila.,PA.
1998 Twenty Philadelphia Artists: Celebrating Fleisher Challenge at Twenty (catalog), Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia, PA.
20 x 12: A Generation of Challenge Artists, Samuel S. Fleisher Art Memorial, Phila., PA.
Family Realities, Art in City Hall, Philadelphia, PA.
1997 Altered Egos (catalog), curated by Reine Hauser/catalog essay by Sylvie Fortin, Hallwalls Contemporary Arts Center, Buffalo, NY.
The Body: Expression/Impression, Video Room, Philadelphia Museum of Art, Phila., PA.
Invitational Salon Exhibition, New Arts Program, Kutztown, PA.
1996 The Strange Power of Cheap Sentiment (or ˆ bient™t to irony), White Columns, NY, NY.
Complexity and Contradiction: Postmoderism in Philadelphia Photography
Paley Design Center, Philadelphia College of Textiles & Science, Philadelphia, PA. You Talkin' to Me? (catalog), curated by Patrick T. Murphy and Paolo Columbo,
paired with Vanessa Beecroft, Institute of Contemporary Art, Philadelphia, PA.
Philadelphia Selections II/Social Register: Identity and Community in Philadelphia, Levy Gallery for the Arts, Moore College, Philadelphia, PA.
Works on Paper (Juror- Bill Arning), Beaver College Art Gallery, Glenside, PA.
1995 Maricas (curated by Bill Arning), Centro Cultural Ricardo Rojas, La Universidad de Buenos Aires, Buenos Aires, Argentina.
Flesh, Fetish, and Fashion- Three Activated Installations (catalog), White Columns, NY, NY.
The Nude: Beyond the Studio (catalog), Philadelphia Art Alliance, Philadelphia, PA.
Connections: An Exhibition of the Ideas Behind the Art, Cheltenham Center for the Arts, Cheltenham, PA.
Flesh, Fetish, and Fashion - Three Activated Installations (catalog), White Columns, New York, NY.
Through the Looking Glass: Self Portraits and Autobiographical Images,
Nexus Foundation for Today's Art, Philadelphia, PA.
1994 Objects & Souvenirs: Artist's Multiples (Window on Broad), Rosenwald-Wolf Gallery, The University of the Arts, Philadelphia, PA.
National Exhibition (Juror - Robert Storr), East-West Cultural Studies, New York
Works on Paper (Juror- Elizabeth Sussman), Beaver College Art Gallery, Glenside,

SELECTED GRANTS, AWARDS, AND RESIDENCIES
2004 Cintas Fellowship, Finalist, New York, NY (award pending). The MacDowell Colony, Artist Residency, Peterborough, NH.
2003 Joan Mitchell Foundation Grant for Painters and Sculptors.
Atlantic Center for the Arts, Associate Artist, Artist Residency with Master Artist: Gillian Wearing, New Smyrna Beach, FL.
Arcadia Summer Arts Program, Artist Residency, Acadia, ME.
S.O.S. Artist Grant, Pennsylvania Council on the Arts.
Nominee, Louis Comfort Tiffany Foundation Award.
2001 PEW Fellowship in the Arts, Works on Paper, Philadelphia, PA.
Nominee, Louis Comfort Tiffany Foundation Award.
2000 The Rosenbach Museum & Library, Philadelphia, PA: Artist-in-Residence and Project Grant.
S.O.S. Artist Grant, Pennsylvania Council on the Arts.
Individual Artist Fellowship, Pennsylvania Council on the Arts (Interdisciplinary Arts).
1999 Nominee, Louis Comfort Tiffany Foundation Award.
1997 The Fabric Workshop & Museum, Philadelphia, PA: Artist-in-Residence and Project Grant.
Individual Artist Fellowship, Pennsylvania Council on the Arts (Photography).
1995 Venture Fund Grant, The University of the Arts.
1994 Friends of the Gallery Award, Works on Paper, Beaver College Art Gallery.
1993 Dene M. Louchheim Faculty Fellowship, Samuel S. Fleisher Art Memorial.