 | This biographical articleis writtenlike a résumé. Pleasehelp improve it by revising it to beneutral andencyclopedic.(January 2018) |
Daniel Joseph Martinez (born 1957) is aLos Angeles–based contemporary artist.
Martinez grew up inLennox, California, a working-class area ofLos Angeles County nearLos Angeles International Airport. After high school, he attended theCalifornia Institute of the Arts, where he received hisBFA in 1979.[1] During the 1980s, he worked as a freelance photographer, and spent time working withHarry Gamboa Jr. andASCO.[2]
Martinez' work can be found in public collections in the United States and abroad including theWhitney Museum of American Art in New York;[3]Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA); theOrange County Museum of Art, Newport Beach, California;[4] Cisneros Fontanals Art Foundation, Miami, Florida;Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Texas; and the Pace Foundation, San Antonio, Texas.[citation needed]
Daniel Joseph Martinez has received twoNational Endowment for the Arts (NEA) Individual Artist Fellowships (1990–91, 1995–96) and an NEA Project Support Grant (1990); aGetty Center Foundation Individual Artist Fellowship (1997–98); aPollock-Krasner Foundation Individual Artist Fellowship (2001–02);[5] a California Arts Council Individual Artist Fellowship (2003–04); an ArtPace Foundation Fellowship (2005); a Peter Norton Family Foundation Project Support Grant (1991) and five Norton Foundation Artist Fellowships (1997–2001); the First Prize Grant Award of the Tijuana Biennial (2000); and a Flintridge Foundation Individual Artist Fellowship (2000–01). In 2007 Martinez was awarded theUnited States Artists Fellowship, and in 2008–09, he received the Rasmuson Foundation Alaska Artist in Residence Award in 2009, the Fellows of Contemporary Art Fellowship in 2009;[6] and the 2010 FOCA Fellowship Artist Grant and exhibition. In 2014 Martinez was awarded theAlpert Award in the Arts from the Herb Alpert Foundation in collaboration with theCalifornia Institute of the Arts.[7] In 2016, Martinez participated in theAmerican Academy in Berlin Fellowship, Berlin, Germany.
| International | |
|---|---|
| National | |
| Artists | |
| People | |
| Other | |
 | This article about an artist from the United States is astub. You can help Wikipedia byexpanding it. |
