Mauro C. Martinez
B.1986 Based in Texas, USA
Introduction
Mauro Martinez juxtaposes common pictorial forms from art history with the monotonous streams of online imagery that we, as an increasingly digital society, are so often subjected to. Skilfully utilising metaphor, irony and dark humour, Martinez’s paintings respond to the doctrines of internet culture, at once critiquing and mocking our relationship with contemporary imagery.
Education
2010 Art Centre College of Design, Pasadena, USA
2008 Laredo Community College, Laredo, USA
Solo Exhibitions
2024
Practice Makes Purrfect, Unit, London, UK
2023
Le premier homme, BROWNIE Project, Shanghai, China
RateMySetup, Unit, London, UK
2022
The Last Man, Unit, London, UK
2020
Big Mood, Unit, London, UK
Painting is STILL Just Slow Memes, GDT Studios, Fort Worth, USA (cancelled due to COVID-19)
Painting is Just Slow Memes, Flatlines Gallery, San Antonio, USA
2019
Cultural Landscaping, Schwartz Gallery, Laredo, USA
2018
Image Breaking, Odessa Nomadic, Denver, USA
2017
La Republica, MUSA Alternative Art Space, Texas, USA
2016
The Birth of the Clinic, Super Ordinary, Denver, USA
2015
Behold the Man, Space Gallery, Laredo, USA
Group Exhibitions
2022
Nassima Landau, Tel Aviv, Israel
Sensitive Content, Unit, London, UK
OOHART X TNT contemporary, TNT Contemporary, Shenzhen, China
2021
ART021, BROWNIE Project, Shanghai, China
Ein Museum auf Probe, Villa Merkel, Esslingen, Germany
2020
Drawn Together (online), Unit, UK
2019
Amnesia, High Tide, Philadelphia, USA
2017
Copy/Paste/Erase, Galerie C.O.A, Montreal, Canada
En Bola, Stijl Gallery, Austin, USA
2016
Alive Today, Vin Gallery, Miami, USA
2015
347 Clarence, 347 Clarence Gallery, Los Angeles, USA
Dia De Las Muertos, Gallery 201, Laredo, USA
Selfish / A Self-Portrait Exhibition, Gallery 201, Laredo, USA
Hunting Art Prize,Friedkin Corporate Campus, Houston, USA
2014
Beautiful Decay / Mauro C. Martinex & David Berrones, Gallery 201, Laredo, USA
2013
Back To Reality, Gallery 201, Laredo, USA
Residencies
2021
The Fores Project, London, UK
Selected Press
2021
October ‘CryptoPunks Get Physical: How Art Galleries are Displaying NFTs’, Decrypt
April ‘What Gallery Representation Means for an Artist’s Career‘, Artsy
September ‘Big Mood’ by Mauro Martinez at Unit London‘, Create! Magazine
‘On Mauro Martinez and his Work’, Les Nouveaux Riches
‘Big Mood: A Conversation whist Mauro Martinez’, Juxtapoz
2020
May ‘Art as Therapy in the Eyes of Mauro C. Martinez’, Art of Choice
April ‘Mauro C. Martinez‘, Coeval Magazine
February ‘Mauro C. Martinez and Flatlines Gallery Presents ‘Painting is Just Slow Memes’ a Solo Show‘, My Art is Real
‘In the Studio with Mauro C. Martinez’, Émergent Magazine
2018
November ‘Image Breaking, A Conversation with Mauro C. Martinez’, Odessa
2014
December ‘A Reflection of the Human Condition’, Rio Art Magazine
2011
October, Cream City Magazine No. 9
Selected Collections
Pérez Art Museum Miami (PAMM), Miami, USA
W Art Foundation, Hong Kong
Robyns Collection, London, UK
Bunker Foundation (Rudin De Woody Collection), Los Angeles, USA
Xiao Museum of Contemporary Art, Rizhao, Shandong, China
Para Site, Hong Kong