Gabriel Martinez (he/him) is a photo-based multidisciplinary artist and educator born and raised in Miami, Florida. He was a Pew Fellowship in the Arts recipient in 2001, received a Joan Mitchell Foundation Fellowship in 2003, and was recently awarded both a 2019 Independent Creative Production Grant from the Sachs Program for Arts Innovation and a 2019 Independence Foundation Fellowship. He has participated in several artist residency programs including: the Rosenbach Museum, the Fabric Workshop, the Fountainhead Residency, Arcadia Summer Arts Program, MacDowell Colony, Yaddo, Banff Centre, the Studios at MASS MoCA and the Joan Mitchell Center.

Martinez attended the Skowhegan School of Sculpture and Painting in 2003, and received his MFA from Tyler School of Art in 1991 and his BFA from the University of Florida in 1998. He has been teaching in the Photo Program for the Department of Fine Arts, PennDesign for the last 20 years. He serves on the Advisory Board for the Center for the Emerging Visual Artist, Philadelphia Photo Arts Center and Galaei (a Queer LatinX social justice organization).

His work is included in the permanent collection of the Philadelphia Museum of Art, the Fabric Workshop & Museum and the Leslie-Lohman Museum of Art.

SELECT Exhibitions

• Pleasure Cruise, Rivalry Projects, Buffalo, NY, 2021

• Bound to the Past, Marginal Utility, Philadelphia, PA 2019  

• Photography and Memory, Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia, PA 2019

• Fifty Years Since Stonewall, Woodmere Art Museum, Philadelphia, PA, 2019 

• Washington Project for the Arts 37th Annual Auction Gala, WPA, Washington DC, 2018  

• Lip Sync Parade: Queer Meditations on History and Visibility, Fjord Gallery, Philadelphia, PA, 2018  

• Black & Blue, William Way LGBT Community Center Art Gallery, Philadelphia, PA, 2018

• Poolside, Prince Street Project Space, Leslie Lohman Museum of Gay and Lesbian Art, New York, NY, 2016  

• Gabriel Martinez, Solo Booth, Volta Art Fair, Samsøñ, New York, Ny, 2016

• Bayside Revisited, The Print Center, Philadelphia, PA, 2015

• Gabriel Martinez, Solo Exhibition, Samsøñ, Boston, MA, 2011