Born in 1976 in San Juan, Puerto Rico; lives & works in San Juan
EDUCATION
2005
School of Fine Arts, Bachelor of Fine Arts in Painting, San Juan, Puerto Rico
SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2013
David Castillo Gallery
2011
The Material, Trailer Park Projects, San Juan, Puerto Rico
2010
Melvin Martinez, Flying Circus Gallery, Mexico City, Mexico
2008
Melvin Martinez: Demo-Gracias, Wolfsonian Museum, Miami Beach, FL
2007
Fresh Paint, Yvon Lambert Gallery, New York, NY
2006
Melvin Martinez, Cultural Institute of National Gallery of Art, San Juan, Puerto Rico
Melvin Martinez, Alcorcon Art Center, Madrid, Spain
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2013
On Painting: Prácticas pictóricas actuales... más allá de la pintura o más acá, Centro Atlántico de Arte Moderno, Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, Spain
2012
Dark Flow Lurking, David Castillo Gallery, Miami, FL
2011
Global Caribbean, Museum of Contemporary Art, San Juan, Puerto Rico
2010
Spirit of an Epoch, Museum of International Contemporary Art, Lanzarote, Spain
Group Show, Flying Circus Gallery, Mexico
Global Caribbean, Musee International Des Arts Modestes, Sete, France
2009
Global Caribbean, Haitian Cultural Art Center, Miami, FL
2008
Nature Morte, Rohrer Fine Art, Laguna Beach, CA
Expanded Painting, Space Other Gallery, Boston, MA
En Sus Marcas, Cultural Institute, Puerto Rico
2006
Tribute to Cezanne, Yvon Lambert Gallery, New York, NY
Group Exhibition, Alcorcon Art Center, Madrid, Spain
Kitsch Utopia, 2006 Quadriennale, Dusseldorf, Germany
2005
Graduate Exhibition for School of Fine Arts, San Juan, Puerto Rico, Museum of the Americas, Denver, CO
VI National Prize of Fine Arts, Museum of Contemporary Art Puerto Rico
Espai D’Art Contemporani, Castellón, Spain
AWARDS
2006
International Association of Art Critics Prize for Outstanding Representation of Puerto Rico
2005
Castellón County Council Painting Prize, Spain
SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY
Alvarez Lezama, Manuel. "The Way In - Contemporary Art in Puerto Rico." Arte Al Dia, No. 140, November 2012.
Stain, David Joshua, “Hot new things to do in Puerto Rico,” CNN, April 2012.
Schwabsky, Barry, “Material Sensations and the Artificial Flesh of Color,” Art Pulse, 2011.
Schwendener, Martha, “Melvin Martinez at Fresh Paint,” The New York Times, June 22, 2007.
Robinson, Walter, “Puerto Rican Sun,” Artnet, April 12, 2007.
Panera, Javier, “Melvin Matinez: Painting as libidinal mechanism,” Art.es, No. 17, September 2006.
“Melvin Martinez: Kitsch, cosmography and frost,” Art Premium, Vol. 3, March 2006.
“Melvin Martinez: Awarded 60,000 Euros, First place at Second Annual Castellon International Painting Prize,” Tema Celeste, February 2006.
“Wonderland/El Pais de las Maravillas, Certamen Internacional de Pintura de Castellon,” Arte.es, #12, Feburary 2006.
Schwabsky, Barry, “When is a painting not a painting?” Modern Painters, December 2005.
“Painting Prize Winner,” Art Nexus, December 2005.
“Un lio con la pintura en Castellon,” El Pais, Spain, November 20, 2005.
“Puertorican Artist Melvin Martinez wins painting prize,” Levantate, Valencia, October 2005.
“More than 200 paintings competed,” El Periodico Mediterraneo, October 8, 2005.
Pau-Llosa, Ricardo, “Melvin Martinez,” Arte al Dia Internacional, May 2005.
SELECTED COLLECTIONS
Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin, Ireland
Museo de Bellas Artes, Castellón, Spain
Espai D’Art Contemporani, Castellón, Spain
Museum Collection Lambert, Avignon, France
Museum of Ponce, Puerto Rico
Museum of Contemporary Art, Puerto Rico
Valencia Arte Contemporáneo, Valencia, Spain
Harn Museum of Art, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL
Palm Springs Art Museum, Palm Springs, CA
The Rubell Family Collection
Carlos & Rosa de la Cruz Collection