Tristan Martinez








Email: tristanmartinezphoto@gmail.com


Instagram: @tristan_martinezz


b. 1996

Lives and works in New York 

Education

2020      BFA Photography School of the Art Institute of Chicago (SAIC) 

2018       Glendale Community College

Solo Exhibitions

2018       I Used to be Pretty, The Quiet Life, Los Angeles, California

Two Person Exhibitions

2022      My Ears Ring When It's Too Quiet, Random Access Gallery, Syracuse, NY

              What If Ants Were Big, SHELTER, New York, NY

Group Exhibitions (Selected)

2023      T Party, Popgun, New York, NY

2022      Not Even Home Will Be With You Forever, Field Projects, New York, NY

              All of My Friends, Shelter, New York, NY

              Investigations In Infrastructure, Subjectively Objective, Detroit, MI

              Everything Is Narrative, Subjectively Objective, Detroit, MI

2021       The Big Show, My Pet Ram, New York, NY

              You Thought To Think?, The Latent Space, Chicago, IL

              It’s Right There in Front of You, Garver Feed Mill, Madison, WI 

              Homecoming, James Kenney Campus Gallery Trenton, NJ

2020      BFA Exhibition, School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL 

              Color 2020, CICA Museum, Gyeonggi-do, South Korea 

               Best of Quarantine, Float Magazine, Online Exhibition

2019       Chicago Artist Book Fair, Chicago, IL 

               Bucktown Variety Show, 2510 W. Courtland, Chicago,IL 

               Showcase Gallery, School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL 

               Tainted Paradise, Embed Gallery, Los Angeles, California

2018       The Art Gallery @GCC, Glendale, California 

2017        A Curated 35mm Photo Show, Vape Goat, Los Angeles, California ​​​​​​​

Curatorial


2021        You Thought to Think?, The Latent Space Chicago, Illinois

Grants, Fellowships, & Awards

2021        The Fred Endsley Memorial Fellowship 

2020       The Bridge on Your Way Out Grant 

                Blank Canvas: Latitude Chicago

                The 2020 Lenscratch Top 25 to Watch: Next Up

                Merit Scholarship School of the Art Institute of Chicago (2018-2020)

Public Collections

                Joan Flasch Artist Book Collection, Chicago, Illinois

                 Heads, Baggie, Take a Look, I Used to be Pretty second edition, Knee Sweat, For Now.

Publications

2020     Heads, Self Published

              Baggie, self published

2019      I Used to be Pretty second edition, self published

              Knee Sweat, self published

              For Now, self published

              Take a Look, self published

2018      I Used to be Pretty,  self published
               
              While You Weren’t Looking, self published

              The Ladder, self published


Bibliography


2023    Lodown Magazine : Daily Business

            Monster Children: In Conversation

            Monster Children: Bright Young Things

            Booooooom: Artist spotlight

            Templates for Public Art: Vol. 6, Limited Time Engagement


2022     Mobius Photo competition  

              Innovate Grant Honorable Mention

2021      All Cities Are Beautiful, Heads

             Anti Hero Press, Heads

              Broad Magazine, Heads

                Everything is Narrative, Subjectively Objective

                Investigations in Infrastructure, Subjectively Objective

                Lens Scratch, For Name Sake, Tristan Martinez

                Lens Scratch, Photographers on Photographers: Tristan Martinez in conversation with Jason Fulford

                Musée Magazine, Exhibition Review, "You Thought to Think?

                Musée Magazine, Flash Fiction, Selected Photographs

                Paradise Magazine, Heads

                Sad Bird Books, Artist Issue 1: Tristan Martinez

2020     Aint-Bad, Heads

                Broad Magazine, Selected Photographs 

                 Float Magazine, Selected Photographs 

                 Paradise Magazine, Selected Photographs

                 Zone Magazine,Selected Photographs

2019       Nothing is Interesting and Everything is Normal, Sad Bird

                 Paradise Magazine, Selected Photographs

                 Find Rangers issue 20, Book and Job Gallery 

                 Rental Magazine, Selected Photographs

                 Find Rangers issue 19, Book and Job Gallery

                 School of The Art Institute of Chicago, Photo Catalogue 

2018      School of The Art Institute of Chicago, Photo Catalogue