Martin & Muñoz

Martin & Muñoz are Walter Martin & Paloma Muñoz and are artists who have collaborated to create and photograph dystopian sculptures.

Biography

Walter Martin was born in Norfolk, Virginia in 1953. He received his B.A. from Old Dominion University in Virginia and his M.F.A. from Virginia Commonwealth University.^[1]

Paloma Muñoz was born in Madrid, Spain in 1965.^[2] She is the daughter of Spanish artist Paloma Navares and sister of film maker and producer David Muñoz.

Martin and Muñoz have been professional and personal partners since soon after they met in 1993. They live in Milford, Pennsylvania and maintain a studio in Williamsburg, Brooklyn. They work summers at a family retreat in Spain ^[3]

Work

Walter Martin & Paloma Muñoz are best known for their sculptures and photographs of sculptures contrasting pristine settings with foreboding or grisly scenes. Their most recent work are the Travelers and Islands series.

Martin & Muñoz provide the cover and interior art for the New Pornographers' album Together.

Selected exhibitions

2015, "Cross-Pollination", Great Hall at the Institute of Fine Art, New York, NY
2014, "Disturbing Innocence", curated by Eric Fischl, The FLAG Art Foundation, New York, NY
2012, "Martin & Muñoz", Virginia MOCA, Virginia Beach, VA
2012, "Night Falls", P.P.O.W Gallery, New York, NY
2011, "White Nights", Institute for the Humanities at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI ^[4]
2011, "Otherworldly", curated by David Revere McFadden, Museum of Arts and Design, NY
2009, "Walter Martin & Paloma Muñoz: Wayward Bound", John Michael Kohler Arts Center, Sheboygan, WI ^[5]
2008, "Buried 'till Spring", Galeria Isabel Hurley, Málaga, Spain
2008, "Objects and Photographs", Bentley Gallery, Scottsdale, AZ.
2008, "Islands", P.P.O.W, New York, NY
2007, "Photographs", Cerealart Project Room, Philadelphia, PA
2007, "Secrets Sleep In Winter Clothes", MAM Mario Mauroner Contemporary Art, Vienna, Austria
2007, "White Out", ARCO Projects, Madrid, Spain
2005, "Cold Front", P.P.O.W Gallery, New York, NY
2004, "The Frigid Zone", Mario Mauroner Contemporary Art, Salzburg, Austria
2004, "Travelers", Museo de la Universidad de Alicante, Spain
2004, "Travelers", Rhona Hoffman Gallery, Chicago, IL
2003, "Travelers", P·P·O·W, New York, NY
2003, "Travelers", Moriarty Gallery, Madrid, Spain
2001, "A Gathering", a permanent installation of 181 bronze birds at Canal Street Station on the A, C and E lines, New York, NY ^[6]
2001, P·P·O·W, New York, NY
2000, "Loss of Experience", Santa Barbara Contemporary Arts Forum, Santa Barbara, CA
1999, "Dis", Momenta, Brooklyn, New York
1999, Espacio Caja Burgos, Burgos, Spain
1998, P·P·O·W, New York, NY
1997, Alejandro Sales Gallery, Barcelona, Spain
1996, P·P·O·W, New York, NY
1996, Moriarty Gallery, Madrid, Spain
1994, P·P·O·W, New York, NY

Collections

Their work is in the collections of many prominent museums, including the Museum of Contemporary Art Kiasma in Helsinki the Museum of Arts and Design in New York, the Centro de Arte Contemporaneo de Málaga, the Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía in Madrid and the Hunter Museum of American Art in Chattanooga, TN. They are also represented in the private collections of other prominent institutions, including the Progressive Art Collection, Bloomberg L.P. and 21c Museum Hotel in Louisville, KT.

Galleries

The artists are represented by P.P.O.W. Gallery in New York , and Mario Mauroner Contemporary Art in Salzburg and Vienna

References

↑ www.martin-munoz.com
↑ www.martin-munoz.com
↑ New York Times, January 6, 2008, Arts, page 19.McGee, Celia (January 6, 2008), "Aesthetic Heft, Sized for a Snow Globe", The New York Times, New York, NY, p. Arts 19
↑ http://www.lsa.umich.edu/humin
↑ John Michael Kohler Arts Center, Sheboygan, WE
↑ MTA, Arts for Transit, NY

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