DANIEL JOSEPH MARTINEZ
(BFA 1979, California Institute of the Arts, Associate Professor)
teaches in the graduate studies and new genres.
He is a tactical media practioner, an internationally exhibiting
artist who lives and works on the west bank of the Los Angeles River
in downtown Los Angeles. His work ranges from the digital to the
analogue, the ephemeral to the solid. Using forms of strategic
engagement Martinez employs contradiction and paradox as a
precondition of radical beauty. Ongoing themes in the work are nomadic
power, cultural resistance, and systems of symbolic exchange.

He is the recipient of 3 National Endowment of the Arts individual
artist fellowships, a J. Paul Getty individual Artist fellowship, a
Pollack–Krasner individual artist fellowship and a Flintridge
Foundation individual artist fellowship. He has participated in the
1993 Whitney Biennial and Venice Biennale. He recently represented the
United States in the Lima Biennial 2002 in Lima, Peru. In 2002 he had
a one-person exhibition at the Project Gallery in Los Angeles with the
premier of a new computer-controlled animatronics room sculpture. In
October 2002 he opened a one-person exhibition at the CameraWork
Gallery in San Francisco, titled Without Anesthesia. In 2001 he had a
one-person exhibition at the Museum of Contemporary Art Mexico City,
Museo De Arte Carrillo Gil. Martinez has published a monograph titled
The Things You See When You Don’t Have A Grenade! (Smart Art Press).
He was the director and one of the founding artists of a collaborative
project called Deep River Gallery in Los Angles. He is currently
working on a project and residency in Johannesburg, South Africa
2003-04.

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