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Originally from San Antonio, Texas, I am a multidisciplinary Tejano artist and curator who works with mixed media, photography, video art, and design. In 2020 I graduated from The American University of Paris with a Bachelor of Arts degree in Art History (Major) and Fine Arts (Minor). My degree specialization is in modern and contemporary art, although I have also dedicated much of my undergraduate research to Tejano, Chicano, and Hispanic art and cultural studies (such as my thesis on 16th-century Mexica life through the lens of The Florentine Codex).
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Artist Type: Media Arts: Filmmaker, Graphic Artist, Media/Visual Communications, New Media/Technology, Voiceover; Multi-Disciplinary: Multiple Art Forms; Other; Visual Arts: Mixed Media Artist, Painter, Photographer, Printmaker, Textiles; Curation
Artist Style: Visual Art: Abstract, Collage, Conceptual, Contemporary, Documentary, Experimental, Social Commentary
Artist Medium: Acrylic; Clay; Collage; Computer; Drawing Media; Fiber/Fabric; Film; Photography; Watercolor
Artist Statement of Work
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Antonio Gabriél Martinez is a Tejas-born and Paris-educated artist/curator. As a queer individual of Native American and Mexican descent born into a working-class family in south Texas, a bulk of Martinez’s work concerns the ever-shifting paradigms of identity within the context of the American empire. Martinez maintains a multidisciplinary practice with work that spans a variety of media from the plastic arts (painting, printmaking, textile work) to digital media (photography, video, digital art) and new media (3D, experimental). Shifting identity, the paradigm between analog and digital, and advancing technology are all key themes within Martinez's work. He seeks to bring awareness to Tejano identity and culture within his own art while utilizing curation as an extension of his practice to highlight the voices of other artists across a variety of marginalized and diasporic communities.
