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)
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
Baggie, self published
2019 I Used to be Pretty second edition, self published
For Now, self published
Take a Look, self published
2018 I Used to be Pretty, Lulu
While You Weren’t Looking, self published
The Ladder, self published
Bibliography
2023 Booooooom: Artist spotlight
Innovate Grant Honorable Mention
2021 All Cities Are Beautiful, Heads
Anti Hero Press, 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