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Enrique Martinez Celaya is a Cuban American artist whose work consists of painting, sculpture, photography, and poetry. Martínez Celaya uses the human figure in the landscape as a means to explore the nature of human experience and themes surrounding and memory, identity and displacement. His work is included in the public collections of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, The Whitney Museum of American Art, New York and the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, California among others. He is represented by LA Louver, Los Angeles, California, Jack Shainman Gallery, New York, and Berggruen Gallery, San Francisco.

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Born 1964 in Palos, Cuba.
Lives and works in Los Angeles, California.

EDUCATION
MFA Painting and Sculpture, University of California at Santa Barbara, 1994
MS, Quantum Electronics, University of California at Berkeley, 1989
BS, Applied Physics, Electrical Engineering, Cornell University, 1986

SOLO EXHIBITIONS

2023
Guardare e aspettare: Enrique Martinez Celaya sculture selezionate 2005-2023 (Watching and Waiting:Enrique Martinez Celaya Selected Sculpture 2005-2023, Museo Marino Marini, Florence, Italy

2022
SEA SKY LAND: towards a map of everything, Fisher Museum of Art, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA
The Foreigner’s Song, Miles McEnery Gallery, New York, NY
Monterey Museum of Art, The Fire of Heaven: Enrique Martínez Celaya and Robinson Jeffers, Monterey, California
The Rose Garden, UTA Artist Space, Los Angeles, CA
The Fire of Heaven: Enrique Martínez Celaya and Robinson Jeffers, Edward L. Doheny Jr. Memorial Library, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA

2021
Enrique Martínez Celaya, Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, NH
Enrique Martínez Celaya, The Huntington Library, Art Collections and Botanical Gardens, San Marino, A
Enrique Martínez Celaya, Fisher Museum of Art, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA
Enrique Martínez Celaya, Jack Shainman Gallery, New York, NY

2020
Enrique Martínez Celaya and Kathe Köllwitz, Galerie Judin, Berlin, Germany

2019
The Mariner’s Meadow, Blain|Southern, London, United Kingdom
13th Havana Biennial, Detrás del Muro, Havana, Cuba
The Tears of Things, Kohn Gallery, Los Angeles, CA

2018
The Other Life, Galleri Andersson/Sandström, Stockholm, Sweden

2017
The Gypsy Camp, Jack Shainman Gallery, New York, NY
The Mirroring Land, Galerie Judin, Berlin, Germany
Nothing That Is Ours, Fredric Snitzer Gallery, Miami, FL

2016
One-on-One: Enrique Martínez Celaya/ Albert Pinkham Ryder, The Phillips Collection, Washington, D.C.
Enrique Martinez Celaya: Self and Sea, Parafin, London, UK
Enrique Martínez Celaya: Small Paintings 1974-2015, University of Alabama, Birmingham, AL
Self and Land, Baldwin Gallery, Aspen, CO

2015
Empires: Sea & Empires: Land, Jack Shainman Gallery, New York, New York
Enrique Martinez Celaya: Lone Star, LA Louver, Venice, California
Liverpool Street Gallery, Sydney, Australia

2014
Enrique Martinez Celaya: The Seaman's Crop, London, England

2012
Enrique Maritnez-Celaya, Galleri Andersson/Sandström, Stockholm, Sweden
The Master, The State Hermitage Museum, St Petersburg, Russia

2011
Schneebett, Miami Art Museum, Miami, FL
The Cliff, Liverpool Street Gallery, Sydney, Australia

2010
Reluctant Witness, Museum of Biblical Art, New York, NY
The Open, Simon Lee Gallery, London, England
The Palace, Baldwin Gallery, Aspen, CO

2009
Down With Me, Sara Meltzer Gallery, New York, NY
An Unfinished Conversation: Collecting Enrique Martinez Celaya, Boca Raton Museum of Art, Boca Raton, FL

2008
The Lovely Season, Liverpool Street Gallery, , Sydney, Australia
Enrique Maritnez-Celaya, Daybreak, Venice, CA

2007
Nomad, Miami Art Museum, Miami, FL
For Two Martinson Poems, Poorly Understood, John Berggruen Gallery, San Francisco, CA
Another Show for the Leopard, Baldwin Gallery, Aspen, CO
Awaiting a Second Plan, Sara Meltzer Gallery, New York, NY
Six Paintings on the Duration of Exile, Akira Ikeda Gallery, Taura, Japan

2006
Coming Home, Sheldon Memorial Art Gallery, Lincoln, NE
Schneebett, Museum der Bildenden Kunste, Leipzig, Germany
Splinter Return, Greg Kucera Gallery, Seattle, WA

2005
Enrique Martinez Celaya, John Berggruen Gallery, San Francisco, CA
Enrique Martinez Celaya. Works on Paper, Oakland Museum of California, Oakland, CA
Shore: 'Is Today Yesterday' (Part I), Akira Ikeda Gallery, Berlin, Germany
Shore: 'Is Today Yesterday' (Part II), Griffin Contemporary, Santa Monica, CA
Boy in the Landscape, John Berggruen Gallery, San Francisco, CA
Enrique Martinez Celaya: The Photographs, Brauer Museum of Art, IN

2004
Schneebett, Berliner Philharmonie, Berlin, Germany
Boy (Part II), Baldwin Gallery, Aspen, CO
The October Cycle, Museum of Art at Fort Lauderdale, Fort Lauderdale, FL
Boy (Part III), Liverpool Street Gallery, Sydney, Australia

2003
The October Cycle, Sheldon Memorial Art Gallery, University of Nebraska, Lincoln, NE
All the Field is Ours (Boy Part I), Griffin Contemporary, Santa Monica, CA
Recent Paintings, John Berggruen Gallery, San Francisco, CA

2002
Enrique Martinez Celaya, Danese Gallery, New York, NY
The October Cycle, Griffin Contemporary, Venice, California (Traveled to: Danese Gallery, New York, NY

2001
Enrique Martinez Celaya, Mirror, Baldwin Gallery, Aspen, CO
Enrique Martinez Celaya, Griffin Contemporary, Santa Monica, CA
Enrique Martinez Celaya, 1992-2000, The Contemporary Museum, Honolulu, HI
Travel to The Orange County, by James Jensen, Museum of Art, Newport Beach, CA (Traveled to: The Massachusetts College of Art, Boston, MA)
America and Europe: An Artistic Dialogue, Von der Heydt-Museum, Wuppertal, Germany

2000
Enrique Martinez Celaya, Recent Painting, Galeria Ramis Barquet, 57th Street, New York, NY
Enrique Martinez Celaya, Griffin Contemporary, Santa Monica, CA
Paintings of Mercy, Rena Bransten Gallery, San Francisco, CA
Pinturas de Merced, Ramis Barquet Gallery, Monterrey, Mexico
Coming Home, Griffin Contemporary, Venice, CA

1999
Enrique Martinez Celaya, Griffin Contemporary, Santa Monica, CA
The Field, St. Pancras Chambers/Andrew Mummery Gallery, London, England

1998
Works on Paper and Poems, Baldwin Gallery, Aspen, CO (Traveled to: Griffin Contemporary, Venice, CA; Luigi Marrozzini Gallery, San Juan, Puerto Rico)

1997
Redemption, Burnett Miller Gallery, Santa Monica, CA

1996
Recent Work, Bronx Museum of the Arts, Bronx, NY

1994
Black Paintings, University Art Museum, University of California at Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, CA

GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2017
Jack Shainman Gallery at Art Basel in Miami Beach 2017, Miami Beach, FL
Ivory Black and Flake White, Tamarind Institute, Albuquerque, NM
Tamarind Institute at Seattle Art Fair 2017, Seattle, WA
Tamarind Salon, Tamarind Institute, Albuquerque, NM

2016
Galería Joan Prats at EXPO CHICAGO 2016, Chicago, IL
Cuban Forever Revisited, Pizzuti Collection, Columbus, OH
Enrique Martínez Celaya: Self and Sea, Parafin, London, UK

2014-16
New Releases, Tamarind Institute, Albuquerque, NM
Starting Here: A Selection of Distinguished Artists from UCSB, Art, Design & Architecture
Museum, University of California, Santa Barbara, CA
California Dreamin’: Thirty Years of Collection, Palm Springs Art Museum, Palm Springs, CA

2015
A Sense of Peace: Selections from the Jorge M. Perez Collection, Miami Contemporary, Miami, FL
A Sense of Peace: Selections from the Jorge M. Perez Collection, Miami Contemporary, Miami, FL
Showing Off: Recent Acquisitions, Denver Art Museum, Denver, CO

2014
Art Basel Miami Beach, Miami, FL
Starting Here: A Selection of Distinguished Artists from UCSB, Art, Design & Architecture
Museum, University of California, Santa Barbara, CA
California Dreamin’: Thirty Years of Collection, Palm Springs Art Museum, Palm Springs, CA

2013
Cuban Forever, Pizzuti Collection, Columbus, OH
CELEBRATING TWO DECADES: The Peggy and Eric Lieber Collection and Other Gifts, Frederick R. Weisman Museum of Art, Center for the Arts: Pepperdine University, Malibu, CA

2006
The Missing Peace : Artists Consider the Dalai Lama, Loyola University Museum of Art, Chicago, IL (Traveled to: Fowler Museum at UCLA, Los Angeles, CA; Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, San Francisco, CA; Emory Visual Arts Gallery, Atlanta, GA; The Rubin Museum of Art , New York, NY; Fundacion Canal, Madrid, Spain)

2005
Personal Mythologies, Earlier, Recent and Future Acquisitions, The Contemporary Museum Honolulu, Honolulu, HI

2004
Summer Group Show, Griffin Contemporary, Santa Monica, CA
Luminosity, John Berggruen Gallery, San Francisco, CA

2003
Museum Store Collects, ASU Art Museum, Arizona State University Art Museum, Tempe, AZ
Pomona College Faculty Exhibition, Pomona College Museum of Art, Claremont, CA

2001
Landscapes, Griffin Contemporary, Santa Monica, CA

1999
The Labyrinth of Multitude : Contemporary Latin American Artists in Los Angeles, Luckman Gallery, Los Angeles, CA

1998
Interactions, Pomona College Museum of Art, Claremont, CA

1997
Show of Hands, George Adams Gallery, New York, NY

AWARDS
2017
Los Angeles Institute for the Humanities Fellow, University of Southern California

2014
Montgomery Fellow, Dartmouth College
Cecil and Ida Green Honors Chair, Texas Christian University

2013
Knight Foundation Grant

2010
Grant, Alchemy Foundation

2007-2010
Visiting Presidential Professor, University of Nebraska

2007
Award, Anderson Ranch Arts Center

2004
Fellowship, California Community Foundation
J. Paul Getty Trust Fund for the Visual Arts
Artist Residency, Inaugural Colorado Contemporary Arts Collaborative at the CU Art Museum

2001
Hirsch Grant

1998
Art Here and Now Award, Los Angeles County Museum of Art

1992
Regents Fellow, University of California
Interdisciplinary Humanities Fellow, University of California

1986
Fellowship, Brookhaven National Laboratory

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Figure and Birch (Larks)

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Figure with Flowers (Morning)

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Invisible Chambers

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The Music (Age)

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The Music (Tangible)

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The Music (White Forest)