Born 1957
Lives and works in Los Angeles
Selected Solo Exhibitions:
2010 Instituto Cervantes, Madrid, Spain
2008 Daniel Joseph Martinez: Recent Acquisitions, Linda Pace
Foundation, San Antonio, TX
the west bank is missing; I am not dead, am I, Amie and
Tony James Gallery, The Graduate Center, City
University of New York, New York
2007 Divine Violence, The Project, New York, NY
Have you seen my Clark Nova; or I want to vomit in your
mouth and hope you gag on your insipid lies (danving
is still the only way to start a revolution), EDS Galeria,
Mexico City
2006 The Fully Enlightened Earth Radiates Disaster
Triumphant, United States Pavilion, 10th International
Cairo Biennale, Cairo, Egypt
Flesh Eating Prosthetic (phagocitage des prothèses):
How I Fell in Love with My Dirty Bomb (Opium des
Volks), LAXART, Los Angeles, CA
2005 A Meditation on the Possibility of Romantic Love; or,
Where You Goin' with That Gun in Your Hand: Bobby
Seale And Huey Newton Discuss the Relationships
between Expressionism and Social Reality Present in
Hitler's Paintings, Artspace, San Antonio, TX
2004 The House America Built, The Project, New York, NY
2002 To Make a Blind Man Murder for the Things He's Seen, The
Project, Los Angeles, CA
2010 Instituto Cervantes, Madrid, Spain
2008 Daniel Joseph Martinez: Recent Acquisitions, Linda Pace
Foundation, San Antonio, TX
the west bank is missing; I am not dead, am I, Amie and
Tony James Gallery, The Graduate Center, City
University of New York, New York
2007 Divine Violence, The Project, New York, NY
Have you seen my Clark Nova; or I want to vomit in your
mouth and hope you gag on your insipid lies (danving
is still the only way to start a revolution), EDS Galeria,
Mexico City
2006 The Fully Enlightened Earth Radiates Disaster
Triumphant, United States Pavilion, 10th International
Cairo Biennale, Cairo, Egypt
Flesh Eating Prosthetic (phagocitage des prothèses):
How I Fell in Love with My Dirty Bomb (Opium des
Volks), LAXART, Los Angeles, CA
2005 A Meditation on the Possibility of Romantic Love; or,
Where You Goin' with That Gun in Your Hand: Bobby
Seale And Huey Newton Discuss the Relationships
between Expressionism and Social Reality Present in
Hitler's Paintings, Artspace, San Antonio, TX
2004 The House America Built, The Project, New York, NY
2002 To Make a Blind Man Murder for the Things He's Seen, The
Project, Los Angeles, CA
2002 Narcissus was a pretty boy you know, he lived without
anesthesia, SF Camerawork, San Francisco, CA
Coyote: I Like Mexico and Mexico Likes Me (More
Human Than Human), Museo de Arte Carrillo Gil, Mexico
City; Museum of Contemporary Art, Monterrey, Mexico;
Cineteca Fototeca de Nuevo León, Monterrey, Mexico.
2001 More Human Than Human, The Project, New York, NY
2000 Beauty Stains; Generosity was my first mistake. If God
didn't want them sheared, he wouldn't have made them
sheep, Stanislaus Art Gallery, California State University,
Turlock, CA
God Made Me Do It (I suppose you know what you are
doing, but I wonder if you know what it means), Orchard
Gallery, Derry, Ireland
Revenge for Being Born, The Three Rivers Art Gallery,
Pittsburgh
1999 Daniel J. Martinez, The Project, New York, NY
1998 If only you could see what I have seen with your eyes
(an event for acoustic disobedience), Wood Street
Gallery, Pittsburgh
The Killer in Me Is the Killer in You, Track 16 Gallery,
Santa Monica, CA
1996 What Makes a Queen Apologize (How To Start Your
Own Country), Artspace, Auckland, New Zealand
1995 How to Teach the Former British Empire Manners; or,
The Last Gasp of Colonialism...(after hours), Artspace,
Auckland, New Zealand
anesthesia, SF Camerawork, San Francisco, CA
Coyote: I Like Mexico and Mexico Likes Me (More
Human Than Human), Museo de Arte Carrillo Gil, Mexico
City; Museum of Contemporary Art, Monterrey, Mexico;
Cineteca Fototeca de Nuevo León, Monterrey, Mexico.
2001 More Human Than Human, The Project, New York, NY
2000 Beauty Stains; Generosity was my first mistake. If God
didn't want them sheared, he wouldn't have made them
sheep, Stanislaus Art Gallery, California State University,
Turlock, CA
God Made Me Do It (I suppose you know what you are
doing, but I wonder if you know what it means), Orchard
Gallery, Derry, Ireland
Revenge for Being Born, The Three Rivers Art Gallery,
Pittsburgh
1999 Daniel J. Martinez, The Project, New York, NY
1998 If only you could see what I have seen with your eyes
(an event for acoustic disobedience), Wood Street
Gallery, Pittsburgh
The Killer in Me Is the Killer in You, Track 16 Gallery,
Santa Monica, CA
1996 What Makes a Queen Apologize (How To Start Your
Own Country), Artspace, Auckland, New Zealand
1995 How to Teach the Former British Empire Manners; or,
The Last Gasp of Colonialism...(after hours), Artspace,
Auckland, New Zealand
Selected Group Exhibitions:
2010 FotoFest Biennial 2010, Houston, TX
How Many Billboards?, Mak Center for Art and Architecture,
Los Angeles, CA
Territories, Left of Center, Luckman Fine Arts Gallery,
California State University, Los Angeles, CA
2009 The Social Critique, 1993-2005, Kalmar Konstmuseum,
Stadsparken, Kalmar, Sweden
The End, Andy Warhol Museum, Pittsburgh
Text Works / Con Texto, EDS Galeria, Mexico City, MEX
2008 Art since the 1960s: California Experiments, Orange
County Museum of Art, Newport Beach, CA
Arte ≠ Vida: Action by Artists of the Americas 1960-2000,
El Museo del Barrio, New York, NY
California Biennial 2008, Orange County Museum of Art,
Newport Beach, CA
Coup de Grâce, Simon Preston Gallery, New York, NY
Disorderly Conduct: Recent Art in Tumultuous Times,
Orange County Museum of Art, Newport Beach, CA
Nina in Position, Artists Space, New York, NY
One Shot: 100 x 100 Second Photography Biannual,
LA><ART, Los Angeles, CA
The Prisoner's Dilemma: Selections from the Ella
Fontanals-Cisneros Collection, Cisneros Fontanals Art
Foundation, Miami, FL
Proyecto Civico: Civic Project, Centro Cultural Tijuana,
Mexico
Twenty Years Ago Today: Supporting Visual Artists in
LA: Community Arts Fellowship Exhibition, Japanese
American National Museum of Art, Los Angeles, CA
2010 FotoFest Biennial 2010, Houston, TX
How Many Billboards?, Mak Center for Art and Architecture,
Los Angeles, CA
Territories, Left of Center, Luckman Fine Arts Gallery,
California State University, Los Angeles, CA
2009 The Social Critique, 1993-2005, Kalmar Konstmuseum,
Stadsparken, Kalmar, Sweden
The End, Andy Warhol Museum, Pittsburgh
Text Works / Con Texto, EDS Galeria, Mexico City, MEX
2008 Art since the 1960s: California Experiments, Orange
County Museum of Art, Newport Beach, CA
Arte ≠ Vida: Action by Artists of the Americas 1960-2000,
El Museo del Barrio, New York, NY
California Biennial 2008, Orange County Museum of Art,
Newport Beach, CA
Coup de Grâce, Simon Preston Gallery, New York, NY
Disorderly Conduct: Recent Art in Tumultuous Times,
Orange County Museum of Art, Newport Beach, CA
Nina in Position, Artists Space, New York, NY
One Shot: 100 x 100 Second Photography Biannual,
LA><ART, Los Angeles, CA
The Prisoner's Dilemma: Selections from the Ella
Fontanals-Cisneros Collection, Cisneros Fontanals Art
Foundation, Miami, FL
Proyecto Civico: Civic Project, Centro Cultural Tijuana,
Mexico
Twenty Years Ago Today: Supporting Visual Artists in
LA: Community Arts Fellowship Exhibition, Japanese
American National Museum of Art, Los Angeles, CA
2008 Whitney Biennial 2008, Whitney Museum of American
Art, New York, NY
2007 In Someone Else's Skin, CCS Bard Hessel Museum,
Center for Curatorial Studies at Bard College,
Annandale-on-Hudson, NY
Substance and Surface, Bortolami Gallery, New York, NY
Theater of Cruelty, White Box, New York, NY
Visions of Paradise: Utopias / Dystopias / Heteropias,
Espacio 1414, San Juan, Puerto Rico
We Are Your Future, Second Moscow Bienniale of
Contemporary Art, Moscow
Witness to War: Revisiting Vietnam in Contemporary Art,
International Center for the Arts, San Francisco State
University, San Francisco, CA
2006 An Image Bank for Everyday Revolutionary Life, Redcat,
California Institute of the Arts, Los Angeles, CA
Beautiful Suffering-Photography and the Traffic in Pain,
Williams College Museum of Art, Williamstown, MA
Between the Lines: Text as Image, El Museo del Barrio,
New York, NY
Black Panther Rank and File, Yerba Buena Center for the
Arts, San Francisco, CA
Celebrating COLA's Ten-Year Anniversary, Municipal Art
Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
Civil Restitutions, Thomas Dane Gallery, London, UK
One Shot: 100 x 100 First Photography Biannual,
LA><ART, Los Angeles, CA
2005 Indelible Images (Trafficking between Life and Death),
Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, TX
Just for the Fun of It, InSite, Tijuana, Mexico
Art, New York, NY
2007 In Someone Else's Skin, CCS Bard Hessel Museum,
Center for Curatorial Studies at Bard College,
Annandale-on-Hudson, NY
Substance and Surface, Bortolami Gallery, New York, NY
Theater of Cruelty, White Box, New York, NY
Visions of Paradise: Utopias / Dystopias / Heteropias,
Espacio 1414, San Juan, Puerto Rico
We Are Your Future, Second Moscow Bienniale of
Contemporary Art, Moscow
Witness to War: Revisiting Vietnam in Contemporary Art,
International Center for the Arts, San Francisco State
University, San Francisco, CA
2006 An Image Bank for Everyday Revolutionary Life, Redcat,
California Institute of the Arts, Los Angeles, CA
Beautiful Suffering-Photography and the Traffic in Pain,
Williams College Museum of Art, Williamstown, MA
Between the Lines: Text as Image, El Museo del Barrio,
New York, NY
Black Panther Rank and File, Yerba Buena Center for the
Arts, San Francisco, CA
Celebrating COLA's Ten-Year Anniversary, Municipal Art
Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
Civil Restitutions, Thomas Dane Gallery, London, UK
One Shot: 100 x 100 First Photography Biannual,
LA><ART, Los Angeles, CA
2005 Indelible Images (Trafficking between Life and Death),
Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, TX
Just for the Fun of It, InSite, Tijuana, Mexico
Seelcted Public Art Projects
1996 Three Rivers Art Festival, Public Art Project, Pittsburgh
Your Move, collaboration with Renee Petropoulos and
Roger White, Public Art Municipal Services Building
Plaza, Philadelphia
1993 City of Philadelphia Municipal Sevices Building Public Art
Project, collaboration with Renee Petropoulos and
Roger White, Public Art Municipal Services Building
Plaza, Philadelphia. Permanent artwork
Consequences of a Gesture, Maxwell Street Market,
Culture in Action, Sculpture Chicago, Chicago, IL.
Temporary outdoor installation
100 Victories / 10,000 Tears (procession/carnival
/parade), Culture in Action, Sculpture Chicago, Chicago,
IL
1991 Anaheim Redevelopment Project, Koll-Anaheim Center,
Seattle, WA, Permanent artwork
Art and Science, Washington State Arts Commission and
Washington State Schools, traveling exhibition of public
works, WA
Guerra de Cultura, Museum of Contemporary Art, San
Diego, CA. Temporary billboard
Seattle Arts Commission, Seattle Art Museum, Seattle,
WA. Temporary artwork
This Is a Nice Neighborhood, collaboration with Renee
Petropoulos and Roger White, San Francisco Arts
Commission,
Moscone Center, San Francisco, CA. Permanent artwork
1996 Three Rivers Art Festival, Public Art Project, Pittsburgh
Your Move, collaboration with Renee Petropoulos and
Roger White, Public Art Municipal Services Building
Plaza, Philadelphia
1993 City of Philadelphia Municipal Sevices Building Public Art
Project, collaboration with Renee Petropoulos and
Roger White, Public Art Municipal Services Building
Plaza, Philadelphia. Permanent artwork
Consequences of a Gesture, Maxwell Street Market,
Culture in Action, Sculpture Chicago, Chicago, IL.
Temporary outdoor installation
100 Victories / 10,000 Tears (procession/carnival
/parade), Culture in Action, Sculpture Chicago, Chicago,
IL
1991 Anaheim Redevelopment Project, Koll-Anaheim Center,
Seattle, WA, Permanent artwork
Art and Science, Washington State Arts Commission and
Washington State Schools, traveling exhibition of public
works, WA
Guerra de Cultura, Museum of Contemporary Art, San
Diego, CA. Temporary billboard
Seattle Arts Commission, Seattle Art Museum, Seattle,
WA. Temporary artwork
This Is a Nice Neighborhood, collaboration with Renee
Petropoulos and Roger White, San Francisco Arts
Commission,
Moscone Center, San Francisco, CA. Permanent artwork
Major Collections:
Cisneros Fontanals Art Foundation, Miami. Divine Violence (selection purchased 2008).
Museum of Fine Arts, Houston. To Make a Blind Man Murder for the Things He's Seen (or Happiness Is Over-rated) (purchased
2007).
Orange County Museum of Art, Newport Beach, CA. The House America Built (purchased 2009).
Linda Pace Foundation, San Antonio, TX. A Meditation on the
Possibility of Romantic Love; or, Where You Goin' with That Gun in
Your Hand: Bobby Seale and Huey Newton Discuss the
Relationships between Expressionism and Social Reality Present in Hitler's Paintings, and Beauty . . . it rubs against one's tongue it
hangs there hurting one insisting on its own existence finally it gets so one cannot stand the pain then one must have beauty extracted (purchased 2008).
Whitney Museum of American Art, New York. Divine Violence (paintings exhibited in 2008 Biennial purchased 2008).
Cisneros Fontanals Art Foundation, Miami. Divine Violence (selection purchased 2008).
Museum of Fine Arts, Houston. To Make a Blind Man Murder for the Things He's Seen (or Happiness Is Over-rated) (purchased
2007).
Orange County Museum of Art, Newport Beach, CA. The House America Built (purchased 2009).
Linda Pace Foundation, San Antonio, TX. A Meditation on the
Possibility of Romantic Love; or, Where You Goin' with That Gun in
Your Hand: Bobby Seale and Huey Newton Discuss the
Relationships between Expressionism and Social Reality Present in Hitler's Paintings, and Beauty . . . it rubs against one's tongue it
hangs there hurting one insisting on its own existence finally it gets so one cannot stand the pain then one must have beauty extracted (purchased 2008).
Whitney Museum of American Art, New York. Divine Violence (paintings exhibited in 2008 Biennial purchased 2008).
