Enrique Martinez Celaya, Biography
Born 1964 in Cuba. Lives and works in Los Angeles, USA.
ACADEMIC APPOINTMENTS AND EDUCATION
2017–present
▹ Provost Professor of Humanities and Arts, University of Southern California
2016–2017
▹ Roth Distinguished Visiting Scholar, Dartmouth College
2014–present
▹ Montgomery Fellow, Dartmouth College
2007–2010
▹ Visiting Presidential Professor, University of Nebraska
1994–2003
▹ Associate Professor, Pomona College and Claremont Graduate University
1994
▹ MFA, University of California, Santa Barbara
▹ Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture
1988
▹ MS, University of California, Berkeley
1986
▹ BS, Cornell University
SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2022
▹ Hispanic Society Museum & Library, New York
▹ Fisher Museum of Art, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, California
▹ Miles McEnery Gallery, New York
▹ The Fire of Heaven: Enrique Martínez Celaya and Robinson Jeffers, Monterey Museum of Art, Monterey, California
▹ The Rose Garden, UTA Artist Space, Los Angeles, California
▹ The Fire of Heaven: Enrique Martínez Celaya and Robinson Jeffers, Edward L. Doheny Jr. Memorial Library, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, California
2021
▹ The Huntington Library, Art Museum and Botanical Gardens, San Marino, California
▹ Galerie Judin, Berlin, Germany
▹ Baldwin Gallery, Aspen, Colorado
▹ Galería Casado Santapau, Madrid, Spain
2019
▹ Blain|Southern, London, United Kingdom
▹ 13th Havana Biennial, Havana, Cuba
▹ Kohn Gallery, Los Angeles, California
2018
▹ Galleri Andersson/Sandström, Stockholm, Sweden
2017
▹ Jack Shainman Gallery, New York
▹ Galerie Judin, Berlin, Germany
▹ Fredric Snitzer Gallery, Miami, Florida
2016
▹ One-on-One: Enrique Martínez Celaya/ Albert Pinkham Ryder, The Phillips Collection, Washington, D.C.
▹ Abroms-Engel Institute for the Visual Arts, Small Paintings: 1974- 2015, Birmingham, Alabama
▹ Parafin, London, UK
▹ Baldwin Gallery, Aspen, Colorado
2015
▹ Jack Shainman Gallery, New York
▹ L.A. Louver, Lonestar, Venice, California
2014
▹ Hood Art Museum, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire
▹ A Wasted Journey, A Half-finished Blaze, Galleri Andersson/Sandström, Umeå, Sweden
▹ Parafin, The Seaman’s Crop, London, UK
2013
▹ Strandverket Konsthall, The Tower of Snow, Marstrand, Sweden
▹ SITE Santa Fe, The Pearl, Santa Fe, New Mexico
▹ Fredric Snitzer Gallery, Burning as It Were a Lamp, Miami, Florida
2012
▹ The State Hermitage Museum, The Tower of Snow, St. Petersburg, Russia
▹ L.A. Louver, The Hunt’s Will, Venice, California
▹ Galleri Andersson/Sandström, Roadhome, Stockholm, Sweden
▹ Galería Joan Prats, El cielo de invierno, Barcelona, Spain
2011
▹ Miami Art Museum, Schneebett, Miami, Florida
▹ L.A. Louver Gallery, Wormwood, Venice, California
▹ Liverpool Street Gallery, The Cliff, Sydney, Australia
2010
▹ Simon Lee Gallery, The Open, London, UK
▹ Cathedral Church of St. John the Divine, The Crossing, New York
▹ Baldwin Gallery, The Palace, Aspen, Colorado
2009
▹ Akira Ikeda Gallery, New York
▹ Sara Meltzer Gallery, New York
▹ Boca Raton Museum of Art, Boca Raton, Florida
2008
▹ L.A. Louver, Daybreak, Venice, California
▹ Liverpool Street Gallery, The Lovely Season, Sydney, Australia
2007
▹ Miami Art Museum, Miami, Florida
▹ Akira Ikeda Gallery, Taura, Japan
▹ John Berggruen Gallery, San Francisco, California
▹ Sara Meltzer Gallery, Awaiting a second plan, New York, New York
2006
▹ Museum der bildenden Künste Leipzig, Leipzig, Germany
▹ Sheldon Museum of Art, University of Nebraska, Lincoln, Nebraska
2005
▹ Oakland Museum of California, Oakland, California
▹ Brauer Museum of Art, Enrique Martínez Celaya: The Photographs, Valparaiso, Indiana
▹ Akira Ikeda Gallery, Berlin, Germany
▹ Griffin Contemporary, Santa Monica, California
2004
▹ Berliner Philharmonie, Schneebett, Berlin, Germany
▹ Colorado University Art Museum, Poetry in Process, Boulder, Colorado
▹ Museum of Art Fort Lauderdale, The October Cycle, Fort Lauderdale, Florida
2003
▹ John Berggruen Gallery, Recent Paintings, San Francisco, California
▹ Sheldon Museum of Art, University of Nebraska-Lincoln, The October Cycle, Lincoln, Nebraska
2002
▹ Massachusetts College of Art, Enrique Martínez Celaya: 1992-2000, Boston, Massachusetts
▹ Griffin, Santa Monica, California
▹ Danese Gallery, New York, New York
2001
▹ The Contemporary Museum, Honolulu, Enrique Martínez Celaya: 1992- 2000, Honolulu, Hawaii
▹ The Orange County Museum of Art, Enrique Martínez Celaya: 1992- 2000, Newport Beach, California
▹ Von der Heydt-Museum, Wuppertal, Germany
2000
▹ Griffin, Coming Home, Venice, California
▹ Rena Bransten Gallery, Paintings of Mercy, San Francisco, California
▹ Galería Ramis Barquet, Pinturas de merced, Monterrey, Mexico
1999
▹ Andrew Mummery Gallery (at St. Pancras Chambers), London, United Kingdom
1998
▹ Galerie Bäumler, Regensburg, Germany
▹ Luigi Marrozzini Gallery, San Juan, Puerto Rico
▹ Griffin, Venice, California
▹ Baldwin Gallery, Aspen, Colorado
1997
▹ Burnett Miller Gallery, Redemption, Santa Monica, California
1996
▹ Bronx Museum of the Arts, Recent Work, Bronx, New York
1995
▹ Dorothy Goldeen Gallery, Lions of Frosting, Santa Monica, California
1994
▹ University Art Museum, University of California, Black Paintings, Santa Barbara, California
SELECTED COLLECTIONS
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, New York
The State Hermitage Museum, St. Petersburg, Russia
Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, New York
Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, California
The Phillips Collection, Washington, D.C.
Moderna Museet, Stockholm, Sweden
Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, California
Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art, Hartford, Connecticut
The Olbricht Collection, Berlin, Germany
Pérez Art Museum Miami, Florida
he Wieland Collection, Smyrna, Georgia
Tucson Museum of Art, Tucson, Arizona
UCLA Charles E. Young Research Library Special Collections, Los Angeles, California
Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire
Museum der bildenden Künste Leipzig, Germany
The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Texas
Denver Art Museum, Denver, Colorado
The Graduate Center, City University of New York, New York
Portland Art Museum, Portland, Oregon
Strandverket Konsthallen, Marstrand, Sweden
Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire
Museum of Contemporary Art, San Diego, California
Oakland Museum of California, Oakland, California
Palm Springs Art Museum, Palm Springs, California
San Diego Museum of Art, San Diego, California
The Patricia & Phillip Frost Art Museum, Miami, Florida
NSU Art Museum Fort Lauderdale, Fort Lauderdale, Florida
Sheldon Museum of Art, Lincoln, Nebraska
Joan Flasch Artists’ Book Collection, School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois
North Carolina Museum of Art, Raleigh, North Carolina
Weatherspoon Art Museum, Greensboro, North Carolina
The Colorado Collection, Boulder, Colorado
Frederick R. Weisman Art Museum, Minneapolis, Minnesota
Anderson Ranch Arts Center, Aspen, Colorado
US Bank, Minneapolis, Minnesota
Henry Art Gallery, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington
Boca Raton Museum of Art, Boca Raton, Florida
The Contemporary Museum, Honolulu, Hawaii
Neues Stadtmuseum der Stadt Landsberg/Lech, Germany
Figge Art Museum, Davenport, Iowa
The Bronx Museum of the Arts, Bronx, New York
Museum of Nebraska Art, Kearney, Nebraska
Pomona College Museum of Art, Claremont, California
Arkansas Art Center, Little Rock, Arkansas
Brauer Museum of Art, Valparaiso, Indiana
SELECTED HONORS AND FELLOWSHIPS
Los Angeles Institute for the Humanities Fellow, University of Southern California, 2017
Montgomery Fellow, Dartmouth College, 2014
Cecil and Ida Green Honors Chair, Texas Christian University, 2014
Knight Foundation Grant, 2013
Visiting Presidential Professor, University of Nebraska, 2007-2010
National Artist Award, Anderson Ranch Arts Center, 2007
California Community Foundation Fellowship, J. Paul Getty Trust Fund
for the Visual Arts, 2001
Young Talent Award, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, 1998