Daniel Joseph Martinez
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Daniel Joseph Martinez (born 1957) is a Los Angeles–based visual artist and educator whose work explores individual and collective identity, as well as the tension between political activism and personal culpability, through a wide range of media that encompasses text, photography, painting, sculpture, video, performance, and even motorized animatronic self-portraits.[1]
Martinez grew up in Lennox, California, a working-class area of Los Angeles County near Los Angeles International Airport. After high school, he attended the California Institute of the Arts, where he received his BFA in 1979.[2] During the 1980s, he worked as a freelance photographer, and spent time working with Harry Gamboa Jr. and ASCO.[3]
Collections
Martinez' work can be found in public collections in the United States and abroad including the Whitney Museum of American Art in New York;[4] Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA); the Orange County Museum of Art, Newport Beach, California;[5] Cisneros Fontanals Art Foundation, Miami, Florida; Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Texas; and the Pace Foundation, San Antonio, Texas.[citation needed]
