{{Short description|American artist, and Donald Bren Professor of Art, University of California, Irvine}} {{like resume|date=January 2018}} '''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.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Daniel Joseph Martinez |url=https://whitney.org/artists/11227 |access-date=2025-09-24 |website=whitney.org |language=en}}</ref>
==Early life== 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.<ref name="hammer">{{cite web |title=Daniel Joseph Martinez - Hammer Museum |url=https://hammer.ucla.edu/exhibitions/2018/made-in-la-2018/daniel-joseph-martinez/ |website=The Hammer Museum |accessdate=23 August 2018 |language=en}}</ref> During the 1980s, he worked as a freelance photographer, and spent time working with Harry Gamboa Jr. and ASCO.<ref name="lat94">{{cite news |last1=Benavidez |first1=Max |title=Listening to the Militant Muse : The streets are Daniel Martinez's gallery. He loves to make waves about problems that are making waves for other people |url=https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1994-02-06-ca-19722-story.html |access-date=23 August 2018 |work=Los Angeles Times |date=6 February 1994}}</ref>
==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;<ref>{{cite web|url=http://brooklynrail.org/2008/03/art/daniel-joseph-martinez-with-phong-bui|title=In Conversation: Daniel Joseph Martinez with Phong Bui|publisher=The Brooklyn Rail|date=March 2008}}</ref> Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA); the Orange County Museum of Art, Newport Beach, California;<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.ocweekly.com/2008-02-14/culture/dancing-on-the-ceiling/|title=Karen Finley, Glenn Kaino, Daniel Joseph Martinez, Martin Kersels at OCMA's 'Disorderly Conduct'|publisher=OC Weekly|date=14 February 2008|accessdate=7 April 2012|archive-date=8 October 2012|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121008115207/http://www.ocweekly.com/2008-02-14/culture/dancing-on-the-ceiling/|url-status=dead}}</ref> Cisneros Fontanals Art Foundation, Miami, Florida; Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Texas; and the Pace Foundation, San Antonio, Texas.{{citation needed |date=April 2012}}
==Honors== Daniel Joseph Martinez has received two National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) Individual Artist Fellowships (1990–91, 1995–96) and an NEA Project Support Grant (1990); a Getty Center Foundation Individual Artist Fellowship (1997–98); a Pollock-Krasner Foundation Individual Artist Fellowship (2001–02);<ref name=PCC>{{cite web|url=http://www.pasadena.edu/artgallery/exhibition.cfm?ID=13981 |title=Archive Exhibit: Daniel J. Martinez, "Through the wormhole..." |publisher=Pasadena City College |accessdate=7 April 2012 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20130728043938/http://www.pasadena.edu/artgallery/exhibition.cfm?ID=13981 |archivedate=28 July 2013 }}</ref> a California Arts Council Individual Artist Fellowship (2003–04); an ArtPace Foundation Fellowship (2005); a Peter Norton Family Foundation Project Support Grant (1991) and five Norton Foundation Artist Fellowships (1997–2001); the First Prize Grant Award of the Tijuana Biennial (2000); and a Flintridge Foundation Individual Artist Fellowship (2000–01). In 2007 Martinez was awarded the United States Artists Fellowship, and in 2008–09, he received the Rasmuson Foundation Alaska Artist in Residence Award in 2009, the Fellows of Contemporary Art Fellowship in 2009;<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.igcaalaska.org/alaskaAIR.html |title=Alaska AIR |publisher=International Gallery of Contemporary Art |accessdate=7 April 2012 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20120423224521/http://www.igcaalaska.org/alaskaAIR.html |archivedate=23 April 2012 }}</ref> and the 2010 FOCA Fellowship Artist Grant and exhibition. In 2014 Martinez was awarded the Alpert Award in the Arts from the Herb Alpert Foundation in collaboration with the California Institute of the Arts.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://herbalpertawards.org/artist/2014/daniel-joseph-martinez|title = Daniel Joseph Martinez | the Herb Alpert Award in the Arts|date = 12 March 2014}}</ref> In 2016, Martinez participated in the American Academy in Berlin Fellowship, Berlin, Germany.
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==External links== *[http://www.robertsandtilton.com/artists/martinez/ Daniel Joseph Martinez at Roberts & Tilton] *[http://www.hatjecantz.de/controller.php?cmd=detail&titzif=00002305 ''Daniel Joseph Martinez: A life of disobedience''], monography by Michael Brenson, Hakim Bey, David Levi Strauss, Gilbert Vicario, Lauri Firstenberg, Arthur C. Danto, Linda Norden, Rachel Leah Baum, Hatje Cantz Publications * [https://web.archive.org/web/20131003051338/http://kadist.org/en/people/daniel-joseph-martinez Daniel Joseph Martinez] at Kadist Art Foundation
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