Eddie Martinez (b. 1977, Groton Naval Base, Connecticut) is an American painter and sculptor who lives and works in Brooklyn. Martinez is best known for his large-scale paintings that incorporate figuration and abstraction, painting and drawing, and foreground his signature muscular brushwork. His works often feature a combination of mediums, including oil, enamel, spray paint, and collaged found objects.

Martinez’s practice draws from a deep understanding of painting’s histories, with works that are dense with allusions to canonical artworks as well as personal references. Many of his works recall CoBrA and action painting, while others nod to the ominously cartoonish late-career work of Philip Guston. During his childhood and adolescence, Martinez moved back and forth between opposite regions of the United States, sometimes uprooted more than once a year. His magpie style of appropriating fragments of imagery emanates from this nomadic background, with traces of the different landscapes traversed during his youth occasionally appearing in his iconography, revisited and transformed from work to work.

Martinez has been the subject of solo exhibitions at La Biennale di Venezia (where he represented the Republic of San Marino); Space K in Seoul, South Korea; the Parrish Art Museum in Water Mill, New York; the Yuz Museum, Shanghai; the Museum of Contemporary Art, Detroit; The Bronx Museum, New York; the Drawing Center, New York; and the Davis Museum at Wellesley College, among others. His works are represented in international public and private collections.

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