About the artist
Hi, I’m Enrique Martinez, owner, founder and CEO of Studio Martinez. I’m an artist originally from El Paso, TX, working in San Antonio. My style is influenced by a wide range of sources from high art to pop-culture. I’m as influenced by masters of the Italian Renaissance as I am by underground comix and indigenous art. I’m also greatly inspired by mythologies from around the world, from Greek, Roman, Hindu and Aztec to name just a few. And much of my work derives from these sources and is made manifest by my surreal interpretations.
I’m also a former educator of 14 years and have experience teaching all grade levels as well as adult classes. Although my current work is focused on my studio practice, I always welcome the opportunity to share my knowledge about art with others.
I’ve exhibited locally as well as internationally and continue to create art, illustrations, graphics, logos and murals for local businesses in my studio.
If you’d like to have some artwork done contact me HERE and I’ll get back to you as soon as I can.
Thanks for looking!
Enrique Martinez
Phone: (210) 422-0014
Education
University of Texas San Antonio, MFA in Art, August 2006
Texas State University, San Marcos, BFA in Art, August 2004
Selected Exhibitions
2021 - Resurgence, Guadalupe Cultural Arts Center, San Antonio, TX. Curator: Alex Rubio.
2020 - Day of the Dead Skull Collection, Main Plaza, San Fernando Cathedral, San Antonio, TX. Curator: Alex Rubio
2019 - Day of the Dead in Art, Centre de Artes, San Antonio, TX. Curator: Ruben Cordova
2018 -The Other Side of the Alamo: Art Against the Myth, Galeria Guadaulpe, San Antonio, TX (catalogue)
2016 - Cascarones (solo), Studio Fantomas, San Antonio, TX
2015 - First World Problems (solo), R Space, San Antonio, TX
2010 - Impromptu Complete, Fl!ght, San Antonio, TX
2010 - Amalgamations 25: 28 Artists For 25 Great Years, Blue Star Contemporary Art Center, San Antonio, TX. Curator: Wayne Gilbert
2009 - Eye Infection, KSpace Contemporary, Corpus Christi, TX. Curator: Gerald Lopez
2008 - Enmascarados, Pump Project Art Complex, Austin, TX. Curator: Angel Quesada
2008 - I’m Watching My Stories, Lombardi Gallery, Austin, TX, Curator: Rachel Koper
2008 -Welcome to the Monkey House, UTSA Satellite Space, San Antonio, TX. (Curated)
2007 -Young Latino Artists #12, Mexic-Arte Museum, Austin, TX, Curator: Angel Quesada
2007 -Thus Spoke the Enigma of Desire (solo), 1906 Gallery, San Antonio, TX, Curator: Ruben Cordova
2007 -Drawing Frenzy, Sala Diaz, San Antonio, TX, Curator: Hills Snyder
2006 -The Changing Identity of El Dia de los Muertos, Institute of Texan Cultures, San Antonio, TX, Curator: Patricia Dunn
2006 -Coordinates, Studio 61, Florence, Italy
2006 -Funny Little People (solo), Three Walls Gallery, San Antonio, TX, Curator: Michelle Monseau
2006 -Fire in the Belly, Blue-Star Contemporary Art, San Antonio, TX, Curators: Dayna De Hoyos and Chuck Ramirez
2006 -Pizza, Beer and Cigarettes (solo installation), Gallery E, San Antonio, TX
2006 -Unlocked, UTSA Satellite Space, San Antonio, TX, Curator: Lisa Endersen (catalogue)
Teaching
Alamo Heights ISD, San Antonio, TX
6-8th grade Art 1-2, Portfolio Art, World Art, 2018-2022
Edgewood ISD, San Antonio, TX
9-12th grade Art 1-Art 4, Drawing 2-4, Painting 2-4 and Ceramics 2-4, 2011-2018
K-5th grade art, 2008-2011
Alamo Community Colleges District, San Antonio, TX
Art Appreciation Fall 2007-Spring 2008: Northwest Vista Community College
Photography I: Digital Photography, Spring 2007: Palo Alto Community College
Southwest School of Art and Craft, San Antonio, TX
Basic Drawing, Fall 2007-Spring 2008
The Figure in Drawing and Painting, Spring 2008
