ENRIQUE MARTÍNEZ CELAYAinstallation views selected works curriculum selected text
Un Poema a Madrid Sep 09 - Nov 04 | 2021
Solo exhibitions (selection)
2022
- The Foreigner’s Song, Miles Mcenery Gallery, New York
- Rose Garden, UTA Artist Space, Beverly Hills, California
- Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, The Grief of Almost, Hanover, New Hampshire
- Fisher Museum of Art, University of Southern California, SEA SKY LAND: towards a map of everything, Los Angeles, California
- Monterey Museum of Art, Enrique Martínez Celaya and Robinson Jeffers, Monterey, California
- Doheny Memorial Library, University of Southern California, Enrique Martínez Celaya and Robinson Jeffers, Los Angeles, California
2021
- Un Poema a Madrid, Casado Santapau Gallery, Madrid
- There-BoundThe Huntington Library, Art Collections, and Botanical Gardens, San Marino, California
- Jack Shainman Gallery, New York, New York
- Galerie Judin, Enrique Martínez Celaya and Kathe Köllwitz, Berlin, Germany
- Baldwin Gallery, Aspen, Colorado
2019
- Blain|Southern, The Mariner’s Meadow, London, United Kingdom
- 13th Havana Biennial, Detrás del Muro, Havana, Cuba
- Kohn Gallery, The Tears of Things, Los Angeles, California
2018
- Galleri Andersson/Sandström, The Other Life, Stockholm, Sweden
2017
- Jack Shainman Gallery, The Gypsy Camp, New York, New York
- Galerie Judin, The Mirroring Land, Berlin, Germany
- Fredric Snitzer Gallery, Nothing That Is Ours, Miami, Florida
2016
- The Phillips Collection, One-on-One: Enrique Martínez Celaya/ Albert Pinkham Ryder, Washington, D.C.
- Abroms-Engel Institute for the Visual Arts, Small Paintings: 1974- 2015, Birmingham, Alabama
- Para n, Self and Sea, London, United Kingdom Baldwin Gallery, Self and Land, Aspen, Colorado
2015
- Jack Shainman Gallery, Empires: Land and Empires: Sea, New York, New York
- A. Louver, Lonestar, Venice, California
2014
- Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Burning as It Were a Lamp,
Hanover, New Hampshire - Galleri Andersson/Sandström, A Wasted Journey, A Half- nished
Blaze, Umeå, Sweden - Para n, The Seaman’s Crop, London, United Kingdom
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
- A. Louver Gallery, Wormwood, Venice, California Liverpool Street Gallery, The Clip, Sydney, Australia
2010
- Simon Lee Gallery, The Open, London, United Kingdom
- Cathedral Church of St. John the Divine, The Crossing, New York,
New York - Baldwin Gallery, The Palace, Aspen, Colorado
2009
- Akira Ikeda Gallery, An Empty Space, New York, New York
- Sara Meltzer Gallery, Down With Me, New York, New York
- Boca Raton Museum of Art, An Un nished Conversation: Collecting Enrique Martínez Celaya, Boca Raton, Florida
2008
- A. Louver, Daybreak, Venice, California
- Liverpool Street Gallery, The Lovely Season, Sydney, Australia
2007
- Miami Art Museum, Nomad, Miami, Florida
- Akira Ikeda Gallery, Six Paintings on the Duration of Exile,
Taura, Japan - John Berggruen Gallery, For two Martinson poems, poorly
understood, San Francisco, California - Sara Meltzer Gallery, Awaiting a second plan, New York, New York
2006
- Museum der bildenden Künste Leipzig, Schneebett, Leipzig, Germany Sheldon
- Museum of Art, University of Nebraska, Coming Home,
Lincoln, Nebraska
2005
- Oakland Museum of California, Enrique Martínez Celaya. Works on
Paper, Oakland, California - Brauer Museum of Art, Enrique Martínez Celaya: The Photographs,
Valparaiso, Indiana - Akira Ikeda Gallery, Shore: “Is today yesterday?” (Part I), Berlin, Germany
- Gri in Contemporary, Shore: “Is today yesterday?” (Part II), 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
- Gri in, Enrique Martínez Celaya, Santa Monica, California Danese Gallery, Enrique Martínez Celaya, 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, Enrique Martínez Celaya, Wuppertal, Germany
2000
- Gri in, 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), The Field,
London, United Kingdom
1998
- Galerie Bäumler, Recent Works, Regensburg, Germany
- Luigi Marrozzini Gallery, Enrique Martínez Celaya, San Juan, Puerto Rico
- Gri in, Enrique Martínez Celaya, Venice, California Baldwin Gallery, New Work, 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
Public 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
- The Huntington Library, Art Museum, and Botanical Gardens, San Marino, California
- Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art, Hartford, Connecticut
- The Olbricht Collection, Berlin, Germany
- Pérez Art Museum Miami, Florida
- The Wieland Collection, Smyrna, Georgia
- Columbus Museum of Art, Columbus, Ohio
- Tucson Museum of Art, Tucson, Arizona
- UCLA Charles E. Young Research Library Special Collections, Los Angeles, California
- USC Edward L. Doheny Jr. Memorial Library, 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
- Mildred Lane Kemper Museum, Washington University, St. Louis, Missouri
- The Graduate Center of the 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
- Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego, California
- The Patricia & Phillip Frost Art Museum, Miami, Florida
- Mildred Lane Kemper Art Museum, Washington University, St. Louis, Missouri
- NSU Art Museum 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
ENRIQUE MARTÍNEZ CELAYA
Un poema a Madrid (A poem to Madrid) is a new cycle of paintings created for my upcoming exhibition at Galería Casado Santapau in Madrid, Spain. The cycle revolves around events and questions brought forth by my migration from a small town in Cuba, a former Spanish colony, to Madrid in 1972. Unlike other exhibitions, Un poema a Madrid includes clear biographical references, and it touches on memory, dislocation, home, exilic imagination, reinvention, and forgetfulness. Also, an important part of the project is the dynamic of identity and persona, especially the way they are constructed by a child who then revises them as he grows up. Conceived as a visual poem, the exhibition assembles paintings that resist being together, both, visually and conceptually, and this resistance suggests the concern is beyond appearances, or even culture.