Carolina Martinez
Whether through painting, photos or site-specific installations, all of her works are about space, architecture and emptiness. Carolina Martinez creates connections that exist between invisible urban spaces, architecture and scenes from everyday life and often go unnoticed.
In her works, she always seeks to displace something standard in architecture and raise some form of a common element of architecture to the status of sculpture. By challenging notions of architecture, it distorts the perception that the viewer has of the space.
Her series of Polaroid photos recovers urban voids and places normally neglected in contemporary routine. Today, the urban man lives with the hurry, and often in the virtual world. Her photographs show texture and poetry in common scenes in big cities, looking back at a city, the real space, which is palpable and moldable.
Her paintings are allowed as an integrated body of work that defines research on aspects (and perspectives) of invisible urban spaces, architecture and contemporary routine.
Carolina Martinez was born in the city of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, in 1985.
Graduated in Architecture and Postgraduate in Art History and Architecture in Brazil at PUC-Rio, and became known for her artistic work in 2010, when she participated in the Contemporary Art Salon of the Ribeirão Preto Art Museum, São Paulo Brazil. Since then, Martinez has been exhibiting in Individuals and Collective Shows in Brazil and the United States, such as: “Viewing the Abstraction”, Residency Unlimited (Brooklyn, NY - 2015), "Fullfillment Solo-Show" Resindency Unlimited (Brookliyn, NY 2015) , “What you couldn't see”, individual Galeria Portas Vilaseca (Rio de Janeiro, 2016) “The Question of Space in Art”, EAV-Parque Lage (Rio de Janeiro, 2014); “À Avessas”, individual Galeria Laura Marsiaj (Rio de Janeiro, 2013); “Attributes of Silence”, Galeria Bergamin (São Paulo, 2015) and “Novíssimos”, Galeria IBEU (Rio de Janeiro, 2013).
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Empenas Coloridas, 2024 -
Ponto de Vista, 2024
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Vitrine, 2024
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A surpresa do caminho, 2023
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Lanterna, 2023
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Sem título V (série plaquinhas), 2023
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Untitled, 2022
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Toda Vida, 2022
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Toda Vida, 2022
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Artist's studio, 2021
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Untitled, 2019
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Untitled, 2019
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O que vem depois do vazio, 2017
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Aquilo que não conseguia ver, 2016
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Untitled, 2015
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Rodapés, 2013
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A ROOM OF ONE'S OWN
Group show 23 Nov 2023 - 2 Feb 2024A room of one's own. Or would it be a room all ours? The group exhibition of women artists, which will take place at Galeria Marilia Razuk from November 23,...Read more -
CAROLINA MARTINEZ: TODAVIA, CAMINHAR
Curadoria Diego Matos 6 May - 10 Jun 2023Carolina Martinez (Rio de Janeiro, 1985) presents Todavia, Caminhar (Nevertheless, Walk) her first solo show in São Paulo, from May 6 to June 10, in Room 2 of Galeria Marilia...Read more
Carolina Martinez
Rio de Janeiro, 1985. Vive e trabalha no Rio de Janeiro, Brasil.
EXPOSIÇÕES INDIVIDUAIS / SOLO SHOWS
2024
Vagar pelos dias sem ler as horas. Curadoria Daniela Labra, Portas Vilaseca, Rio de Janeiro, Brasil
2023
Todavia, Caminhar. Galeria Marilia Razuk, São Paulo, Brasil
2022
Alvorada (L'Aube), Galerie Ilian Rebei, Paris, France
2016
Aquilo que não conseguia ver, curadoria (curated by) Ivair Reinaldim - Galeria Portas Vilaseca, Rio de Janeiro – RJ
2015
“Fulfillment”, curadoria (curated by) Gisela Gueiros - Residency Unlimited, Brooklyn - NY
No Lugar do Ar - Galeria Emma Thomas, São Paulo SP
2013
Às avessas, curadoria Felipe Scovino –Galeria Laura Marsiaj, Rio de Janeiro RJ
EXPOSIÇÕES COLETIVAS/ GROUP SHOWS
2023
Um teto todo seu, Galeria Marilia Razuk, São Paulo, SP
2021
Polígonos, pórticos, matéria e desejo, Galeria Janaina Torres, São Paulo SP
2020
AAA – Antologia de Arte e Arquitetura, curadoria (curated by) Sol Camacho– Galpão Fortes D’Aloia & Gabriel, São Paulo SP
2019
AAA – Antologia de Arte e Arquitetura, Expo Chicago, curadoria (curated by) Sol Camacho – Galeria Bergamin & Gomide, São Paulo SP
2018
Aproximações - Celma Albuquerque Galeria, Belo Horizonte – MG
Molt Bé, curadoria (curated by) Raphael Fonseca - Galeria PortasVilaseca, Rio de Janeiro - RJ
2017
Aproximações - Casa de Cultura Laura Alvim, Rio de Janeiro – RJ
2016
O Muro Rever o Rumo - Central Galeria, São Paulo - SP
Atributos do Silêncio, curadoria (curated by) Felipe Scovino - Galeria Bergamin e Gomide, São Paulo, SP
Seeign through Abstraction - Residency Unlimited, Brooklyn – NY
2014
A Questão do Espaço na Arte - EAV Parque Lage.Rio de Janeiro – RJ
2013
Novíssimos – Galeria IBEU, Rio de Janeiro - RJ
2012
Programa de Exposições do Museu de Arte de Ribeirão Preto, Ribeirão Preto - SP
Somatório Singular – Galeria Murilo Castro, Belo Horizonte - MG
2011
Na Bhering - Fábrica Bhering, Rio de Janeiro - RJ
2010
35 SARP – Salão de Arte Contemporânea de Ribeirão Preto, MARP. Ribeirão Preto - SP.
PRÊMIOS E RESIDÊNCIAS/ AWARDS AND RESIDENCY PROGRAMS
2015
Residency Unlimited, Brooklyn – NY
2010
Finalista no prêmio Garimpo 2010, Revista DasArtes
(Finalist at Garimpo Award 2010, Revista DasArtes)