Donald Martiny was born in Schenectady, NY in 1953 and currently lives and works in Ivoryton, CT. He studied at the School of the Visual Arts, The Art Students League in New York, New York University and the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts. Museum exhibitions include the FWMoA, Courtauld Institute of Art, Alden B Dow Museum of Art, Falmouth Museum, and the Cameron Art Museum.
Donald’s work is in the permanent collections of the One World Trade Center in New York City; the Crocker Art Museum in Sacramento, CA; the Amon Carter Museum of American Art in Fort Worth, TX; the Newcomb Art Museum at Tulane University in New Orleans, LA; the FWMoA, Fort Wayne, IN and the Lamborghini Museum in Bologna, Italy as well as the Grahm Gund Family Foundation, Cambridge, Las Vegas Art Museum, Las Vegas, NV; The Phoenix Art Museum, Phoenix, City of Pont de Claix, France and Los Angeles International Airport.
b. 1953, Schenectady, NY
EDUCATION
1977-80
School of Visual Arts, New York, NY
1980-83
The Arts Students League, New York, NY
1988-90
New York University, New York, NY
2007-09
Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts, Philadelphia, PA
MUSEUM EXHIBITIONS
2021
Museum Scala Contarini del Bovolo, Venice, Italy
2020
Front Burner: Highlights in Contemporary North Carolina Painting, North Carolina Museum of Art, Raleigh, NC
2018-2019
Art Window, North Carolina Museum of Art, Raleigh, NC
2017-2018
State of the Art/Art of the State, Cameron Art Museum, Wilmington, NC, Curated by Elaine D. Gustafson et al.
2016
All things Great and Small, Falmouth Art Museum, Cornwall, UK, Curated by Natalie Rigby
Donald Martiny - Paintings, Alden B. Dow Museum, Midland, MI, Curated by Charles A Shepard III and Joslyn Elliott
2015
INTERACT- East Wing Biennial, The Courtauld Institute of Art, London, UK (With Bridget Riley, Julie Mehretu, and Felix Gonzalez Torres), Curated by Alicia Stockley and Elizabeth de Bertier
CAM | Contemporary Art Museum | Raleigh, Sponsored by Citrix, Curated by MarjorieH. Hodges, Director, Contemporary Art Foundation
State of the Art/ Art of the State, Cameron Art Museum, Curated by: Laura Hoptman, Museum of Modern Art, NY, Peter Eleey, MoMA PS1, Nora Burnett Abrams, MCA - Denver, Heidi Zuckerman Jacobson, Aspen Art Museum, Aspen
2014
Donald Martiny: Freeing the Gesture, Fort Wayne Museum of Art, Fort Wayne, IN
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2023
Urpflanze | Madison Gallery, Solana Beach, CA | May 6 – June 10
2022
Gesture as Object | Pentimenti Gallery, Philadelphia, PA | April 29 - June 11
Vertigo, Artea Gallery, Milan, Italy | April 23 - July 30
Time Space Existence, Madison Gallery, Solana Beach, CA | April 16 - May 18
2021
Tristan’s Chord, Madison Gallery, Solana Beach, CA
2020
Fischtein Gallery, Toronto, Canada
2019
Open, Dimmitt Contemporary Art, Houston, TX
New Work by Donald Martiny, Martine Chaisson Gallery, New Orleans, LA
Praxis + Poesis, Diehl Gallery, Jackson, WY
RossovermiglioArte, Testo critico: Barba Luciana Cenere, Padova, Italy
Singular Forms, Madison Gallery, Solana Beach, CA
ImaginArt, Barcelona
Expanding the Gestural Index, Pentimenti Gallery, Philadelphia, PA
2018
Recent Paintings, Galleri Urbane, Dallas, TX
Freeing the Gesture, Historic City Hall, Lake Charles, LA
Art Karlsruhe – Rheinstetten with Galerie Klaus Braun, Germany
2017
Overtones / Undercurrents, Horace Williams House, Preservation Chapel Hill, NC
Artea Gallery, Milan, Italy
Donald Martiny, New Works, Diehl Gallery, Jackson, WY
Sponder Gallery at Art Market San Francisco, San Francisco, CA
Mariam Diehl Gallery, Jackson, WY
Pentimenti Gallery at Volta, New York, NY
NIOBasement, Rotterdam, NL
Pittura A Macchia, Madison Gallery, La Jolla, CA
2016
Après Ski and Art, Diehl Gallery, Jackson, WY
Falmouth Art Gallery, Cornwall, UK
Moving Paint, Galleri Urbane, Dallas, TX
Galerie Klaus Braun, Stuttgart, DE
Donald Martiny Paintings, Freeing The Gesture, Alden B Dow Museum of Art and Science, Midland, MI
Made In Paint, Golden, New Berlin, NY
Donald Martiny, Pentimenti Gallery, Philadelphia, PA
2015
Donald Martiny: Gestures, University of North Carolina, John and June Allcott Gallery, Curated by Elin O’Hara Slavick, director of graduate studies at UNC, Chapel Hill, NC
Donald Martiny: Gestures, Madison Gallery, La Jolla, CA
2014
Donald Martiny: Freeing the Gesture, Fort Wayne Museum of Art, Fort Wayne, IN
Donald Martiny Paintings and Works on Paper, Curated by Janusz Jaworski, Courtesy of the Durst Organization
Condé Nast Atrium, New York, NY
George Lawson Gallery, San Francisco, CA
2013
Galleri Urbane, Dallas, TX
George Lawson Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
2012
Carrack Modern Art, Durham, NC
2011
POST Herman Street Studios, Philadelphia, PA
2010
Donald Martiny: Prototypes and Studies, High Point Gallery, Philadelphia, PA
GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2022
Time Space Existence, with Madison Gallery, 59th Venice Biennale
2021
Color Theory, Bentley Gallery, Phoenix, AZ
2020
Chrysalistasis, curated by James Austin Murray, Lyons Wier Gallery, New York
Unfolding Dialogue: Four Voices, Amy Simon Gallery, Westport, CT
2019
ArtVerona, PalaExpo, ArteA Gallery, Verona, Italy
Jackson Hole Fine Art Fair, Diehl Gallery, Jackson, WY
Palazzo Tito, Bevilaqua La Masa Foundation, Padova, Italy
Artist-Collector, A Contemporary Print Exhibition, Curated by Brian Gonzales Rewaq Gallery, College of Fine Arts and Design, University of Sharjah, UAE
Art Karlsruhe, With Galerie Klaus Braun, Rheinstetten, Germany
With Kevin Finale, Pentimenti Gallery, Philadelphia, PA
Arte Fiera Bologna, ArteA Gallery, Bologna, Italy
Simply Red, Gallery Sonja Roesch, Houston, TX
Untitled Art Fair, Sponder Gallery, Miami, FL
Art Palm Beach, ImaginArt Gallery, Miami, FL
2018
Emergence, Dimmitt Contemporary Art, Houston, TX
Art Miami, Miami FL
Pinta Miami, with ImaginArt Gallery, Miami, FL
Art Nashville, Nashville, TN
Art Seattle, Sponder Gallery, Seattle, WA
Art Aspen, Sponder Gallery, Aspen, CO
Art Market Hamptons, Sponder Gallery, Bridgehampton, NY
Roter Faden, Schwartz, Galerie Klaus Braun, Stuttgart, Germany
Modern & Contemporary Art West Palm Beach, Sponder Gallery, Palm Beach, FL
2017
Art Miami, Sponder Gallery, Miami, FL
Pulse Miami Beach, Sponder Gallery, Miami, FL
Juxtaposition, Celia Johnson and Donald Martiny, ArtSpace, Raleigh, NC
The Enduring Reasons Why, Pentimenti Gallery, Philadelphia, PA
Remember When This Wasn’t Quite How I Remembered It?, Pentimenti Gallery, Philadelphia, PA
View Elbe, Klaus Braun Gallery, Stuttgart, Germany
Dialectical Praxis, Celia Johnson and Donald Martiny, Fred Giampietro Gallery, New Haven, CT
2016
Great & Small: A Holiday Miniature Show, Diehl Gallery, Jackson, WY
Celebrating 40: Highlights from the Collection, Kathryn Markel Fine Arts, New York, NY
Winter Show, GreenHill Center for the Arts, Greensboro, NC
Winter Show, Ackland Museum of Art (store), Chapel Hill, NC
60 Americans, MakeShift Museum, Los Angeles, CA
It’s All About the Hue, Curated by Edie Carpenter, director GreenHill Center for the Arts, Greensboro, NC
Donald Martiny and Matthias Lutzeyer, Klaus Braun Gallery, Stuttgart, Germany
Summer Flash, Pentimenti Gallery, Philadelphia, PA
Donald Martiny and Bram Bogart, Curated by Alessandro Deponti, ArteA Gallery, Milan, Italy
2015
State of the Art - Art of the State, Cameron Art Museum, Wilmington, NC
Is it…Monochrome, Colorfield, or Object?, Gallery Sonja Roesch, Houston, TX
2014
Complementary Colors, Pentimenti Gallery, Philadelphia, PA
China Art Projects, Conny Dietzschold Gallery, Sheung Wan, Hong Kong, China
7 x FARBE PUR, Monochrome Malerei, Galerie Klaus Braun, Stuttgart, Germany
25 Years: Conny Dietzschold Gallery, Conny Dietzschold Gallery, Cologne, Germany
Two Artists: Donald Martiny and Sherna Teperson, Conny Dietzschold Gallery, Sydney, Australia
2013
International Art Biennale non-objective, Curated by Roland Orépük, Pont de Claix, France
Fundamentals, Galerie Concrete, Paris France
Ice Water, Flyswatter: Abstract Painting on Holiday in the Philadelphia Summer, Tiger Strikes Asteroid, Philadelphia, PA
Summer, George Lawson Gallery, San Francisco, CA
Dallas Art Fair, Galleri Urbane, Dallas, TX
Raleigh Fine Arts Society’s North Carolina Artists Exhibition, Curated by Bill Dunlap, Raleigh Fine Arts Society, Raleigh, NC
Unfettered, Curated by Katharine Adkins, Assistant Curator of Exhibitions, The Nasher Museum of Art
Visual Art Exchange Gallery, Raleigh, NC
Open Source, Curated by Elysia Borowy-Reeder, Executive director, Contemporary Art Museum, Raleigh
Visual Art Exchange Gallery, Raleigh, NC
2012
Miami Aqua, George Lawson Gallery, Miami, FL
Painting to Sculpture, Curated by John Anderson, Associate Professor of Art, Marlborough Gallery, Prince George Community College, Largo, MD
This and That, Harris Warren Gallery, Wake Forest, NC
2011
New Abstraction, Speakeasy Gallery, Boonton, NJ
SELECTED COLLECTIONS
One World Trade Center, New York, NY
Graham Gund Family Foundation, Cambridge, MA
Patrick Duffy, Chairman, Las Vegas Art Museum, Las Vegas, NV
Erin Lawlor, Sainte-Marie de Re, France
City of Pont de Claix, France
John Hudson, New York, NY
Mae Gall, Basel, CH
C. Laville, Montreal, QC, Canada
Lamborghini family collection, Bolognese, Italy
Frost Bank Tower, Fort Worth, TX
AAP Tower, Raleigh, NC
Standard, NOLA, New Orleans, LA