Upcoming Exhibitions

Boca Raton Museum of Art, 59th Annual All Florida Juried Competition and Exhibition, Boca Raton, Florida

June 22 - August 8, 2010

Curated by:  Linda Norden, art curator, writer, historian

Education

Bachelor of Fine Arts in Art Degree     Florida Internationa University,  Miami, Florida, 1986  High Honors

Associate in Art Degree                     Miami Dade Community College,  Miami, Florida 1983

Public Collections

Frost Art Museum, Florida International University, Miami, Florida

Holland and Knight Art Collection, Tampa,  Florida

Awards

Honorable Mention, Palm Beach Community College, Central Campus Gallery, Lake Worth, Florida

1st Annual Juried National Drawing, Painting and Printmaking Competion

April 1, 2005

Best in Show (Painting), Artserve, Ft. Lauderdale, Florida,  City Link's Artfest/Best of Gallery, 

August 1999

Honorable Mention (Sculpture), Artserve, Ft. Lauderdale, Florida, City Link's Artfest/Best of Gallery,

August 1999

Betty Laird Perry Purchase Award, Frost Art Museum, Florida International University, Miami, Florida

April 1986

Solo Exhibitions

Rainy River Community College, International Falls, Minnesota  USA

Current Paintings, February 5 - March 2, 2007

Curator:  Exhibition Committee

Palm Beach Community College, Central Location, Lake Worth, Florida

"Maria Sonia Martin, Paintings and Sculpture", September 15 - October 20, 2005

Curator:  Exhibition Committee

Maxoly Art Gallery, Miami, Florida  "Echoes of Humanity", December 26, 2003 - January 23, 2004

Curator:  Maximo Serracino, Gallery Director

Thomas Center Galleries, Division of Cultural Affairs,Gainesville, Florida

"Margins of Humanity", July 24 - September 5, 1999

Curator:  Amy V. Dickerson, Ph.D., Galleries Coordinator

Gallery North, Miami-Dade College, Miami, Florida, "Maria Sonia Martin, Paintings and Drawings 1993-1998

September 24 - October 30, 1998

Curator:  Juan Espinosa Almodovar, Director of Galleries

Tampa Electric Company (TECO) Plaza, Tampa, Florida  November 4 - December 6, 1991

Curator:  Pat Higgins, Gallery Director

Pasco Fine Arts Center, Holiday, Florida  August 4-30, 1991

Curator:  Exhibition Committee

Center Place Fine Arts, Brandon, Florida   July 1-31, 1991

Curator:  Exhibition Committee

Two Person Exhibitions

The Children's Gallery and Art Center, Homestead, Florida   November 14 - December 8, 2009

"Two Artists:  Maria Sonia Martin   Adriano Nicot",

Curator:  Carlos Franco, Gallery Director, artist

Selected Group Exhibitions

Palm Beach Community College, Central  Campus Gallery, Lake Worth, Florida, 

"1st Annual Juried National Drawing, Painting and Printmaking Competition"

February 18-April 1, 2005

Juror:  Kim Lawson, Assistant Curator of Education, Norton Museum of Art, West Palm Beach, Florida

The Art Gallery at  Government Center, Miami, Florida  "All Art Collections Start Small", Invitational

November 23, 2004-January 6, 2005

Curator:  Rem Cabrera, Chief of Cultural Development,Miami-Dade County Division of Cultural Affairs, Miami, Florida

Bakehouse Art Complex, Miami, Florida, "17th Anniversary Show", April 11-May 7, 2003

Juror:  Peter Boswell, Assistant Director of Programs, Senior Curator, Miami Art Museum, Miami, Florida

Bakehouse Art Complex, Miami, Florida, "Winter Juried Art Show 2002, December 5, 2002-January 19, 2003

Juror:  Arthur Dunkelman, Director/Curator, Jay I. Kislak Foundation, Miami Lakes, Florida

Coral Springs Museum of Art, Coral Springs, Florida, "Tri-County Juried Exhibition", September 12-30, 2002

Juror:  Lamonte Anderson, Associate Professor, Broward Community College, Ft. Lauderdale, Florida

Artserve,Ft. Lauderdale, Florida, City Link's Artfest/Best of Gallery, August 28-September 15, 1999

Juror:  Candice Russell, Art Critic, City Link Newspaper, Ft. Lauderdale, Florida

Boca Raton Museum of Art, Boca Raton, Florida  48th Annual All Florida Competition & Exhibition,

May 19-July 11, 1999

Juror:  Ronny Cohen, Ph.D., Art Critic and Lecturer

The Atrium Gallery, St. Thomas University,Miami, Florida  "From Bliss to Anguish",

three-person exhibition invitational, November 18-December 29, 1998

Curator:  Jorge Sardinas, Rev., Director of Galleries, St. Thomas University, Miami, Florida

The Santender Gallery and Americas Collection, Miami,Florida, "In the Floral Tradition", May, 1997

Curator:  Dora Valdez-Fauli, Director of Galleries, Americas Collection, Coral Gables, Florida

Museo de Bellas Artes  Juan B. Castagnino, Rosario, Argentina  Salon latinoamericano de pintura religiosa

"Fraternitas '92, September 1992

Exhibition travelled:  Salon de la feria, Buenos Aires, Argentina, October-December, 1992

Curator:  Exhibition Committee

Stephanie Ann Roper Gallery, Frostburg State University, Frostburg, Maryland

"Towards ' 92 and Beyond", October 23 - November 23, 1992

Curator:  Jose Rodeiro, Ph.d., Professor of Art History, Frostburg State University, Frostburg, Maryland

Goucher College,Towson, Maryland

"Approaching the Quincentary, October 1992

Curator:  Jose Rodeiro, Ph.d., Professor of Art History, Frostburg State University,Frostburg, Maryland

Arizona State University West, Glendale, Arizona

"The Hispanic Experience in the Southwest", April 1-May1, 1992

Curator:  Asela Sanchez, Art Education and Criticism and Education, Director and Chief Curator,

Museo Chicano, Phoenix, Arizona

Museo Chicano, Phoenix, Arizona,  "2001:  Hispanic Odyssey, May 1-June 23, 1991

Jurors:

Jose Colchado, Ph.d., Art Education, Associate Dean of Fine Arts, Southern Arizona Univeristy

Ramon Fabela, Ph.d., Art Historian, Dept. of Chicano Studies, University of CA at Santa Barbara

Luis Jimenez, Chicano artist, Hondo, New Mexico

Jacinto Quirarto, Ph.d., Art Historian, Research Center for the Visual Arts,University of Texas at San Antonio

Asela Sanchez, Art Education and Criticism and Education, Director and Chief Curator,

Museo Chicano,Phoenix, Arizona

Stephanie Ann Roper Gallery, Frostburg State University, Frostburg, Maryland

"Latino Art of the 90's", February 18-March 7, 1990

Exhibition traveled:

Bausch and Lomb Gallery, Garrett Community College, McHenry, Maryland, March 15-April 8, 1990

Delaware State College Gallery, Dover, Delaware, April 12-30, 1990

P.A. Gallery, University of Maryland, College Park, Maryland, May 11-31, 1990

Washington County Museum, Hagerstown, Maryland, November 3-24, 1991

Curator:  Jose Rodeiro, Ph.d., Professor of Art History,Frostburg State University, Frostburg, Maryland

"Alice Lewis and Maria Sonia Martin", two person exhibition, June 5-22, 1989

Curator:  Exhibition Committee

Orlando Museum of Art, Orlando, Florida  "1988 Annual Juried Exhibition, May 21-June 15, 1988

Juror:  Kim Levin, Art Critic, The Village Voice, New York, New York

Atlanta College of Art, Atlanta, Georgia

American Herstory:  Woman and the U.S. Constitution, January 27-March 5, 1988

Exhibition traveled:

Dance Gallery,University of North Carolina, March 21-May 1, 1989

University of Tennessee Art Gallery, Martin, TN  October 25-December 5, 1989

Curator:  Eleanor Tufts, Ph.D., Professor of Art History and author, Southern Methodist University

Broward Community College, Ft. Lauderdale,Florida "Homage to Georgia O'Keeffe", juried exhibition

November 6-December 4, 1987

Juror:  Betsy Damon, Artist

The Continium Art Center,Miami Beach, Florida  "Women Explore the 80's", May 1-30, 1987

Juror:  Robert Frankel, Director of Center for the Fine Arts,Miami, Florida

Artists Residencies

The Bakehouse Art Complex

561 NW 32 Street

Miami, Florida   33127

April 2007 - March 2008

January 2009 - Present

Special Projects

Abanico Theatre, Coconut Grove, Florida and El Circulo Multicultural Center

Stage set design project (together with artist Emilio Fernandez de la Vega) for the Spanish presentation of

"Las galas del difunto", author Ramon del Valle-Inclan (1866-1936)  December 2-17, 2005

Directed by Barbara Safille, Ph.D., Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut

Selected Bibliography

Candice Russell, "Shakin' Bakehouse" Review of exhibition, Bakehouse Art Complex,Miami, Florida,

Gallery, City Link News, Ft. Lauderdale, Florida  January 2003, Page 60

Candice Russell, "Piano Bob, Teletubbies and the Incredible Hulk", review of exhibition

at Artserve, Ft. Lauderdale, Florida, Gallery, City Link News, Ft. Lauderdale, Florida  September 1999

Candice Russell, "Florida 48" Annual all Florida Competition & Exhibition, review of exhibition

at Boca Raton Museum, Gallery, City Link News, Ft. Lauderdale, Florida, May, 1999

Armando Alvarez Bravo, "El mundo ensimismado de Maria Sonia Martin", El Nuevo Herald,

Miami Herald, review of exhibition at Miami-Dade Community College Gallery North,

October 18, 1998 p 11F

Joanne Milani, "Where's the Beach", Tampa Tribune, January 20, 1990, review of exhibition at

Clayton Galleries, Tampa, Florida p. 5F

Sheldon Lurie, "Known/Unknown V:  Gary Feinberg/Maria Sonia Martin", December 1989,

catalog of exhibition at InterAmerican Art Gallery,Miami-Dade College, Miami, Florida

Silvio Gaggi, Ph.d. "The Latin Spirit", The Art Papers, Atlanta, Georgia, March/April 1990, review of

exhibition at Clayton Galleries, Tampa, Florida   p. 39-40

Joanne Milani, "Show Spotlights Hispanic Artists", Tampa Tribune, November 20, 1989, review of

exhibition "The Latin Spirit" at Clayton Galleries, Tampa, Florida   p. 3F

Brad Beahan, "2 artists from different cultures share much in common", The Ledger, Winter Haven,

Florida, June 9, 1989, review of exhibition at Polk Community College, Winter Haven, Florida

Laura Stewart, "Quality gets lost in crowd", Orlando Sentinel, May 30, 1988, review of exhibition at

Orlando Museum of Art, Orlando, Florida

Eleonor Tufts, Ph.d., "American Herstory:  Women and the U.S. Constitution", catalog of exhibition,

Atlanta College of Art, Atlanta, Georgia, January 27, 1988, page 3

Publications

Miscelaneas de Cuba, Revista de Asignaturas Cubanas, No. 2, Año V, abril - junio 2009

Stockholm, Sweden

Casa y Estilo Internacional, Miami, Florida  June 2005 Edition Ano XI, No. 62, p 32,

Text by Lidia Sanchez Amores

Salt Hill Press, Salt Hill Literary Association,Syracuse University, Syracuse, New York,

June 1998, front and back covers and pages 99, 100

The Bulletin, Hillsborough County Medical Association, Tampa, Florida, October, 1988, front cover