Rainy
Current Paintings, February
5 - March 2, 2007
Curator: Exhibition Committee
"Maria
Sonia Martin, Paintings and Sculpture", September 15 - October 20, 2005
Curator: Exhibition Committee
Curator: Maximo Serracino, Gallery Director
Thomas Center Galleries,
Division of Cultural Affairs,
"Margins of Humanity", July 24 - September 5, 1999
Curator: Amy V. Dickerson,
Ph.D., Galleries Coordinator
Gallery North,
September
24 - October 30, 1998
Curator: Juan Espinosa Almodovar, Director of Galleries
Tampa Electric Company (TECO) Plaza,
Curator: Pat Higgins, Gallery Director
Curator: Exhibition Committee
Center Place Fine Arts,
Curator:
Exhibition Committee
Two Person Exhibitions
The Children's Gallery and
Curator: Carlos Franco, Gallery Director, artist
"Known/Unknown V: Feinberg & Martin", two person exhibition, December 7, 1989-January 31, 1990
Curator:
Sheldon Lurie, Director of Galleries, Wolfson Campus and InterAmerican Campus,
"Alice Lewis and Maria Sonia Martin", two person exhibition, June 5-22, 1989
Curator: Exhibition
Committee
Selected Group Exhibitions
The Bakehouse Art Complex,
Impressed, a printmaking exhibition
March
11 - April 1, 2011
Jurors: Pavel Ouporov, Suzanne Scherer and Tom Virgin
June 22 - August 8, 2010
Juror: Linda Norden, curator, writer and art historian
"1st Annual Juried National Drawing, Painting
and Printmaking Competition"
February 18-April 1, 2005
Juror: Kim Lawson, Assistant Curator of Education, Norton
The
November
23, 2004-January 6, 2005
Curator: Rem Cabrera, Chief of Cultural Development,
Bakehouse Art Complex,
Juror: Peter Boswell,
Assistant Director of Programs, Senior Curator,
Bakehouse Art Complex,
Juror: Arthur Dunkelman, Director/Curator, Jay I. Kislak Foundation,
Juror:
Lamonte Anderson, Associate Professor,
Artserve,
Juror: Candice Russell, Art Critic, City Link Newspaper,
May
19-July 11, 1999
Juror: Ronny Cohen, Ph.D., Art Critic and Lecturer
The Atrium Gallery,
three-person exhibition invitational, November 18-December 29, 1998
Curator: Jorge Sardinas, Rev., Director
of Galleries,
The Santender Gallery and
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,
Curator: Exhibition Committee
Stephanie
Ann Roper Gallery,
"Towards ' 92 and Beyond", October 23 - November 23, 1992
Curator:
Jose Rodeiro, Ph.d., Professor of Art History,
"Approaching
the Quincentary, October 1992
Curator: Jose Rodeiro, Ph.d., Professor of Art History,
"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,
Museo Chicano,
Jurors:
Jose Colchado, Ph.d., Art Education, Associate Dean of Fine Arts,
Ramon
Fabela, Ph.d., Art Historian, Dept. of Chicano Studies,
Luis Jimenez, Chicano artist, Hondo, New
Mexico
Jacinto Quirarto, Ph.d., Art Historian,
Asela Sanchez,
Art Education and Criticism and Education, Director and Chief Curator,
Museo Chicano,
Stephanie Ann Roper Gallery,
"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,
P.A. Gallery,
Curator: Jose Rodeiro, Ph.d., Professor of Art History,
"Alice Lewis and Maria Sonia Martin", two person exhibition, June 5-22, 1989
Curator: Exhibition
Committee
Juror: Kim
Levin, Art Critic, The Village Voice,
American Herstory: Woman
and the
Exhibition traveled:
Dance Gallery, University ofNorth
University of
Curator: Eleanor Tufts, Ph.D., Professor
of Art History and author, Southern Methodist University
November 6-December 4, 1987
Juror: Betsy Damon, Artist
The
Juror: Robert Frankel, Director of Center for the Fine Arts,
Public
Collections
2011
Purchase,
1991
Betty Laird Perry Purchase Award, 1986
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,
August 1999
Honorable Mention (Sculpture), Artserve,
August
1999
Betty Laird Perry Purchase Award,
April 1986
Artists
Residencies
The Bakehouse Art Complex
561 NW 32 Street
Miami, Florida 33127
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
Gretel
Sarmiento, "All-Florida show at Boca Museum rich and rewarding", review of
59th All Florida Competition and Exhibition, Palm Beach
Arts Paper, July 1, 2010
Faye Whitebeck, "RRCC hosts Cuban artist's exhibition", Rainy River Community College,
The Daily Journal,
International Falls, Minnesota, February 8, 2007 page 1B
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
Miami
Art Guide Magazine, featured artist
April/May, 2011 Issue
Miscelaneas de Cuba, Revista de Asignaturas Cubanas, No. 2, Aņo 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
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