CV
Education
- M.F.A. 1993 : Tyler School of Arts, Temple University, Philadelphia, Pa.
- B.F.A. 1987 : Louisiana State University , Baton Rouge, La.
- Intaglio classes. 2003-04 : Atelier Francoise Bricault, Paris, France.
Awards
2025 Nominee, Anonymous Was a Woman Award (Nomination-only grant for women artists over 40).
2025 Phillips Collection Gala Artist Committee, Washington, DC.
2025 DC Commission on the Art and Humanities, Arts and Humanities Fellowship, Washington, DC.
2024 DC Commission on the Arts and Humanities, Arts and Humanities Fellowship, Washington, DC.
2023 DC Commission on the Arts and Humanities, Arts and Humanities Fellowship, Washington, DC.
2023 Phillips Collection Gala Artist Committee. Washington DC.
https://www.phillipscollectionannualgala.org/about
2022 DC Commission on the Arts and Humanities, Artist Table Campaign, Washington, DC.
2022 DC Commission on the Arts and Humanities, Arts and Humanities Fellowship, Washington, DC.
2022 DC Commission on the Arts and Humanities, Art Bank.
2021 Inside Outside, Upside Down, Phillips Collection, Honorable mention, Washington, DC.
2021 Vita Paper Arts Residency at Pyramid Atlantic Arts Center, Hyattsville, Maryland.
2020 Public Art Building Communities Grant 2020, DC Commission on the Arts and Humanities, Washington, DC
2019 Awarded Arts and Humanities Fellowship 2019, DC Commission on the Arts and Humanities, Washington DC
2018 Public Art Building Communities Grant 2018, DC Commission on the Arts and Humanities, Washington DC
2017 Awarded Artist Fellowship 2017, DC Commission on the Arts and Humanities, Washington DC
2015 Awarded Artist Fellowship 2015, DC Commission on the Arts and Humanities, Washington DC
2011 Awarded Artist Fellowship 2011, DC Commission on the Arts and Humanities, Washington DC
2010 Artist in Schools Grant–Teaching Artists, DC Commission on the Arts & Humanities, Washington, DC
2003 Awarded the Alfonso Arana Foundation « One year residency in Paris » Artist Grant, Paris, France.
2001 First prize XIII Bienal del Grabado Latinoamericano y del Caribe, San Juan, Puerto Rico
1999 First prize, Certamen de Artes Plásticas Ateneo Puertorriqueno, San Juan, Puerto Rico
1996 Artist Grant, Fondo Nacional para el Financiamiento del Quehacer Cultural, San Juan, Puerto Rico
1993 First prize, Segundo Certamen Nacional del Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Puerto Rico, San Juan, Puerto Rico
1993 Mention of Honor: Tercera Bienal de Arte Joven, Chase Manhattan Bank, San Juan, Puerto Rico
1991 First prize, Segunda Bienal de Arte Joven, Chase Manhattan Bank, San Juan, Puerto Rico
1990 Second prize, Certamen Nacional de Artistas Jóvenes en las Artes Plásticas, Instituto de Cultura Puertorriqueña, San Juan, Puerto Rico
1989 First prize, Arte Joven, Chase Manhattan Bank, San Juan, Puerto Rico
Solo Exhibitions (Selection)
2025 Espacio Habitados / Inhabited Spaces, Emmanuel Episcopal Church, Baltimore, Maryland
2022 Rotura-Rupture Anne Arundel Community College, Arnold, MD
2022 Restos/Traces. Phillips Collection, Washington DC
https://www.phillipscollection.org/event/2022-03-31-intersections-marta-perez-garcia
2019 Si Te Cojo… Cuerpo, Mujer, Rotura. Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Puerto Rico, Multimedia Installation. http://www.museocontemporaneopr.org/
2019 Taller Vivo: Museo de Arte Contemporàneo de Puerto Rico.http://www.museocontemporaneopr.org/
2018 I’m Gonna Get You… Body Women, Rupture. Multimedia Installation. DC Commission On the Arts and Humanities, Reeves Center, Washington DC
2017 !BLAST! Interamerican Development Bank Staff Association Art Gallery, Washington DC
2009 Marta Pérez-García. NBC Studio Gallery, Washington DC
2008 The Crossing of the Creatures. H&F Fine Arts, Washington DC
2007 Rémanences Caraibes, Cloître des Billettes, Paris, France
2007 El Trazo de las Criaturas : Fuga y Delirio. Galería Botello, San Juan, Puerto Rico
1999 Dibujos y Grabados Recientes. Galería Botello, San Juan, Puerto Rico
1996 Marta Pérez García. Galería Botello, Plaza Las Américas, San Juan, Puerto Rico
1991 Huellas. Casa Candina, San Juan, Puerto Rico
Group Exhibitions (Selection)
2025 “Gráfica vital”, Museo de Historia, Antropología y Arte, Universidad de Puerto Rico, San Juan, PR
2023 “Pour Tear, Carve: Materials Possibilities”, Phillips Collection , Washington DC
2022 “Latinx Perspectives, Reappropriating the Misappropriated”, Chaney&Martino Gallery, Annapolis, MD
2022 Colegas, Space Gallery, Guaynabo, Puerto Rico
2022 Collectors’ Night 2022, Washington Project for the Arts, Washington DC
2021 Novenario, Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Puerto Rico, Santurce, Puerto Rico
2021 DC Art Now 2021, DC Commission on the Arts and Humanities, Washington DC
2021 Inside Outside, Upside Down, The Phillips Collection, Washington DC
2021 “10 x 10 Invitational” at Pyramid Atlantic Arts Center, Hyattsville, MD
2020 Anarquía y dialéctica del deseo. Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Puerto Rico
2019 Puerto Rico Plural. Permanent Exhibition. Museo de Arte de Puerto Rico. San Juan, Puerto Rico https://www.mapr.org/es/visita/calendario/puerto-rico-plural-exhibicion-permanente
2019 Synergy, Artist Fellowship Exhibition, DC Commission on the Arts and Humanities. Washington DC
2019 “Exhibición Nexos, Edición Museo de Arte de Bayamón, Bayamón, Puerto Rico
2018 “Contrapunto”, Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Puerto Rico, Santurce, Puerto Rico
2017 “The One House Project”, Touchstone Foundation for the Arts (Touchstone Gallery)
2017 “99+1= la centena”, Galería de Arte de la Universidad del Sagrado Corazón, San Juan, Puerto Rico
2016 “Mujeres artistas”, Museo de Arte de Bayamón, Bayamón, Puerto Rico
2016 “Arte y Resiliencia”, Museo de Arte Contemporáneo, Santurce, Puerto Rico
2016 Synergy, Artist Fellowship Exhibition. DC Commission on the Arts and Humanities. Washington DC
2016 Washington Project for the Arts, Auction Gala 2016, Washington DC
2015 Premios de la Bienal de San Juan del Grabado Latinoamericano y del Caribe: 1970-2001. Museo de la Universidad de Puerto Rico
2015 “Visual Arts Exhibition”, DC Commission on the Arts and Humanities, 200 I Street Gallery, Washington DC
2014 Campechada 2014, Homenaje a Mirna Baez, Instituto de Cultura Puertorriqueña San Juan, Puerto Rico
2014 Synergy, Artist Fellowship Program Exhibition, DC Commission on the Arts and Humanities, 200 I Street Gallery, Washington DC
2014 FLOW (Economìas de la Imagen y la Creatividad en el Arte Contemporáneo del Caribe), Inter-American Development Bank (IDB), Washington DC
- Press release: http://www.iadb.org/es/noticias/comunicados-de-prensa/2014-06-03/exposicion-sobre-la-diversidad-estetica-del-caribe,10829.html
- Link to exhibition catalog: http://www.iadb.org/document.cfm?id=38834505
2014 “Crossroads of the Caribbean, PAMM (Perez Art Museum of Miami), Miami, FL.
2013 “Paisajes”, Museo de Arte Contemporàneo (MAC), San Juan, Puerto Rico
2011 “Sacred Reflections”, David C. Driskell Center, University of Maryland, College Park, MD
2010 “Synergy”, Artist Fellowship Grantees Exhibition, DC Commission on the Arts and Humanities, Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington DC
2010 “11 x 51: 2011 Artist Fellowship Program-Visual Arts Exhibition”, DC Commission on the Arts and Humanities (DCCAH), Hisaoka Healing Arts Gallery at Smith Farm Center, Washington DC
2010 “Careos/Relevos: 25 años del Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Puerto Rico”, Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Puerto Rico, San Juan, Puerto Rico
2008 “Bodies of Marvel, Monsters, and Women”, H&F Fine Arts, Washington DC
2008 Exposiciòn de la Colección Reyes Veray, Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Puerto Rico, San Juan, Puerto Rico
2007 “Art en Capital”, Salon Comparaison, Grand Palais, Paris, France
Collections
- Museo de Arte de Ponce, Ponce, Puerto Rico
- DC Commission on the Arts and Humanities - Art Bank, Washington DC, USA
- Phillips Collection, Washington DC, USA
- Library of Congress, Washington DC, USA
- Museo de Arte de Bayamón. Bayamón, Puerto Rico
- Museo de Arte de Puerto Rico. San Juan, Puerto Rico
- Museo de Historia, Antropologìa y Arte de la Universidad de Puerto Rico, Rio Piedras, Puerto Rico
- Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Puerto Rico. http://www.museocontemporaneopr.org/
- Instituto de Cultura Puertorriqueña (ICP), San Juan, Puerto Rico
- Colección Reyes Veray, San Juan, Puerto Rico
- Ateneo Puertorriqueño, San Juan, Puerto Rico
- Chase Manhattan Bank, New York, N.Y., USA
- Compañía de Turismo de Puerto Rico, San Juan, Puerto Rico
- Colección Jaime Fonalledas, Plaza Las Amèricas, San Juan, Puerto Rico