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BIO
Ana Martínez is an artist who lives and works in Spain.
Graduated in Fine Arts from the Complutense University of Madrid, 1996, and furthered her studies at the Gerrit Rietveld Academie in Amsterdam, 1996/97.
She has held solo and group exhibitions both in Spain and abroad.
In the early 1990s, she began creating installations in “Punto de partida”, a workshop taught by Soledad Sevilla and Chema Alvargonzález at the CAAC in Seville. During that decade, she also took part in the 10th edition of Circuitos de arte of the Community of Madrid, in a traveling exhibition organized by the Instituto Cervantes in cities such as Rome, Milan, Naples, Madrid, and Paris.
She has received creation grants from the Community of Madrid, the Provincial Council of Córdoba, the Botí Foundation in Córdoba, the Regional Government of Andalusia, and the Regional Government of Castile and León for the development of artistic projects.
She also participated in the 2nd edition of Arte de Mujeres by the Andalusian Women’s Institute with a traveling exhibition through Málaga, Granada, and Seville.
She has taught INEM courses for the training and inclusion of unemployed women in the labor market, in Coín, Málaga.
She has conducted art workshops in Spain and the UK, on various themes and aimed at a wide range of ages.
She has taken part in group exhibitions in Spain and across different European countries, especially in the United Kingdom.
Solo exhibitions include: Galería Carmen del Campo, Córdoba; Sala Reyes Católicos, Córdoba; Sala Triángulo, Madrid; Sala La voz de mi madre, Salamanca; Iglesia de la Magdalena and Palacio de Viana, Fundación Cajasur, Córdoba; Sala Limbo 0, Córdoba; Sala Galatea at Casa Góngora, City Council of Córdoba; Fundación Rafael Botí, Córdoba; Fundación José Luis García Palacios of Caja Rural del Sur, Seville, as well as the same Foundation in its Córdoba venue.
For more than 15 years, she has created commissioned murals of various formats in public and private spaces. She has painted murals in countries such as Spain, the United Kingdom, Argentina, and Cameroon.
She is currently focused on oil painting.