Intro

Whether through painting, photos or site-specific installations, all of her works are about space, architecture and emptiness. Carolina Martinez creates connections that exist between invisible urban spaces, architecture and scenes from everyday life and often go unnoticed. 

 

In her works, she always seeks to displace something standard in architecture and raise some form of a common element of architecture to the status of sculpture. By challenging notions of architecture, it distorts the perception that the viewer has of the space. 

 

Her series of Polaroid photos recovers urban voids and places normally neglected in contemporary routine. Today, the urban man lives with the hurry, and often in the virtual world. Her photographs show texture and poetry in common scenes in big cities, looking back at a city, the real space, which is palpable and moldable. 

 

Her paintings are allowed as an integrated body of work that defines research on aspects (and perspectives) of invisible urban spaces, architecture and contemporary routine.

 

Carolina Martinez was born in the city of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, in 1985.

 

Graduated in Architecture and Postgraduate in Art History and Architecture in Brazil at PUC-Rio, and became known for her artistic work in 2010, when she participated in the Contemporary Art Salon of the Ribeirão Preto Art Museum, São Paulo Brazil. Since then, Martinez has been exhibiting in Individuals and Collective Shows in Brazil and the United States, such as: “Viewing the Abstraction”, Residency Unlimited (Brooklyn, NY - 2015), "Fullfillment Solo-Show" Resindency Unlimited (Brookliyn, NY 2015) , “What you couldn't see”, individual Galeria Portas Vilaseca (Rio de Janeiro, 2016) “The Question of Space in Art”, EAV-Parque Lage (Rio de Janeiro, 2014); “À Avessas”, individual Galeria Laura Marsiaj (Rio de Janeiro, 2013); “Attributes of Silence”, Galeria Bergamin (São Paulo, 2015) and “Novíssimos”, Galeria IBEU (Rio de Janeiro, 2013).

 

 

 

Works
  • Carolina Martinez, Empenas Coloridas, 2024
    Empenas Coloridas, 2024
  • Carolina Martinez, Ponto de Vista, 2024
    Ponto de Vista, 2024
  • Carolina Martinez, Vitrine, 2024
    Vitrine, 2024
  • Carolina Martinez, A surpresa do caminho, 2023
    A surpresa do caminho, 2023
  • Carolina Martinez, Lanterna, 2023
    Lanterna, 2023
  • Carolina Martinez, Sem título V (série plaquinhas), 2023
    Sem título V (série plaquinhas), 2023
  • Carolina Martinez, Untitled, 2022
    Untitled, 2022
  • Carolina Martinez, Toda Vida, 2022
    Toda Vida, 2022
  • Carolina Martinez, Toda Vida, 2022
    Toda Vida, 2022
  • Carolina Martinez, Artist's studio, 2021
    Artist's studio, 2021
  • Carolina Martinez, Untitled, 2019
    Untitled, 2019
  • Carolina Martinez, Untitled, 2019
    Untitled, 2019
  • Carolina Martinez, O que vem depois do vazio, 2017
    O que vem depois do vazio, 2017
  • Carolina Martinez, Aquilo que não conseguia ver, 2016
    Aquilo que não conseguia ver, 2016
  • Carolina Martinez, Untitled, 2015
    Untitled, 2015
  • Carolina Martinez, Rodapés, 2013
    Rodapés, 2013
Exhibitions
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Carolina Martinez

Rio de Janeiro, 1985. Vive e trabalha no Rio de Janeiro, Brasil.

 

EXPOSIÇÕES INDIVIDUAIS / SOLO SHOWS

 

2025

A Cor do Tempo, Curadoria Paula Plee, Centro Cultural Correios, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

 

2024

Vagar pelos dias sem ler as horas. Curadoria Daniela Labra, Portas Vilaseca, Rio de Janeiro, Brasil

 

2023

Todavia, Caminhar.  Galeria Marilia Razuk, São Paulo, Brasil  

 

2022

Alvorada (L'Aube), Galerie Ilian Rebei, Paris, France  

 

2016

Aquilo que não conseguia ver, curadoria (curated by) Ivair Reinaldim - Galeria Portas Vilaseca, Rio de Janeiro – RJ

 

2015

Fulfillment”, curadoria (curated by) Gisela Gueiros - Residency Unlimited, Brooklyn - NY

No Lugar do Ar - Galeria Emma Thomas, São Paulo SP

 

2013

Às avessas, curadoria Felipe Scovino –Galeria Laura Marsiaj, Rio de Janeiro RJ

 

EXPOSIÇÕES COLETIVAS/ GROUP SHOWS

 

2025

Exposição Universal em Osaka, Pavilhão Brasileiro, Curadoria Bia Lessa. Osaka, Japão

Adaptação, Galeria Marilia Razuk, São Paulo

 

2023

Um teto todo seu, Galeria Marilia Razuk, São Paulo, SP

 

2021

Polígonos, pórticos, matéria e desejo, Galeria Janaina Torres, São Paulo SP

 

2020

AAA – Antologia de Arte e Arquitetura, curadoria (curated by) Sol Camacho– Galpão Fortes D’Aloia & Gabriel, São Paulo SP

 

2019

AAA – Antologia de Arte e Arquitetura, Expo Chicago, curadoria (curated by) Sol Camacho – Galeria Bergamin & Gomide, São Paulo SP

 

2018

Aproximações - Celma Albuquerque Galeria, Belo Horizonte – MG

Molt Bé, curadoria (curated by) Raphael Fonseca - Galeria PortasVilaseca, Rio de Janeiro - RJ

 

2017

Aproximações - Casa de Cultura Laura Alvim, Rio de Janeiro – RJ

 

2016

O Muro Rever o Rumo - Central Galeria, São Paulo - SP

Atributos do Silêncio, curadoria (curated by) Felipe Scovino - Galeria Bergamin e Gomide, São Paulo, SP

Seeign through Abstraction - Residency Unlimited, Brooklyn – NY

 

2014

A Questão do Espaço na Arte - EAV Parque Lage.Rio de Janeiro – RJ

 

2013

Novíssimos – Galeria IBEU, Rio de Janeiro - RJ

 

2012

Programa de Exposições do Museu de Arte de Ribeirão Preto, Ribeirão Preto - SP

Somatório Singular – Galeria Murilo Castro, Belo Horizonte - MG

 

2011

Na Bhering - Fábrica Bhering, Rio de Janeiro - RJ

 

2010

35 SARP – Salão de Arte Contemporânea de Ribeirão Preto, MARP. Ribeirão Preto - SP.

 

PRÊMIOS E RESIDÊNCIAS/ AWARDS AND RESIDENCY PROGRAMS

 

2015

Residency Unlimited, Brooklyn – NY

 

2010

Finalista no prêmio Garimpo 2010, Revista DasArtes

(Finalist at Garimpo Award 2010, Revista DasArtes)

Selected Texts