Carlo Ray Martinez
Artist Bio
Born February 25, 1973 in Denver Colorado, Carlo Ray Martinez was brought to New Mexico at an early age and spent much of his youth on the Rio Grande south of Taos, N.M. He has traveled and lived in many places, including Japan, Venezuela, Canada, Alaska, Mexico and many of the art meccas in the United States:
New York, Los Angeles, Miami, San Diego, and Santa Fe. After a year of studies at UNM/LA, at the age of seventeen, Carlo enlisted in the United States Air Force. Honorably discharged in 1992, he returned to New Mexico to spend time with family, before embarking on further adventures around the world.
In 1998, Martinez apprenticed with master sculptor David Breeden at Biscuit Run Studio in Charlottesville, VA. Carlo then went on to earn two Associate degrees in Media Arts at the Santa Fe Community College. Martinez has shown at the Bond House Museum, Santa Fe Indian Art Market, the Wheelwright Museum, Primitive Edge Gallery, Skydome Contemporary Gallery, the Museum of Contemporary Native Arts, AIHEC first prize sculpture 2012, Santa Fe Contemporary Hispanic Art Market 2013, and the Poeh Museum.
Martinez works in stone, metals, video, graphic and 3D design, photography, oil paints, watercolor, gouache, and acrylic. He graduated from the Institute of American Indian Arts in Santa Fe, N.M., in May 2013 with a BFA in New Media. Currently, Carlo sculpts in Santa Fe.
