Gabriel Martinez is a Cuban-American, interdisciplinary artist based in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, working mostly in photography, sculpture, installation and performance. Martinez graduated from the University of Florida in 1989 with a Bachelors of Fine Arts in Photography. He continued his education at Tyler School of Art, Temple University, earning his Masters of Fine Arts in Photography in 1991. Martinez attended the Skowhegan School of Sculpture and Painting in 2003. Martinez was a Pew Fellowship in the Arts recipient in 2001 and was a Joan Mitchell Foundation Fellowship recipient in 2003. He has received two Individual Artists Grants from the Pennsylvania Council on the Arts. Martinez has been an artist-in-residence at both the Fabric Workshop and Museum and at the Rosenbach Museum and Library, both in Philadelphia. Martinez?s work over the last seventeen years has most often been focused upon the male body. Early on, Martinez used his own naked body in both photography and performance-based works. His work from about 1997 to present has in many ways embodied the homosexual male gaze upon the heterosexual male body. The work typically evokes tension and apprehension. 

January 1st, 1967 in Miami (Age 57)