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Martin & Muñoz are Walter Martin & Paloma Muñoz and are artists who have collaborated to create and photograph dystopian sculptures.
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Biography
Walter Martin was born in Norfolk, Virginia in 1953. He received his B.A. from Old Dominion University in Virginia and his M.F.A. from Virginia Commonwealth University.
Paloma Muñoz was born in Madrid, Spain in 1965. She is the daughter of Spanish artist Paloma Navares and sister of film maker and producer David Muñoz.
Martin and Muñoz have been professional and personal partners since soon after they met in 1993. They live in Milford, Pennsylvania and maintain a studio in Williamsburg, Brooklyn. They work summers at a family retreat in Spain
Work
Walter Martin & Paloma Muñoz are best known for their sculptures and photographs of sculptures contrasting pristine settings with foreboding or grisly scenes. Their most recent work are the Travelers and Islands series.
Martin & Muñoz provide the cover and interior art for the New Pornographers' album Together.
Selected exhibitions
Collections
Their work is in the collections of many prominent museums, including the Museum of Contemporary Art Kiasma in Helsinki the Museum of Arts and Design in New York, the Centro de Arte Contemporaneo de Málaga, the Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía in Madrid and the Hunter Museum of American Art in Chattanooga, TN. They are also represented in the private collections of other prominent institutions, including the Progressive Art Collection, Bloomberg L.P. and 21c Museum Hotel in Louisville, KT.
Galleries
The artists are represented by P.P.O.W. Gallery in New York [1], Galería Isabel Hurley in Málaga [2] and Mario Mauroner Contemporary Art in Salzburg and Vienna [3]