Romulo Martinez

I am Romulo Martinez, a Venezuelan artist based in Dallas - Fort worth. My work is characterized by the symbolic use of color and human representations accompanied by everyday objects and natural elements within contexts of a humanistic, social and introspective nature, with touches of everyday life, playfulness and the picturesque. It is also distinguished by the application of various techniques and media such as drawing, painting, graphic arts, collage and assemblage to represent his visual proposals.
I am a mixed media visual artist who develops the work between the two-dimensional and the three-dimensional, such as interventions and assemblies in the exhibition space through the use of fabrics, recycled objects and assemblage, always with painting present in any of its modalities.
I have several academic awards and artistic recognitions, and 12 solo exhibitions in leading museums, cultural institutions and private galleries, including the most recent Reflejos held at Daisha Board Gallery – Dallas in May 2022, an exhibition in which I approached from the different internal feelings in conflict or doubt a situation of opposite signs or alternatives when making a life decision. Situations represented in which we have all been an...

Master in Artistic Production, specialty: Artistic Practice, Polytechnic University of Valencia (UPV) Faculty of Fine Arts of San Carlos, Valencia, Spain.


Bachelor of Fine Arts, mention Painting. University of Zulia (LUZ) Experimental Faculty of Art (FEDA). School of Plastic Arts. Maracaibo, Venezuela.

SOLO EXHIBITIONS:

2022 – Reflejos. Daisha Board Gallery. Dallas, TX. May.

2022 – Looking for signs. The Art Gallery at Collin College. Plano, TX. February.

2020 – In Between. The Gallery 8680. Frisco, TX. July.

2017 – Volúmenes (Volumes). Crispeta Gallery. Bogotá. August.

2016 – Materia Presentada (Presented Material). La Pared Gallery. Bogotá. August.

2016 – Consumo Retornable (Returnable Consumption). Alejandro Otero Museum of Caracas. Room 4. Caracas. March-May.

2015 – Consumibles (Consumables). Museum of Contemporary Art of Zulia. Lateral Room. Maracaibo. May-July.

2015 – Restitución (Restitution). Aula Magna of the University Rafael Urdaneta URU. With catalog edition. Maracaibo. January-March.

2013 – Desde Afuera y Por Dentro (From Outside and Inside). Itinerant space of the Museum of Contemporary Art of Zulia. Kristoff Gallery. Maracaibo. January-February.

2012 – Percepción Compartida (Shared Perception). PDVSA La Estancia. Room 3. With catalog edition. Maracaibo. May-July.

2008 – 5 de Julio c on Av. Universidad (July 5th with Universidad Av.). Art Center of Maracaibo Lía Bermúdez. Alternative room. Maracaibo. September-October.

2005 – En María (In Maria). Tourist and Recreation Complex “Know your Bridge”. Room Fr...