Ilyana Martinez

Born to a Mexican father and Canadian mother, as a child Ilyana was taken on many adventures between the borders of Mexico, the US and Canada. She lives in Toronto where she focuses on watercolour and drawing, and collaborates with Z'otz* Collective, a trio of Latin American artists who create drawings, paintings, sculpture and site specific murals.

OCAD University – Toronto, Canada
Visual Studies Certificate – Florence, Italy
NSCAD University – Halifax, Canada
Yale University, Summer Program – Brissago, Switzerland
Ravensbourne College of Design & Communication – UK

2017 Arte en Mayo International Festival, Guatemala City, Guatemala
2017 New White Door: Come In from the Cold, Toronto ON
2017 Affordable Art Fair Hong Kong
2016 24th Annual Festival of Smalls, Art Interiors, Toronto ON
2016 Off the Hook Auction, MacLaren Art Centre, Barrie ON
2016 Affordable Art Fairs Hong Kong / New York / Korea
2016 Fiesta–Art Brownie, Toronto ON
2016 Obra reciente–Recent Work, Jiutepec Mexico
2015 Love Art, Affordable Art Fair, Toronto ON
2014 Affordable Art Fair, New York NY
2014 Love Art, Affordable Art Fair, Toronto
2014 Art Bound Books, Regina SK
2014 Arte Internacional, ArtDealers Gallery, Mexico
2014 Paperworks, Spence Gallery, Toronto
2013 Affordable Art Fair, Mexico City, Mexico
2013 Select Art Fair, Miami, FL
2012 IDEARTE Museum of National Identity, Tegucigalpa, Honduras
2012 XNOX, Guatemala City, Guatemala
2012 FreshFaces, Newzones, Calgary AB
2012 The Sketchbook Project, Brooklyn Art Library, Brooklyn NY
2011 Re:Inhabit, Galerija Gradskog, Knin Museum, Knin, Croatia
2011 Autumn Collective, Art Dealers Gallery, Monterrey, Mexico
2011 Fraction / Memory, OCAD Graduate Gallery, Toronto
2010 The Fiction Project, Brooklyn Art Library, Brooklyn, NY
2009 Mail-art installatio...