Martin Cox

Martin Cox (UK/US) has photographed a multitude of landscapes in transition: snow bound Iceland, an English manor house steeped in entropy, the former resort towns at California’s Salton Sea, an ocean liner embedded in a town square in China, a Queen Anne-era English canal project.

His photographs suggest the passage of time and presence of history. Some projects explore a vanishing maritime culture and inspire questions about past events, while drawing upon the atmosphere of the present.

A commission completed for the Los Angeles Maritime Museum’s new wing takes the form of a large photo mosaic. Exhibited in museums and galleries, his work has also been used in many TV series.

The port of Southampton, UK provided early inspiration. Following studies at Winchester School of Art and Exeter School of Art & Design, his first exhibition was in London’s Camden Town.

Based in Los Angeles and Iceland, Cox has been exhibited in LA, London, New York , San Francisco and Iceland his works have appeared in photo festivals in Africa and Australia.

Martin’s work has been popular with Los Angeles collectors. He is currently working on new material for CA and Icelandic shows in 2020.

Exeter College of Art & Design

Winchester School of Art

SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS
California Rising, inaugural Fabrik Projects Gallery, Culver City, CA 2017
Salton Sea: Past, Present, Future, (curator Terry Hastings) UC Riverside Palmdale, CA 2017
Somerville Toy Camera Festival, (curator Michael Kirchoff) Somerville, MA, 2017
Far away right here, HUSAVIK MUSEUM, Iceland 2017
Stranded, LOS ANGELES MARITIME MUSEUM, San Pedro, CA 2012-13
Transmigration and the Love Boat, METRO GALLERY, Silver Lake, Los Angeles 2006
missing liners…lost hills, LEEFAHSALUNG 7 at the New China Town Barber Shop, Los Angeles 2002
Idyll, FOTOTEKA, Los Angeles, CA 2002
and Other Desert Cities, solo, THE GROUCHO CLUB, Soho, London, England 1999

SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
The Solbrekka Show, Fjuk Art Center, Husavik, Iceland, 2016
LAND: Interactions Pasadena Photography Arts at Keystone Gallery, Los Angeles, 2015
Lake View, FIX, Los Angeles, July 2013
SEA SALT, Superfrog Gallery, San Francisco Green Film Festival, June 2013
First Eleven, FotoFreo2012 Festival, Fremantle, Australia, April 2012
Elia’s 5th, Conservatoire des Arts et Metiers Multimedia in conjunction with 9th International Photography Biennial, Bamako, Mali, December 2011
Chain Letter, group show instigated by Doug Harvey at SHOSHANA ...