BIOGRAPHY
Patricia Martin studied Visual Arts in Mexico, and continued her art education in École Nationale Supérieure des Arts Décoratifs, in Paris, and art therapy applied to marginalized groups in Universidad Complutense in Madrid. She has been awarded the grants Young Creators of Mexico National Council, the Education Program of the Insituto Nacional de Bellas Artes (Mexico) and the grant of Excellence Artistique de France. Resident artist in the Banff Centre for the Arts in Alberta, Canada, Cité Internationale des Arts in París, International Studio Center, ISCP in New York and also invited in Venezuela.
She has been a artist-teacher in Universidad Autónoma de Morelos, Centro de la Imagen, Sala de Arte Público Siqueiros, Escuela Superior de Arte de Yucatán, and several social art projects for battered women, prisoners, indigenous children and young migrants. Among these projects, we can mention "Yucatan seen by its Children" sponsored by INBA in 2004 and "Migration seen by Children" sponsored by UNICEF in 2005.
She has exhibited her work in the most important cities of Mexico and abroad (Brazil, China, Colombia, France, Japan, Spain, USA ...). Her work is in the collections of Kiyosato Museum of Photographic Arts (Japan), the Lehigh University (Pennsylvania), the Museum of Fine Arts of Houston, La Fototeca Nacional (Mexico) and other institutions.
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