Chris Martin (b. 1954, Washington, US) lives and works between Brooklyn and upstate New York, US. He graduated from Yale University, New Haven (1972-1975) and then from Certificate of Art Therapy, School of Visual Arts, New York (1992). He privileges stylistic diversity and immediacy over predetermined aesthetic ideas, generating art that can be as primal as it is knowing, as vibrantly joyful as it is meditative and hermetic. The overt influences—musical, spiritual, and historical art—that appear throughout his work are acknowledgements of his desire to return to a common well or universally accessible source of inspiration.
His work is held in several public and private collections such as the Aishtï Foundation, Beirut; Art Museum, Buffalo, US; Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen, Rotterdam, The Netherlands; The Brooklyn Museum, New York, US; Collezione Maramotti, Reggio Emilia, Italy; The Denver Art Museum, Denver, US; The High Museum, Atlanta, US; The Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, US; Portland Museum of Art, Portland, US; Saatchi Gallery, London, United Kingdom; San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, US; and The Smithsonian Museum of American Art, Washington, US.
