MARIA VERÓNICA SAN MARTÍN
UPCOMING SYMPOSIUM
The Art of Photographic Bookmaking: Inspiration, Creation & Acquisition
(Special Guest)
María Verónica San Martín is a Chilean born, New York-based multidisciplinary artist and printmaker. Her work explores the impacts in culture of history, memory, and trauma through archives, artist books, installations, sculptures, and performances. She is a Whitney Museum ISP fellow artist, a scholar at the Center for Book Arts, and has participated in numerous international art residencies. She has received two New York Foundation for the Arts (NYFA) grants, four Chilean government grants, and a Sustainable Arts grant.
Maria has exhibited widely nationally and internationally, with four solo exhibitions in 2023, a commission for the National Museum of Women in the Arts, a recent performance at Lincoln Center, a public artwork at Rockefeller Center, and a participation at New York Immigrant Artist Biennial. Her work is in more than 80 collections highlighting the MET, the Whitney Museum, The Walker Art Center, the Pompidou Center, the Museum Meermanno and The Museum of Memory of Chile. She is currently working on her ongoing series “Moving Memorials”, which is composed of 203 artist books with printmaking techniques created, printed and bound by herself.
San Martín teaches at Parsons, The New School, the Center for Book Arts and at Mixteca, a Mexican immigrant center in Brooklyn in New York, and has been a visiting professor at Penland School of Craft (NC) and at Miami University (OH). She has led workshops for Vera List Center, Weeksville Heritage Center, and the NMWA. She also serves on the board of Booklyn Art and is part of its artist and educational program.
San Martín is currently exhibiting at the Polygraphic Triennial of Puerto Rico: America Latina and the Caribbean, at the National Museum of Women in the Arts in Washington DC, at Governors Island with TAAC in New York, at the National Center for Contemporary Art and at the Museum of Memory, both in Santiago de Chile, while preparing her next solo exhibitions in Madrid for 2024 and in New York for 2025.
