Draft:Alfredo Martinez

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Alfredo Martinez
Born(1967-04-15)April 15, 1967
New York City, U.S.
DiedAugust 20, 2023(2023-08-20) (aged 56)
Newark, NJ, U.S.
Years active1988–2023
Known forPainting, drawing, sculpture
Style

Alfredo Martinez (April 15, 1967 – August 20, 2023) was a New York artist known for his vibrant and provocative artwork, often incorporating street art and pop culture elements. He gained notoriety for his illegal activities, including forging works by Jean-Michel Basquiat for which he served prison time at the Brooklyn Metropolitan Detention Center. His life and work were the subject of fascination and controversy in the art world.

Biography[edit]

Alfredo was born on April 15, 1967, in Brooklyn, New York, to Alfredo Martinez, Sr. of Ponce, Puerto Rico, and Sonia Martinez (né Norena) of Cali, Columbia, the oldest of 6 children. He was bi-lingual in English and Spanish and a voracious reader.

Alfredo left his family home in Reading, PA, where he went to High School in his late teens, gradually drifting into the hardcore punk scene of NYC's East Village, occasionally crashing in a squat of that era but never being truly accepted. During this period he did occasional day labor hanging art and changing lightbulbs at Patti Astor and Bill Stelling's Fun Gallery then later reprising this role at Bill Stelling's 56 Bleecker Gallery[1]. In these years, Alfredo did not intend to become an artist and dreamed of creating claymation films. [2]

At the very start, Alfredo's art was at the intersection between art and crime. The very first artwork sold was a Keith Haring forgery in 1989

Fun Gallery [3]

56 Bleecker Gallery 1986-1989 [4]

Grey Organisation 1988 [5]

Basquiat Story - Jonathan Goldstein 1988 [6]

Collective:Unconscious - 1994

Pseudo - 1995 [7]

Kenny Schachter Shot at Gramercy Park Hotel - 1996 [8]

Weapons Specialist - Rick Washburn - Soho Bank

Quiet: We Live in Public - 1999 [9]

Assistant to Donald Baechler, where he produced sculptures and prepared collage backgrounds for paintings

Chris Kelley, death - 1999 [10]

Forging Basquiat and Arrest 2001

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Prison Time 2002-2004

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ALFREDO MARTINEZ Register Number: 53814-054 Released On: 05/27/2004 [16]

China 2007-2010 [17] [18] [19] [20]

We Live in Public 2009

Squatting 2016-2018 [21]

Exhibitions[edit]

October 6, 2023 - December 6, 2024 “kennyslist” Morton Street Partners, NYC, NY [22]

September 15 - September 30, 2023 “Everyone has a story about Hotel Hollywood” Hotel Hollywood, Sydney, Australia [23]

March 24 - March 27 2022 "Free Anna Delvey" A2Z Delancey [24]

July 5 - July 7, 2019 "Megumi Ogita Gallery at Art Osaka 2019", Osaka, Japan [25]

May 12 - July 7, 2019 "Eaux D'Artifice" IFAC Athina, Athens, Greece [26]

February 1 - March 6, 2019 “ New York Art, 1980s Underground” Contra Gallery, NYC, NY [27]

January 25 - February 9, 2019 "Normal Activity" Megumi Ogita Gallery, Tokyo, Japan [28]

April 9, 2018 BEAUTY FOR FREEDOM: "PROJECT GHANA EXHIBITION & ART AUCTION" The National Arts Club, NYC, NY [29]

August 31 - September 7, 2017 "AN IMAGINARY JEAN-MICHEL BASQUIAT – ‘MID-CAREER’ – RETROSPECTIVE" 3Squared Gallery [30]

October 18 - October 19, 2016 "Open Studio Alfredo Martinez" 149 West 24th Street Suite 3B, NYC, NY [31]

June 17 - August 23, 2015 “The Last Party - The Influence of New York’s Club Culture - Mid 70s – Early 90s” White Box [32]

May 14 – June 21, 2014 "War Stories" William Holman Gallery [33]

October 17 - October 31, 2013 "UNRAVELING REALITIES" 166 Mott, NYC, NY [34]

September 26 - October 17, 2013 "Without Consent" 166 Mott, NYC, NY [35]

December 15, 2011 "ALFREDO MARTINEZ: THE SITUATION IS CATASTROPHIC BUT NOT SERIOUS" Leonard Tourne Gallery [36]

June 1 - July 30, 2011 “The Peripheterists” Apex Art, NYC, NY [37]

February 24 - April 9, 2011 "ALFREDO MARTINEZ: New Work After China" Allthingsproject, NYC, NY [38] [39]

April 29 - May 2, 2010 "Foreign Artists in China" National Agricultural Museum of China, Art Beijing, Beijing, China [40]

April 29 - March 12 2007 "Surge Debang" Space 798 Art District[41]

Summer 2006 "Arsenal for Democracy-War Corporatism" Canal Chapter Gallery, NYC, NY [42]

March 18th - April 16th, 2005 "temperature/ artists from the flat file” the:artist:network [43]

December 2 - December 5, 2004 "Proposition Gallery at Scope Art Fair" Miami, Florida[44]

April 18 - June 6, 1999 "Generation Z" MoMa PS1, Long Island City, NY [45]

January 16 - April 3 1999 "PARADISE 8" Exit Art, NYC, NY [46]

January 7 - January 31, 1998 "CAMBIO" Sandra Gering Gallery NYC, NY/Mexico City, Mexico[47] [48]

June 2 - June 30, 1996 "THE DEATH OF THE DEATH OF PAINTING" 480 Broome Street, NYC, NY

December 2 1995 - January 27 1996 "IMAGINARY BEINGS" Exit Art, NYC, NY[49]

May 6 - July 14, 1995 "WAY COOL" Exit Art NYC, NY[50] [51]

November 5 1994 - January 28 1995 "...IT'S HOW YOU PLAY THE GAME" Exit Art, NYC, NY [52]

May 8 - June 12, 1994 “Agent Artist, P.S.1 Museum, Long Island City, NY

Artnet List [53].

Curation[edit]

August 20, 2016 True Lies Ami Li Projects [54]

2006 The Greenhouse [55]

December 14, 2001 - January 10, 2002 Welcome to the Playground of the Fearless 90 N. 11 St. Williamsburg, Brooklyn [56]

August 4 - August 6, 2000 'Na'er Do Wells' DNA Studios - Basquiat Chair provided by Ben Buchanan - Certificate of Authenticity used as a template for Basquiat Forgeries [57]

1998 Misanthropes [58]

References[edit]

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