Pow Martinez

1983, Vive y trabaja en

Manila, Filipinas.

Las pinturas de Pow desmienten su tema grotesco con las superficies indeleblemente hermosas y un uso amplio y atrevido del color. Mutantes, monstruos, demonios, desviados y monstruos se tambalean, se sientan y parecen transformarse en medio de paisajes extrañamente iluminados o escenarios urbanos en desintegración, o emergen de un lío de grafitos pictóricos, pero, como insisten sus obras más abstractas, la capacidad de Martínez para hacer intrigantes y las relaciones entre formas y superficies aseguran que sus obras sean infinitamente convincentes, una experiencia similar a una hermosa pesadilla.

EDUCACIÓN

2004-2006	Kalayaan College, Painting
2002-2004	University of the Philippines, Visual Communication

EXPOSICIONES INDIVIDUALES

2020	Sustainable Anxiety, Silverlens, Manila
2018	Aesthetic Police, ROH Projects, Jakarta
2017	Techno-utopian, Silverlens, Manila and now back to our regular programming, Art Informal, Manila
2016	Advanced Human, Random Parts, Oakland a man without a hobby is worthless, TAKSU Gallery, Singapore
2015	psychodelic behavior, West Gallery, Manila From the bitter abyss, Megumi Ogita Gallery, Tokyo
2014	May Cause Profound Mental Retardation, Pablo Gallery, Manila Caught between honor and revenge, how far will one man go, Silverlens, Manila dogs playing poker, Manila Contemporary, Manila
2013	1 bit, Mo_Space Project Room, Manila Losing my edge, Pablo Gallery, Manila Medieval woodcuts, Finale Art File, Manila
2012	Sploshing, Finale Art File, Manila Low Res, West Gallery, Manila Cyborg Scallops, Silverlens, Manila
2011	Nature Paintings, NOW Gallery, Manila Destroyed Planets, Pablo Gallery, Manila Cut Hands has the Solution, West Gallery, Manila Easy Listening Paintings, Mag:net Gallery, Manila
2010	march of the pigs, Lost Projects, Manila hyper blast abomination, Mag:net Gallery, Manila
2009	the brutal gardener, Mag:net Gallery, Manila one billion years, West Gallery, Manila
2007	pathetic doggy paddle, Mag:net Gallery, Manila

EXPOSICIONES COLECTIVAS

2021	NFT: No Frills Tomorrow, Modeka Creative Space, Manila Only a Joke Can Save Us, Present Projects, Hong Kong Art Basel, Silverlens, Hong Kong ‘Only a Joke Can Save Us’ Present Projects Gallery, Sham Shui Po, Hong Kong Art Fair Philippines, Silverlens, Manila S.E.A. Focus, Tanjong Pagar Distripark, Singapore SOUTH SOUTH VEZA, SOUTH SOUTH Platform
2020	Anticipating the Day, Silverlens, Manila Searching Sanctuary, Silverlens, Manila Art Fair Philippines, Silverlens, Manila
2019	An Artinformal Christmas Group Show, Artinformal, Manila Art Jakarta, ROH Projects, Jakarta WXXX, West Gallery, Manila City Prince/sses, Palais de Tokyo, Paris, France 50 Years in Hollywood, Pintô International, New York Art Basel, Silverlens, Hong Kong Art Fair Philippines, Silverlens, Manila Taipei Dangdai, Silverlens, Taipei
2018	Recent Works, Underground Gallery, Manila Art Basel, Silverlens, Hong Kong Chaos, Silverlens, Manila Art Fair Philippines, Silverlens, Manila
2017	Art Taipei, Taipei World Trade Center, Hall One, Taipei Translación, Inaugural Exhibition, Curated by Gary-Ross Pastrana, Silverlens, Manila
2016	WASAK! Reloaded, Arndt, Singapore WASAK!, Arndt, Berlin
2015	No Singing Allowed, Silverlens, Manila
2014	Brave New Worlds, Metropolitan Museum of Manila, Philippines
2013	manila vice, MIAM, Sete, France pirates, Megumi Ogita Gallery, Tokyo
2012	bastards of misrepresentation, Topaz Arts, New York
2011	Confessions of a sinner, Manila Contemporary, Manila Post local, Silverlens, Manila Greatest Hits, Bastards of Misrepresentation, doing time on Filipino time, 8 Salon, Hamburg Hide the Women and Children, Mo_Space, Manila Salvation in a nest of vipers, Y3K, Melbourne Complete and Unabridged, Osage Gallery, Hong Kong
2010	bastards of misrepresentation, doing time on Filipino time, Fries Museum, Berlin serial killers from tate modern to taksu Singapore, Taksu, Singapore beautiful inside my head forever, Silverlens, Manila sirens hall, Mo_Space, Manila in fairness, Finale Art File, Manila happily unhappy, Blanc Gallery, Manila
2009	selected memory, Richard Koh Fine Art, Kuala Lumpur one small step for man, one giant leap for woman, Mag:net Gallery, Manila welcome to the jungle, Art Informal, Manila
2007	shoot me, Mo_Space, Manila i have nothing to paint and i’m painting it, Manila Contemporary, Manila Sungdu-an 4”extensions,” Cagayan de Oro University
2006	the blank show, West Gallery, Manila long goodbye, Mag:net Gallery, Manila Strait from the source, Future Prospects, Manila missing vocabularies, Green Papaya Art Projects, Manila
2005	common and uncommon goods, Future Prospects, Manila other matters, Future Prospects, Manila