1983, Lives and works in 
Manila, Philippines.
Martinez’s paintings belie their grotesque subject matter with the indelibly beautiful surfaces and a wideranging, daring use of color. Mutants, monst sers, demons, deviants, and freaks lurch, sit, and appear to transform amidst weirdly lit landscapes or disintegrating urban scenarios, or emerge from a painterly graffito mess, but, as his more abstracted works insist, Martinez’s ability to render intriguing relationships between forms and surfaces ensure his works are endlessly compelling—an experience akin to a beautiful nightmare.
EDUCATION
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2004-2006 |
Kalayaan College, Painting |
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2002-2004 |
University of the Philippines, Visual Communication |
INDIVIDUAL EXHIBITIONS
| 2020 |
Sustainable Anxiety, Silverlens, Manila |
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2018 |
Aesthetic Police, ROH Projects, Jakarta |
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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 |
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2012 |
Sploshing, Finale Art File, Manila Low Res, West Gallery, Manila Cyborg Scallops, Silverlens, Manila |
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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 |
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2010 |
march of the pigs, Lost Projects, Manila
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2009 |
the brutal gardener, Mag:net Gallery, Manila one billion years, West Gallery, Manila |
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2007 |
pathetic doggy paddle, Mag:net Gallery, Manila |
COLLECTIVE EXHIBITIONS
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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 |
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2020 |
Anticipating the Day, Silverlens, Manila Searching Sanctuary, Silverlens, Manila Art Fair Philippines, Silverlens, Manila |
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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 |
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2018 |
Recent Works, Underground Gallery, Manila Art Basel, Silverlens, Hong Kong Chaos, Silverlens, Manila Art Fair Philippines, Silverlens, Manila |
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2017 |
Art Taipei, Taipei World Trade Center, Hall One, Taipei Translación, Inaugural Exhibition, Curated by Gary-Ross Pastrana, Silverlens, Manila |
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2016 |
WASAK! Reloaded, Arndt, Singapore WASAK!, Arndt, Berlin |
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2015 |
No Singing Allowed, Silverlens, Manila |
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2014 |
Brave New Worlds, Metropolitan Museum of Manila, Philippines |
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2013 |
manila vice, MIAM, Sete, France pirates, Megumi Ogita Gallery, Tokyo |
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2012 |
bastards of misrepresentation, Topaz Arts, New York |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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2005 |
common and uncommon goods, Future Prospects, Manila other matters, Future Prospects, Manila
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ONE OF US: Yann Leto conversation with Manuel Ocampo
Yann Leto: ONE OF US Exhibition: 3th September – 16th October, 2022 Conversation with Manuel Ocampo Manuel Ocampo: You mention Freaks in your statement. What a movie! Do you feel yourself or your work have an affinity with the grotesque?...