Israel Martínez: No se hace el silencio

Solo exhibition. Espacio Morelos. Guadalajara, Mexico. Opening on April 25th, 2024.

Israel Martínez
Guadalajara, Mexico, 1979

Works from sound to the visual arts, often with influences by literature, creating works and projects materialized in multichannel audio installations, video, photography, actions and text, motivated to generate critical social reflections and to explore the aesthetic and political possibilities of silence.

In 2007, he was granted an Award of Distinction in Prix Ars Electronica, and in 2019, he was a winner of the CTM Radio Lab Call in Berlin. He has had solo and group exhibitions in spaces such as Museo Reina Sofía, MuseumsQuartier, MACBA, Tenerife Espacio de las Artes, daadgalerie, Haus der Elektronischen Künste, Moscow Biennale, Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions, Mission Cultural Center for Latino Arts, MUAC, Museo Jumex, Ex Teresa Arte Actual, Casa del Lago UNAM, MUCA Roma, Museo del Chopo, Bienal FEMSA, among others mainly in Europe and Mexico.

In 2012 he was part of the DAAD Artists-in-Berlin Program, and in 2014 of the residence program of MuseumsQuartier in Vienna. He has published discography and editorial work through Sub Rosa, Errant Bodies Press, Aagoo, The Wire, Hatje Cantz, Abolipop Records and Suplex.