Maria Martinez-Cañas

Solo Exhibitions

2006
Maria Martinez-Cañas, Sol Mednick Gallery, University of The Arts, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Lies, FotoFest 2006, De Santos Gallery, Houston, Texas [Catalog]

2005
Lies, Fredric Snitzer Gallery, Miami, Florida

2003
Natural Gardens, Catherine Edelman Gallery, Chicago, Illinois

2002
Hortus + Naturalia, Julie Saul Gallery, New York, New York
María Martínez-Cañas: New Work, Fredric Snitzer Gallery, Miami, Florida
María Martínez-Cañas: A Retrospective, Museum of Art, Fort Lauderdale, Florida [Catalog]

2000
María Martínez-Cañas: Works 1980-1999, Fredric Snitzer Gallery, Miami, Florida
Jardines de Sombra / Shadow Gardens, Galeria Arte X Arte, Buenos Aires, Argentina [Catalog]
María Martínez-Cañas: From The States Program, The National Museum Of Women In The Arts, Washington, DC

1999
Shadow Gardens, Fredric Snitzer Gallery, Miami, Florida
Traces of Nature, Julie Saul Gallery, New York, New York
María Martínez-Cañas: New Work, Catherine Edelman Gallery, Chicago, Illinois
María Martínez-Cañas: Quince Sellos Cubanos, The Phillip and Muriel Berman Museum of Art, Ursinus College, Collegeville, Pennsylvania
Años Continuos: An Installation By María Martínez-Cañas, Southeast Museum of Photography Daytona Community College, Daytona Beach, Florida

1997
Piedras, Iturralde Gallery, Los Angeles, California [Catalog]
Piedras, Catherine Edelman Gallery, Chicago, Illinois [Catalog]
4 Series / 4 Years: 1992-1996, Julie Saul Gallery, New York, New York

1995
Imagen Escrita, Catherine Edelman Gallery, Chicago, Illinois [Catalog]
Totems Negros: Constructed Photographs By María Martínez-Cañas, Southeast Museum of Photography, Daytona Community College, Daytona Beach, Florida [Catalog]

1994
CronologÌas: 1990-93, Iturralde Gallery, Los Angeles, California [Catalog]

1993
Accounts Southeast: María Martínez-Cañas, Southeastern Center for Contemporary Art, Winston Salem, North Carolina

1992
Nuevos Rumbos, Catherine Edelman Gallery, Chicago, Illinois
Recent Works, Visual Studies Workshop, Rochester, New York
Fragmented Evidence, Chrysler Museum, Norfolk, Virginia
Rumbos, Barbara Gillman Gallery, Miami, Florida [Catalog]

1991
Fragmented Evidence, Catherine Edelman Gallery, Chicago, Illinois [Catalog]
Encounters 1: María Martínez-Cañas, Center For Creative Photography, Tucson, Arizona [Catalog]

1990
Documents de Memoire, Centre Culturel de Courbevoie, Courbevoie, France [Catalog]

1989
Unknown Territories, Barbara Gillman Gallery, Miami, Florida
María Martínez-Cañas Sol Mednick Gallery, Philadelphia College of Art, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

1988
Recent Work, Marianne Deson Gallery, Chicago, Illinois

1987
María Martínez-Cañas, Key Biscayne Library, Key Biscayne, Florida

1984
María Martínez-Cañas, XV Rencontres Internationales de la Photographie, Arles, France [Catalog]

1983
María Martínez-Cañas, Museum of Fine Art, University of Puerto Rico, San Juan, Puerto Rico [Catalog]



group exhibitions

2008 - back to top
Kim Brown / Maria Martínez-Cañas: ‘Dustograms’ A Collaboration, Lehigh University, Bethlehem,
Pennsylvania [February]

2007
Altered Surfaces: Photography and Its Possibilities, New World School of The Arts, Miami, Florida [April]
Art LA Fair, Fredric Snitzer Gallery, Santa Monica, California
Layers: Collecting Cuban-American Art , Iris and B. Gerald Cantor Art Gallery, The College of the Holy Cross,
Worcester, Massachusetts

2006
Art Basel Miami Beach, Fredric Snitzer Gallery, Miami Beach, Florida [Catalog]
Latin American Photography 2: Selections From The Lehigh University Art Galleries Collection, Lehigh University, Bethlehem, Pennsylvania [Catalog]
Translations, Faculty Show, New World School of The Arts, Miami, Florida
A Room of One’s Own: Teresita Fernández, Maria Elena González, Quisqueya Henríquez + Maria Martinez-Cañas,
The Patricia & Phillip Frost Art Museum, Florida International University, Miami, Florida [Catalog]
Kim Brown / Maria Martínez-Cañas: ‘Dustograms’ A Collaboration, FotoFest 2006, De Santos Gallery,
Houston, Texas [Catalog]

2005
Art Basel Miami Beach, Fredric Snitzer Gallery, Miami Beach, Florida [Catalog]
Pulse Contemporary Art Fair, Julie Saul Gallery, Miami, Florida
Mapping Space: Selections From The Collection, Miami Art Museum, Miami, Florida [Brochure]
Trading Places: Kim Brown + Maria Martinez-Cañas, Frances Trombly and Salvatore La Rosa, Museum of Contemporary Art, North Miami, Florida
The Silver Garden, Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
In Focus: Contemporary Photography From The Allen G. Thomas Jr. Collection, North Carolina Museum Of Art,
Raleigh, North Carolina
Focus On: New Photography, Norton Museum Of Art, West Palm Beach, Florida
Transitory Patterns: Florida Women Artists, Museum of Art, Fort Lauderdale, Florida [Catalog]

2004
Art Basel Miami Beach, Fredric Snitzer Gallery, Miami Beach, Florida [Catalog]
Transitory Patterns: Florida Women Artists, National Museum of Women in the Arts, Washington, DC
Lock Stock And Barrel, Fredric Snitzer Gallery, Miami, Florida
Cintas: Hope & Glory, Miami Art Central, Miami, Florida
Light and Atmosphere, Miami Art Museum, Miami, Florida [Brochure]
Uncharted Territory: Subjective Mapping By Artists & Cartographers, Julie Saul Gallery, New York, New York

2003
Art Basel Miami Beach, Fredric Snitzer Gallery, Miami Beach, Florida [Catalog]
Fotografia En El Caribe, Galería Botello, Hato Rey, Puerto Rico [Catalog]
Gallery Artists 2003, Catherine Edelman Gallery, Chicago, Illinois
Art Chicago 2003, Catherine Edelman Gallery, Navy Pier, Chicago

2002
Art Has No Homeland, But The Artist Does: Videos By Latin American Artists/Photographers, Foto Fest 2002, Museum Of Fine Arts, Houston, Texas

2001
Humid, Moore Building, Curated by Dominic Molon, Miami, Florida
Arte Latino: Treasures From The Smithsonian American Art Museum, Terra Museum of Art, Chicago,Illinois (Traveling to: Museum of Art at Florida International University, Miami, Florida) [Catalog]
The Cat’s Away, Sara Meltzer Gallery, New York, New York
Breaking Barriers: Contemporary Cuban Art, Naples Museum of Art, Naples, Florida
Faculty Exhibition, New World School Of The Arts, Miami, Florida
The Armory Show 2001, Julie Saul Gallery, New York, New York
The Photography Show 2001, AIPAD, Julie Saul Gallery, New York Hilton Hotel, New York
Renaissance Press, Spheris Gallery, New York, New York

2000 - back to top
From Modern To Contemporary: Cuban And Cuban-American From The Permanent Collection, Lowe Art Museum, Coral Gables, Florida [Brochure]
Latin American Artist-Photographers From The Lehigh University Art Galleries Collection, El Museo del Barrio, New York, New York [Brochure]
Arte Latino: Treasures From The Smithsonian American Art Museum, El Paso Museum of Art, El Paso, Texas (Traveling To: Orlando Museum of Art, Orlando, Florida; Palm Springs Desert Museum, Palm Springs, California; Museum Of Fine Arts, Santa Fe, New Mexico; Oakland Museum of California, Oakland, California) [Catalog]
La Luz: Contemporary Latino Art In The United States, National Hispanic Cultural Center of New Mexico, Albuquerque, New Mexico
Hidden Images: Works On Paper By Contemporary Cuban Artists, Zoellner Arts Center, Lehigh University, Bethlehem, Pennsylvania [Catalog]
Abundant Invention, Glyndor Gallery, Wave Hill, Bronx, New York [Brochure]
Sarasota Biennial, Ringling Museum Of Art, Sarasota, Florida [Catalog]
Icon + Grid + Void: Art Of The Americas From The Chase Manhattan Collection, The Americas Society, New York, New York
New Acquisitions: Dream Collection...part six, Miami Art Museum, Miami, Florida
The Photography Show 2000, AIPAD, Julie Saul Gallery, New York Hilton Hotel, New York
Art In Embassies Program, American Embassy, Havana, Cuba
Cuban Allure: Photography and Video, The Light Factory, Charlotte, North Carolina
Departing Perspectives, Site-Specific Installation, Spirito Santo Bank, Miami, Florida
Six Degrees Of Inspiration, Contemporary Art Center Of Virginia, Virginia Beach, Virginia

1999 - back to top
A Celebration Of Renaissance Press, John Stevenson Gallery, New York, New York
Give Art, Fred Snitzer Gallery, Miami, Florida
Group Show, Iturralde Gallery, Los Angeles, California
Theater Of Memory: Five Cuban-American Photographers, Centro Cultural Español De Cooperación Iberoamericana, Coral Gables, Florida
New Acquisitions: Dream Collection...part five, Miami Art Museum, Miami, Florida
Full Exposure: Contemporary Photography, New Jersey Center for Visual Arts, Summit, New Jersey [Catalog]
Art Chicago 99, Catherine Edelman Gallery, Navy Pier, Chicago, Illinois
The Photography Show 99, AIPAD, Catherine Edelman Gallery (Chicago) and Julie Saul Gallery (New York), New York Hilton Hotel, New York [Catalog]

1998 - back to top
Group Show, Iturralde Gallery, Los Angeles, California
The Selective Eye, Anne Reed Gallery, Ketchum, Idaho
Photography’s Multiple Roles: Art, Document, Market, Science, Museum Of Contemporary Photography, Chicago, Illinois (Book)
Homenatge A Vincent Van Gogh, Fundacion Van Gogh d’Arles, Ministeri de Cultura, Andorra La Vella, Andorra
Bienal Internacional De FotografÌa De Puerto Rico, Museo de las Américas, San Juan, Puerto Rico
Gallery Artists 1998, Catherine Edelman Gallery, Chicago, Illinois
New Acquisitions: Dream Collection...part three, Miami Art Museum, Miami, Florida
1898: DIWA Arts, René J. Marquez, María Martínez-Cañas, and Bibiana Suárez, The Bronx Museum Of The Arts, Bronx, New York [Catalog]
Cubazon: 11 Conceptual Photographers, Generous Miracles Gallery, New York, New York
Celebrating Ten Years: A Chronological History Of Exhibitions, Catherine Edelman Gallery, Chicago, Illinois

1997 - back to top
Breaking Barriers: Selections From The Museum Of Art’s Permanent Collection Of Contemporary Cuban Art, Museum of Art, Fort Lauderdale, Florida [Catalog]
Dislocations/Siirtymia: The Fifth International Triennial Of Photography, Rovaniemi Art Museum, Rovaniemi, Finland [Catalog]
The Community Collects: Latin American And Latino Art From Private Bay Area Collections, The Mexican Museum, San Francisco, California
Crossings And Departures: Making Art In Miami, Allen Memorial Art Museum, Oberlin, Ohio [Catalog]
The Photography Show 97, AIPAD, Catherine Edelman Gallery (Chicago) and Julie Saul Gallery (New York), New York Hilton Hotel [Catalog]
Once Removed: The Photograph In Contemporary Cuban-American Art, West Gallery, Cal State Fullerton, California
Past Cuba: Identity And Identification In Cuban-American Art, Thomas J. Walsh Art Gallery, Fairfield University, Fairfield, Connecticut [Catalog]

1996 - back to top
Circumstances Over Design: The Light Work Collection, Robert B. Menschel Gallery, Syracuse University, Syracuse, New York [Catalog]
Anxious Libraries: Photography And The Fate Of Reading, Photographic Resource Center, Boston University, Boston, Massachusetts
The Manipulated Word Text And Image: Florida/Brazil, Ground Level Gallery, South Florida Art Center, Miami Beach, Florida
Intentions & Techniques 1996: Works By Women From The Lehigh University Photography Collection, Lehigh University Art Gallery, Bethlehem, Pennsylvania
...my magic pours secret libations, Museum of Fine Arts, Florida State University, Tallahassee, Florida [Catalog]
Then & Now: The First Eight Years, Catherine Edelman Gallery, Chicago, Illinois

1995 - back to top
Small Works, Iturralde Gallery, Los Angeles, California
Point/Counter Point: Re-Imagining The Avant-Garde: Modernism And The Art Of Latin America, Santa Barbara Museum of Art, Santa Barbara, California [Catalog]
Photography Speaks II: 70 Photographers On Their Art, The Chrysler Museum of Art, Norfolk, Virginia [Book]
Points of Entry: Tracing Cultures, The Friends of Photography, San Francisco, California; Museum of Photographic Arts, San Diego, California and to the Center for Creative Photography, Tucson, Arizona [Catalog]
Photography By Cintas Fellows, Southeast Museum of Photography, Daytona Community College, Daytona Beach, Florida
The New Collection - I, Cuban Museum of Arts and Culture, Miami, Florida
The Experience of Place: Travel and Photography from the Permanent Collection, The Saint Louis Art Museum, Saint Louis, Missouri
Transnational Identities: Cultura En Proceso, DePaul University Art Gallery, DePaul University, Chicago, Illinois
Cuban-American, American-Cuban, Thirty-Five, Florida Gulf Coast Art Center, Belleair, Florida

1994 - back to top
Exodus, Ground Level Gallery, South Florida Art Center, Miami Beach, Florida
American Voices, FotoFest 1994, George R. Brown Convention Center, Houston, Texas [Catalog]
Transcending The Borders Of Memory, Norton Gallery of Art, West Palm Beach, Florida [Catalog]
Fotoseptiembre 94, GalerÌa Nina Menocal, Mexico City, Mexico [Catalog]
The Liberated Image: Contemporary Photography Since 1970From the Tampa Museum of Art's
Permanent Collection, The Museum of Art, Ft. Lauderdale, Florida
Women In Photography, The Photography Show 94, AIPAD, New York, New York

1993 - back to top
Photography By Cintas Fellows, The Art Museum, Florida International University, Miami, Florida [Catalog]
Faculty Exhibition 1993, Lowe Art Museum, University of Miami, Miami, Florida
Loss and Affirmation: Photography by Ramon Guerrero & María Martínez-Cañas, Tampa Museum Of Art, Tampa, Florida
South Florida Cultural Consortium 1993 Fellowship Exhibition, Center for the Fine Arts, Miami, Florida [Catalog]
Gallery Artists 1993, Catherine Edelman Gallery, Chicago, Illinois
Islands In The Stream: Seven Cuban American Artists, Dowd Fine Arts Gallery, SUNY Cortland, New York [Catalog]
La Collection Photographique de la Fondation Vincent van Gogh - Arles, Museé de la Photographie, Porte Sarrazine, Mougins Village, France
Intentions & Techniques-1993: Recent Acquisitions, Lehigh University Art Gallery, Bethlehem, Pennsylvania [Catalog]

1992
Selections from the Permanent Collection, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, California
The Americas, Anita Shapolsky Gallery, New York, New York
Primitivism: A State of Mind, Center of Contemporary Art, North Miami, Florida
Representatives: Women Photographers From The Permanent Collection, Center for Creative Photography, Tucson, Arizona
Seven Artists From Cuba-USA, Miramar Gallery, Sarasota, Florida
Return Engagement, Anderson Marsh Galleries, St. Petersburg, Florida
Photographic Integrity And The Vital Link With Environment: Errazuriz, Iturbide, MartÌnez-Cañas and Santis, Museum of Contemporary Photography, Columbia College, Chicago, Illinois
Los Encuentros, Betty Rimer Gallery, School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois [Catalog]
Faculty Exhibition 1992, Lowe Art Museum, University of Miami, Miami, Florida
New Acquisitions, New Work, New Directions: Photography From The Collection, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, California
In The Tradition: Part II, Anita Shapolsky Gallery, New York
Notes From The Material World: Contemporary Photomontage, John Michael Kohler Arts Center, Sheboygan, Wisconsin [Catalog]

1991 - back to top
Synthetic Images: Fabricated Photography In Florida, Cornell Fine Arts Museum, Rollins College, Winter Park, Florida [Catalog]
Other Times And Other Places, Main Library, Miami-Dade Public Library System, Miami, Florida [Catalog]
Faculty Exhibition 1991, Lowe Art Museum, University of Miami, Miami, Florida
Lenders To The Photography Center, Columbus Museum of Art, Columbus, Ohio
L'Autre Monde, XXII Rencontres Internationales de la Photographie, Arles, France [Catalog]
Historia Distante, San Francisco Camerawork, San Francisco, California (Two-Person)
Photoprojects, White Columns, New York, New York
Artists In South Florida Invitational Exhibition, Ft. Lauderdale Museum of Art, Ft. Lauderdale, Florida
Five Photographers from Fact and Faction, Barbara Gillman Gallery, Miami, Florida
Cuba/U.S.A: The First Generation, Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, Illinois [Tour/Catalog]

1990 - back to top
Southeast Bank Collects: A Corporation Views Contemporary Art, Norton Gallery of Art, West Palm Beach, Florida [Catalog]
Fifty Years Of Photography In Miami, South Dade Regional Library, Miami, Florida
Fulbrighters: East and West, East West Center, Honolulu, Hawaii
Fact and Fiction: The State of Florida Photography, Norton Gallery of Art, West Palm Beach, Florida (Tour / Catalog)
Borderlines: Recent Drawings by Hispanic Artists, Thomas Center Gallery, Gainesville, Florida [Catalog]
The Post-Miami Generation, Interamerican Art Gallery, Miami-Dade Community College, Miami, Florida [Catalog]
Personal Odysseys: Celia A. Muñoz, Clarissa T. Sligh & María Martínez-Cañas, INTAR Latin American Gallery, New York, New York [Catalog]
Cintas Fellows Revisited: A Decade After, Main Library, Metro-Dade Public Library System, Miami, Florida [Catalog]
1988 Chicago International Art Expo - Gallery Exhibition, Marianne Deson Gallery, Chicago, Illinois
Latin American Artists Of The Southeast Coastal Region, Contemporary Arts Center, New Orleans, Louisiana [Catalog]
Silvia Lizama & María Martínez-Cañas: Two Photographers from South Florida, Lehigh University Art Galleries, Bethlehem, Pennsylvania

1989 - back to top
Art In Embassies Program, American Embassy, Madrid, Spain (Through 1992)
The Liberated Image: A Decade of Collecting, Tampa Museum of Art, Tampa, Florida, [Catalog]
Upstarts: Florida's Emerging Artists, East Campus Galleries, Valencia Community College, Orlando, Florida [Catalog]
Les Photographes Rendent Hommage a Vincent 1889-1989, Fondation Vincent van Gogh, Arles, France
Photography Southeast: The Manipulated Image, Florida Gulf Coast Art Center, Belleair, Florida [Catalog]
South Florida In The Eighties: Selections from the Artbank at Metro-Dade Center, North Miami Center of Contemporary Art, North Miami, Florida [Catalog]
Intentions and Techniques-1989, Lehigh University Art Gallery, Bethlehem, Pennsylvania
Then & Now: Celebration Of A Decade, Barbara Gillman Gallery, Miami, Florida

1988 - back to top
Manipulations: Photographs by Roger Cutforth & María Martínez-Cañas, Frances Wolfson Art Gallery, Miami-Dade Community College, Miami, Florida [Catalog
N.E.A. Artists In Florida, 1987-88 Awards, Florida State University Gallery and Museum, Tallahassee, Florida [Tour/Catalog]
Habana, U.S.A.: María Martínez-Cañas & Tony Mendoza, Catherine Edelman Gallery, Chicago, Illinois
Eight From Outside Cuba, Barbara Gillman Gallery, Miami, Florida

1987
Fellowships: Florida's Finest, Individual Artist Fellowship Award Exhibition, Florida Department Of State, North Miami Museum, North Miami, Florida [Catalog]
Fulbright Alumni Art Exhibition, Georgetown University Fine Arts Gallery, Washington, DC [Catalog]
Vision of Self: The American Latin Artist, Miami-Dade Community College South Campus Art Gallery, Miami, Florida [Catalog]
Southern Abstraction, City Gallery of Contemporary Art, Raleigh, North Carolina (Tour)
Outside Cuba/Fuera de Cuba, Jane Voorhees Zimmerli Museum, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, New Jersey [Tour/Catalog]
Intentions & Techniques-1987, Lehigh University Art Galleries, Bethlehem, Pennsylvania [Catalog]

1986 - back to top
2nd Biannual Artist's Exhibit, Anna Brenner Meyers Telecommunication Center (WLRN), Miami, Florida
Grupo 12, Pan American Festival, Olive Park Chicago, Illinois
1986 Chicago International Art Expo - Gallery Exhibition, Marianne Deson Gallery, Chicago, Illinois

1985
La Nueva Fotografía Puertorriqueña, Museum of Fine Art, University of Puerto Rico, San Juan, Puerto Rico [Tour/Catalog]
1985 Chicago International Art Expo - Gallery Exhibition, Marianne Deson Gallery, Chicago, Illinois
New Talent, Marian Locks Gallery, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

1984
World Congress Association of UNESCO, Mayor's Palace, Sendai, Japan
World Congress Association of UNESCO, Youth's Palace, Tokyo, Japan

1983 - back to top
Fourth Annual International Fine Art Photography Exposition, AIPAD, New York, New York [Catalog]
Exploration, Pierce Street Gallery, Birmingham, Michigan
Group Show, Schweyer-Galdo Gallery, Birmingham, Michigan

1982
Museum of Latin American Art, Organization of American States, Washington, DC (Two-Person Show)
Six Photographers: Algaze, Guerrero, Lizama, Martinez-Cañas, Piedra, Villaverde, Shenandoah Branch Library, Miami, Florida
Emerging Artists '82 Award Exhibition, Friends of Artists Equity, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Group Show, Philadelphia College of Art, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Acts of Vision, Philadelphia Art Alliance, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Our First Contemporary Photography Exhibit, Barbara Gillman Gallery, Miami, Florida

1981
Student Show, Philadelphia College of Art, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

1980
Student Show, Philadelphia College of Art, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

1977
Reflejos, Aboy Gallery, San Juan, Puerto Rico (Two-Person Show)