María Verónica San Martín
is a Chilean born, New York-based multidisciplinary artist and printmaker. Her work explores the impacts in culture of history, memory, and trauma through archives, artist books, installations, sculptures, and performances. She is Whitney Museum ISP fellow artist, a scholar at the Center for Book Arts, and has participated in numerous international art residencies. She has received two New York Foundation for the Arts (NYFA) grants, three Chilean government grants, and a Sustainable Arts grant. Maria has exhibited widely nationally and internationally, with four solo exhibitions in 2023, a commission for the National Museum of Women in the Arts, a recent performance at Lincoln Center, a public artwork at Rockefeller Center, and a participation at New York Immigrant Artist Biennial. Her work is in the collections of the MET, the Whitney Museum, The Walker Art Center, the Pompidou Center, and the Museum Meermanno, among others. She is currently working on her ongoing series “Moving Memorials”, which is composed of 203 artist books with printmaking.
San Martín teaches at Parsons, The New School, and the Center for Book Arts in New York, and has been a visiting professor at Penland School of Craft (NC) and at Miami University (OH). She has led workshops for the Vera List Center, Weeksville Heritage Center, the NMWA, and Mixteca. She also serves on the board of Booklyn Art and is part of its artist and educational program. San Martín is currently exhibiting at the National Center for Contemporary Art and at the Museum of Memory, both in Santiago de Chile, and at the National Museum of Women in the Arts in Washington DC, while also preparing her participation in the Polygraphic Triennial of Puerto Rico: America Latina and the Caribbean for April 2024.
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