Lianet Martinez

Lianet Martínez Pino is a visual artist born in Cienfuegos, Cuba. He graduated in 2012 in the Specialty of Painting at the National Academy of Fine Arts "San Alejandro" in Havana. In 2019 he concluded his studies at the Higher Institute of Art (ISA) with the distinction of Graduate Most Creative. Since 2011 he has participated in countless exhibitions both in Cuba and abroad. Recently graduated, she is invited by the Nuno Sacramento Contemporary Art Gallery to the Artistic Residence "My house is your house", ending in the bipersonal exhibition "Alchemy" in Aveiro, Portugal. In 2012, 2015, 2019 and 2022 she was selected to be part of the Havana Biennial, where she participated with monumental works of a public nature. His work is part of important collections in the United States, Puerto Rico, Portugal, Holland, Italy, Spain, Switzerland and Cuba. In 2024 his work was selected, within the Curatorial Section "Ejes", together with the Servando Gallery for the Zona Maco International Art Fair in the Citibanamex center, Mexico. This same year, she is selected to represent Cuba at the Artomatic art event in Washington D.C., USA. In 2025, two of his works were selected to participate in the Zona Maco International Art Fair, as part of the Habana Gallery stand. She was invited to participate in the bipersonal exhibition "Alchemy of an Island" held at the Museum of Contemporary Art of the Americas (MoCAA) in the United States. In March of the same year he represented Cuba at the Osaka International Art Fair in Japan. In August she was selected for the Unlimited Art Residence in New York with the support of the Cuban Artists Fund and Rockefeller Brothers Fund, which culminated with the Open Studio Blossom. On October 11, he held his personal exhibition "Liminal Space" at the Zapata Gallery in Miami, United States. At the end of October she was invited by the Metropolitan Academy of Art of Chile to give a lecture on her work entitled: The body as a shield: Matter, Identity and Memory. One of his works (Encuentro) is exhibited in FotoFac Gallery about the Collective exhibition "Doors to Engineering" at Fábrica de Arte. Also at the end of October he will be participating with one of his works in the exhibition "Paisaje bajo Sospecha" at the Picci Fine Arts Gallery in Mexico City, Mexico.

It is currently represented by Génesis Galerías de Arte, working within this group with the Havana Gallery in Havana, Cuba and by Zapata Gallery in Miami, United States.

Lianet's work is characterized by work in multiple supports, dimensions and techniques. These are paintings, drawings, photographs, collages and sculptural or installation structures whose processes of reference and meaning transcend the two-dimensional plane. It is through this operation that he channels his ideas. These start from personal experiences, own or not, in interaction with the daily context and more general experiences that inform and shape the work process.

Statement:

Lianet Martínez's work focuses on the three-dimensional field, combining sculpture, installation, painting, drawing, photography and unconventional materials. Use the object as a symbolic vehicle to explore memory, perception, identity in transit and the tension between the intimate and the collective. His sensory and conceptual research reflects on how experiences - personal and shared - are inscribed in the body and in space. He is interested in the construction of truth through the sensitive and the symbolic, as well as how our perception of reality is configured from personal history, knowledge and emotion. The observation of nature, time and daily rituals are keys to his visual universe, from where he articulates poetics of transformation and belonging in contexts of constant change.

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