Enrique Martínez Celaya is an artist, author, and former scientist. He is Provost Professor of Humanities and Arts at the University of Southern California and a Montgomery Fellow at Dartmouth College. He has authored books and articles on art, poetry, philosophy, and physics.
Martínez Celaya’s work spans a wide range of materials and media, including painting, sculpture, and installation. Recurring themes include youth, isolation, the vastness of nature, and the sublime, while metaphorical and psychological landscapes often feature.
Martínez Celaya has exhibited throughout the United States, Europe, Asia, and Australia. His work can be found in public collections in the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, CA; Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, CA; Portland Art Museum, OR; the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, TX; Denver Art Museum, CO; Wadsworth Athenaeum Museum of Art, Hartford, CT; Frederick R. Weisman Art Museum, Minneapolis, MN; Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY; Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY; Moderna Museet, Stockholm, Sweden and the State Hermitage Museum, St. Petersburg, Russia.
Forthcoming exhibitions include Enrique Martínez Celaya at the Fisher Museum of Art, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA (2022); Enrique Martínez Celaya at the Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, NH (2022) and Enrique Martínez Celaya at the Tucson Museum of Art, Tucson, AZ (2023).
Martínez Celaya’s work spans a wide range of materials and media, including painting, sculpture, and installation. Recurring themes include youth, isolation, the vastness of nature, and the sublime, while metaphorical and psychological landscapes often feature.
Martínez Celaya has exhibited throughout the United States, Europe, Asia, and Australia. His work can be found in public collections in the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, CA; Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, CA; Portland Art Museum, OR; the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, TX; Denver Art Museum, CO; Wadsworth Athenaeum Museum of Art, Hartford, CT; Frederick R. Weisman Art Museum, Minneapolis, MN; Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY; Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY; Moderna Museet, Stockholm, Sweden and the State Hermitage Museum, St. Petersburg, Russia.
Forthcoming exhibitions include Enrique Martínez Celaya at the Fisher Museum of Art, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA (2022); Enrique Martínez Celaya at the Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, NH (2022) and Enrique Martínez Celaya at the Tucson Museum of Art, Tucson, AZ (2023).