Charles
Martin Affinity with Brazil: 1982-Present Photography
Born Yeadon, Pennsylvania
Lives and works in New York City
Education
Yale University, New Haven, CT
1988
Ph.D., Spanish and Portuguese
1986
M. Phil., Spanish & Portuguese
1985
MA, Spanish and Portuguese
1982-84
Graduate Study in Afro-American Studies and photography classes in the
School of Artwith
Thomas Roma and JoAnn Walters
1974
BA, English
Selected
Solo Exhibitions
2019
Affinity with
Brazil: 1982-Present, June Kelly Gallery, New York
2016
Storied People:
Photography, June Kelly Gallery, New York Reflections/Connections, Associacao Brasilseira de Arte
Fotografica, Rio de Janerio, Brazil
2014
Reflections/Connections, Ima Foto Galeria, Sao Paulo, Brazil
2014-2013
Because of Algiers,
Festival of Contemporary Art, Musee Public National d’Art Moderne et Contemporain d’ Alger,Algeria (MAMA);
catalogue
2012
Manhattan,
June Kelly Gallery, New York
2010
Algiers: Charles
Martin & Jean-Pierre Hautecoeur, The International Center, New York
2009
Civil Search:
Charles Martin, photographs and Dick Griffin, paintings, The
International Center, New York
2008
Also Brazil, June Kelly Gallery, New York
2005
Motion, June Kelly Gallery, New York Yin Mei Dance, Dance Theatre Workshop, New York
2004
Ferryboat,
Amarillo College, TX
2003
Ferryboat, June Kelly Gallery, New York Making Carnival, Tamarkin, New York Making Carnival, Newhouse Center, Snug Harbor, Staten Island, NY
2002
Myth and Reality:
Masques & Portraits, Galerie Lulu Lyon, Paris Charles Martin & LeRoy Henderson Photographs, HBO Executive
Offices Gallery,New York
2001
Masquerades,
IRADAC, City College of New York
2000
Reflections and
Motion, Yeadon, Pennsylvania Public Library Ferryboat, Alice Austen House Museum, Staten Island, NY Ferryboat, Modernage, New York Spaces, Tamarkin, New York
1999
Reflections, June Kelly Gallery, New York
1998
Photographing the Diaspora, University of Maryland, College Park, MD Home & Away (Eastern Parkway Carnival, Brooklyn and Brazil) QueensCollege, Flushing, NY; catalogue
1997
New York
Cityscapes, Access Gallery, Staten Island, NY Flavors of Brazil, Charles Martin & Fernando Natalici, Arts of
Brazil Gallery, New York Brazil, School of New Resources, Gordon Parks Gallery, College of
New Rochelle, Bronx, NY
1996
Brazil, Paris, New York, Abrons Arts Center, Henry Street
Settlement, New
York
Made in Brazil, University of Wisconsin-Madison, WI;
traveling exhibition Made in Brazil, Access Gallery, Staten Island Community
Television, NY
1995
Brazil, Paris, New York, Cinque Gallery, New York
1993
Portraits et Vues, Odéon Photo-Vidéo, Paris, France Portraits Noirs Américains, Musée de la Halle St. Pierre, Paris
1992
Isolation,
Grandview Gallery, West VirginiaUniversity, Mountainlair, Morgantown, WV Fotografias, Universidade Federal de Mato Grosso, Cuiabá, Mato
Grosso, Brazil
1991
Portraits and Places, Creative Arts Center,
West Virginia University, Morgantown, WV
1990
Portrayals, 4th Street Photo Gallery, New York
1989
Portrayals, Edward Williams College, Fairleigh Dickinson University,Hackensack, NJ Portrayals, WBGO Radio Station, Newark, NJ Brooklyn to Brazil, Corner Gallery, World Trade Center, New York Passage, Yale University, New Haven, CT
Optical Thinking, Afro-American Cultural Center, Yale University,
New Haven, CT;
traveling exhibition
1983
African Eyes/Brazil, Charles Martin and Jesse A. Rhines,
Afro-American Cultural
Center and Cross Campus Library, Yale University, New Haven, CT,
Fall/Winter
Selected
Group
Exhibitions
2017
Celebrating 30
Years, Gallery Artists: Drawings and Photographs, June Kelly
Gallery, New York
2013
Spectacles: 4
Olhos-4 Visions, photographs by Charles Martin, Eduardo Castanho, Fernando Natalici and Antonio Oliveira,
New York Public Library- 43rd Street main branch and Mulenberg Branch
2011
African
Transitions: Reflections and Change 1980-2010, Bronx Community
College, NY 2nd Pan African Cultural Festival of Algiers, Algeria, University
System of the District of Columbia 4, Washington, DC
2010
2nd Pan African
Cultural Festival of Algiers, Algeria, Institute of African American Affairs at New York University,
2009-2010
Picturing New
York: Photographs from the Museum of Modern Art, curated by Sarah Meister, Associate Curator in the Department
of Photography; traveled to the Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin; Fundació la
Caixa, Barcelona; and Museo di arte moderna e contemporanea di Trento e
Rovereto; Italy; catalogue
2009
Civil Search:
Charles Martin photographs & Dick Griffin paintings, The International Center, New York
2008
New York City: In
Focus, Bellevue Hospital Center Atrium, New York
2007
Celebration: Nine
Artists Commemorate the 35th Anniversary of
Winston-Salem Delta Fine Arts, Winston-Salem, NC; brochure
2005
Tsunami Relief,
ABC no Rio & Carriage House, New York
2002
Life of the City,
Museum of Modern Art, New York
2001
Made in Woodstock,
Center for Photography, Woodstock, NY Committed To The Image: Contemporary Black Photographers,
organized by theBrooklyn Museum of Art, NY; catalogue
2000
Reflections in
Black: A History of Black Photographers, Smithsonian Institution and Anacostia Museum, Washington, DC; catalogue,
traveling exhibition
1998
Benefit Show,
Center for Photography at Woodstock, NY The Wedding Show, Leica Gallery, New York Dream City, slide projections for dance-theater by Shu-Wing Tang,
Victor Ma and Mandy Yim, Fringe Studio, Hong Kong and Pace
University, presented by Yangtze Repertory Theatre of America, New York
1996
Shots: Members
Exhibition, Afterimage Gallery, Dallas, TX Reframing Tradition, juried by Susan Kismaric, Museum of Modern
Art and Tod Papageorge, Yale School of Art, Creative
Arts Workshop, New Haven,CT Place, Marymount Manhattan College Gallery, New York
1995
Made in Brazil,
Charles Martin and Fernando Natalici, Aba Gallery, New York Summer Exhibit, Leica Gallery, New York New York Artists at AAMARP, Northeastern University, Boston, MA Travelscapes, Multi Media Arts Gallery, New York
1994
Black Beauty,
Cathedral of St. John the Divine, New York Known, 4W Circle Gallery, Brooklyn, NY New York Scenes, Multi Media Arts Gallery, New York
1990
New York Time
Capsule: Joseph Caputo, Steve Hart and Charles Martin, Multi Media Arts Gallery, New York
1988
Kizomba, Segundo Encontro Internacional de Arte Negra,
Universidade do Estado do Rio de Janeiro, (Second International
Congress of Black Art, University of the State of Rio), Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
1985
Building Wrap,
Invitational Artists’ Exhibition, New Haven Environmental Art Works, CT
Public Collections
The Museum of Modern
Art, New York
Museum of the City of New York
Center for Photography at Woodstock, NY
The Jane Voorhees Zimmerli Art Museum, Rutgers University, New
Brunswick, NJ
KeySpan (Brooklyn Union Gas), NY
Pfizer Incorporated, New York
Mott-Warsh Art Collection, Flint MI
Walter Heun Collection (Leica Camera Inc., administrators), New York
Marriott Hotel
Monographs
2014
Reflections/Connections, Queensborough Community College Art
Gallery, City University of New York, approximately 40
photographs. Produced by Hybrid Media Project, design by Fernando Natalici,
bi-lingual texts in English and Portuguese by Luiz Paulo Lima; curator Marina Lins and
Charles Martin, soft cover, landscape format
2013
Because of Algiers,
Queensborough Community College Art Gallery—City University of New York. Approximately 100 photographs.
Produced by Hybrid Media Project in association with W.E.B. Du Bois Institute,
Harvard University; and Office of Dean of Arts & Humanities, Queens College—City
University of New York. Design by Marvin Hoshino. Tri-lingual: texts in English,
French and Arabic by Khalida Toumi, Minister of Culture, Algiers; Mohammed Djehiche,
Director of Museum of Modern Art, Algiers; and Charles Martin. Translations by American
Embassy, Algiers; and Mohamed Badr. Cultural advising: Yasmin Nooreddin.
Soft cover, landscape format, 9x11.5 inches. ISBN 978-1-936658-18-3
Digital Films
2015
Playing New York,
direction, co-production, co-camera, editing, stills (documentary, 75’ run time)
2011
Apple Pie,
direction, production, co-shooting, editing (music video, approx. 4’run
time Warren Smith: Percussionist and Archivist, production, direction,
shooting andediting (documentary, 23’ run time)
2010
Get It Poppin,
direction, co-production, editing (music video, approx 4’run time
2008-2009
Tai Chi,
production, direction, co-shooting and editing, (documentary in post production)
2008
Masking,
production, direction, shooting and stills photography (documentary, 9’
21” run time) The Hewitt Art Collection, direction, produced by C2 Creative
Bank and Bank of America (documentary, 14’45” run time)
Continuous Incident: Lisa Mackie at June Kelly Gallery,
production, direction, shooting, editing (documentary 7’46” run time)
2007
Hats by Bunn: An
Extraordinary Milliner in Harlem, documentary, production, direction and editing
2006
Ed Clark: A Brush
with Success, direction, still photography (documentary 29” 20” run time)
2001
Japanese Cowgirl
Sings – Dorothy Cowfield and the Barnyard petting Zoo in concert at Fez, NY; direction, co-camera, editing
(music performance, approx. 20’ run time) Making/Asunder – Yin mei Dance at St. Mark’s on the Bowery.
Direction, production, camera, editing (documentary, 26” run time) Musician Pheeroan akLaff – Friends & Peers, direction, editing
(documentary, approx. 26’ run time)
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