tom martinelli

born: Queens, NY

lives and works in New Mexico

www.tominelli.com
martinelli.tom@gmail.com

education

1986 MFA Hunter College, NYC

1981 BFA School of Visual Arts, NYC

solo exhibitions

2023 Retrospective exhibition: Ideal & Martinelli, The Wright Contemporary, Taos NM
Stripe Stain Paintings: 1991-92, G2 Gallery, Santa Fe NM

2015 Vertical Stripe Paintings, David Richard Gallery

2013 Out of Register, David Richard Gallery

2011 Particles and Orbs, PHIL SPACE Santa Fe NM

1998 Derek Eller Gallery, NYC 

1994 Tom Martinelli, Bill Maynes Contemporary Arts, NYC 
1992 Julian Pretto Gallery, NYC 
1991 Julian Pretto Gallery , NYC
1991 White Columns, NYC

selected group exhibitions

2020
- Transcendental, Odetta Gallery, NY
- Neo Geo Now, Webster & Kessler Colab, Santa Fe NM
2019
- Double Vision: Artists Who Instagram, The Teaching Gallery,
Hudson Valley Community College Troy, New York
Curated by Janice Caswell and Erick Johnson
2018
- Beyond Black and White, Westbeth Gallery NYC
2017
- Double Vision: Artists Who Instagram, LABspace, Hillsdale NY
- The Color and The Shape: a Survey of Contemporary Geometric Painting,
Dord Fitz Gallery, West Texas A&M University, Amarillo TX
- Lost Coast, Etiquette, Santa Fe NM
2016

- Accidental Photography, Axle Contemporary, Santa Fe NM
2015
- Re-Op: ‘The Responsive Eye’ Fifty Years After,
David Richard Gallery Santa Fe NM

2013

- "Julian Pretto Gallery" Minus Space Brooklyn NYC

2012

- Seeing Red David Richard Gallery Santa Fe NM

- New Mexico Showcase 516 Arts Albuquerque NM

  2010 
- Face it: Photographic Portraiture PHiL SPACE Santa Fe NM 

2006

- The Shape of Jazz Clifford Chance NYC

2005

- Good Vibrations MacKenzie Fine Art NYC

2002 
- Grey Paula Cooper Gallery NYC
- Need to Know Basis Geoffrey Young Gallery Great Barrington, MA

- Hunter College Faculty Exhibition, Leubsdorfer Gallery NYC

  2001
- Post-Hypnotic
Mass Art Massachusetts College of Art, Boston MA

University Galleries University Of Illinois at Normal 

The MAC Dallas TX 

The Chicago Cultural Center Chicago IL 

The Tweed Museum University of Minnesota University Galleries 

The Contemporary Arts Center Cincinnati OH

The Atlanta College of Art Gallery Atlanta GA

SECCA Winston-Salem NC

Philharmonic Center for the Arts Naples FL

- Minimalennialism Jim Kempner Gallery NY
- Open Studio 01 Elizabeth Foundation Studio Center NY
1999
- Pattern James Graham and Sons NYC
1998

- Drawings James Graham and Sons NYC
- Pierogi 2000 Kunstlerhaus Vienna, Austria

- Pierogi Goes to College Bard College Rhinebeck NY
- Works by Brooklyn Artists Second Street Gallery Charlottesville VA  
1997
- Current Undercurrent  Brooklyn Museum of Art, curated by Charlotta Kotik
- New York Drawers Gasworks London, England.

- New York Drawers Corner House Manchester, England

- All The Things You Are Geoffrey Young Gallery   Great Barrington MA

- Abstraction INDEX Condeso/Lawler Gallery NYC

- Art on Paper Weatherspoon Gallery University of North Carolina at Greensboro 

- The Gramercy Int'l Contemporary Art Fair , LA CA/Miami FL, Gina Fiore Fine Arts NYC
1996
- Field Days, Cerulean Embankments Geoffrey Young Gallery,

 Great Barrington MA
- Fourteen Days: A Salon Room NYC 
- The Art Exchange Show Pierogi Brooklyn NYC 
1995
- Other Rooms Ronald Feldman Gallery NYC
- Virtuosity-Modernism Art Fair Park Avenue Armory NYC  

- Works on Paper San Cono, Brooklyn NY - curated by Chris Martin
1994
- Serial Angles Gallery Santa Monica LA
- Point, Circle, Sphere Thomas Solomon's Garage LA CA
- Painting Arena Gallery Brooklyn NYC
1993
- Pittsburg Collects The Carnegie Museum of Art Pittsburg PA
- Presentational Painting The Times Square Art Gallery NYC
1992
- Contemporary Drawings Part I Arena Gallery NYC
1991
- Abstract Painting: Process and Material Ben Shahn Center for the Visual Arts William Paterson College, Wayne NJ
- The Painting Project (Part I) Four Walls Brooklyn NYC,

curated by Amy Sillman

- Update 1991 White Columns

1988
- Out of Order Ann Plumb Gallery NYC
1987
- Paint-Film Bess Cutler Gallery NYC - curated by Christian Haub

grants and fellowships
2020 - Virginia Center for the Creative Arts

2019 - Residency: Virginia Center for the Creative Arts

2002 - New York Foundation for the Arts in photography 
1998 - Virginia Center for the Creative Arts, Sweet Briar VA 
1996 - Pollock-Krasner Foundation Award
1994 - Tyrone Guthrie Center, Co. Monaghan, Ireland 
1994 - Virginia Center for the Creative Arts
1993 - Yaddo, Saratoga Springs NY 
1992 - Virginia Center for the Creative Arts 
1990 - Pollock/Krasner Foundation Award
1987 - Millay Colony for the Arts, Austerlitz NY

private/public collections

Collection of Virginia Dwan Estate

Collection of Larry Bell

The Sol Lewitt Foundation

Holt/Smithson Foundation

Collection of Ross Bleckner

Collection of Barbara Heizer
Werner Kramarsky
Weatherspoon Gallery, University of North Carolina at Greensboro 
University of Kentucky Art Museum, Lexington

art related & teaching activities
Archive and Digital Resources Manager, Holt/Smithson Foundation
Former Trustee and Board Member, Holt/Smithson Foundation
Asst. Adj. Professor, Hunter College, Dept. of Fine Art, C.U.N.Y.
Visiting Professor, Hunter College 
Visiting Professor, The New School, Fine Arts Dept.
Visiting Lecturer in Yale College 
Guest Fellow in Yale College