"Daniel Martin creates his work by the deformation and recreation of matter. He casts his sculptural paintings by the mastery of chance and mistakes. His collage portraits breathe a universe of undiscovered human artifacts and transmutational structures."
Daniel (1982) lives and works in Leiden, the Netherlands. In his current work he searches for the transmutational properties of matter. The portraits and sculptures do not have a definite form and posses different realities on how they can be perceived. In order to come to new forms Daniel cuts up paintings, finds things on the street and uses creations made by others. The loose elements from these endeavours are used as disjointed brushstrokes that are reassembled in coherent shapes again, creating an object which holds no truth in shape.
His work has been published and exhibited nationally and internationally. Exhibitions include, the national museum of revolution, Cuba; Duo Phillip Akkerman, Sis Josip Gallery, Den Haag; Havana Biënnale (collaboration with Karang (Karina Alonso); Forma prima, El pez soluble Gallery, Mexico; Bloom, Booth Gallery, New York.
UPCOMING
Thinkspace x Paintguide, Los Angeles, US
The Self, Hector Trend, The Who gallery x The Ministry, London, UK
Open studio, Palazzo Monti, Brescia, Italy
FNCV Art Fair, Tequisquiapan, Mexico
Solo & Duo exhibitions
2019 (duo) The Self, The Who Gallery x The Ministry, Hector Trend, London, UK
2019 De oorsprong, Galerie Ritsart, Maassluis
2018 Forma prima, El pez soluble Gallery, Tequisquiapan, Mexico
2018 (duo) All you can art 3, Kunsthal, collaboration Johanna Franco Zapata, Rotterdam
2017 View from another angle, Culture Fund, Leiden
2015 (duo) Philip Akkerman, Koppen bij elkaar, Sis Josip Gallery, Den Haag
2014 I never lost you, Kunsthuizen, Leiden
2013 Enface, Gallery Klooster, Noordwijk
Group exhibitions & fairs
2019
Sterren op het doek, Cobra museum, Amstelveen
RAW (Rome Art Week), Rome, Italy
Thinkspace x Paintguide, Los Angeles, US
FNCV Art Fair, Tequisquiapan, Mexico
Bacanal, Granada Gallery, Buenos Aires, Argentina
Habitus, Galerie Sille, Oudewater
Open studio, Palazzo Monti, Brescia, Italy
La Tarea Trece, Hercules, Queretaro, Mexico
Drieluik, Pieterskerk, Leiden
Prefacio, Granada gallery, Buenos Aires, Argentina
Fris, Ars Aemula Naturea, Leiden
2018
Zebra one gallery, Identity, London,UK
Swab art fair, Granada gallery, Barcelona
Bloom, Booth Gallery, New York, US
Spoke art x Paintguide, San Francisco, US
AAF, kunsthuizen, Amsterdam
Micro art fair, Holland art house, Leiderdorp
Vigour, Den Gallery, Kuwait city, Kuwait
First art fair, Amsterdam
UNEAC Gallery, Matanzas, Cuba
National museum of revolution, Havana, Cuba
2017
Palazzo Monti, Brescia, Italy
Breaking boundaries, Kunsthuis, Amsterdam
Mijn schrift, LL Gallery, Leiden
2016
Affordable Art Fair, Amsterdam
Nouveau Theatre, LL Gallery, Leiden
Kunstroute, Haagweg 4, Leiden
Faces, van Schaik & van Schaik, Zeist
2015
Arthunters x 5&33 Gallery, Amsterdam
Affordable Art Fair, Amsterdam
The new season, Gallery Sille, Oudewater
Kunstroute, Haagweg 4, Leiden
Face to Face, Firma van drie, Gouda
No Mans Art gallery, Call for artist, Rotterdam
What do we worship, Slangenpand, Amsterdam
Psycho, LL Gallery, Leiden
2014
Affordable Art Fair, Amsterdam
Kunstroute, Haagweg 4, Leiden
Affordable Art Fair, Maastricht
Scheltema, Birth of Joy, Leiden
2013
AIR 9, Beurs van Berlage, Amsterdam
Affordable Art Fair, Amsterdam
Kunstroute, Haagweg 4, Leiden
Museum Naturalis, Nacht van kunst en kennis, Leiden
Residencies
El Pez Soluble, Mexico, 2018
RuArtPark, Cuba, 2017
Palazzo Monti , Italy, 2017
Publications
Femke van Leeuwen, drie kunstenaars, drie projecten, Online galerij, maart 2019
Giulia Gregnanin, new generation residencies, FLASH ART, februari 2018
Inside a 13th century Italian palazzo turned art residency, Another magazine, october 2017 Bianca Martinelli, Giornale di Brescia, october 2017
Donnia Ghezlane-Lala, Dark Portraits Paintings Losing Their Identity, Fubiz, may 2016
Benny Thopson, Empty Kingdom, january 2016
Anders Dyhr, Xamou-art, april 2015
Anthony Hagan, Disposal of human identity, Stylenochaser, july 2015
Pirita Litmanen, REVS magazine, october 2014
Red. Los magazine, november 2014
Emma Willekes, Online galerij, Kunstenaar van de maand, january 2013
Renzo Candido, Kleurmakers, february 2013
Red. LOS magazine, november 2013
Red. LEVEN, march 2013
Awards
Honourable mention, Combat art prize, 2017
Nomans art gallery call for artists winner, 2015
Shortlisted, Beers contemporary visions V, 2014
Artslant prize, Round 6 winner, 2014
