Curriculum Vitae

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Don Martin (1931-1989)
Education:

1948 Art Students League, New York, NY; Carl Holty & Sidney Laufman
1949 Akron Art Institute, Akron, OH; Leroy Flint
1953 New Orleans, LA; Charles Campbell

Selected Solo Exhibitions:

1998 Chasing That Kite, Santa Cruz Museum of Art & History, Santa Cruz, CA (April-Aug.)
1995 Something To Come Home To, Pacific Grove Art Center, Pacific Grove, CA (Jan.-Feb.)
1992 Don Martin Memorial Exhibition, Canter Art Center, Healdsburg, CA (March-April)
1991 Don Martin Memorial Exhibition, Santa Cruz Art League, Ella Gray Gallery, Santa Cruz, CA (Nov.-Dec.)
1975 Don Martin Paintings and Drawings, Cooper House Gallery, Santa Cruz, CA (September)
1963 Magic Like Art, Vorpal Gallery, San Francisco, CA
1954 Don Martin, Grabados y Pinturas, Casa del Arte, Guadalajara, Mexico (August)

Selected Group Exhibitions:

2019 Don Martin and other Masters of  California Post-War Art, Calabi Gallery, Santa Rosa, California (May-July)
2018 Collecting on the Edge, Nora Eccles Harrison Museum of Art, Logan, Utah (Sept-Dec)
2015 Transcendence, Abstraction & Symbolism in the American West, Nora Eccles Harrison Museum of Art, Logan, UT (Sept.-May)
2012-13 Local Color, San Jose Museum of Art, San Jose, CA (July-Jan.)
2017-11 Uses of the Real, Nora Eccles Harrison Museum of Art, Logan, UT
2003-04 Hidden Lives, the Art of Eleanor Prager and Don Martin, San Jose Museum of Art, San Jose, CA (July-Jan.)
1997 Beat Week, Museum of Art & History of Santa Cruz County, Santa Cruz, CA (October)
Flashback, San Francisco Center for the Book, San Francisco, CA (June-Sept.)
1996 The ReBeat Art Exhibit, Somar Gallery, San Francisco (Oct.-Nov.)
1994 Black + White, The Pope Gallery, Santa Cruz (April-May)
Exemplary Contemporary 1994: An Exhibition of Collage and Assemblage, Eloise Pickard Smith Gallery, University of California Santa Cruz, Santa Cruz, CA (May-June)
1988-89 Santa Cruz Painting ’88, The Art Museum of Santa Cruz County, Santa Cruz, CA (Dec.-Jan.)
1975 Collage and Assemblage in Southern California, Los Angeles Institute of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, CA (March-May)

Museum Collections:

San Jose Museum of Art, San Jose, California
Nora Eccles Harrison Museum of Art, Utah State University, Logan, Utah
Santa Cruz Museum of Art & History, Santa Cruz, California


Publications:

Collecting on the Edge: Nora Eccles Harrison Museum of Art
Bolton Coburn Editor, Nora Eccles Harrison Museum of Art Collections Publication
© 2018 Utah State University, Logan, Utah

Selections
The San Jose Museum of Art Permanent Collection
Edited and with an introduction by Susan Landauer
© 2004 San Jose Museum of Art, San Jose, CA

What Book! Buddha Poems from Beat to Hiphop
Edited by Gary Gach, Foreword by Peter Coyote
Parallax Press, Berkeley, CA, 1998 © Gary Gach, 1998
[Cover painting]

Pipe Dreams
Poetry by Martin Matz
Special performance issue, limited edition of 100
Don Kennison, New York, New York, 1989
[Cover drawing]


Selected Private Collections:

Anna Abend, California
Larry Bornstein, Louisiana
DeWoody Collection, Florida
Muldoon Elder, California
Gilbert-Fagen Family, California
Samuel Gilbert, California
Helaine Glick, California
Jack Herman, California
Mariah Hicks, Utah
David Hirsh, California
Alice Kilham, Oregon
Rachel McKay, California
Jerry & Berda Morley, California
Ivan Morley, California
Richard Randall, California
Kamala Rose, Washington
Jessica Tateishi, Hawaii
Hadwig Schneck, California
Max Waldron, California