The Urgency of Objecthood (2023) paint rags, studio clothes, dried paint chips, charcoal, coarse sawdust, pumice, acrylic on cavnas. 42 x 36 x 8 in.

Leslie Martinez (b. 1985, McAllen; lives and works in Dallas) received an MFA from Yale University in 2018 and a BFA from The Cooper Union in 2008. Solo exhibitions have been held at Commonwealth and Council, Los Angeles (2023); Blaffer Art Museum, Houston (2023); and And Now, Dallas (2021, 2020). Selected group exhibitions have been held at Contemporary Arts Museum Houston (forthcoming); Lehmann Maupin, New York (2022); Andrew Kreps Gallery, New York (2021); and The Latinx Project, New York University (2020). Martinez has participated in residencies at Denniston Hill, Woodbridge (2023); Booker T. Washington High School for the Performing and Visual Arts, Dallas (2020); and Museum of Contemporary Art Tucson (2019). They are the recipient of the Latinx Artist Fellowship (2022).

Martinez’s work is in the collections of Dallas Museum of Art; Pérez Art Museum Miami; High Museum of Art, Atlanta; and Speed Art Museum, Louisville.

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