About

Pedro Martinez Marín is an artist born in Barcelona

Pedro Martínez Marin´s paintings ask people to slow down. To sit with something. To feel impermanence rather than scroll past it. His flowers demand presence.

Art is a language that’s being forgotten. And he is one of the people who still speaks it fluently.

His paintings are not decoration. They are transmissions. They go into luminous spaces -many in where families live their lives-, and they quietly change the energy of those spaces.

He is a painter whose work carries earned optimism, the kind that has looked at real darkness and chosen light anyway. Everything he has been; the performer, the wanderer, the person he wasn’t proud of, the man who rebuilt himself in silence among flowers and paint lives in the work.

He doesen´t want the attention, the audience for himself, he wants it for what he makes. And what he makes is evidence that transformation is possible.

He paints what he needs to see. And because it’s true for him, it becomes true for others.

Sensitive, thoughtful people. People who feel deeply and think clearly enough to be troubled by what they feel. People who haven’t numbed themselves. His art speaks to people who want to be moved, not just entertained. Who want something that stays with them after they close a book or leave a museum or a theater. Who are hungry for depth in a world that keeps serving them shallow.

Martinez Marin is not just a painter. He is a living proof that there’s another way. That we can step off the carousel of noise and speed and performance and find something more real, more nourishing, more true.

ACADEMIC TRAINING:

Eina (Graphic design. Barcelona 1990-92).

Barcelona Industrial School (Jewelry design 1995-96).

Postgraduate in “Body and art”, Alas (Barcelona 2016-17). Barcelona.

Barcelona Academy of Art.(Drawing and painting, 2017–2019).

Ilya Gefter atelier. (Tel Aviv, Israel. 2022)

Co-Active Training Institute (San Francisco, U.S.A.), Strozzi Institute (San Francisco, U.S.A.)

Universidad de Barcelona (Facultad de Economía y Empresas).

“It is necesary to learn the rules to be able to disobey them”.

(Fotos by: Ana Coello / Marián Martinez / Stefan Weinert / Cristina Núñez)

Some Exhibitions:

2026

Azul Tierra (Barcelona)

La Pabordia (Girona)

Ici et La Gallery (Barcelona)

2025

Azul Tierra (Barcelona)

Ici et La Gallery (Barcelona)

2024

Biennal Manifesta 15. (Barcelona).

Fundación NMAC. Montenmedio Contemporanea. (Vejer de la Frontera. Cadiz)

Ici et La Gallery (Barcelona)

Festival Cultural Pepe Sales (Girona, Spain)
2023

Ici et la Gallery (Barcelona, Spain).

2022

Galería Matiz.(Barcelona, Spain).
Saatchi Gallery (London, UK) (Group)

2021

Soup Gallery (London, UK)

Gallery Petite. “A world away, A thought apart”. Brooklyn (New York. U.S.A.)

2020

ATT 19. (Bangkok, Thailand).
Barcelona Academy of Art. “Self-Portrait in Quarantine” (Barcelona, Spain).

2019

Galería Jorge Alcolea. (Madrid).

La Penyora Cultura. (Girona, Spain).

2018

IV Feria Arte Aparte. (Cáceres, Spain).
Arts Santa Mónica (Barcelona)
Centre Parc Sandaru (Ajuntament de Barcelona, Spain)
Centre Matas i Ramis (Ajuntament de Barcelona, Spain)

2017

Shairart Gallery (Portugal)
Samarkanda. (Girona, Spain)
La penyora. (Girona, Spain)

2016

Nyaman Gallery(Bali, Indonesia)
Naka Contemporary Art Gallery (Bali, Indonesia)
Barnadas Huang (Singapore)

2015

American Prints (Barcelona, Spain)
American Prints (Milano, Italia)

2014

American Prints (Valencia, Spain)
American Prints (Madrid, Spain)

2010

Museo de Zoologia de Barcelona. (Barcelona, Spain)

2009

La Penyora. (Girona, Spain)
“Tauromaquia” (Centro Cultural La Santa, Barcelona, Spain).

2003

Centro Cultural La santa . Sala 2. (Barcelona, Spain)
Market Dell´arte (Italia)

2002

Los colores de la música (Madrid, Spain)
Los colores de la música. Fundación Rafael Botí (Cordoba, Spain)
Los colores de la música . Centro de arte Adra. (Almeria, Spain)

2000

Galeria Rosa Pous (Girona, Spain)

1998

Museo de Zoologia de Barcelona, (“Naturalezas Rebeladas”), (Spain)