Resume
Martin Cox resume
SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS
Stranded, Los Angeles Maritime Museum, San Pedro, CA 2012
Summer Navigation: Passage through the pastoral (an 18th Century English Machine in the modern era), solo show at Ballard’s Gallery, Echo Park, Los Angeles 2011
Perfect Echo, Gallery 3517 Sunset Blvd, Los Angeles, CA, 2011
Moonlit, The Lost Studio Gallery, Los Angeles, CA 2007
Transmigration and the Love Boat, METRO GALLERY, Silver Lake, Los Angeles 2006
All At Sea, OYSTER GALLERY, Babbacombe, Devon, UK 2005
The Idyll, The ART SHOP, Abergavenny, Wales, UK 2004
All At Sea, OYSTER GALLERY, Babbacombe, Devon, UK 2003
Idyll, FOTOTEKA, Los Angeles, CA 2002
Idyll, The ART SHOP, Abergavenny, Wales, UK 2002
and Other Desert Cities, THE GROUCHO CLUB, Soho, London, England 1998
Successive States, SPACE CASE at PS 122, New York, NY curated by Robert Flynt 1992
Private Life, SOUTHERN EXPOSURE GALLERY, Upper Gallery, San Francisco, CA 1991
Writers Block, A DIFFERENT LIGHT Bookstore, West Hollywood, CA 1991
Transaction, installation, Front Gallery, INTERSECTION FOR THE ARTS, San Francisco, CA 1989
Clues to the City, UNIVERSITY ART GALLERY, San Francisco, CA 1984
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
Divergence: Photographs from Elsewhere, FotoFreo 2012 and FORM present an epic survey of international contemporary photography, March 2012
Elia’s 5th, Consevatoire des Arts et Metiers Multimedia in conjunction with 9th International Photography Biennial, Bamako, Mali, December, 2011
Chain Letter, huge group show instigated by Doug Harvey at Shoshana Wayne Gallery, Santa Monica, CA 2011
Pacific Resonance, projections, Pro’jektLA, MOPLA, Month of Photography Los Angeles, at Space 1520, Hollywood 2011
LA River, Photographs & Paintings, group, Department of Cultural Affairs, Los Angeles City Hall, Bridge Gallery, LA 2008
Southern California Photography, group, Cuesta College Gallery, San Luis Obsipo, CA 2008
Utopia, group, Millard Sheets Gallery, Pomona, CA 2006
Damage, group, drkrm Gallery, Los Angeles 2005
Site-Seen: Los Angeles, group, Los Angeles League of Photographers, I-5 GALLERY, The Brewery, Los Angeles 2004
Desert Sanctuary, two person, FOTOTEKA Los Angeles 2002
Llano Del Rio – 3 LA artists’ show, three person, ANTELOPE VALLEY COLLEGE ART GALLERY, Lancaster, CA – curated by Cynthia Minet 1996
Rice, CA, solo, ADR FINE ARTS, Los Angeles 1995
New Photography, group, LA ART SEEN, Beverly Hills, CA 1995
Malice Aforethought, group, ART IN THE OFFICE, Nossaman & Co, (curated by LACE) Los Angeles 1995
Plot 49, part III, group, DADA, Los Angeles 1992
They had an agreement, solo installation, THE BOX at NEW LANGTON ARTS, San Francisco, CA 1989
Translocation, solo, SINCERE TECHNOLOGIES GALLERY, Oakland, CA 1988
New Works, two person, (Greater London Council Award Exhibition) THE LONDON FILM-MAKERS CO-OP GALLERY, London 1984
ART FAIRS
Photo LA, FOTOTEKA booth, Santa Monica, CA 2001
COLLABORATIONS
Drift, 1st SUR: Biennial in Los Angeles, organized by Outpost for Contemporary Art and and Rio Hondo College, photographic collaboration with performance artist Marcus Kuiland-Nazario, Whittier, CA 2011
Photographic collaboration Marcus Kuiland Nazario’s DRIFT at REDCAT Los Angeles, 2011
Landscape images as major set elements for Sam Shepard’s play Curse of the Starving Class, Directed by Steve Kent, University of Laverne, CA 2010
Consanguinity Vol:1 interactive installation on ancestry and landscape, private residence Los Angeles, CA 2009
missing liners…lost hills, Collaborative with Annie Shaw, LEEFAHSALUNG 7 at the New China Town Barber Shop, Los Angeles, CA 2002
PRESENTATIONS
Pacific Resonance, Pro’jektLA, part of Month of Photography Los Angeles, Space 15 20, Hollywood April 2011
Photographer’s Eye: Artists’ talk, Los Angeles Central Library, curated by Carolyn Cole December 2008
EDUCATION
Bachelor of Fine Arts Degree (with Honors), Exeter College of Art & Design, UK
Fine Art Foundation Certificate, Winchester School of Art, UK
ARTICLES, PUBLICATIONS
onodream magazine, feature June 2012
Lenscratch, review by Aline Smithson, Feb 2011
The EastsiderLA photographic essay – the closing of Pioneer, August 2009
Lightleaks Magazine selected entry, Theme – the Road, April 2009
ArtDaily.org Los Angeles Department of Cultural Affairs Presents LA River Paintings and Photographs at The City Hall Bridge Gallery article, June 2008
Los Angeles Times, Los Angeles, Book Review Landscape cover, May, 2008
LA Weekly, Los Angeles, Exhibitions, Article, December 2007
Daily News, Los Angeles, Exhibitions, review, November, 2007
Korea Times, Los Angeles, Exhibitions, review, May 8, 2006
Tutto Crociere, Cremona, Italy, review Stuart Timmons, April 2006
Daily News, Los Angeles, Arts & Entertainment, “best of weekend exhibitions”, Fred Shuster, April 28, 2006
Frontiers Magazine, Los Angeles, gallery pick, February, 2006
The Western Mail, Wales, art review by Karen Price, May 2003
Maritime Reporter, New York, Feature: Maritime Photographer by Regina Ciadiello, July 2002
Southern Daily Echo, Southampton, Feature: Making Art out of Decay, by Keith Hamilton, June 2001
Los Angeles Times, featured photo exhibition, FOTOTEKA, Desert Sanctuary, January 1999
Los Angeles Daily News, Entertainment section cover, Socialist Colony by, Jim Skeen, 1996
Beverly Hills News, Entertainment Feature, 1995
Artweek, Means of social construction by John Rapko, 1991
AFFILIATIONS
LACE, Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions, Board of Directors 1995-97
LALOP, Los Angeles League of Photographers, Board of Directors 2004-2006
COLLECTIONS
Los Angeles Maritime Museum, Studio For Southern California History, California Wilderness Coalition, David Fraire (Metro Gallery), Robin Blackmon (Fototeka Gallery), Paul Langlotz & Mark Sprecker, Paris Barclay, John & Lynn Pleshette, David & Diana Jacobs, Paul Reiser, Robert Greenbaum.
