ArtCenter Admissions in collaboration with the Center for Diversity, Equity and Inclusion presents the inaugural Dx3: Dialogues in Diversity & Design, a virtual speaker series. For the Fall 2020 edition, we will engage in conversation with influential alumni who have utilized their creativity to inspire, empower and highlight their communities through their own personal narratives and practice. Additionally, each alumni speaker will share their pathway to ArtCenter and how their identities informed their pursuit of an art and design education.

Born and raised in the San Gabriel Valley, Patrick Martinez’s L.A. suburban upbringing and his diverse cultural background (Filipino, Mexican and Native American), provided him with a unique lens through which he interprets his surroundings. Influenced by the Hip Hop movement, Martinez cultivated his art practice through graffiti, which later led him to the ArtCenter, where he earned a BFA with honors in 2005. Through his facility with a wide variety of media (painting, neon, ceramic and sculpture), Martinez colorfully scrutinizes otherwise everyday realities of suburban and urban life in L.A. with humor, sensitivity and wit. His art often serves to celebrate leaders and thinkers whose work resonates strongly today, in addition to memorializing victims of police brutality.

His work has been exhibited domestically and internationally in Los Angeles, San Francisco, Minneapolis, Miami, New York, Seoul and the Netherlands, and he has shown in venues including the Studio Museum in Harlem, the Cornell Fine Arts Museum, the Vincent Price Art Museum, Biola University, LA Louver, Galerie Lelong & Co., Showroom MAMA, MACLA, SUR biennial, Chinese American Museum and the Euphrat Museum of Art. Patrick’s work resides in the permanent collections of LACMA, the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture, the Crocker Art Museum, the Cornell Fine Art Museum, the Pizzuti Collection of the Columbus Museum of Art, and the Museum of Latin American Art, among others. In 2021 Patrick will be the subject of a solo museum exhibition at the Tucson Museum of Art. Patrick lives and works in Los Angeles, CA.

Upon registration, a Zoom link will be sent and an additional reminder 24-hours prior to start of event.

This virtual speaker event and studio visit with Patrick Martinez is co-sponsored by ArtCenter Admissions, Center for Diversity, Equity, & Inclusion (DEI), Illustration Department and Fine Art Department.