BIO

​Ana Martínez Orizondo is a Cuban born visual artist and poet  living in Coral Gables, Florida. 

.Ana has exhibited in group shows at Miami International Fine Arts, Feria Clandestina:  Miami Art Week,  in New York at The Painting Center, East End Arts, View Center for Arts and Culture,  RIVAA Gallery, and online with The Curator’s Salon, Visionary Art Collective and others.  She collaborated with fashion designer, Gabriela Hearst on her Fall Winter 2022 Collection and was the inaugural artist-in-residence at The Chequit, Shelter Island with a solo show of selected works from her Tree Stories series. 

​Her work resides in private collections and has been featured nationally and internationally in Vogue Mexico & Latin America, Orion Magazine, The Cut, Cottages & Gardens, Shelter Island Reporter, Art Seen Magazine, EcoTheo Review and The Hopper Magazine among others.

In addition to her art practice, Ana is a lover of words.  Her writing has appeared in the Newtown Literary Journal, The Journal of Latina Critical Feminism, Acentos Review and Blue Mountain Review, among others. That Place, won third place in the 2022-23 Finishing Line Press Chapbook Competition and is now available for purchase via Amazon.  Her poem, "The Snake and the Eagle" was a finalist for the 2023 Sandy Crimmins National Prize for Poetry.  
 
She holds an MA in Liberal Arts from Florida International University and a BA in Latin American Literature and minor in Communications from the University of Pennsylvania.  Ana serves as Director of Development for O Cinema. 

​INTERVIEW: Twig & Ink
MEET THE ARTIST: INTERVIEW in MIFA Miami Gallery blog
​MEET THE ARTIST : INTERVIEW in Cottages & Gardens

The Lover, 2020, oil pastels on 19 x 25 paper. $1,500 unframed.

Regenerative eco-system.

Like a tree in the forest, you were born to be a unique, individual expression and a member of a collective at the same time - creating something larger and more meaningful than the sum of its parts. 

When we nurture the seeds of creative expression together, we create a regenerative, cultural eco-system that allows us, you, me and the Universe, to thrive.

Collaboration with Gabriela Hearst

Tree stories

Artist Statement

Whether I work with soft pastels on recycled cotton rag paper, acrylic on canvas, bark, palm fronds, iPhone photos and videos, I explore liminality, animism, cosmic memory, divine feminine, and transformation.
 
My Tree Stories series are works inspired by trees that transport my imagination during meditative walks in nature. I explore the idea of trees as storytellers and keepers, breathing bodies, receptacles of time; divine protectors of souls.  I consider bark lines as cosmic hieroglyphics, ancestral knowledge, a teaching to decipher. Trees as sacred repositories for souls in transition.
 
I hope my art brings awareness to the climate crisis and awakens a sense of intimacy with our living planet. I call the viewer to see trees and all non-human forms as beings,  sacred and necessary for the health of our planet and spirit.

Contact

Photo by Lorin Klaris

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EDUCATION
2006 MA in Liberal Arts from Florida International University
1986 BA in Latin American Literature and Communications from the University of Pennsylvania
1982 Liberal Arts, Bard College
Additional:
2022 Bilingual poetry workshops with Silvina Lopez Medin
2021 Fall - Orion's Environmental Writer's Workshop with Francisco Cantu, Orion Magazine
2021 Fall - Universe Story & Earth Community: The Cosmology of Thomas Berry, CIIS
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ARTIST-IN-RESIDENCE:
2023 Miami International Fine Arts, Miami, Florida
2022 Tree Stories Series: Selected Works, The Chequit Hotel, Shelter Island, N.Y.
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GROUP or DUO SHOWS:
2024
Blue, Miami International Fine Arts, Miami
2023
Palo Santo, Feria Clandestina 2023, 7 Seas Motel, Miami Art Week, Miami
​MIFA Gallery booth, Doral International Art Fair, Doral Cultural Arts Center, Doral Florida
​Inner Volumes Unraveled, MIFA Gallery curated by Elkin Canas
"Volume Up," The Painting Center, juried exhibition curated by Monica King, NYC

​2022
 Flowers, Trees and Roots: The Wild World of Plants, national juried show, View Center for Arts & Culture, Old Forge, NY
 50 Reasons Why,  open juried exhibition, East End Arts, NY
"Break of Day, Edge of Night," juried show, The Painting Center, NYC 
 Thinking in Systems, "What's Next for Earth Project," Millennium Alliance for Humanity and Biosphere, Stanford University Arts

​2021
Collapse Online Exhibition, "What's Next for Earth Project," Stanford University Arts 
 The Autumn Exhibition, The Curator's Salon online exhibit 
Inner Power, Art Queens, online exhibit
When Words Fail, Visionary Art Collective, online exhibit curated by Grace Langl
Reverie, The Purposeful Mayonnaise, online exhibit
Artists of Shelter Island, Shelter Island Island Historical Society, Shelter Island, N.Y.
2020
Vernissage XIX, group show, Gallery Rivaa, Roosevelt Island, N.Y.
2019
Unexpected,  Gallery Rivaa, Roosevelt Island, N.Y. 
Time, Gallery Rivaa, Roosevelt Island, N.Y.

​PRESS:
2023 MIFA Miami Gallery Blog, June 10
2022 "Meet the Artist," Cottages & Gardens, August 16, 2022
2022 Art Seen: The Curator's Salon Magazine Autumn 2022
2022 The Chequit Marks 150 Years, WWD
2022 "Chequit gets ready for its close-up: Tavern opens, art show launched," Shelter Island Reporter
2022 "Conexion Arborea," Vogue Mexico & Latin America, April 
2022 The Purposeful Mayonnaise, Volume 1, Issue 5
2021 Orion Magazine
2021 Plantain Bark I, nominated in the visual category for the Best of the Net Anthology by Hopper Magazine
2021 EcoTheo Review Autumn 2021
2021 The Hopper magazine Issue 6
2021 Artist Talk Magazine Issue 15
2021 "Ana Martinez finds deep beauty in island life," Around Town, Shelter Island Reporter, Feb 18, 2021

​COLLABORATIONS:
Gabriela Hearst Fall Winter 2022 Collection
Gabriela Hearst BLOG 
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WRITING
Poetry:
That Place, Finishing Line Press, 2024
Respira, The Blue Mountain Review, Issue 28, May 2023
La Guitarra and Luna Platina, Acentos Review, April 2023 (forthcoming)
That Place,  third place winner of the 2022/2023 Chapbook Competition by Finishing Line Press (forthcoming)
a delay in your routine, Beyond Words Literary Magazine, April 2023, Issue 35
​Earth-Root, Newtown Literary, Issue 15 Winter 2019
La Nada, The Journal of Latina Critical Feminism, Volume 2 Issue 1 March 2019
I am Transparent, From Whispers to Roars Volume 1 Issue 2 2018
Convergence III, Honorable Mention Haiku Contest, Dreamers Creative Writing Magazine,
Issue 1 2018
Short Story:
Apparition on Elmhurst, Newtown Literary, Issue 13 Fall 2018
Essay:
Sand-painting Silence, Confluence: The Journal of Graduate Liberal Studies, 2007

COMMUNITY BUILDING & COACHING
2021 Badass Art Queens panelist, online talk, Art Queens
Spring 2021 Dream Retreat,  thirteen weekly online session for clients who want guidance, clarity and accountability in regards to their dreams and goals.  
One-on-One coaching - Context, clarity and strategy. 

*Prior to my visual art career, I was Vice President, Institutional Advancement at Hostos Community College, CUNY / Executive Director of the Hostos Community College Foundation and an Emmy award winning television producer.