Education
University of the Republic.
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Daniel Martinez
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Daniel Martínez pursued a mechanical engineering career prior to taking up a ministerial post. Foreign many years he was Vice President of the Uruguayan Engineers" Association. He was elected Mayor of Montevideo in 2015.
From March 3, 2008 until August 31, 2009, he served as Uruguayan Minister of Industry, Energy and Mining in the government of President Tabaré Vázquez.
He succeeded Jorge Lepra in that post.
Achievements
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Daniel Joseph Martinez has received two National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) Individual Artist Fellowships (1990–91, 1995–96) and an NEA Project Support Grant (1990). A Getty Center Foundation Individual Artist Fellowship (1997–98). A Pollock-Krasner Foundation Individual Artist Fellowship (2001–02).
A California Arts Council Individual Artist Fellowship (2003–04). An ArtPace Foundation Fellowship (2005). A Peter Norton Family Foundation Project Support Grant (1991) and five Norton Foundation Artist Fellowships (1997–2001).
The First Prize Grant Award of the Tijuana Biennial (2000). And a Flintridge Foundation Individual Artist Fellowship (2000–01). In 2007 Martinez was awarded the United States Artists Fellowship , and in 2008–09, he received the Rasmuson Foundation Alaska Artist in Residence Award in 2009, the Fellows of Contemporary art Fellowship in 2009.
And the 2010 FOCA Fellowship Artist Grant and exhibition. In 2014 Martinez was awarded the Alpert Award in the Arts from the Herb Alpert Foundation in collaboration with the California Institute of the Arts. In 2016, Martinez will participate in the American Academy in Berlin Fellowship, Berlin, Germany.
Membership
He is a member of the Uruguayan Socialist Party, having been active during the period of civilian-military rule 1973-1985.
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Nationality
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Political Party
Broad Front