Background
Enrique Martínez Celaya was born on June 9, 1964 in Palos, Nueva Paz, Cuba and raised in Spain and Puerto Rico.
(In On Art and Mindfulness, world-renowned artist and cele...)
In On Art and Mindfulness, world-renowned artist and celebrated teacher Enrique Martínez Celaya shares his views and advice on the art-making process, the development of a practice, the management of obstacles, and the day-to-day choices we must make in order to remain creative and honest. Drawn from the actual sold-out workshops that Martínez Celaya taught over nine years at the venerable Anderson Ranch Arts Center in Snowmass, Colorado, these concise teachings are relevant not only to artists but to anyone wishing to live a mindful, productive life.
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Enrique Martínez Celaya was born on June 9, 1964 in Palos, Nueva Paz, Cuba and raised in Spain and Puerto Rico.
Enrique Martinez Celaya had been apprenticed to Bart Mayol In Puerto Rico from age 11. In 1982 he moved to upstate New York to study applied physics and electrical engineering at Cornell University. He graduated magna cum laude with a B.S. in 1986.
He later attended the University of California, Berkeley, where he enrolled in the quantum electronics Ph.D. program. He worked at Brookhaven National Laboratory, patented four laser inventions, and earned his M.S. at Berkeley in 1989, but he left the university prior to earning his Ph.D. to pursue art.
Martínez Celaya enrolled then at the University of California, Santa Barbara and graduated with a M.F.A. in 1994 with highest honours. After graduation, he attended the Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture in Maine.
Enrique Martinez Celaya was appointed assistant professor of art at Pomona College and the Claremont Graduate University in 1994, where he taught until 2003, when he resigned his tenured position of associate professor. Nevertheless, he continues to be a popular and influential teacher throughout the country.
Martínez Celaya's academic appointments also included the first Presidential Professorship in the history of the University of Nebraska from 2007 to 2010, and the Cecil and Ida Green Honours Chair at Texas Christian University. He has offered lectures at venues around the world including the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Joslyn Museum of Art in Omaha, Nebraska, the American Academy in Berlin and the Aspen Institute, among many other art departments, institutes, and organizations. He is an Artist Advisor at the Anderson Ranch Arts Center in Snowmass, Colorado, and previously served on its Board of Trustees.
Martinez Celaya also served as the Roth Distinguished Visiting Scholar at Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire in 2016-2017. More recently, he was appointed the first Provost Professor of Humanities and Arts at the University of Southern California in Los Angeles.
In addition, Martínez Celaya and his studio have sponsored programs for children, provided scholarships for artists, and assisted schools in curricular development. In 1998, as an extension of his commitment to the education and formation of artists, Martínez Celaya founded Whale & Star Press, which publishes books on art, poetry, art practice, and critical theory, and whose titles can be found in book stores, libraries, schools, universities, and museums throughout the world. He has worked in collaboration with scientists, entrepreneurs, writers, musicians, and architects, including the Canadian rock-band Cowboy Junkies, the poet and Nobel-Prize-winning chemist Roald Hoffmann, and the novelist Mary Rakow.
He is the author of several books including "Collected Writings and Interviews 1990-2010" and "The Nebraska Lectures", both published by the University of Nebraska Press, and "On Art and Mindfulness: Notes from the Anderson Ranch", published by Whale & Star Press, as well as the artist book "Guide", which was later serialized by the magazine Works & Conversations.
Martínez Celaya also created the watercolors for a children's book "The Return of the Storks", written by Lorie Karnath and published through Akira Ikeda Gallery in Berlin.
As of April 2015, Martínez Celaya is based in Los Angeles, California.
(In On Art and Mindfulness, world-renowned artist and cele...)
The Well
Schneebett
The Path
The North
The Sigh
Portrait of Leon Golub
The First Kierkegaard
Joseph Beuys
The Empire
The Dragon (T.S. Eliot)
The Burning (Mandelstam)
Untitled (Boy in Window)
The Invisible (or The Power of Forbearance)
The Fourth Angel
La Torre de Nieve (The Tower of Snow)
The Savior
The Artist (Edvard Munch)
Enrique Martinez Celaya was Interdisciplinary Humanities Fellow and Regents Fellow from the University of California from 1992 to 1994. He was named Montgomery Fellow at the Dartmouth College in 2014. He is currently a faculty member and board member at the well-known Anderson Ranch Arts Center, Snowmass Village, Colorado.
Martínez Celaya married Alexandra Williams in 1999 and they had four children together. They later divorced in 2015.