César A. Martínez: In Retrospect

Martínez's work has been honored and exhibited for decades. The above image on the left was taken during the opening of ¡MIRA! The Canadian Club Hispanic Art Tour 1984, where Martínez won a grand prize for his painting, El Pantalón Rosa. Martínez won $5,000 cash as an award and elected to donate another $5,000 to the Guadalupe Cultural Arts Center in San Antonio, Texas.

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Above: Installation images from a retrospective at San Antonio's McNay Art Museum, which surveyed twenty-five years of the artist's work, from his first widely exhibited works of the mid-1970s through the end of the century.

Martínez’s work has been included in the landmark exhibits La Frontera/The Border: Art About the Mexican/U.S. Border Experience, at the Museum of Contemporary Art and Centro Cultural de la Raza, San Diego; CARA: Chicano Art: Resistance and Affirmation 1965-1985, organized by the Smithsonian Institute; and Hispanic Art in the United States, at The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston. He was honored with a solo exhibition, and accompanying book, at the McNay Art Museum San Antonio, Texas in 2009. He has also shown at the Mexican Fine Arts Center Museum, Chicago; Museo de Arte Moderno, Mexico City; the San Antonio Museum of Art, San Antonio; and the Contemporary Arts Museum, Houston, amongst other institutions.

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