BIO

Veronica Martinez is a artist and illustrator based in Chicago. Her work has been exhibited in Chicago, Italy, and Mexico through the art collective Pintoras Mexicanas. Recently, her work has been featured in Cicero Independiente, Injustice Watch, and has been a guest on The Latinx Identity Project Podcast. You can see her murals across the South Side of Chicago in support of the movement for Black lives.

Inspired by the work of artists such as Cindy Sherman, Frida Kahlo, and Kerry James Marshall, Veronica Martinez uses portraiture as a means to celebrate difference and it’s many entanglements with class, taste, nostalgia, and history. Through the loud and bright tropes of celebration her portraiture aims to highlight narratives and identities made invisible.

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PUBLICATIONS

2020

Article Illustration, “Remembering Our Loved Ones Lost to COVID-19,” Cicero Independiente, December 23.

Article Illustration, “A Veteran Cook County Judge Has Been Repeatedly Blocked From Hearing Sex Offense Cases. Here’s Why.” Injustice Watch in partnership with The Circuit, Oct. 22

Article Illustration, “Meet the Cook County Judge Attorneys Least Want to Appear Before,” Injustice Watch in partnership with The Circuit, October 22.

Cover Illustration, Cicero Independiente, Print Edition, Fall 2020.

Article Illustration, “Cicero Police Employee Accused of Domestic Violence, Kept Job Despite Investigator’s Warnings,” Cicero Independiente, September 28.

Voter Guide and Postcard Illustration, “‘Check Your Judges’ Campaign,” Injustice Watch in partnership with Southside Weekly.

Editorial Illustration, “Editorial: No, It’s Not that Latinx People Don’t Care, It’s Our Governments that Don’t,” Cicero Independiente, April 30.

COLLABORATIVE PROJECTS

2020    Illustration and Animation, Social Media PSA, Keeping It LITE, Chicago IL

2014    Featured Artist, Visit Mexico Postcard, Chicago, IL

RELEVANT EXPERIENCE

2020 Muralist, “Las Vidas Negras Importan”, Alivio Medical Center, Chicago IL

2014    Album Art, Brian Carpy’s Rockin’ Bollocks, Chicago, IL

2013    Identity and Design, Shantel Suarez for District 201, Cicero, IL

2011    Painting Instructor, Corazon Community Services, Cicero, I

 SELECTED EXHIBITIONS

2017   Group Show, Movie Poster Remake Show, Galerie F, Chicago, IL

2016   Group Show, Circus Magazine presents La Fete, YO:U Salon&Gallery, Chicago IL

Group Show, X-PO Illustrated, Capitol One Café, Chicago IL

2013    Group Show, Viajeras Traveling Exhibition, Mexico and Chicago, IL

Group Show, Pintoras Mexicanas: Mostra di pittura, Comune di San Teodoro, Italy

Group Show, Lila Downs Concert Exhibition, Congress Theatre, Chicago, IL   

2012   Group Show, Art Pavilion, Fiesta Del Sol, Chicago, IL       

Group Show, Pilsen Open Studios, Chicago IL

Group Show, Sones de Mexico 13 B’AK’TUN, Mayne Stage, Chicago, IL

Group Show, Now You See It Now You Don’t, Flat Iron Arts Building, Chicago, IL