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Enrique Martinez Celaya was born on 9 June, 1964 in Havana, Cuba, is a Cuban-born American artist. Discover Enrique Martinez Celaya's Biography, Age, Height, Physical Stats, Dating/Affairs, Family and career updates. Learn How rich is he in this year and how he spends money? Also learn how he earned most of networth at the age of 59 years old?

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Age 59 years old
Zodiac Sign Gemini
Born 9 June, 1964
Birthday 9 June
Birthplace Havana, Cuba
Nationality Cuba

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1964

Enrique Martínez Celaya (born June 9, 1964) is a contemporary Cuban-born painter, sculptor, author and former physicist whose work has been exhibited and collected by major international institutions.

He trained and worked as a laser physicist, completing all coursework for his doctorate, before devoting himself full-time to his artwork.

He holds master's degrees in physics and fine arts and has authored books on art and philosophy as well as scientific articles.

He is currently a Montgomery Fellow at Dartmouth College, and the Provost Professor of Humanities and Arts at USC.

Martínez Celaya was born on June 9, 1964, in Havana, Cuba, and spent his early childhood in Nueva Paz and Los Palos, Cuba.

1972

His family relocated to Madrid, Spain in 1972.

While there, he took up drawing at the age of eight.

1975

In 1975, the family relocated again, this time to Puerto Rico.

He initiated his formal training as an apprentice to a painter at the age of 12 and developed his early interest in writing and philosophy.

1982

In 1982 he enrolled at Cornell University.

1986

He graduated magna cum laude with a Bachelor of Science in Applied Physics and a minor in Electrical Engineering in 1986.

He was selected as a Regent's Fellow at the University of California, Berkeley, and earned a Master of Science degree with a specialization in Quantum Electronics While there, he patented several laser devices.

Martínez Celaya was awarded the Brookhaven National Laboratory Fellowship (1986–1988), and was Interdisciplinary Humanities Fellow and Regents Fellow from the University of California (1992–94).

1994

He later enrolled in the M.F.A. program at the University of California, Santa Barbara and graduated with highest honors in 1994.

After graduation, he attended the Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture in Maine.

About his interest in literature, Martínez Celaya states, “Reading is a primary source for my work." I read philosophy and literature and that is the universe I see my work in, even though I'm a visual artist. ... Often when artists talk about writers, they're talking about them as source of content. I'm reading them for a moral stance in the world.”

1998

Martínez Celaya founded Whale and Star in 1998, an imprint that specializes in art and its relationship to other intellectual and creative fields, especially literature, philosophy, and critical theory.

He received Los Angeles County Museum of Art's Young Talent Award (1998), the Hirsch Grant (2002), the Rosa Blanca Award from the Cuban Community (2002), and the California Community Foundation Fellowship, Getty Foundation Award (2004).

1999

Martínez Celaya married Alexandra Williams, the daughter of American journalist Christian Williams, in 1999.

They have four children together.

2004

He was honored with the Inaugural Colorado Contemporary Arts Collaborative Artist Residency at the CU Art Museum, sponsored by Kent and Vicki Logan (2004), and received the Anderson Ranch Arts Center's National Artist Award (2007).

2007

From 2007-2009, Martínez Celaya wrote a blog on his website with a selection of entries published as The Blog: Bad Time for Poetry (Whale & Star, 2010).

He was Visiting Presidential Professor in the history of art at University of Nebraska (2007–2010), and an assistant professor of art at Pomona College and the Claremont Graduate University, (1993-2003).

2010

In 2010, Martínez Celaya inaugurated The Lecture Project, funded with assistance from the Knight Foundation.

2011

The University of Nebraska Press published a twenty-year survey of his writings in 2011, entitled Collected Writings and Interviews, 1990-2010, which was more recently followed by a second volume, Collected Writings and Interviews, 2010-2017. Martínez Celaya published a selection of lecture notes from his popular workshops, entitled On Art and Mindfulness: Notes from the Anderson Ranch (Whale & Star, 2015), in collaboration with the Anderson Ranch Art Center in Snowmass, Colorado.

2012

Since 2012, the blog has continued in the form of journal entries on the artist's personal website.

The original programming presented lectures from academics and art critics until late 2012.

2015

They later divorced in 2015.

Martínez Celaya lives and works in Los Angeles, California.

2016

He was the Roth Family Distinguished Visiting Scholar at Dartmouth (2016-2017).

2017

Martínez Celaya is currently Provost Professor of Humanities and Arts at USC (2017–present) in Los Angeles and a Montgomery Fellow at Dartmouth College (2014–present).

2019

In 2019, in collaboration with USC Dornsife The Lecture Project was re-launched and is currently hosting programming from Martínez Celaya's Los Angeles Studio.

2020

In 2020, Martínez Celaya was awarded a Doctor Honoris Causa from Otis College of Art and Design.

He was invited to give the college's commencement address the same year, and in 2021 joined the Otis College Board of Governors.

In 2021, Martínez Celaya also became the inaugural fellow of the Robinson Jeffers Tor House Foundation.