Loneliness and the Modern Pentathlon by Daria Martin
    Loneliness and the Modern Pentathlon by Daria Martin
    Year: 2005 / Original format: 16mm / Duration: 20 minutes
   
 
Born in San Francisco, 1973. Lives and works in London.
   
EDUCATION and AWARDS
2002 Artist in residence, Delfina Studios Trust, London.
2000 M.F.A., cum laude, University of California, Los Angeles.
1999 Artist in Residence, Cite Internationale des Arts, Paris, France.
1995 B.A., Humanities, magna cum laude, Phi Beta Kappa, Yale University .
   
ONE PERSON EXHIBITIONS
2005 Five Fights, Kunstverein in Hamburg, Hamburg.
  Daria Martin, Kunsthalle Zurich, Zurich.
  Man and Mask, Collective Gallery, Edinburgh.
  Daria Martin, Kunstlerhaus Stuttgart, Stuttgart.
  Soft Materials, The Showroom, London.
2004 Daria Martin: Closeup Gallery, Hotel, London.
2003 Daria Martin: Art Now Lightbox, Tate Britain, London.
  Closeup Gallery, Analix Forever Gallery, Geneva.
2001 Birds, Andrea Rosen Gallery, New York.
   
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2005 The Tate Triennial, Tate Britain, London (catalogue).
  The British Art Show 6, The Baltic Centre for Contemporary Art, Gateshead.
  Uncertain States of America, Astrup Fearnley Museum of Modern Art, Oslo.
  A Certain Tendency in Representation, Thomas Dane Gallery, London.
  Emblematic Display, curated by Catherine Wood, Institute of Contemporary Arts, London.
  U-Move, Galleria Comunale d’Arte Contemporanea di Monfalcone, Italy (catalogue).
  Beck’s Futures, Institute of Comtemporary Arts, London, and others (catalogue).
2004 In the Palace at 4 a.m., curated by Catherine Wood, Alison Jacques Gallery, London.
  100 Artists See God, curated by John Baldessari and Meg Cranston, Institute of Contemporary Arts, London, and others (catalogue).
  Feast of Silenus, Edinburgh College of Art, Edinburgh.
  Sophie Macpherson and Daria Martin, Glasgow Sculpture Studios, Glasgow.
2003 The Moderns, Museo Castello di Rivoli, Turin (catalogue).
  Paris is Burning, Entwistle Gallery, London.
  Bootleg, Spitalfields Market, London.
  The Fragile Underground, curated by David Thorpe, Bart Wells Institute, London.
2002 Al Respecto 7, Rafael Tous Foundation, Barcelona.
2001 Tirana Biennale, National Gallery, Tirana (catalogue).
  Sharing Sunsets, Tuscon Museum of Contemporary Art, Tuscon.
  Not at Home, Solitude Gallery, Stuttgart.
2000 Sentimental Education, curated by David Rimanelli, Deitch Projects, New York.
  And She Will Have Your Eyes, Analix Forever Gallery, Geneva.
  New School, Works on Paper, Los Angeles.
  M.F.A. Thesis Show, UCLA New Wight Art Gallery, Los Angeles.
1999 Black Dragon Society, Black Dragon Society, Los Angeles.
   
SELECTED PERFORMANCES, SCREENINGS, and BROADCAST
2006 Regeneration, Tate Modern Turbine Hall, performance in collaboration with Zeena Parkins.
  Diaries, Poor Man’s Expression, Berlin, Germany (performance).
  Dance and Art in London, Suzanne Dellel Center, Tel Aviv, Israel (screenings and lectures).
  British Art Talks: Music, Tate Britain, London (lecture and panel discussion).
  Joseph Cornell: Arnolfini Bristol (screening and lecture).
  Daria Martin, Bonniers Kunsthalle, Stockholm, Sweden (screening and lecture).
2005 Daria Martin (screening and talk), Swiss Centre, Paris.
  Daria Martin: Screenings, Casco Projects, Utrecht.
  Flesh and Fantasy,film night curated by Daria Martin, Tate Britain, London.
  The New Moderns, Second Annual Conference, The Showroom, London.
  Ed Ruscha Film Night, Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles.
  Describing Form, screenings curated by Lucy Reynolds for LUX, The Henry Moore Institute, Tate Britain, and others.
2004 The New Female Voyeurism (screening and panel discussion), The Institute of Contemporary Arts, London.
  bfi and Tate: International Symposium: By Design: Film Fashion
  Art Architecture (screening and talk), Tate Modern, London.
  Spring is the Future (performance), Concert in the Egg, curated by Emma Robertson and Jo Stella-Sawicka, The Ship, London.
2002-2005 Revolver, a series of short films by artists, curated by Carmen Zita, broadcast weekly on the European arts Channel “Expo 24X7”.
   
SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY
2006 Kirsty Bell, ‘Track and Field” (feature), frieze, March 2006.
  Barry Schwabsky, “Openings: Daria Martin”, Artforum, March 2006.
  Olivia Plender, “Greek Myth and the Ghosts of Bexhill-on-Sea,” Tate Etc, Spring 2006.
2005 “Brit Art: the Next Generation”, The Independent, 1 December, 2005.*
  “Future Greats,” Art Review, December 2005.*
  David Bussel, “Daria Martin: The Showroom” (review), Artforum, May 2005.*
  Lisa Panting, “Daria Martin: The Showroom” (review), frieze, April 2005.*
  Diana Baldon, “Daria Martin interviewed”, tema celeste, March/ April 2005.*
  Sally O’Reilly, “Daria Martin: The Showroom” (review), Modern Painters, April 2005.*
  Lisa Le Feuvre, “Daria Martin: The Showroom” (review), Art Monthly, March 2005.*
  Rob Tufnell, “Eye Robot”, Tank, January 2005.*
  Pablo Lafuente, “Debut: Daria Martin”, Art Review, January, 2005.*
2004 David Bussel, “Critics’ Picks: Closeup Gallery”, Artforum Online, November, 2004.*
  Sanjoy Roy, “Moving the Goalposts”, Contemporary, issue 66, October, 2004.
  cover image.*
  Emily Pethick, “London Picks: In the Palace at 4 am” Artforum Online, July, 2004.
  “Palace Evolution”, Time Out, 28 July-4 August 2004.*
  Olivia Plender, “On Daria Martin”, Untitled, Spring 2004.*
  Barbara Polla, “Daria Martin and the Modern Pentathlon”, Citizen K, Paris, Winter 2004.*
2003 Andrea Viliani,“Daria Martin”, (review), Flash Art International, Milan, October, 2003.*
  Roberta Bosco, “Quienes son los modernos?”, El Pais, Madrid, May 2, 2003.*
  “Contemporanei? No, Moderni”, La Repubblica, Rome, April 5, 2003.*
2002 Pablo Lafuente, “A room of their own”, Artreview, London, November 2002.
  Esther Pierini, “Birds” (review), frieze, London, April 2002.*
  Maurizio Cattelan, curator, Charley 01, New York, Spring 2002.*
2001 David Rimanelli, “First Take: Daria Martin”, Artforum, New York, January 2001.*
2000 Holland Cotter, “Sentimental Education” (review), The New York Times,
  New York, July 14, 2000.
  Jerry Saltz, “Realm of the Senses”, The Village Voice, New York, July 6, 2000.
  David Rimanelli, “Top Ten of 2000”, Artforum, New York, December 2000.
  *Reproductions.
   
PUBLICATIONS
2006 Daria Martin, Ringier, Zurich.
  Tate Triennial, Tate Publications, London.
2005 The British Art Show 6, Hayward Art Gallery, London.
  Uncertain States of America, Astrup Fearnley Museum of Modern Art, Oslo.
  The Showroom Annual 2004-2005, The Showroom, London.
  U-Move, Galeria Comunale d’Arte Contemporanea di Monfalcone, Italy.
  Beck’s Futures, Institute of Contemporary Arts, London.
2004 100 Artists See God, Independent Curators International, New York.
  Art Now and Then, Tate Britain, London.
2003 I Moderni/ The Moderns, Castello di Rivoli, Turin.
2001 Tirana Biennale, National Gallery, Tirana.
   
SELECTED COLLECTIONS
Tate Modern, London.
Arts Council England, London.
Ringier, Zurich.