Bio 

Coco Martin is a NY based photographer, educator and architect  born and raised in Peru. Since 1991, Martin’s work was exhibited at the First Biennial of Photography of Puerto Rico (1998), Second Biennial of Lima, Peru (2000) and at the Biennial of Photography of Quito, Ecuador (2001) and at the Organization of American States Museum in Washington, D.C. (2008). Additionally his work has been exhibited and published in Peru, USA, Chile, Spain and throughout Latin America such as El Salvador and Argentina among other group exhibitions. 

Martin‘s art work has been recognized with the Exhibit Grant Award from the Council on the Arts for Staten Island, New York, and selected to perform at the Annual Juried Exhibition at Staten Island Museum both in 2005. His work has been published in different art magazines such as ARTE AL LIMITE (Chile, 2010 and 2012); NYARTS Magazine (NY, USA); GATOPARDO Magazine (Colombia); ARTMOTIV (Lima, Peru); Revista HELIO (Lima, Peru); and LOCUS Magazine (Baltimore, USA) among others. He has participated in the 2005 Loisaida Cortos Latino Film Festival in NY and in the AELLA FotoLatina in Paris in 2006. 

Opus Incarnate, his most ambitious series, was shown in La Galeria and Lima Photo Art Fair in August 2012, where he introduced scanographies as part of his photographic research and creative practice and getting wide press coverage. Back in August 2010 his solo show entitled New Neighbors was held in La Galeria (Lima, Peru) and became a traveling exhibition at the Peruvian American Cultural Institute - Arequipa (Nov. 2010) and Peruvian Embassy in Washington, D.C (Sep. 2011). This body of work was also selected to participate in PERUVIAN ART NOW, an group exhibition at the Isabel Aninat Gallery in Santiago de Chile and for the Forward Thinking Museum, Artist Level Runners-Up: Finalist of Photography Contest, 4th Quarter 2010.

Recent group shows includes: LUST. Group Exhibition curated by David Bram at Jennifer Schwartz Gallery, Atlanta, Georgia, USA (upcoming in March 23, 2012); Newspace Center for Photography, 2012 Themed Black & White exhibition; New Directions 2011 | Moments of Being at Wall Space Gallery Santa Barbara, California, curated by David Bram; Lima Photo 2010 & 2011, Art Fair Exhibition, Lima-Peru; Prix de la Photographie Paris, PX3 2011 Competition - Bronze Award, Portraiture - Culture Category; The Center for Fine Art Photography, 'Center Forward' Juried Exhibition 2011; and One Life Photography Project, International Photography Competition, Top 100 runner-up.