Maria Verónica San Martín

María Verónica San Martín is a Chilean-born, New York-based multidisciplinary artist and printmaker. Her work explores the cultural impacts of history, memory, and trauma through archives, artist books, installations, sculptures, and performances. She is a Whitney Museum ISP fellow artist, a scholar at the Center for Book Arts, and has participated in numerous international art residencies. She has received two New York Foundation for the Arts (NYFA) grants, four Chilean government grants, and a Sustainable Arts grant.

San Martín has exhibited widely, both nationally and internationally, with four solo exhibitions in 2023. Her recent projects include a commission for the National Museum of Women in the Arts, a performance at Lincoln Center, a public artwork at Rockefeller Center, and participation in the New York Immigrant Artist Biennial. Her work is represented in more than 80 collections, including the Metropolitan Museum of Art (MET), the Whitney Museum, the Walker Art Center, the Pompidou Center, the Museum Meermanno, and the Museum of Memory of Chile. She is currently developing her ongoing series Moving Memorials, composed of 203 artist books created, printed, and bound by herself using printmaking techniques.

San Martín teaches at Parsons, The New School, the Center for Book Arts, and Mixteca, a Mexican immigrant center in Brooklyn, New York. She has also been a visiting professor at Penland School of Craft (North Carolina) and Miami University (Ohio), and has led workshops for the Vera List Center, Weeksville Heritage Center, and the National Museum of Women in the Arts.

In addition to her teaching and artistic practice, she serves on the board of Booklyn Art and contributes to its artist and educational program. San Martín is currently exhibiting at the Polygraphic Triennial of Puerto Rico: America Latina and the Caribbean, at the National Museum of Women in the Arts in Washington, D.C., at Governors Island with TAAC in New York, and at both the National Center for Contemporary Art and the Museum of Memory in Santiago, Chile. She is also preparing upcoming solo exhibitions in Madrid for 2024 and in New York for 2025.