Tom Martinelli was born and raised in New York City, receiving his BFA from the School of Visual Arts and his MFA from Hunter College. He has been exhibiting his work since the late 80’s. Some of the venues include White Columns Gallery, David Richard Gallery NY/Santa Fe, Paula Cooper Gallery, James Graham and Sons, Pierogi, the Brooklyn Museum, The MAC, Dallas; the Carnegie Museum; Tom Solomon's Garage, LA CA; Norte Maar, Brooklyn NY. He recently had a mini-retrospective at the Wright Contemporary in Taos, NM.

He’s been the recipient of two Pollock-Krasner Foundation grants as well as a New York Foundation for the Arts grant. Numerous fellowships and residencies include Virginia Center for the Creative Arts, the Elizabeth Foundation, Yaddo, Millay Colony and Tyrone Guthrie Center, Ireland. Tom has taught at Hunter College, the New School and Yale University. He arrived in New Mexico from New York in 2006. 

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