About Martin Puryear
Martin Puryear was born in Washington, DC. Since his first solo exhibition in 1968, he has exhibited internationally and completed public commissions across Europe, Asia, and the United States. His work was featured in Documenta 9, and in 1989, he represented the United States at the São Paulo Bienal, where he received the festival’s Grand Prize.
In 2007, the Museum of Modern Art in New York organized a major survey of his work that traveled to the National Gallery of Art in Washington, the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, and the Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth. In 2015, the Art Institute of Chicago held an exhibition showcasing fifty years of his works on paper, which also traveled to the Morgan Library & Museum and the Smithsonian American Art Museum.
Puryear has been recognized with a MacArthur Fellowship in 1989 and a National Medal of Arts in 2011. He represented the United States at the 58th Venice Biennale in 2019. This exhibition is currently being held at the High Museum in Atlanta.
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