BIO
Pamela Diaz Martinez
After grad school, Pamela packed minimal belongings into her sand-colored pick-up truck and drove from the Arizona Desert to the beaches of Southern California hoping and praying she could make a new life there.
When she arrived, Pamela decided to take a slight career detour from making drawings and paintings in her studio, to work in fashion. For a little less than a decade she designed her own jewelry line and created drawings for a luxury shoe brand. Simultaneously, Pamela would exhibit her studio artwork in a fine art context. However, in 2015, she abandoned commercial projects for more alone time in the studio with God and a job as a full-time art educator in the Southeast.
Over the years Pamela’s artwork has been shown nationally and internationally in galleries, pop up and alternative project spaces, universities, residencies and museums.
In the Fall of 2023, Pamela opened her own gallery titled: D U N A M I S art space. It has been a life-long dream of hers to have an art space that is dedicated to spiritual contemplation.
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Pamela lives and works in Atlanta, Georgia but is a West Coast girl at heart.
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Master of Fine Art: Arizona State University, 2004
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In addition to many group shows on the East and West Coasts of the United States, Pamela has exhibited internationally in Germany, Italy and Spain and hopes to expand beyond Europe soon.
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Solo Exhibitions include:
D U N A M I S art space - Atlanta, Georgia 2024
Lee University Art Gallery - Cleveland, Tennessee 2023
Mason-Sharfenstein Art Museum - Demorest, Georgia 2021
Poem88 - Atlanta, Georgia 2018
Latino Arts Inc. - Milwaukee, Wisconsin 2012
Latino Art Museum - Pomona, California 2010
Concordia University - Irvine, California 2009
BCSPACE GALLERY - Laguna Beach, California 2008