Carl Martin

Born in 1958 in the USA. Carl Martin is an artist, designer and builder. Trained at the School of Visual Arts in New York, he won a Guggenheim Fellowship for photography and has exhibited in California, New York, Connecticut, Florida, Texas and Georgia.

His work is in the collection of the Museum of Modern Art in New York, MOCA GA in Atlanta, the Hartsfield-Jackson
International Airport in Atlanta, the Do Good Fund Collection, and numerous private collections.

In 2012 and 2013 work of his was published in a four quarterly series called Free Fall by Fall Line Press.

In 2018 Fall Line Press published an eponymous titled book, Carl Martin, featuring a major body of his work from the 1990’s.

MOCA GA aquired an edition of the 25 image body of work in 2018 from the series Public Gesture.

In 2018, his work was presented in an exhibition “New Southern Photography” curated by Richard McCabe at the Ogden Museum in New Orleans. The Ogden Museum of Art published a catalog in book form of the show New Southern Photography, of the 25 artist included.

In 2022 the Gerogia Musuem of Art in Athens, GA selected and exhibited work form the Do Good Fund Collection called Reckonings and Reconstructions: Southern Photography from the Do Good Fund. A book was published in the same year and the museum show traveled to Chrysler Museum of Art in Virginia, the Lowe Art Museum in Florida, The Figge Art Museum in Iowa and the Columbus Museum of Art in Georgia.

Recent work on this site is a picture Untitled representing a body of work using rock forms and a picture Opportunities in Space representing a group of pictures using building forms . Fall Line Press published a limited edtion book of the same name in 2025. This work has been shown in Atlanta, GA and Corsicana, TX.