vivian marthell
Vivian C. Marthell
Co-Director, inkub8, an open-share collective
Vivian C. Marthell is a visual artist with a background in installation art, photography and science. Marthell’s
work explores issues of gender, identity and race using as media an amalgamation of material loaded with
symbolic meaning and cultural tropes. Marthell is a co-director of Inkub8, an open-share collective that unites
visionaries from all fields to collaborate on multidisciplinary projects.
Marthell’s collaborative efforts haverecently been exhibited/performed at bedART, Nash Hotel as part of the
Miami Gay & Lesbian Film Festival, Fleshroom at .boxspace, at the Gallery of Contemporary Art at the
University of Colorado in Colorado Springs, Miami-Dade County’s Tropical Park in a group exhibition entitled
“Arts to Nature,” an artist incursion at a Little Havana motel, “the Motel Show” and a sound arts residency at
SFCA’s Sound Arts Workshop that culminated in a collaborative performance entitled “R.D.A. Ritual Drum
ANALysis” at Wild Seduction Gallery. Her work has been reviewed in the August-October 2000 issue of Art
Nexus, The Albuquerque Journal, el Nuevo Herald, Street, Miami New Times and the miamiartexchange.com.
Marthell has contributed articles to the arts column of the Miami New Times and has lectured on Art Activism
and on the Artist and the Institution at the University of New Mexico and the University of Miami. She recently
participated in a panel for the National Association of Latino Arts and Culture speaking on “The Working
Artist/Strategies for Survival.” Marthell has received awards for her artwork from the United Arts Council in
Naples, FL and Pedestrian Gallery in Jacksonville, FL. She is a recipient of the Miami-Dade Cultural Affairs
Community Grant in 2004, a recipient of the International Cultural Exchange Grant through Tigertail
Productions 2005, a recipient of the State of Florida’s Cultural Affairs Artist Enhancement Grant 2005 and
participated in a research residency at University of Western Australia in 2005.
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