Anthony Martinez-Galvan’s work takes the form of sculptural installations and image-based environments that examine how institutions and systems of the state shape the ways histories are constructed, remembered, and understood. Through research, he traces points of tension between personal and localized histories and broader historical narratives. Working through a postcolonial and art-historical lens, Martinez-Galvan investigates how images, objects, and historical accounts acquire meaning through their contexts and relationships to one another.

His installations bring disparate materials, images, and objects into deliberately constructed relationships, creating visual ecologies in which histories and assumptions can be unsettled and reconsidered. Rather than presenting fixed interpretations, the work creates moments of suspension in which established narratives and social structures become unstable, allowing overlooked connections, contradictions, and histories to emerge.

His work has been exhibited at Luckman Fine Art Gallery, New Wright Gallery, Rose Gallery, Permanent Storage Gallery, and Make Room Gallery. He received his B.A. in Art from UCLA in 2018 and his MFA in Art from UC Irvine in 2025.

B. 1989 Los Angeles, CA