Vincent Paul Martinez Jr.
(361) 652-3766
B I O G R A P H Y
Vincent Paul Martinez Jr. was born May 29th 1982 in San Antonio Texas where much of his childhood was spent drawing robots and monsters. In 1994 he moved out of the big city and into the small town of Victoria Texas where he began to rap and paint. The raps were spoken incessantly and spontaneously amongst his peers in school yards and on farms at house parties.
These farms also became the back drop for Vincent’s visual art as his work began to transition from an urban influence to a more rural one. These rural painted scenes were inspired by the homes of the country folk Vincent befriended after getting settling in Victoria. In 1999 one of his paintings was entered into The Houston Live Stock Show and Rodeo and sold in an auction for $16,000. $2,000 of the sale Vincent was able to use for scholarship, the rest of the money went towards an art program that he had attended the previous summer called Cowboy Artists of America held at Schreiner University in Kerrville Texas.
While attending Austin Community College Vincent studied painting at Austin Museum of Art’s Laguna Gloria campus and at Noel Robbin’s Studio which would prepare him for the art program he would soon enter at Texas State in San Marcos. Rapping skills were also being sharpened at local open mics and freestyle battles giving him more confidence in his Hip Hop endeavors. Vincent answered to an ad for a cooperative studio space where his first art shows were held and were he would later live. One of his studio mates “Picoteck” gave him the name Emcee Eats for always having bags full of food to prepare for late night painting. Emcee Eats joined the Hip Hop group Fambly and would soon perform with acts such as The Word Association, Qwell, and The GZA.
In 2006 a Bachelor of Fine Arts with an emphases in painting was achieved from Texas State in San Marcos and with this degree Vincent continues to make art. Vincent lives in Austin Texas where he raps and paints.
R E S U M E
Education
B.F.A. Studio Art-Painting 2006
Texas State University
San Marcos, TX
Work Experience
Americorps Member for Communities in Schools, Martin Middle School: Austin,TX 2010 - 2011
Supervisor: Ramon Diaz (512) 663-2628
Duties: Tutor, Mentor and Council at risk youth, Co-facilitate Safe Place Boys Group and Smart Kids after school program
White Glove Storage and Delivery, Austin TX 2009-2010
Supervisor: James Miry (512) 431-0422
Duties: Installation, Art hanging, crating, shipping, furniture handling, packaging, and heavy lifting
Dell Parts Liquidation, San Marcos TX 2007-2008
Supervisor: Mark Derrick (512) 665-5465
Duties: Stocking, Ebay sales, sort parts, packaging and shipping
Gallery Assistant / Monitor, Texas State University, 2003-2006
Supervisor: Mary Michael Stump, Art Director (512) 245-2611
Duties: Work in professional and student galleries, hanging and lighting,correspondence with artists / faculty / alumni, transport and ship works of art, assist and chaperone artists
Volunteer
Communities in Schools 2010
Smart Kids - Teach inner city kids art and music in an after school program.
Tech Tots - Teach underprivileged children educational computer games.
Murals
"Social Justice" At UT Austin School of Social Work 2011
"Jump Up Media Release Party (Hand Head)" At D'monsterative Studios 2010
"East Feast" At Co-lab with Dennis Hodges, Sloke, and Chris Hollaway 2010
"Flesh Tone Poem" Hispanic Chamber of Commerce in San Marcos TX 2004
"Blank Wall Prevention Campaign" Stair well of the TX State Art Building San Marcos TX 2004
C U R R I C U L U M V I T A E
Solo Exhibitions
Pink House 3, Austin TX 2010
5 things, Art Authority, Austin TX 2009
Re-de (Done Did), The Root Cellar, San Marcos TX 2008
Funkify Clave’s, Eyes of Texas, San Marcos TX 2006
Lime Grape, Espuma, San Antonio TX 2005
Peruvian Landscapes, Moon Shine Imports, San Marcos TX 2005
Group Exhibitions
Far Out Home Fittings, Austin TX 2010
Jump Up Launch Party, Dmonsterative Studios 2010
East Austin Studio Tour, Co-lab 2010
Monster Show 5, Domy Books, Austin TX 2010
Pink House 4, Austin TX 2010
Constant rotation of large paintings at Townhouse, Downtown Austin TX 2010
East Austin Studio Tour, Co-lab, Austin TX 2009
The Beard Show, Austin Handmade, Austin TX 2009
Sex and Death Art Show, 5th Gallery, Austin TX 2009
Spun, 5th Gallery, Austin TX 2009
60 Wrd/Min Art Critic, Art House at the Jones Center, Austin TX 2009 view the review at here.
Artomatic, Washington D.C. 2009
Holiday Hipster Snowball, Co-lab, Austin TX 2008
Get Got, Arte Reyes, San Antonio TX 2008
Artomatic, Washington D.C. 2008
5 by 7, Art House at the Jones Center, Austin TX 2007
X-Mas Expo, Gallery Lombardi, Austin TX 2007
Your Art is Showing, Hi Art, San Marcos TX 2007 (90% of the work sold)
X-Mas Expo, Gallery Lombardi, Austin TX 2006
Ismlessness, Gallery Lombardi, Austin TX 2006
Black and White, Red 10 Studios, San Marcos TX 2006
Thesis, Texas State University, San Marcos TX 2006
How do you say lost? (with Meagan Evans), The Blue Goat, San Marcos TX 2006
Men and Their Work, Red 10 Studios, San Marcos TX 2006
All Student Juried Exhibition, Juror Vance Wingate of Gray Matters Gallery, Texas State University, San Marcos TX 2006
X-Mas Expo, Gallery Lombardi, Austin TX 2006
Jo on the Go, San Marcos TX 2005
Latino Art Exhibit, University of Houston at Victoria, Victoria TX 2005
Classic Tattoo, San Marcos TX 2005
Todos Los Sabados, San Antonio TX 2005
He Said, She Said, Gallery Lombardi, Austin TX 2004
Handsome Fur Bearing Animals, They Who Search Studios, Austin TX and Gallerdia, San Marcos TX 2004
All Student Juried Exhibition, Juror Clint Welhaur of Galveston , Texas State University, San Marcos TX 2004
Build Your Own Electric Arc, The Arcade, San Marcos TX 2004
Selective Disclosure, Red 10 Studios, San Marcos TX 2003
Warehouse Art Space, San Marcos TX 2003
Unauthorized Projects, Gallerdia, San Marcos TX 2003
Robbins Studio, Austin TX 2002
Lectures
Victoria Art League guest lecturer, Victoria TX 2010
Spoke about the relationships between painting and writing and my experiences as a painter rapper, followed up with a rap performance and a Mayan deity drawing workshop.
Reviews
Art review by Lori Waxman can be viewed here
Publications
Seven Beats a Second : Poems By Allen Itz & Art by Vincent Martinez
Homemade Creatives, 2005. www.7beats.com
Rapper, painter, performed at Victoria Art League, 2010. Article 1 Article 2
(361) 652-3766
B I O G R A P H Y
Vincent Paul Martinez Jr. was born May 29th 1982 in San Antonio Texas where much of his childhood was spent drawing robots and monsters. In 1994 he moved out of the big city and into the small town of Victoria Texas where he began to rap and paint. The raps were spoken incessantly and spontaneously amongst his peers in school yards and on farms at house parties.
These farms also became the back drop for Vincent’s visual art as his work began to transition from an urban influence to a more rural one. These rural painted scenes were inspired by the homes of the country folk Vincent befriended after getting settling in Victoria. In 1999 one of his paintings was entered into The Houston Live Stock Show and Rodeo and sold in an auction for $16,000. $2,000 of the sale Vincent was able to use for scholarship, the rest of the money went towards an art program that he had attended the previous summer called Cowboy Artists of America held at Schreiner University in Kerrville Texas.
While attending Austin Community College Vincent studied painting at Austin Museum of Art’s Laguna Gloria campus and at Noel Robbin’s Studio which would prepare him for the art program he would soon enter at Texas State in San Marcos. Rapping skills were also being sharpened at local open mics and freestyle battles giving him more confidence in his Hip Hop endeavors. Vincent answered to an ad for a cooperative studio space where his first art shows were held and were he would later live. One of his studio mates “Picoteck” gave him the name Emcee Eats for always having bags full of food to prepare for late night painting. Emcee Eats joined the Hip Hop group Fambly and would soon perform with acts such as The Word Association, Qwell, and The GZA.
In 2006 a Bachelor of Fine Arts with an emphases in painting was achieved from Texas State in San Marcos and with this degree Vincent continues to make art. Vincent lives in Austin Texas where he raps and paints.
R E S U M E
Education
B.F.A. Studio Art-Painting 2006
Texas State University
San Marcos, TX
Work Experience
Americorps Member for Communities in Schools, Martin Middle School: Austin,TX 2010 - 2011
Supervisor: Ramon Diaz (512) 663-2628
Duties: Tutor, Mentor and Council at risk youth, Co-facilitate Safe Place Boys Group and Smart Kids after school program
White Glove Storage and Delivery, Austin TX 2009-2010
Supervisor: James Miry (512) 431-0422
Duties: Installation, Art hanging, crating, shipping, furniture handling, packaging, and heavy lifting
Dell Parts Liquidation, San Marcos TX 2007-2008
Supervisor: Mark Derrick (512) 665-5465
Duties: Stocking, Ebay sales, sort parts, packaging and shipping
Gallery Assistant / Monitor, Texas State University, 2003-2006
Supervisor: Mary Michael Stump, Art Director (512) 245-2611
Duties: Work in professional and student galleries, hanging and lighting,correspondence with artists / faculty / alumni, transport and ship works of art, assist and chaperone artists
Volunteer
Communities in Schools 2010
Smart Kids - Teach inner city kids art and music in an after school program.
Tech Tots - Teach underprivileged children educational computer games.
Murals
"Social Justice" At UT Austin School of Social Work 2011
"Jump Up Media Release Party (Hand Head)" At D'monsterative Studios 2010
"East Feast" At Co-lab with Dennis Hodges, Sloke, and Chris Hollaway 2010
"Flesh Tone Poem" Hispanic Chamber of Commerce in San Marcos TX 2004
"Blank Wall Prevention Campaign" Stair well of the TX State Art Building San Marcos TX 2004
C U R R I C U L U M V I T A E
Solo Exhibitions
Pink House 3, Austin TX 2010
5 things, Art Authority, Austin TX 2009
Re-de (Done Did), The Root Cellar, San Marcos TX 2008
Funkify Clave’s, Eyes of Texas, San Marcos TX 2006
Lime Grape, Espuma, San Antonio TX 2005
Peruvian Landscapes, Moon Shine Imports, San Marcos TX 2005
Group Exhibitions
Far Out Home Fittings, Austin TX 2010
Jump Up Launch Party, Dmonsterative Studios 2010
East Austin Studio Tour, Co-lab 2010
Monster Show 5, Domy Books, Austin TX 2010
Pink House 4, Austin TX 2010
Constant rotation of large paintings at Townhouse, Downtown Austin TX 2010
East Austin Studio Tour, Co-lab, Austin TX 2009
The Beard Show, Austin Handmade, Austin TX 2009
Sex and Death Art Show, 5th Gallery, Austin TX 2009
Spun, 5th Gallery, Austin TX 2009
60 Wrd/Min Art Critic, Art House at the Jones Center, Austin TX 2009 view the review at here.
Artomatic, Washington D.C. 2009
Holiday Hipster Snowball, Co-lab, Austin TX 2008
Get Got, Arte Reyes, San Antonio TX 2008
Artomatic, Washington D.C. 2008
5 by 7, Art House at the Jones Center, Austin TX 2007
X-Mas Expo, Gallery Lombardi, Austin TX 2007
Your Art is Showing, Hi Art, San Marcos TX 2007 (90% of the work sold)
X-Mas Expo, Gallery Lombardi, Austin TX 2006
Ismlessness, Gallery Lombardi, Austin TX 2006
Black and White, Red 10 Studios, San Marcos TX 2006
Thesis, Texas State University, San Marcos TX 2006
How do you say lost? (with Meagan Evans), The Blue Goat, San Marcos TX 2006
Men and Their Work, Red 10 Studios, San Marcos TX 2006
All Student Juried Exhibition, Juror Vance Wingate of Gray Matters Gallery, Texas State University, San Marcos TX 2006
X-Mas Expo, Gallery Lombardi, Austin TX 2006
Jo on the Go, San Marcos TX 2005
Latino Art Exhibit, University of Houston at Victoria, Victoria TX 2005
Classic Tattoo, San Marcos TX 2005
Todos Los Sabados, San Antonio TX 2005
He Said, She Said, Gallery Lombardi, Austin TX 2004
Handsome Fur Bearing Animals, They Who Search Studios, Austin TX and Gallerdia, San Marcos TX 2004
All Student Juried Exhibition, Juror Clint Welhaur of Galveston , Texas State University, San Marcos TX 2004
Build Your Own Electric Arc, The Arcade, San Marcos TX 2004
Selective Disclosure, Red 10 Studios, San Marcos TX 2003
Warehouse Art Space, San Marcos TX 2003
Unauthorized Projects, Gallerdia, San Marcos TX 2003
Robbins Studio, Austin TX 2002
Lectures
Victoria Art League guest lecturer, Victoria TX 2010
Spoke about the relationships between painting and writing and my experiences as a painter rapper, followed up with a rap performance and a Mayan deity drawing workshop.
Reviews
Art review by Lori Waxman can be viewed here
Publications
Seven Beats a Second : Poems By Allen Itz & Art by Vincent Martinez
Homemade Creatives, 2005. www.7beats.com
Rapper, painter, performed at Victoria Art League, 2010. Article 1 Article 2
