Patricia Martín

In addition to creating the infrastructure to operate these institutions, she also served as chief curator, director of acquisitions; and she developed and promoted their educational, sponsorship and scholarship programs.

In 2017, he created Andamiaje, a digital platform that rethinks the way the art market operates, encouraging unprecedented interaction between collectors, consolidated and emerging artists, in order to support the work of the latter.

During the first year of operation and in absolute record time Martín achieved: From their management, the communities acquired the confidence to interact with the foundation in a proactive and natural way, driven by programs according to their needs.

Between 2006 and 2010, Martín collaborated with Moisés Cosío establishing the bases to create Fundación Alumnos 47: a non-profit organization with a mission to stimulate the creation, consideration and promotion of national and international contemporary art, through an autonomous body which worked as a laboratory for artistic analysis, research, training and production.

Under her supervision an exhibition hall, artwork protection warehouses and a public library of contemporary art were built inside the most important juice factory in Mexico, where seminars, workshops and several educational programs were held.

Since the late 1990s, she included important work by contemporary artists such as Tacita Dean, Thomas Demand, Rineke Dijkstra, Olafur Eliasson, Fischli & Weiss, Ceal Floyer, Dan Graham, Jenny Holzer, Bas Jan Ader, Donald Judd, Sarah Lucas, On Kawara, Rivane Neuenschwander and Robert Smithson, among many others.

Martín's greatest contribution was her vision to gather and show––together with the aforementioned consolidated artists––the work of emerging Mexican contemporary artists such as Francis Alÿs, Daniel Guzmán, Teresa Margolles, Gabriel Orozco, Damián Ortega, Fernando Ortega, Ale de la Puente, Santiago Sierra, Melanie Smith and Pablo Vargas Lugo, among many others (who are today renowned and have global successful artistic trajectories).

She began her professional career as an art director for film productions; She worked on more than 40 projects related to advertising, music videos and movies, in Mexico and abroad.