Solo Exhibitions

2011   The Caretaker , Unseen Worlds - curated by Clelia Belgrado, VisionQuest Gallery - Genoa,            Italy

            I libri d'artista di Amandine Nabarra-Piomelli, curated by Silvana Turzio, Fotografia                          Europea - Reggio Emilia, Italy

            Secret Love, curated by Michele Serrano, Duchessa - Museo di Palazzo Rosso,                        Genoa, Italia

2009   Secret Love, Gallery 825, Los Angeles, California

2005   Imaginary Biology: Fauna, The Office Art Gallery, Huntington Beach, California

2004   The Essence of Human Being and New Metal Works, Photo Gallery Orange Cost College,            Costa Mesa, California

Selected Group Exhibitions

2010    The Caretaker, Nehmen sie Platz, Uovo di Struzzo Contemporary Art Gallery,
            Pieve di Teco, Italy

            Bernoulli Equation, The book as Art: Hand2Hand, Columbia City Gallery, Seattle,                         Washington

            Imaginary Biology: Fauna, The Art of Collecting, Istituto Italiano di Technologia, Genova,             Italy

            Secret Love, Mirrors of the Soul, Music - Poetry - Art, El Portal Theater, Los Angeles,             California

2009    Artist’s books, Beautiful books, 23 Sandy Gallery, Portland, Oregon

            Secret Love, Festival de photographie Manifesto – Toulouse, France

            Artist’s books, Beautiful books, Abecedarian Gallery, Denver, Colorado

2008    Secret Love, Analog/Digital – Matt May, Curator, Irvine Fine Art Center, California

            Secret Love, National Artist Book Exhibition – Juried by Gay Walker, the Special             Collections Librarian at Reed College.  23 Sandy Gallery, Portland, Oregon

            Secret Love, Ink and Clay – Juror Mark Steven Geenfield, Executive Director of
            the Los Angeles Municipal Art Gallery. W. Keith and Janet Kellogg University
            Art Gallery, Pomona, California

2007    Secret Love, Biannual Show - Juror Alma Ruiz, Curator of the Museum
            Contemporary Art (MOCA ) Los Angeles. The Mike Napollielo Gallery,
            Hermosa Beach, California

            Secret Love, Alternative Processes - Juror Elizabeth Spungen,
            Director at The Print Center in Philadelphia. The Center for
            Fine Art Photography, Fort Collins, Colorado

            Imaginary Biology: Fauna, Making Meaning - Juror Louis Stern, Louis Stern Gallery,             Gallery 825, Los Angeles, California

            Imaginary Biology: Fauna, Electresthetic - Curator Chris Hoff, Cypress College Art Gallery,
            Cypress, California

            Imaginary Biology: Fauna, Venice International Photo Contest, Venice, Italy

2006    Imaginary Biology: Fauna, OsCene:Contemporary Art and Culture in
            Orange County - Guest Curator, Jacqueline Bunge. Laguna Beach
            Museum of Art, Laguna Beach, California

            Forgotten, Lost and Found, San Diego Book Arts - Juror Linda Corey Claassen,
            Curator of U.C. San Diego’s Mandeville Special Collections Library. U.C. San Diego,             California

            Imaginary Biology: Fauna, All Media 2006 - Juror Jerry Burchfield,
            Director of the Cypress College Photography Gallery,
            Irvine Fine Art Center, California

            Imaginary Biology: Fauna, Third Biennial, Orange County Juried Exhibition
            - Juror Mat Gleason, Publisher of Coagula Art Journal.
            Muckenthaler Cultural Center, Fullerton, California

2005   Car Wit and other short stories, Play/Pause Photography, Video and Animation,
            Orange Coast College Library, Costa Mesa, California

            Imaginary Biology: Flora, All Media 2005 - Juror Paul Paiement,
            Director of the Cypress College Art Gallery. Irvine Fine Art Center, California

2004   Sad Love, Third Biennial, Orange County Juried Exhibition
            - Juror Kim Abeles, artist. Muckenthaler Cultural Center, Fullerton, California

            Annual Juried Photography Exhibit - Juror Mac Holbert, Nash Editions,
            Orange Coast College Photography Gallery, Costa Mesa, California

2003   Sad Love, Picture me this - Juror Chris Hoff, owner of The Office Gallery,
            Huntington Beach, California

            You didn’t come, Photo 2003 - Juror James Scarborough, Irvine Fine Arts Center,
            Irvine, California

Awards

• 2009 O.C. Art Grant, The Downtown Santa Ana Business Council
• All Media 2006, Irvine Fine Art Center - Honorable mention
• All media 2005, Irvine Fine Art Center - Honorable mention
• Photography Faculty Award, Orange Coast College, 2005
• Rick Malmin Memorial Photography Award, Orange Coast College, 2004
• Photo 2003, Irvine Fine Art Center - Honorable mention
  

Publications/Press

The OC Art Blog – Artist Interview with Chris Hoff – January 2008
http://theocartblog.typepad.com/the_oc_art_blog_contempor/2008/01/artist-intv---a.html

World of Washi Newsletter – Winter 2007, Vol. 13, No1
Japanese Paper in Digital Prints by A. Nabarra-Piomelli

Orange County Register, October 29, 2006
A cultural Barometer by Richard Chang
http://www.ocregister.com/ocregister/entertainment/arts/abox/article_1337191.php

Irvine World News, page 11, February 5, 2006

Martin wins top honor at All Media 2005

Orange Coast Weekly, page 40, December 9, 2005

Pretty Ugly-Two Office shows are art any way you like it by Rebecca Schoenkopf

Orange Coast Review – A Journal of Literature and Art – Photograph page 59, Spring 2005

Education

Certificate of Still Photography, Orange Coast College, California (2004)
Chambre de Commerce de Paris, France (1988)
Major, International Trade
Sorbonne Nouvelle - Paris, France (1987)
Master : Major, English and Chinese