Martine Syms

American | 1988

Martine Syms is an American Postwar & Contemporary artist who was born in 1988. Their work is currently being shown at multiple venues like Hammer Museum in Los Angeles. Numerous key galleries and museums such as MoMA, The Museum of Modern Art have featured Martine Syms's work in the past.The maker's first piece to be offered at auction was "Untitled" at Wright in 2024.Martine Syms has been featured in articles for ArtDaily, Flash Art (International Edition) and e-flux. The most recent article is ‘The Year Of Alice’ Coltrane Continues At Hammer Museum In Los Angeles written for Forbes in February 2025.

At Auction

Notable Lots

Untitled ,2014

By Martine Syms

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Recent Auction Results

Untitled ,2014

By Martine Syms

-19%

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Wright

Current Exhibitions

The Judith Center Poster Project [Phase 1]: Freedom in the Automation Age

Eli & Edythe Broad Art Museum at Michigan State University

East Lansing | Michigan | USA

Oct 16,2024 - Mar 16,2025

Labour

Art Museum at the University of Toronto, Justina M. Barnicke Gallery

Toronto | Ontario | Canada

Sep 04,2024 - Mar 22,2025

American Gurl

Harvey B. Gantt Center

Charlotte | North Carolina | USA

Oct 04,2024 - Apr 13,2025

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Articles

‘The Year Of Alice’ Coltrane Continues At Hammer Museum In Los Angeles

Forbes 14/02/2025

The multifaceted life and legacy of Alice Coltrane, jazz musician John Coltrane’s widow, is shared during the first museum exhibition devoted to her: “Alice Coltrane, Monument Eternal.”

Hammer Museum opens first museum exhibition dedicated to the legacy of Alice Coltrane

ArtDaily 09/02/2025

The Hammer Museum at UCLA is presenting Alice Coltrane, Monument Eternal, the first museum exhibition inspired by the life and legacy of jazz musician and devotional leader, Alice Coltrane (1937–2007).

Martine Syms “Total” Lafayette Anticipations / Paris

Flash Art (International Edition) 05/02/2025

Martine Syms’s work combines humor and social commentary to addressAfrican-American consciousness, its relationship to feminist thought, radical theoretical models, and systems of representation in relation to the poetic.

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Coverage

“ ..Syms’s video series Lessons (ongoing), on view at the ICA, is a long, incomplete poem in 180 sections... ”
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Institute of Contemporary Arts, London

“ ..Using video and performance, Syms examines representations of blackness and its relationship to narrative, vernacular, feminist thought, and radical traditions... ”
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MoMA, The Museum of Modern Art

“ ..Using video and performance, Syms examines representations of blackness and its relation to narrative, vernacular, feminist thinking, and racial traditions... ”
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Serralves Museum of Contemporary Art