Rossana Martinez was born in Mayagüez, Puerto Rico and lives in Brooklyn, NY. Martínez received a BA in Liberal Arts from the University of Puerto Rico in San Juan and an MFA in Sculpture and Printmaking from Pratt Institute in Brooklyn. Her work has been exhibited nationally and internationally at venues including P.S.1/Museum of Modern Art, the Bronx Museum of the Arts, El Museo del Barrio, and Metaphor Contemporary Art, in New York City, as well as in Australia, Belgium, The Netherlands, Switzerland, New Zealand and Puerto Rico. Martínez has been a recipient of the Brooklyn Arts Council’s Community Arts Regrant Program, the Artist in the Marketplace Program from the Bronx Museum of the Arts, and the Mujeres Destacadas (Distinguished Women) Award by New York’s daily El Diario La Prensa. She recently participated in the Workspace Residency of the Lower Manhattan Cultural Council and is also the co-founder of MINUS SPACE — a curatorial/critical project based in Brooklyn, NY. Her work has been reviewed in The New York Times, The Village Voice, The Brooklyn Rail, The New York Sun, Flavorpill and Artnet.