María Verónica San Martín

María Verónica San Martín is a multidisciplinary artist whose work explores the intersections of artist’s books, printmaking, performance, installation, archives, and critical pedagogy to address questions of memory, human rights, and resistance in Chile and the Americas.

San Martín has exhibited nationally and internationally at institutions and venues including the National Museum of Women in the Arts, Washington, D.C.; The Print Center, Philadelphia; BRIC Arts Media, Artists Space, Lincoln Center, the Queens Museum, Rockefeller Center, and Fordham University, New York; the Chilean National Archive, the Museum of Memory and Human Rights, and Galería NAC, Santiago; and Museum Meermanno, The Hague. Her work has also been featured in the Poli/Gráfica Triennial of Puerto Rico and the Immigrant Artist Biennial in New York.

Her work is held in more than 90 public collections, including the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York; the Centre Pompidou, Paris; the Walker Art Center, Minneapolis; Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts; Smith College, Northampton, Massachusetts; the Klingspor Museum, Frankfurt; and the National Center for Contemporary Art, Chile.

San Martín was a fellow of the Whitney Museum of American Art’s Independent Study Program and a scholar at the Center for Book Arts in New York. She has participated in artist residencies at Art Omi, Ghent, New York; Interlude, Hudson, New York; the Monira Foundation, Jersey City, New Jersey; and Residencia ACE, Buenos Aires. She is the recipient of two New York Foundation for the Arts Fellowships, four Chilean National Arts Grants, and a Sustainable Arts Foundation Award. She serves on the Board of Brooklyn Art and was a 2026 juror for the New York Foundation for the Arts Artist Fellowship Program.

Since 2016, San Martín has presented and performed her projects Moving Memorial, Dignidad, and The Javelin Project in museums, public spaces, universities and cultural centers.

At Smith College, San Martín teaches artist’s books and drawing. Previously, she taught at Parsons School of Design and the Center for Book Arts in New York, Penland School of Craft in NC and Mixteca, an immigrant center in Brooklyn. She has also led Open Gallery workshops at the Metropolitan Museum of Art with New Latin Wave and is currently collaborating with the Museum of Modern Art and the Center for Book Arts on public programs related to MoMA’s upcoming exhibition on Surrealism and artist’s books.