Monica Aissa Martinez

Monica Aissa Martinez was born and raised in El Paso, Texas and has six siblings. She is interested in spirit, physiology, and how to portray them in art. She was married to her husband in 1991 and moved to Phoenix where she currently lives and teaches drawing at Phoenix College. Soon after receiving her Master's, Martinez had her first solo exhibition at Scottsdale Museum of Contemporary of Art. ==Exhibitions and permanent collections==

Martinez's work was among that of 102 US artists whose work was selected for the exhibition "State of the Art: Discovering American Art Now," at the Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art in Bentonville, Arkansas. Her work is in the permanent collection of Crystal Bridges Museum, the Tucson Museum of Art, New Mexico State University Art Museum among others. == References ==