Juan Carlos Martinez is an award-winning artist, art educator, and a specialist in traditional portraiture. He is also well recognized in various genres of figurative art, including landscape and still life, in both painting and drawing media. Juan's work have been featured in various publications and exhibitions around the world, and he has garnered numerous awards and commissions (listed below). His work hangs in private and public collections in Canada, the US, and in Europe.
For over two decades Juan was a senior instructor at Toronto’s Academy of Realist Art (ARA) and regularly conducting workshops there and various locations across North America.
Juan has been awarded the ARC Living Master™ designation by the prestigious Art Renewal Center. He continually, and currently, develops his body of work and maintains an influence as a teacher and mentor, and as a commissioned portrait painter.