Virgil marti biography

American visual artist (born 1962)

Virgil Marti (born 1962) is an American visual artist recognized for his installations blending fine art, design, and decor from a range of styles and periods.

Marti’s immersive sculptural environments, often evoking nature and the landscape, combine references from high culture with decorative, flamboyant, or psychedelic imagery, materials, and objects of personal significance.^[1]

The artist’s sculptures and installations have been featured in museums and galleries internationally since the 1990s.^[2] Marti was selected to participate in the 2004 Whitney Biennial.^[3] The artist has been awarded the Art Matters Fellowship, the Pew Fellowship in the Arts, the Pennsylvania Council on the Arts Fellowship, the Louis Comfort Tiffany Foundation Award, and the Joan Mitchell Foundation Award.