Shantell Martin facts for kids
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Shantell May Martin
1 October 1980 Thamesmead, London, England
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Shantell May Martin, born on October 1, 1980, is a talented British artist. She is famous for her big, black-and-white line drawings. Shantell often creates these drawings live in front of an audience! She was born in London, England. Today, she lives and works in Los Angeles and New York.
Shantell Martin's art is shown in museums and galleries. She also works with many different companies and projects around the world.
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Early Life and Learning
Shantell Martin grew up in Thamesmead, a part of South East London. She went to Bexleyheath School. After that, she studied art at Camberwell College of Arts for a year. Then, she went to Central Saint Martin's College of Art and Design in London. She finished her studies with honors in 2003.
After college, Shantell lived in Japan. There, she started trying out live performance art. She worked as a "visual jockey," which means she created live drawings that were projected along with music. From 2006 to 2009, she developed this skill, calling it "liveography." It was all about drawing live to sounds or music.
Art Career and Exhibitions
In 2008, Shantell Martin moved to New York City. This was a big step in her career. She started to focus mostly on creating physical drawings.
Her first solo art show was called Continuous Line. It was held at the Black and White Gallery in Williamsburg, New York. Later, she had her first solo museum show, ARE YOU YOU, at The Museum of Contemporary African Diasporan Arts in Brooklyn.
In 2015, she had a special project called Black and White. For this, she worked with her grandmother on embroidery art. This project was part of a larger show at the Brooklyn Museum called Crossing Brooklyn: Art from Bushwick, Bed-Stuy, and Beyond. She also created a live drawing installation for a private event at the Museum of Modern Art in New York.
Teaching and Public Work
Since 2013, Shantell Martin has been a professor at NYU Tisch ITP. She has also been a visiting scholar at the MIT Media Lab. She taught a class called "Drawing on Everything" at NYU Tisch School of the Arts. She was also an advisor for the Climate Museum in New York from 2018 to 2019.
Shantell is also a well-known public figure. In 2012, her bedroom and artwork were shown in the New York Times. Her unique personal style has been featured in Vogue magazine. In 2014, The New Yorker made a short video about how she creates her art, called "Follow the Pen."
In the 2025 New Year Honours, Shantell Martin was given an MBE award. This award recognized her great contributions to British arts and charity work.
Creative Partnerships
Shantell Martin has worked with many famous brands and artists. In 2016, she performed with the musician Kendrick Lamar at Art Basel in Miami. She has also teamed up with Puma for three different clothing and shoe collections. In 2018, Puma even opened a special pop-up shop on Canal Street in New York City for her third collection.
She has also collaborated with other well-known companies like Tiffany & Co., The North Face, and Vespa. She worked with 1800 Tequila as part of their "Essential Artists" series. For designer Kelly Wearstler, Shantell created a large mural and a line of clothing and furniture.
In June 2021, she gave a popular TED talk titled "How Drawing Can Set You Free." In 2023, she worked with a company called ArrowType to create a special marker-style font called Shantell Sans.
Art Commissions
Shantell Martin has been asked to create art for many important places. She made a special artwork for the lobby of the New York City Ballet. She also created a permanent mural for the headquarters of Young & Rubicam in Manhattan. In March 2022, Shantell presented her first ballet that she choreographed herself. It was called “KITES” and premiered at the Boston Ballet.
See also
In Spanish: Shantell Martin para niños
