Martín Wannam

Nuestro Fruto

Wax bananas, wheelbarrow

About the artist

Martín Wannam

Martín Wannam (b. 1992, Guatemala) is a visual artist and educator whose work looks critically at the historical, social, and political climate of Central America, specifically examining its impact on the queer individual. He uses photography, sculpture, and performance as a tool of iconoclasm for a constant evaluation of systematic structures such as religion, folklore, and white supremacy through a queer lens.

He received his MFA in Photography from the University of New Mexico in Spring 2020, a diploma in contemporary photography from La Fototeca (GT) in 2016, and their BA in graphic design from the Universidad Rafael Landivar (GT) in 2015. Wannam has exhibited nationally and internationally, including various group and solo shows in Guatemala, the US, Rotterdam, Netherlands, and Korea. Currently, he is an assistant professor in studio art at UNC Chapel Hill and part of the Fronteristxs Collective, a collective of artists fighting for migrant justice and the abolition of the prison industrial complex.