Gabriela Martinez was born in Havana in 1987 and graduated with a specialty in painting from the San Alejandro National School of Arts in Havana in 2012. In 2014 she established in Miami, from where she traveled to Mexico where she spent working periods. In 2014 she holds her first personal exhibition “Presence of the Absence” at Macaya Gallery, Miami. Since 2011 she has exhibited in numerous groups shows in it; Concrete Space, Miami; Ixchel Museum of Indigenous Costume, Guatemala; Macaya Gallery, Miami; Art Wynwood Art Fair, Miami; Red Dot Art Fair, Miami; Art Festival Downtown, Miami; Diego Victoria Fine Art Gallery, Miami; Agora Gallery, New York; House of Mexico, Havana; Berthold Brecht Theater, Havana and Teodoro Trujillo Gallery, Havana. Her work has appeared in different publications such as CdeCuba Art Magazine No. 27, Madrid; Cuban Contemporary Art Collection, Cuba Plus, Havana; Diario de las Americas, Miami and Art District Magazine, Miami. Her work has been acquired by select private collections in the United States, Spain, and Panama.