MARTIN WITTFOOTH

Martin Wittfooth

b. 1981 Toronto, Ontario

MFA 2008, School of Visual Arts, NY

Martin Wittfooth was born in Toronto, grew up in Finland, and was educated as an artist in Canada, and subsequently in New York City, where he earned his MFA in 2008 from the School of Visual Arts. He lived in New York until 2022, and now splits his time between Brockville, Ontario and Savannah, Georgia.

Wittfooth’s work has been exhibited in galleries and museums worldwide, including the Virginia Museum of Contemporary Art, The Bristol Museum, The Crocker Art Museum, Long Beach Museum of Art, the Laguna Art Museum, and La Halle Saint-Pierre in Paris, with solo exhibitions in New York City, Los Angeles, Copenhagen, Seattle, and Montreal. His paintings have also appeared in numerous publications, including Juxtapoz, The New York Times Art Review, the Wall Street Journal, New Surrealism, and Vice, and cover features in New American Paintings, Hi-Fructose, Beautiful Bizarre, Chronogram, and American Artist Magazine. Wittfooth’s art has also been featured on numerous album covers for bands and musicians, including the double-Grammy nominated album, Feral Roots, released in 2019 by Rival Sons, and Palimpsest by Protest the Hero, for which Wittfooth was nominated for the Juno Award in 2021 for “Album Artwork of the Year”. Wittfooth has lectured at many institutions, including The New York Academy of Art, The School of Visual Arts, The Savannah College of Art and Design, the Fashion Institute of Technology, and the Museum of American Illustration in New York City, and is a recurring mentor in the prestigious Quarantine Events art program in Menorca, Spain.

Wittfooth’s paintings, drawings, installations and sculptural works use allegory and symbolism to explore themes of the intersection and clash of industry and nature, and the human influence on the environment.