BIOGRAPHY
Guillermo Martí Ceballos was born in Barcelona in 1958. Son of landscape-painter Oriol Martí (favourite pupil to Valencia painter Juan Bautista Porcar), while still very young he receives his first lessons on the world of drawing and painting from his father. In 1983 he enters the Escuela Massana of Barcelona taking Graphic Design. He stands out in the subject of drawing and composition and, encouraged by his teacher painter Ramón Noé, intensely devotes himself deep into this subject matter. He does a great number of copies of the great masters of the past (Velazquez, Hogarth, Gainsborough, Vermeer, etc).
In 1986 he is admitted in the Painting Study of artists Boter and Santaló. Thus he consolidates his academic formation and after going through an impressionist stage he comes across pure colours and freedom of expression. He then discovers the colourists, firstly Van Gogh and Gauguin, later the fauvism (Matisse, Derain) and the German expressionism (Macke, Kirchner, etc). His palette gets transformed and the local colour disappears turning into a purer colour.
In 1987 he joins the Cercle Artistic de Sant LLuc and does numerous outdoor as well as female nude studies. Ever since then Martí Ceballos has remained faithful to this discipline that would reward him with a great deal of material for his later studio works.
He takes part in some collective exhibitions (Palau Robert, 1996) and without dropping his illustrator facet he is awarded a number of prizes as poster designer (Festa Major de Gràcia, Arenys de Mar, etc). In 2000 he presents his first individual exhibition in Barcelona (Kreisler Gallery) with a remarkable success in sales and reviews. From then on he has not stopped showing his work at diverse galleries. In 2001 he is awarded the Second Prize for Painting from the Cercle Artistic de Sant LLuc and, in 2004, the First Prize in Drawing at the same arts centre. His work is spread about all over the Spanish geography as well as in such countries as the United States of America, France, Ireland, Italy and Austria.
CURRÍCULUM
1984 – Graphic design in the “MASSANA” School of Art (Barcelona)
1987 – Enters in the CERCLE ARTISTIC SANT LLUC (Barcelona)
1989/1991 – Studies in the school of painting ”BOTER SANTALO” (Barcelona)
AWARDS
1986 – Chosen for the 25th “PREMI CARTELL de DIBUIX JOAN MIRÓ” (Barcelona)
1996 – First prize for poster award for the “FIRA DE LA MADUIXA” of Canet de Mar
1999 – First award for the first competition poster “FESTA MAJOR DE GRÀCIA”
2000 – First poster award “CARNAVAL ARENYS DE MAR”
2004 – First prize for the 25th award for drawing “CERCLE ARTISTIC SANT LLUC” (Isidre Nonell Medal)
2005 – Second prize for painting “CERCLE ARTISTIC SANT LLUC” (Isidre Nonell Medal)
EXHIBITIONS
1996
Collective exhibition in the “PALAU ROBERT” for UNICEF (Barcelona)
2000
Exhibition int the” KREISLER” art Gallery in Barcelona Exposición in the “ESPLAI” de Sant Pol de Mar
2001
Collective exhibition in the “PARROQUIA S. TERESA”(Barcelona) Collective exhibition in the ” KREISLER” art Gallery of Barcelona. Collective exhibition in the “PALAU DEL MAR” (Barcelona) Collective exhibition in the “ATENEU VILASAREN II BIENAL”
2002
Collective exhibition in the “VILASART DE MAR” Collective exhibition in the “VILASAR DE D’ALT”
Collective exhibition in the “SANT POL ART” 2003 Exhibition in the “LOLET COMAS” Gallery (Mataró)
Exhibition in the “CONSEJO DE ARTE” Gallery (Barcelona)
Exhibition in the “MAGDALENA BAXERAS” Gallery
2004
Exhibition in the “GONZALO OLIVÁN” Gallery (Sitges)
Collective exhibition in the “CALISAY” (Arenys de Mar)
Collective exhibition in the “VILASAR DE D’ALT”
2005
Collective exhibition in the HIPERMERC’ART VINÇON GALERIE (BARCELONA)
2006
Exhibition in the “GONZALO OLIVÁN” Gallery (Sitges)
Exhibition “ Tres Generacions” CENTRE CULTURAL Sant Pol de Mar (Barcelona)
Exhibition in the “414KUNSTHAUS” Gallery (Barcelona)
2007
EXIBITION IN THE Centro Médico TECKNON (Barcelona)
Exibition in the ART22 Gallery (Girona)
2008
Collective exhibition in the GALERIE TALENS À SUIVRE (LYON)-FRANCIA)
Exibition in the Galerie CARRÉ D’ARTISTES (Barcelona)
Exibition CENTRE CULTURAL Sant Pol de Mar(Barcelona)
Exhibition in the 9ª FERIA DE ARTE INDEPENDIENTE (MADRID)
2009
Exibition in the Galerie CARRÉ D’ARTISTES (Barcelona)
Collective exhibition in the MUSEU PIA ALMOINA (BARCELONA)
Collective Exhibition in the Gallery MONTCADA (Barcelona)
Collective Exhibition in the Societat Cultural i Recreativa Ebusus (IBIZA)
2010
Collective exhibition CARRÉ D’ARTISTES (París)
Collective exhibition CARRÉ D’ARTISTES (Bordeaux)
NATIONAL EXHIBITION CENTRE ADNEC (Emiratos Árabes Unidos -Abu Dhabi)
Exibition CENTRE CULTURAL Sant Pol de Mar(Barcelona) Collective ex
2011
Collective exhibition CARRÉ D’ARTISTES (París)
Collective exhibition CARRÉ D’ARTISTES (Bordeaux)
NATIONAL EXHIBITION CENTRE ADNEC (Emiratos Árabes Unidos -Abu Dhabi)
Exibition CENTRE CULTURAL Sant Pol de Mar(Barcelona)
Collective exhibition Galería Artealtea (Valencia)
MAG’10 MONTREUX ART GALLERY Salon d’art contemporain (Montreux -Swiss)
2012
CARRÉ D’ARTISTES Collective exhibition (Montpellier- France)
Exhibition at Centre Cultural Sant Pol de Mar (Barcelona)
2013
CARRÉ D’ARTISTES Collective exhibition (Lille-France)
Exhibition Gallery Tuset (Barcelona)
Collective exhibition Castell de Montesquiu (Barcelona)
Exhibition Restaurant & Hostal l’AIXART Aiguablava – Begur (GIRONA)
2014
EUROESTARS BCN Design Hotel Exhibition – BARCELONA
Fair “Salon des Antiquaires et Art Contemporain Nancy” (Nancy-FRANCE)
Exhibition in the CENTRE cultural Sant Pol de Mar (Barcelona)
Exhibition Gallery ARTEMISIA – Les Franqueses del Vallès (Barcelona)
CARRÉ D’ARTISTES collective exhibition (Istanbul Turkey)
2015
Exhibition in the CENTRE cultural Sant Pol de Mar (Barcelona)
Collective Exhibition in the Gallery ARTEMISIA – Les Franqueses del Vallès (Barcelona)
2016
Exposición en CLAUSTRE DE LA CASA DE CULTURA – Tossa de Mar (Girona)
Exposición en LA FRABRIQUETA – Caldes d’Estrac (Barcelona)
2017
Exposición en CENTRE CULTURAL- Sant Pol de Mar (Barcelona)
Exposición en FUNDACIÓ AVE MARÍA – SITGES (Barcelona)
2018
Exposición colectiva Galería ARTEMISIA – Les Franqueses del Vallès (Barcelona)
Exposición en CENTRE CULTURAL- Sant Pol de Mar (Barcelona)
2019
Exposición y presentación libro “ La emoción del color” en CENTRE CÍVIC COTXERES BORRELL- (Barcelona)
Exposición en CENTRE CULTURAL- Sant Pol de Mar (Barcelona)
2020
Exposición colectiva Black Music Festival- Galería DUAL – Girona
2021
Exposición PREMIUM HOUSES- (S. Andreu de Llavaneres- BARCELONA)
2022
Exposición PREMIUM HOUSES- (S. Andreu de Llavaneres- BARCELONA) Exposición en CENTRE CULTURAL- Sant Pol de Mar (Barcelona)
2024
Exposición en CENTRE CULTURAL- Sant Pol de Mar (Barcelona)
2025
Exposición en CALISAY- Arenys de Mar (Barcelona)
Bibliography/ magazines/book covers:
Catálogo UNICEF ART 1996
ARTISTI CONTEMPORANEI & QUOTAZIONE 2000
Catálogo GAL ART 2000
Revista CASAVIVA : Ilustración para artículo.
Revista DONA (2008): Artículo autor.
Imagen cubierta: Editorial ALFAR – Autora: Adelaida Porras Medrano, “Perlas Australianas y otros relatos” (2009)
Imagen cubierta: Editorial JV PERFILES, “Médicos de Vizcaya” (2009)
Imagen cubierta: Editorial ALFAGUARA – Varios autores, “Cuentos de matrimonios” (2010)
Imagen cubierta: Editorial PLANETA – Colección Austral – Autor: Josep Fontana, “Historia: Análisis del pasado y proyecto social” (2013)
Revista mensual EL PAÍS/ Moda S : Ilustración para artículo de moda (2016).
Imagen cubierta: Editorial CARENA – Miscelánea – Autora: María José Ramos, “Ya estamos solos mi corazón y el mar” (2017)
Imagen cubierta: Editorial GEDISA – Colección Historia – Autor: Bernard Leblond, “Los Gitanos en España” (2018)
Monografía sobre la obra del autor “La emoción del color” – Crowfunding Verkami – Autor: G. Martí Ceballos (2019)
Imagen cubierta/ imágenes interior: Editorial EXLIBRIC – Autora: Rocío Cardoso, “Escondida detrás de su sombrero” (2020)
Imagen cubierta: Editorial LA ZONÁMBULA – Coordinadora: Marta Cerda/ “Caleidoscopio XVII /Escuela de Escritores Sogem Guadalajara” (2020)
Imagen cubierta/ “El sonido del silencio. Mujeres en el Franquismo en la literatura y el cine finisecular” Autora: Antonia Teresa Pérez-Franco/ editorial pliegos (2021)
Imágenes interior libro “Ellas leen poesía”/ Autora: Julia Moreno/ Editorial Calblanque
Imagen cubierta: Editorial Sapere Aude – Autor: Javier Imízcoz “Cuentos de Eva Arguía (2022)
Imagen Cartel III Edición a la mejor tesis doctoral en materia de igualdad/violencia de Género (UNIVERSIDAD DE MURCIA 2025)