Deborah Martin is a Los Angeles and Southern Mojave based contemporary American realist painter, fine art photographer and curator.

A site-specific artist, her work eulogizes the abandoned habitats and domestic landscapes of small town America. Much of her practice emerges in collaborative conversation with writers and video artists, and takes form through exhibitions, installations and publications.

She is recognized for several pivotal bodies of work: Narrow Lands (Provincetown, MA), Home on the Strange (Salton Sea, CA), and America (U.S.). Her book Home on the Strange: In Search of the Salton Sea was written by Amy Sather Smith and published by Catalysis Projects in Spring 2010. Currently, Deborah is documenting the unincorporated town of Wonder Valley in Southern California's Mojave desert.

Deborah has exhibited in galleries and Museums in New York, Provincetown, Boston and Los Angeles. Her work has sold in auction at Sotheby’s and been featured in distinguished fine art magazines including the Fine Art Photography Publication of Light Leaks Magazine, Fabrik Magazine, and the Pacific Coast West Edition of New American Paintings Magazine.

She is a recipient of the 2011 Orlowsky Freed Foundation Grant sponsored in part by the Lilian Orlowsky and William Freed Foundation Grant and the Provincetown Art Association and Museum.

Martin received her BFA and BS Masters of Arts in Teaching, Art Education from The Museum School of Fine Arts, Boston and Tufts University.

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