Martin Venezky is a designer and artist based in San Francisco,
California. Throughout his career as a graphic designer, while
specializing in book design and typography, Venezky has maintained
a deep and continued interest in photographic process and
abstraction. For the past several years, he has created new bodies of
work in photography and photographic installation.
Venezky has an undergraduate degree from
Dartmouth College and an MFA in Design from Cranbrook
Academy of Art. He has taught at RISD and CalArts and, for over
25 years, at California College of the Arts in San Francisco, where he
is currently Professor in the Graduate Design Program. The San
Francisco Museum of Modern Art honored Venezky with a 2001
solo exhibition, and, in 2005, his monograph, It Is Beautiful...Then
Gone, was published by Princeton Architectural Press. In 2015
Venezky was inducted into the esteemed Alliance Graphique
Internationale (AGI).