Martina Lopez received a BFA degree from the University of Washington in Seattle and an MFA degree from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. Lopez’s artwork has been featured in many photographic textbooks, such as A Short Course in Photography: Digital. by Barbara London and Jim Stone and The Photography History and Theory Reader, by Liz Wells, as well as historical publications, such as Naomi Rosenblum's A World History of Photography; The Digital Eye, by Sylvia Wolf, and 100 Ideas That Changed Photography by Mary Warner Marien, which discusses the most influential ideas in photography’s history from the Daguerreotype to current technologies.
Lopez has exhibited widely, including at the George Eastman House, Rochester, NY, FotoFest, Houston, TX., the Photographers Gallery in London, and the Seoul Museum of Art, Seoul, Korea. She has received several grants, including two Illinois Arts Council, Artist Fellowships, and the prestigious National Endowment for the Arts Visual Arts Photography Fellowship. Her work is in numerous private and public collections, such as the Art Institute of Chicago, The Smithsonian American Art Museum in Washington, DC, and The Center for Creative
