Martha Burgess

Martha Holloway Burgess They also had another sculpture commissioned for Food Center Sculpture Park at the Hunts Point Cooperative Market in 1991.

In 1993, their sculpture On Leave, depicting two female World War II personnel kissing, was exhibited at the Snug Harbor Outdoor Sculpture Exhibition. It was vandalized on September 16, 1993; William Zimmer of The New York Times attributed this to homophobia, while Gale Harris of the NYC LGBT Historic Sites Project found the incident "indicative of how contentious gay-straight relations remained on Staten Island in the 1990s". as well as a 1999 fellow of both the Jerome Foundation and New York Foundation for the Arts. In 2001, Burgess was awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship in new media arts.

In 2000, they had a solo exhibition at Gary Tatintsian Gallery. Their installation Nocturne, opus no. 23, "moonlighting", a five-minute video installation where Beethoven's Piano Sonata No. 14 played as a montage of black-and-white images – which Texas Monthly compared to Robert Frank's book The Americans – on a large plasma screen TV, was exhibited at 2002 FotoFest in Houston.

Their work The Body in Flux appeared at the Pop-Museum of Queer History in 2013. In 2017, their work "Queer as a Clockwork Peachfish", inspired by the film A Clockwork Orange, was exhibited at Trestle Art Space.

Burgess lives in Manhattan, having lived in the state of New York since 1984.