Martin Roth

Martin Roth (October 2, 1977 – June 14, 2019 ) was an Austrian artist who lived and worked in New York City, USA.

Roth was born in Graz, and relocated to the US after earning a master's degree from Hunter College in 2011. He was married to Josephine Nash, the director of Mitchell-Innes & Nash gallery. He died in New York City.

Work Much of Roth's work revolved around the introduction of living organisms into a setting or situation circumscribed by the artist. He used living organisms as a stand in for humans, to show that they're also characters caught in conditions where they don't have control." and small: from the quaint miniature landscapes or rocks and plants inside glass cages, housing lizards or mice to the compact grid of a lavender field shaped by the artist's arrangement in a white cube; from the beautiful patterned garden of Persian rugs sprouting verdant grass, or the tepid lagoon created by flooding a gallery space, to the thrust of a cherry sapling through a laminate surface, demonstrating the interplay between an exposed space above and subterranean space below that characterizes several of Roth's installations. of living organisms