Ronald Albert Martin

Ron Martin (born 1943) where he attended H.B. Beal Secondary School. His early work was influenced by Greg Curnoe, not only by Curnoe's work but by Curnoe's interest in Marcel Duchamp and Kurt Schwitters. His particular approach to art-making was apparent in 1967 when he began painting his series Conclusions and Transfers. Acting on a suggestion of Duchamp, Martin's series showed the painting itself and an exact duplicate, hung next to each other. Martin exhibited 14 paintings, part of a series of 24 Bright Red paintings made in 1972. Martin was quoted as saying "I have to do what I'm doing".

From 1974 to 1981, Martin painted the series Black Paintings, which was followed by much sparer grid works, the Geometric Paintings (1981–85), and then by the more painterly Black, White and Grey Paintings. In the 1990s he created a number of series based on a configuration of circles. the Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto; the Vancouver Art Gallery (which displayed the Martin work in its collection in the permanent collection installation Repeated Gesture [1997–1998]) and Museum London. In 1978, along with Henry Saxe, his work represented Canada at the Venice Biennale. In 1979, he was awarded the Canada Council's Victor Martyn Lynch-Staunton Award. In 2012, Ron Martin was awarded a Governor General's Award in Visual and Media Arts. He is represented by Michael Gibson Gallery in London, Ontario.