Sebastian Martorana

443 . 909 . 9956

prime@sebastianworks.com

OWNER

Atlantic Custom Carving, LLC, design,carving and resotarion company, Baltimore, MD

EDUCATION

2008 MFA Rinehart School of Sculpture, Maryland Institute College of Art, Baltimore, MD

2003 BFA, Illustration, Syracuse University, Syracuse, NY, Magna Cum Laude

EXHIBITIONS

2009 Uncommissioned Memorials. Irvine Contemporary, Washington, DC

MANIFEST HOPE: DC. Georgetown, Washington, DC

2008 Habitat. Rosenberg Gallery, Goucher College, Baltimore, MD

Introductions4. Irvine Contemporary, Washington, DC

Artscape Festival. Outdoor Sculpture Show, Baltimore, MD

Punctutaion. Maryland Institue College of Art MFA Thesis Show, Baltimore, MD

Sculpture and Illustration. Glenelg Country School, Annual Speaker Series. Glenelg, MD

2007 Rinehart School of Sculpture Fall Show. Maryland Institute College of Art, Baltimore, MD

2006 Rinehart School of Sculpture Fall Show, Maryland Institute College of Art, Baltimore, MD

AWARDS AND HONORS

2009 Trawick Prize Semi-Finalist, Bethesda, MD

Janet & Walter Sondheim Prize Semi-Finalist, Baltimore, MD

2008 Residency at the Vermont Studio Center, Johnson, VT

Provided though grants from the Vermont Studio Center and MICA Graduate Studies Program

Toby Devan Lewis Fellowship – Honorable Mention

Office of Graduate Studies, Maryland Institue College of Art Baltimore, MD

Juror: Valerie Fletcher, Senioir Curator, Hirshorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington, DC

2007 The William M. Phillips Scholarship, Maryland Institute College of Art, Baltimore, MD

Outstanding Figurative Sculpture, student award

2006 Nominee, the Jack Kent Cooke Fellowship, Syracuse University

Graduate Student Grant Application

2003 Bruce E. Arnold Memorial Award, Syracuse University, Syracuse, NC

Outstanding Illustration, student award

1999- College of Performing Arts Scholarship, Syracuse University, Syracuse, NY

2003 Founders Scholar, Syracuse University, Syracuse, NY

2002 National Society of Collegiate Scholars, Syracuse University Chapter

Study Abroad Grant, Department of International Programs Abroad at Syracuse University,Syracuse,NY

PRIVATE COLLECTIONS 

Christopher Boutlier and Aaron M. Flynn – Washington, DC

Kate Nicholson – Washington, DC

Myra and Stephen Kurzbard – Arlington, VA

Dr. Subir Jossan – Manassas, VA

SELECTED STONEWORK

Baltimore City Hall, window surrounds. Baltimore, MD. Carving.

Polo Ralph Lauren,Co., spiral stone stair case. Greenwich, CT. Layout, fabrication, carving.

William Donald Schaefer Memorial base, Baltimore Inner Harbor, MD. Carving

Loyola University, new entrance sign. Baltimore, MD. Carving.

Hall of Fame Plaque, American Trial Lawyers Association. Carving

Iwo Jima Memorial, Quantico, VA, Carving & Restoration

National Museum of the Marine Corps, Quantico, VA, Carving

Woodrow Wilson Memorial Bridge entrance sign, VA and MA sides, Carving

National Holocaust Museum, Washington, D.C. Carving

Duke University, Perkins Library, Durham, NC, Carving

Kennedy Center for the Arts, Washington, D.C. Carving

National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C. Carving and Restoration

National Constitution Center, Philadelphia, PA, Carving

Princeton University, Princeton, NJ, Carving and Restoration

Dumbarton Oaks, Washington, D.C. Carving and Restoration