Fernando Martí

Fernando Martí is an artist, community architect, and activist. He was born in Guayaquil, Ecuador, and has made his home in San Francisco since 1992. He currently works as an architect at Asian Neighborhood Design, a community design center in the Bay Area. As a member of PODER and the Mission Anti-Displacement Coalition, he has been deeply involved in organizing, policy, and cultural production in San Francisco's Mission District. Fernando also creates art through the San Francisco Print Collective (www.sfprintcollective.com) and Just Seeds Artists Cooperative (www.justseeds.org). “My intent as a printmaker, installation artist and altar-maker is to explore the clash of the Third World in the heart of Empire, and the tension between inhabiting place and the urge to build something transformative.”