Martha Jiménez

{{Short description|Cuban artist}}

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Martha Petrona Jiménez is a Cuban artist working in sculpture, ceramics, and painting. Her atelier is in Camagüey, Cuba, at the Plaza del Carmen, where several of her life-sized bronze statues are installed.{{cite news|last1=Wetherall|first1=Tyler|title=Our Girl in Havana: The Artists of Camagüey|url=http://www.huffingtonpost.com/tyler-wetherall/our-girl-in-havana-camageey_b_4418087.html|accessdate=September 6, 2015|publisher=Huffington Post|date=September 12, 2013}} Jiménez was one of the first graduates of the Cuban Art Instructors' School, graduating with the first class in 1971. She won the UNESCO Distinction for the National Culture in 1997, and was recognised at the 2010 Shanghai Biennale.{{cite news|title=Cuban Artist to Exhibit Paintings and Sculptures in US University|url=http://www.cubaheadlines.com/2010/09/05/26428/cuban_artist_to_exhibit_paintings_and_sculptures_in_us_university.html|accessdate=September 6, 2015|publisher=Cuba Headlines|date=September 4, 2010}} She also was awarded a prize at the 5th International Sculpture Symposium in Turkey in 2011 for her statue La Gineta.{{cite news|last1=Díaz|first1=Estrella|title=Martha Jiménez; "for me, Camagüey is inspiration and oxygen"|url=http://oncubamagazine.com/culture/martha-jimenez-for-me-camaguey-is-inspiration-and-oxygen/|accessdate=September 6, 2015|publisher=OnCuba|date=June 30, 2014|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161009172213/http://oncubamagazine.com/culture/martha-jimenez-for-me-camaguey-is-inspiration-and-oxygen/|archive-date=October 9, 2016|url-status=usurped}} Her works are found in several private collections around the world.{{citation needed|date=August 2022}}