1912 Agnes Martin was born in Macklin, a town in Saskatchewan, Canada
1932 She grew up in Vancouver, then moved to Bellingham, Washington, in 1932.
1942-1952 Martin gained a BA in 1942 and a MA in 1952 from the Teachers College at Columbia University, New York, while intermittently living in New Mexico.
1957 She relocated to Coenties Slip in Lower Manhattan, where she had neighbors included the artists Robert Indiana, Ellsworth Kelly, James Rosenquist, Leonore Tawney, and Ann Wilson.
1958-2004 Martin had her first solo exhibition in 1958 at the Betty Parsons Gallery, New York. Surveys of her work have been presented at venues including the Institute of Contemporary Art at the University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia (1973), the Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam (1991), the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York (1992), and the Menil Collection, Houston (2002).
Martin continued to live and work in Taos, New Mexico, until her death on December 16, 2004.

Literature
Agnes Martin. Philadelphia: Institute of Contemporary Art, University of Pennsylvania, 1973.
Texts by Lawrence Alloway, Agnes Martin, and Ann Wilson. Agnes Martin: Paintings and Drawings, 1957–1975.
London: Arts Council of Great Britain, 1977.
Texts by Dore Ashton and Agnes Martin. Agnes Martin: Writings–Schriften. Ed. Dieter Schwarz. Winterthur: Kunstmuseum Winterthur, in association with Edition Cantz, Ostfildern-Ruit, 1991.
Agnes Martin. New York: Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, 1992.
Texts by Anna C. Chave, Barbara Haskell, Rosalind E. Krauss, and Agnes Martin.
Simon, Joan. "Perfection Is in the Mind: An Interview with Agnes Martin."
Art in America 84, no. 5 (May 1996), pp. 82–89, 124.
Agnes Martin: Paintings and Writings. New York: Pace Wildenstein, 2000.
Texts by Arne Glimcher and Agnes Martin.