Christina Catherine Martinez

                       “Conceptually highbrow and physically slapstick” - TimeOutLA                                                 

     “A bewitching hybrid of standup, clown and performance artist” - PBS                 

“A polymath of unquantifiable largesse, breaking brains one cultural consumer at a time” - BOMB

Christina Catherine Martinez is a multidisciplinary artist, writer, and comedian in Los Angeles. She was named both a Comedian You Should Know by Vulture and a Comic to Watch by TimeOutLA in 2020, and is a 2018 recipient of an Andy Warhol Foundation Arts Writers Grant for her varied approaches to art criticism, published in platforms such as The Los Angeles Times, Aperture, Frieze, Artforum, Bookforum, e-flux criticism, DOCUMENT Journal, and Texte Zur Kunst.

Christina has written for The Eric Andre Show and the forthcoming animated series Women Wearing Shoulder Pads, the first ever Spanish-language show on Adult Swim. She stars in the PBS docu-series United States of Comedy, the FX short-form series Two Pink Doors, and frequently collaborates with filmmakers across the worlds of art and independent film. She has performed commissions for The Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Art Toronto, REDCAT Center for the Performing Arts, The Geffen Contemporary, the Spit Take Comedy Series in Minneapolis, and at the SXSW Comedy Festival in Austin, Texas.

Her book of essays, titled Aesthetical Relations, is available from Hesse Press.