photo by Jill Petracek
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.
Her live act has been described as “conceptually highbrow and physically slapstick” by TimeOutLA, and "a great bridge between many different disciplines, including performance art, stand up, and clowning” by The Comedy Bureau.
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 devised and starred in the short-form series Two Pink Doors for FX’s late night comedy programming, 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.