Cristóbal Martínez is an artist and publishing Liberal Arts and Sciences scholar. He has been a member of the interdisciplinary artist collective Postcommodity since 2010, and founded the artist-hacker performance ensemble Radio Healer in 2003. In his solo and collaborative work, Cristóbal positions metaphors to aestheticize and mediate complexity within sites of dromological, spatial, social, cultural, political, ecological, and economic anxiety. At these dissonant locations, Martínez often engages publics through generative inquiries and deliberations for recovering, circulating, and connecting knowledge. By creating work that renders legible our human dilemmas, social amnesia, taboos, fears, desires, and hunger, he challenges publics to overcome the fight or flight human instinct to oversimplify reality. Martínez describes his work as spreading brujerías and curanderías — transformative experiences that reveal the cognitive dissonances embedded within our places, memories, amnesias, behaviors, knowledge, beliefs, ideologies, assumptions, choices, philosophies, relationships, and worldviews.

Cristóbal has exhibited work in prominent national and international exhibitions and festivals including the 18th Biennale of Sydney, Sundance Film Festival, Adelaide International, Contour the 5th Biennale of the Moving Image, Nuit Blanche, Scottsdale Museum of Contemporary Art, Museum of Modern Art, 2017 Whitney Biennial, Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago, Art in General, documenta14, and the historic land art installation Repellent Fence at the U.S./Mexico border Near Douglas, AZ and Agua Prieta, SON. In 2015 Martinez completed his PhD in Rhetoric, Composition, and Linguistics at Arizona State University, and is currently the Chair of Art and Technology at the San Francisco Art Institute.