Christina Catherine Martinez

Bio

Christina Catherine Martinez is a writer, actor, art critic, and comedian in Los Angeles. Her live act has been described as “conceptually highbrow and physically slapstick” by Time Out LA and “like Naomi Klein meets Tallulah Bankhead” by the writer Michelle Tea. She’s been named a Comic to Watch by Time Out LA and a Comedian You Should Know by Vulture/New York Magazine. She writes for Artforum, The Los Angeles Times, Texte Zur Kunst, and also for television, including seasons five and six of the Eric Andre Show. She devised and acted in the short-form series Two Pink Doors on FX/Hulu, and completed a half-hour comedy special, How to Bake a Cake in the Digital Age in January 2022. She is the recipient of an Andy Warhol Foundation Arts Writers Grant, and is the author of the essay collection Aesthetical Relations, published by Hesse Press.