Cristóbal Martínez is from Alcalde, NM. He is an artist, publishing scholar and professor of expanded arts at Arizona State University. Martínez co-founded the artist-hacker ensemble Radio Healer in 2003, joined the internationally acclaimed Indigenous artist collective Postcommodity in 2009 and co-created, with artist-composer Guillermo Galindo, the experimental electronic music ensemble Red Culebra in 2018. Martínez has dedicated his career to interdisciplinary collaboration in contemporary art and continues his work within these groups. Martínez has exhibited nationally and internationally, including the 18th Biennale of Sydney; 2017 Whitney Biennial, New York; documenta14, Athens and Kassel; the 57th Carnegie International, Pittsburgh; Desert X, Coachella Valley; Art Institute of Chicago; San Francisco Art Institute; LAXART, Los Angeles; Minneapolis Institute of Art; and Remai Modern, Saskatoon.