Rachel Martin is an enrolled Tlingít multi-disciplinary artist who lives and works in Queens, NY. Her work often explores tribal identity, intersectional feminism and Indigenous sovereignty through the use humor and playfulness to ensure her ancestors stories are told from a multidimensional place. Martin’s work will often merge traditional Northwest Coast iconography and modern matriarchal figures, fish and animals to tell the stories of today while honoring the oral history of her people that has been passed down from generation to generation. In addition to her contemporary art practice, Martin is a beginning level Tlingit language student. Her works are often inspired by the overlay of English and Tlingit concepts of family, home, and humor.

Martin’s work has attracted the attention and support of several prominent private galleries and collectors as well as public institutions including Anchorage Museum in Alaska and Forge Project in Upstate New York. Recently, Martin was included in an exhibition at Sealaska Heritage Institute’s ‘Native Women’s Exhibit’ guest curated by Alison Bremner. Her work is currently included in the Brooklyn Museum, Brooklyn, NY, Gochman Family Collection, Anchorage Museum, Forge Project Collection, and the Marieluise Hessel Collection.