Patrick Martinez is a versatile artist known for his mixed media landscape paintings, neon sign pieces, cake paintings, and the Pee Chee series. His landscape paintings blend Los Angeles surface elements to evoke place and socio-economic themes. His neon sign works remix words from literary sources, while his Cake paintings memorialize leaders, activists, and thinkers. The Pee Chee series documents threats to black and brown youth by law enforcement. 

Martinez, born in 1980 in Pasadena, CA, earned his BFA from Art Center College of Design in 2005. His work has been exhibited worldwide, including venues like the Whitney Museum of American Art, MOCA Los Angeles, and the Smithsonian National Portrait Gallery. His pieces are housed in prestigious collections like the Whitney Museum of American Art and LACMA. 

Martinez has received accolades such as a 2020 Rauschenberg Residency and a residency at the Atlantic Center for the Arts in 2022. His neon pieces are on display at the Whitney Museum of American Art, and he has had solo exhibitions at the ICA San Francisco and the Tucson Museum of Art. His upcoming exhibition at the Dallas Contemporary opens in April 2024. Martinez resides and works in Los Angeles, represented by Charlie James Gallery.