Chris Martin was born in 1954 in Washington D.C., USA. From 1972 till 1975 he studies Fine Arts at Yale University, New Haven. In the early eighties Martin moves to Brooklyn, New York, where he still lives and works today. He is engaged in the AIDS movement in the late eighties and becomes a therapist for people with AIDS in 1992. Chris Martin is a regular author for the Brooklyn Rail Magazine (www.brooklynrail.org), where he publishes articles on abstract painting as well as interviews with artists like Brice Marden, Thomas Nozkowski, Helmut Federle and James Siena.