Darrin Martin engages the synesthetic qualities of perception through video, performance, sculpture, and print-based installations. Influenced by his own experiences with hearing difference, his projects consider notions of accessibility through the use of tactility, sonic analogies, and audio descriptions. His works have screened at the Museum of Modern Art (NY); Pacific Film Archive (CA); Impakt Festival (Netherlands); European Media Art Festival (Germany), and many others. His installations have exhibited at venues including The Kitchen (NY), Grand Central Art Center (CA), Aggregate Space Gallery (CA), Moscow State Vadim Sidur Museum (Russia), McIntosh Gallery (Canada) and, most recently, at SOMArts (CA).

Martin also occasionally collaborates with artist Torsten Zenas Burns, building diverse speculative fictions around re-imagined educational practices and cosplay paradigms. Their works have been included in screenings and exhibitions in venues including The Oberhausen Short Film Festival (Germany), The Paris/Berlin International, Eyebeam (NY), Hobert William Smith College (NY), and Zhangzhou Art Museum (China). He has held artist residencies at Cite Internationale des Arts, Eyebeam, Experimental Television Center, Signal Culture, chaNorth, and Wassaic Project. Martin also occasionally curates exhibitions and video screenings. Born in New York, he currently resides in Oakland, CA and teaches art at University of California, Davis.