Generous support for Ghost Land is provided by lead sponsors Kayleen Arnke and Stuart Parmenter, Wayee Chu and Ethan Beard, and Pamela and David Hornik; exhibition partners Kim and Keith Allen Niesen, Wendy West and Andrew May, and the Golden State Warriors; and the ICA SF Founding Donors.

Patrick Martinez (b. 1980 Pasadena, CA) earned his BFA with honors from Art Center College of Design in 2005. His work has been exhibited domestically and internationally in Los Angeles, Mexico City, San Francisco, Minneapolis, Miami, New York, Seoul, and the Netherlands, at venues including the Whitney Museum of American Art, the Museum of Contemporary Art Los Angeles (MOCA), Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art, the Studio Museum in Harlem, the Smithsonian National Portrait Gallery, the Smithsonian NMAAHC, the Tucson Museum of Art, the Albright-Knox Art Gallery, the Columbus Museum of Art, the Vincent Price Art Museum, the Museum of Latin American Art, the Crocker Art Museum, the Rollins Art Museum, the California African American Museum, the Nerman Museum of Contemporary Art, and El Museo del Barrio, among others.

Patrick’s work resides in the permanent collections the Whitney Museum of American Art, the Museum of Contemporary Art Los Angeles (MOCA), Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art, the Rubell Museum, the Smithsonian National Museum of American History, the California African American Museum, the Autry Museum of the American West, the Benton Museum of Art at Pomona College, the Nerman Museum of Contemporary Art, the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture, the Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA), the Tucson Museum of Art, the Pizzuti Collection of the Columbus Museum of Art, the University of North Dakota Permanent Collection, the JPMorgan Chase Art Collection, the Crocker Art Museum, the Escalette Permanent Collection of Art at Chapman University, the Manetti-Shrem Museum of Art at UC Davis, the Rollins Museum of Art, and the Museum of Latin American Art, among others.

Patrick was awarded a 2020 Rauschenberg Residency on Captiva Island, FL. In the fall of 2021 Patrick was the subject of a solo museum exhibition at the Tucson Museum of Art titled Look What You Created. In 2022 Patrick was awarded a residency at the Atlantic Center for the Arts. Patrick recently exhibited in We The People: The Radical Notion of Democracy at the Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art thru January 2023. Patrick lives and works in Los Angeles, CA and is represented by Charlie James Gallery, Los Angeles.