Gloria Martinez-Granados is a Phoenix, Arizona based artist. Born in Guanajuato, Mexico she migrated to the United States of America with her family at 8 years old. Gloria is a multimedia artist creating with indigenous practices, adding a contemporary approach by including printmaking, assemblage, installation, and performance to the more traditional arts of beadwork and weaving. Through this process, she develops themes around identity, dreams, place, home, and land. This merges with her experience growing up undocumented in the United States and the legal limbo she lives day to day as a DACAmented person.

In 2019 she earned a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree in Printmaking from Arizona State University’s Herberger Institute for Design and the Arts. She has been invited as a teaching artist at The Phoenix Art Museum, CALA Alliance, and various schools in Arizona. Her work has exhibited nationally, included in “Contingent Perimeters”, with University of Michigan Museum of Art and is currently part of an ASU traveling exhibition titled “3,000 Years of Mexican and Central American Culture, Continuities in Mexican and Central American Societies”. Martinez-Granados is an award recipient of the 40th Annual Environmental Excellence Award for her collaboration “Good Trouble Bucket” with environmental artist Joan Baron. Gloria will also be presenting work at the Phoenix Art Museum in Fall of 2022 as a recipient of the inaugural Sally and Richard Lehmann Emerging Artists Awards.