Gloria Martinez-Granados

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 an interdisciplinary 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.

She is a former member of the all-women artist collective The Phoenix Fridas. In 2019 she earned a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree in Printmaking from Arizona State University’s Herberger Institute for Design and the Arts. In 2022 Gloria received the Sally and Richard Lehmann Emerging Artists Awards, and her work is currently exhibited at Phoenix Art Museum as part of “The Collection: 1960 - Now.”