Shantell Martin is a speaker, cultural facilitator, curator, choreographer, songwriter, and performer. From fashion and celebrity collaborations to adjunct professor positions at MIT Media Lab, NYU’s Tisch Interactive Telecommunications Program (ITP), Columbia University's Brown Institute, and choreographing a ballet at the Boston Ballet, Martin’s line constantly evolves. Creating new connections among fine art, education, design, philosophy, and technology, Martin explores themes such as intersectionality, identity, and play. In addition to prestigious solo shows at some of the most renowned art institutions, including the 92Y Gallery in New York City, the Albright Knox Gallery, and the New Britain Museum of Contemporary Arts, Martin has carved a path as a producer and visual artist.

At the Brown Institute for Media Innovation, she created a large-scale wall installation and worked with the institute's research group to explore how visual and computerized storytelling might influence media and technology innovation. At the NYU Tisch ITP, she works with her students to push the boundaries of storytelling, visual art, and technology. A fashion and design icon in her own right, Martin has collaborated with iconic brands such as Vitra, Max Mara, Tiffany & Co, and B&B Italia. In 2021, The North Face launched a global capsule collection featuring her drawings inspired by pieces from their Search & Rescue archive. Martin also collaborated with legendary artists such as Pulitzer Prize-winning performance artist Kendrick Lamar and acclaimed designer Kelly Wearstler. In 2019, she created large-scale drawings in the performance hall and foyer of the Lincoln Center for the company's celebrated Art Series, in collaboration with the prestigious New York City Ballet. She has received a number of notable awards, including the 92Y, Extraordinary Women Award (2019), Shorty Award for Best in Art (2019), MoCADA Museum’s Artist Advocacy Award (2017), and the Intel Women Who Spark Award - Women in Technology (2015, awarded by People Magazine, People en Español, and ESSENCE Magazine, in partnership with Intel Corp). Some of her recent solo exhibitions and installations include Art in Focus at Rockefeller Center, New York; The Path: A Meditation of Lines in Times Square, New York; Intimate Whispers at Vardan Gallery, California; The Future at Subliminal Projects, California; KITES at the Boston Opera House; a retrospective at the New Britain Museum of American Art, Connecticut; Wave at Band Of Vices Gallery, California; The May Room at Governors Island, New York; Lines and Words at the Denver Art Museum; and Find Your Way at the Lincoln Center in New York City, Ballet, NY.

Martin has also made numerous media appearances, from live performances on the Main Stage at Adobe Max and performing with Kendrick Lamar at Art Basel, Miami, to being profiled on CNN. As she increasingly incorporates meditative intuition into her artistic practice, Martin hopes to teach others how to find their own lines to inevitably find their own paths. Her distinctive style is one of confidence – a confidence that has grown over time. Knowing the many benefits of creativity on mental health and personal growth, and how those benefits radiate out into all spheres of one's life and the world, Martin has made a line distinctively hers. Now, she uses her art practice not only as a passive way to create objects to admire but as an active way to teach others how to create a line that is recognizably their own.