Daria Martin was born in 1973 in San Francisco. After studying Humanities at Yale, she received her M.F.A. from the University of California, Los Angeles in 2000. Martin has lived and worked in London since 2002 when she participated in the artist in residence program at the Delfina Studios Trust. Her work has been exhibited extensively across the world, exhibitions include Subjects and Objects, VISUAL Centre for Contemporary Art, Carlow, Ireland (2017); At the Threshold, Maureen Paley, London (2016); The New Human, Moderna Museet Malmö and Moderna Museet, Stockholm, Sweden (2016); 14th Istanbul Biennial SALTWATER: A Theory of Thought Forms, Istanbul, Turkey (2015); One of the Things That Makes Me Doubt, ACCA: Australian Centre for Contemporary Art, Melbourne, Australia (2013); 10th Shanghai Biennale, Shanghai, China (2014); Sensorium Tests, MK Gallery, Milton Keynes, UK (2012); Dancing Through Life, Centre Pompidou, Paris, France (2011); Move: Art and Dance since the 60s, Haus der Kunst, Munich, and K20 Kunstsammlung Nordrhein-Westfalen, Düsseldorf, Germany (2011); Three M Commission: Minotaur, touring exhibition at MCA Chicago, New Museum, New York, Hammer Museum, Los Angeles, USA, (2009–2010); BP British Art Displays 1500–2008, Tate Britain, London, UK (2008); S.M.A.K., Ghent, Belgium (2007).