Ellis Martin works with digital derivatives in the interstice of art and archive. Martin holds a BA in Visual and Critical Studies from Mills College. He edited We Both Laughed in Pleasure: The Selected Diaries of Lou Sullivan (Nightboat Books, 2019) with Zach Ozma.

He has generated large-scale digitization projects at Oakland Museum of California, Mills College Art Museum, John J. Wilcox, Jr. Archives, and Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual and Transgender Historical Society. His short films have screened at San Francisco Transgender Film Festival and Trans Stellar Film Festival.