Octavio Martínez Estrella (b. 2000), known artistically as Octxio, is a multidisciplinary artist and designer based in New York. Raised between the border of San Diego and Tijuana, he draws from both Mexican and American cultures to navigate multiple visual languages and ways of seeing. This bicultural perspective informs a practice that engages with the intersections of the personal and the political, the intimate and the structural.

Octxio leans into the uncanny, creating works that appear generated by AI but are deliberately crafted to provoke reflection on digital imagery, authorship, and trust in the image. His work moves between satirical and surrealist critiques of commodification, spectacle, and power, and reflexive explorations of memory, faith, and lived experience. By shifting between these registers, he embraces vulnerability as much as confrontation, crafting images that challenge perception while opening spaces for shared reflection.

Through this dual movement, political and personal, critical and introspective, Octxio builds a body of work that unsettles the familiar and reveals the cultural and emotional forces shaping contemporary life.

Octxio is currently developing a thesis that examines how digital images persist and decay within the cloud, treating screens, corrupted files, and AI altered visuals as artifacts that challenge ideas of aura, authorship and the afterlife of images.