Born in 1960 in Southampton, New York, with studio on Shinnecock Territory in Southampton, David Bunn Martine is Shinnecock/Montauk and Nde Daa’i (Nednai) Chiricahua Apache native American Indian from his mother, the late Marjorie Martinez, a classically trained opera and concert singer and Hungarian from his father, the late pianist and music director Thomas Siklos. He is an artist, educator, curator, writer, an artist/illustrator with work in public and private collections, specializing in murals, portraits, and historical narratives based on Northeast woodland Native American tribes as well as book illustrations. His practice has allowed him to participate in numerous group and one man visual art exhibitions largely in the New York City and Long Island regions.