Artist Bio
Liljana Mead Martin (she/her) is an artist and environmental researcher based in Vancouver and Salt Spring Island, Canada. Her practice engages with altered landscapes—burned trees from forest fires , excavated soil from development sites, and tensions between biology and ideology—to explore themes of adaptation, death and revival.
Martin holds a BFA from the Nova Scotia College of Art and Design (2010) and an MFA from Emily Carr University (2016). She is the founder and editor of BIOMASS (est. 2020), an online publication featuring artists working through the realities of creative labour in late-stage capitalism and developing strategies for sustenance through creative community. Her work has been exhibited at The Klondike Institute of Art and Culture (2018), Nanaimo Art Gallery (2020), Wil Aballe Art Projects (2021), NADA NYC (2022), Zalucky Contemporary (2022), and the Salt Spring National Art Prize (2023). Martin was awarded a Catalyst Grant from Salt Spring Arts and the Wilding Foundation (2024).