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 in Canada and internationally, at The Klondike Institute of Art and Culture (2018), Nanaimo Art Gallery (2020), Wil Aballe Art Projects (2021), NADA NYC (2022), Zalucky Contemporary (2022), ENTRE Vienna (2025), and the Salt Spring National Art Prize (2023). Martin has been awarded project support from the BC Arts Council and the Canada Council for the Arts. She was recently awarded a Catalyst Grant from Salt Spring Arts and the Wilding Foundation (2024).