Mod Thermal; Sink Or Shiver (detail), 2022. Artist Bio
Liljana Mead Martin b. Halifax 1986
Artist and environmental researcher based in Vancouver and Salt Spring Island, Canada.
Her practice works through altered landscapes—burned trees, excavated soil, foraged materials and objet trouvé—to examine how ecological processes of decay and regeneration are entangled with ideologies around survival and extraction.
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). She was recently awarded a Catalyst Grant from Salt Spring Arts and the Wilding Foundation (2024) for a new sculptural project TBA Summer/Fall 2025.