Liljana Mead Martin is an artist-researcher, based in Vancouver and Salt Spring Island, Canada.

Through a focus on altered landscapes—excavated soil, foraged botanicals, burned trees, and objet trouvé—her practice examines how ecological processes of disturbance and regeneration are entangled with cultural ideologies around extraction and survival. 

Martin holds a Bachelor of Fine Arts from the Nova Scotia College of Art and Design (2010) and her Master of Fine Arts from Emily Carr University (2016). Her artwork has been exhibited nationally and internationally, at ENTRE Vienna (2025), Salt Spring Arts (2024), Zalucky Contemporary (2022), NADA NYC (2022), Wil Aballe Art Projects (2021), Nanaimo Art Gallery (2020) and The Klondike Institute of Art and Culture (2018). She was awarded a Catalyst Grant from Salt Spring Arts and the Wilding Foundation (2024) to create a regenerative-sculpture project, Seed Sphinx (2025). She is founder and editor of BIOMASS (est. 2020), an online periodical featuring artists who discuss art, sustainability, burnout, and strategies for sustenance through creativity and community. 

In 2026 Martin will be an artist in residence at the Banff Centre for Arts and Creativity (Banff, Jan-Feb 2026), and artist in residence in the Art & Ecology studios at the Museums Quartier Wien (Vienna, Nov-Dec 2026).