Artist Bio
Liljana Mead Martin is an artist and environmental researcher based in Vancouver and Salt Spring Island, Canada. Through 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 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 who discuss the realities of creative labour in late-stage capitalism and how they develop strategies for sustenance through creativity and community. Her work 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) for a new regenerative sculptural project the Seed Sphinx (summer 2025).
In 2026 Martin will be an artist in residence at the Banff Centre for Arts and Creativity ( Banff, Jan-Feb 2026), and The Museums Quartier Wien (Vienna, Nov-Dec 2026).