Liljana Mead Martin is an artist working on the unceded traditional territories of the xʷməθkʷəy̓əm, Sḵwx̱wú7mesh, and səl̓ílwətaɬ Nations (Vancouver) and the Hul’q’umi’numʔ and W̱SÁNEĆ speaking peoples (Salt Spring Island), Canada.

Through sculpture, installation, earthworks, and drawing, she creates figurative, geologic, and anthropocenic narratives. Rising temperatures, overextraction, land and embodied values are all in conversation through artwork, collaborations and eco-literacy work. 

Martin holds a BFA from the Nova Scotia College of Art and Design (2010) and an MFA from Emily Carr University (2016). Her work has been exhibited internationally, including das weiße haus (Vienna, 2026), ENTRE (Vienna, 2025), Salt Spring Arts (2024), and Zalucky Contemporary (Toronto, 2022) with notable presentations at NADA House (Governor's Island, NY, 2022), and solo exhibitions with Wil Aballe Art Projects (Vancouver, 2021) and The Drake (Toronto, 2022). In 2020 she founded the online periodical BIOMASS and is currently a collaborator with Nature Creative Commons with an organizational focus on forest ecosystems and stronger environmental policy in Canada.