Liljana Mead Martin is an artist and environmental researcher based in Salt Spring Island and Vancouver, Canada. Her practice engages with altered landscapes—burned forests, excavated soil, plants and site-specific research—to explore themes of death, adaptation, and renewal.
She 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). Her work has been exhibited at institutions including The Klondike Institute of Art and Culture (2018), Nanaimo Art Gallery (2020), Wil Aballe Art Projects (2021), NADA NYC (2022), Zalucky Contemporary (2022), and the Salt Spring National Art Prize (2023). She was awarded a Catalyst Grant (2024) from Salt Spring Arts and the Wilding Foundation.
