Artist Bio
Liljana Mead Martin is an artist and environmental researcher based in Vancouver and Salt Spring Island, Canada. Her practice engages with altered landscapes—burned forests, excavated soil, endangered ecosystems and site-specific research—to explore themes of death, adaptation, and revival.
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). Her work has been exhibited at 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 from Salt Spring Arts and the Wilding Foundation (2024).