Artist Registry
The White Columns Curated Artist Registry is an online platform for emerging and under-recognized artists to share images and information about their respective practices. The Registry seeks to create a context for artists who have yet to benefit from wider critical, curatorial or commercial support. To be eligible, artists cannot be affiliated with a commercial gallery in New York City.
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Liljana Mead Martin (b. 1986 Halifax; lives/works Vancouver) is an artist and environmental researcher working with material and media to explore humanness in the context of climate change. Her art practice responds to land degradation in situ and looks at the speculative potential in adaptations, deaths and rebirths. Martin holds a BFA from the Nova Scotia College of Art & Design, and an MFA from Emily Carr University of Art + Design. Her work has been shown at The Klondike Institute for Arts and Culture (Dawson City YT), Artscape Gibraltar Point (Toronto Island ON) the Anna Leonowens Gallery (Halifax NS), CSA Space (Vancouver), Recess (NYC), Nanaimo Art Gallery (Vancouver Island), and Wil Aballe Art Projects (Vancouver / International).
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Liljana Mead Martin
b. Halifax, Canada
Based in NYC & Vancouver.
MFA Emily Carr University of Art & Design; 2014-2016
BFA Nova Scotia College of Art & Design; 2005-2010
Solo Exhibitions
2022 Deep Thirst BioOrchestra. The Drake. Curated by Ashley Mulvahill. Toronto
2021 Geophilia. Wil Aballe Art Projects. Vancouver
2020 Negative [Space] Interface. BIOMASS, Online
2019 The Bedrock Gardener. Dynamo Arts Association. Vancouver
2018 Soft Revolt. Klondike Institute for Arts and Culture. Dawson City, Yukon.
2016 Worn Topographies. Omineca Arts Centre. Prince George.
2016 Forces of Transients. Hyphenated Sites. Vancouver
Select Group Exhibitions
2020 Stone Witness. Liljana Mead Martin, Tanya Busse, Abbas Akhavan.
Curated by Jesse Birch. Nanaimo Art Gallery. Nanaimo, British Columbia
2018 The Evelyn Exhibition. Curated by Lexie Owen. SiteFactory, Vancouver
2017 Body, Architecture and Spatial Agency: Liljana Mead Martin In conversation with Brendan Fernandes. Recess. NYC
Group Exhibitions & Performances
2022 Vessels, Orbs and Pyrophytic Pods. Zalucky Contemporary. Toronto
2022 SSNAP Award Show. Victoria Arts Council. Victoria
2021 SSNAP Award Show. ArtSpring. Salt Spring Island.
2021 BIOMASS Volume 1. Online group exhibition & publication. Worldwide.
2020 Jelena and the Magic Flute. Curated by Dan Starling. CSA Space. Vancouver
2019 Gestures 1-5. East Side Studios. Vancouver
2019 Hätä keinon keksii (Finnish) Translation: need invents the measure.
Franklin Street Studios. Vancouver
2018 Gestures 1-5. Artscape Gibraltar Point. Toronto
2018 Together and A Part. A Work Sets Public Performance & Workshop
w/ Caitlin Chaisson. Britannia Community Centre. Vancouver
2018 Float School. Site-Specific Performance. Organised by Justin Langlois. Prince George
2018 Pallas of Crushed Shells. Banff Centre for Arts and Creativity. Banff
2017 Dance Histories Project; Part 1. Choreographed by Justine A. Chambers. Vancouver.
2017 Inside the Day was Night. Far Afield. Salt Spring Island.
2016 In Passing. Ground Gallery. Vancouver
Art Fairs
2023 Combine Art Fair. Vancouver BC
2022 NADA House, Governor’s Island NY. NYC
2022 Art Toronto. Toronto, CA
Residencies
2018 Klondike Institute for Arts and Culture. Dawson City, Yukon
2018 Artscape Gibraltar Point. Toronto Island, Ontario
2018 Banff Centre for Arts and Creativity. Banff, Alberta
2017 A-Z West. Andrea Zittel’s Studio. Joshua Tree, California
2016 Neighbourhood Time Exchange. Two Rivers Gallery.
Prince George, British Columbia.
Publications
2020 Float School. Three article contributions. Published by Living Labs, ECUAD.
Forests, Fantasy and the Knowledge Industry
Site Drawings with Metal and Sunscreen
Pulp Synthesis
Grants & Awards
2022 Canada Council for the Arts. Research and Creation Grant for "Sink or Shiver"
2021 Salt Spring National Art Prize. Matt Steffich Juror’s Choice Award for "The Listener"
2020 Canada Council for the Arts. Research and Creation Grant for Solo Exhibitions
2018 Canada Council for the Arts. Research and Creation Grant for KIAC Residency
2017 British Columbia Arts Council. Mentorship Grant w/ Brendan Fernandes
2016 Emily Carr University of Art + Design. Graduate Research Award
2016 British Columbia Arts Council. Graduate Research Scholarship
2016 Production Grant. PRIM, Productions Réalisations Indépandantes de Montréal
2015 Emily Carr University of Art + Design. Masters of Fine Arts Research Grant