"I am preoccupied with the cell phone as an extension of the body, an archive of experience, and living document. Digital vernacular images, snapshots, videos, are a quickly evolving language. Phones constant companion, we shoot first and ask questions later, recording and documenting is faster and more voluminous than ever before, data unruly and unchecked by the seemingly limitless but entirely fallible cloud. Media-sharing platforms allow for elevated narrative arrangement of day to day banality, we watch each other, we watch our watchers watching. Narrative and dark humour are foundational to my photographic practice; sequences and pairings to deliver punchlines. With a cell phone, my work has become instinctual and reflexive in the taking, the editing is delayed, ruminative, and determinedly undetermined, a process in distinct parts. Web and Instagram are where I play with time and space, measuring the reading of my images and words, expanding a pause or removing the breath between images. multiple meanings are created through the openness of arrangement, rearrangement, pattern recognition, and matching." I make deliberate use of contemporary image conventions and clichés, speaking this language so that I can amuse myself with its words. In the carefully staged theatre of life playing out on social media, there is an expectation that we must telegraph our wellness, bright smiles, shiny hair, and glowing skin. We know the filters and selective vocabulary of this kind of performative living. In subverting these markers, I aestheticize my body horror, showing a softer side of disintegration." CV EDUCATION2015 MFA, Visual Arts, University of Ottawa, Ottawa, Ontario2010 BFA, Photography Studies, Ryerson University School of the Image Arts, Toronto, Ontario OTHER EDUCATION2009 Artist Book-Making Workshop, Lumière Press, Instructor Michael Torosian. Toronto, Ontario, Canada SOLO EXHIBITIONS2017 OVERSHARE, solo exhibition, PDA Projects, Ottawa, Ontario, June2016 Cut Me Down, Split Me Open, Burn Me Up, solo, Album Studios, Toronto, Ontario, February, Curator: Laura Findlay2015 DAYS ENDING IN WHY, solo thesis exhibition, Axené07, Gatineau, Québec, August2010 This Is Not Your Life, Solo Exhibition, Galerié Pierre-Léon, TorontoSELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS2019 Paper Trails, group exhibition, Lonsdale Gallery, Toronto, January2018 Remnants and Confessions, Julia Martin & William Mokrynski, Lonsdale Gallery, Toronto, September 5 – October 142017 Continuum, group exhibition, Karsh Masson Gallery, Ottawa, Ontario, September Curator: Melissa Rombout2017 Spring Fever, group exhibition, Lonsdale Gallery, Toronto, Ontario, February2016 Aether Into Infinity, group exhibition, PDA Projects, Ottawa, Ontario, April2015 CULT: an exhibition of landscape and fucking, group exhibition, Arteles Centre, Hämeenkyrö, Finland, November2015 Near, Far, & Somewhere In-Between, three-person exhibition, Lonsdale Gallery, Toronto, Ontario, October, Curator: Stanzie Tooth2015 The Queer Feeling of Tomorrow, group exhibition, The Art Gallery of Guelph, Guelph, Ontario, September-December, Curator: Adam Barbu2015 FACE/OFF, Group Exhibition, PDA Projects, Ottawa, On, August2014 Process, Group Exhibition, Karsh-Masson, Ottawa, August, Curator: Meaghan Haughian2012 Death in the City, Group Exhibition, LE Gallery, Toronto, Curator: Amanda Nedham2009 Remembering What Was, What Wasn’t & What Will Never Be, three-person exhibition, Ryerson Gallery, Toronto, Curator: Robyn McCallum2008 Parallax: Four Views on the Representation of Self, group exhibition, Hangman Gallery, Toronto, Curator: Ryan Van Der Hout AWARDS2015 Outstanding Thesis Support Paper, University of Ottawa, Juried2011 Magenta Foundation, Flash Forward: Emerging Photographers2009 Consulat Général de France & Alliance Française Festivals in France Award, Juried, Consulat Général de France PUBLICATIONS2012 Death in the City, Pilot Press, Ed. Amanda Nedham, pg. 18-212011 Flash Forward, Magenta Foundation Annual Publication, pg. 53 & 542011 Timeshow Magazine, Issue #2, Art Publication (France), pg. 6-202009 Wring Your Hands, Sing the End!, self-published book, represented by Art Metropole, edition sold, out of print2009 A Be Sea (French For Beginners), self-published book, represented by Art Metropole, edition sold, out of print2008 Today Is A Very Long Day, self-published book, represented by Art Metropole, edition sold, out of print2008 Is It Tomorrow Yet?, self-published, represented by Art Metropole, edition sold, out of print2009 Function Magazine, Ryerson University Art Publication, pg. 106-1112007 Function Magazine, Ryerson University Art Publication, pg. 88 & 892008 Portfolio Ten, Ryerson University Art Publication, pg. 184-193PRESS2019 ESSE Revue, Issue: Empathy, Flat Death Jest: Julia Martin’s Performatist Aesthetics of Empathy by Dr. Jakub Zdebik2018 Canadian Art online, https://canadianart.ca/agenda/remnants-and-confessions/ RESIDENCIES2015 Arteles Creative Centre, ENTER TEXT__, residency, November, Hämeenkyrö, Finland2009 International Photojournalism Festival, Cultural Exchange, participants selected by Consulat Général de France de France, Perpignan, France, 2009 TEACHING2018 Term lecturer Art & Technology, University of Ottawa, 3rd Year Art History, Prof. Cara Tierney2018 Guest lecture on Social Media and Art Practice, University of Ottawa, 4th Year Studio, Prof. Andrew Wright 2018 Guest contributor to 4th year final critique, University of Ottawa, From Studio to Exhibition, Prof. Penny Cousineau-Levine2017 Guest talk on works in Continuum, University of Ottawa, 1st Year Studio, Prof. Anne Marie Dumouchel ARTIST TALKS2017 Continuum, in conversation with Chantal Gervais, moderated by exhibition curator Melissa Rombout, October 17, University of Ottawa