About

Justin Langille (they/them) is a queer/trans photographic artist based between Surrey, British Columbia and London, Ontario. 

Informed by a distant rural youth, urban outreach work, and social theory, their images observe transforming relations between people and the environment throughout the places known collectively as Canada today. 

Inextricable from the places and ecologies where Langille dwells, their photographs offer visions of how people and the fragile lands and waters we depend on for survival shape one another in new, complex ways amidst tightly intertwined social and environmental crises.

In 2023, they mentored with Magnum Photos photographer and president Cristina de Middel. 

All of Yesterday's Parties, Langille's 2023 survey of balloon pollution in the southern Ontario territories of the Great Lakes basin, was generously supported by the Canada Council for the Arts. 

Langille's current project May You Be Thrown from a Horse and Sustain a Broken Thigh (2024) satirizes the material and virtual dominion ruled by the Loblaws corporation as food prices skyrocket in communities across the country today. 

Contact: langillejustin@gmail.com

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Education 

Master of Arts, Anthropology, Carleton University, 2017

Diploma, Journalism, Kwantlen Polytechnic University, 2010

Bachelor of Arts, Anthropology, University of Guelph, 2006

Awards

Explore and Create: Research and Creation Grant, Canada Council for the Arts, 2023

Chalmers Professional Development Program Grant, Ontario Arts Council, 2022

Explore and Create: Professional Development for Artists Grant, Canada Council for the Arts, June 2021

Exhibition Assistance Award, Ontario Arts Council, 2019

SSHRC Joseph-Armand Bombardier Canada Graduate Scholarship, 2016 - 2017

Exhibition 

Collecting and Re-Assembling: International Mail Art Exhibition and Auction, Richmond Art Gallery, November 2023

Low of all/High of None in UP with Art auction for Unity Project, 2022

Late terrain; Owl's Pre-Roll in Forest City Gallery Member's Show, 2021

Found Object Grow Op in Seeking the Periphery, Paul H Cocker Gallery at Ryerson University, March 2021

Eramosa River Home in Quest for the Environment, Quest Art School and Gallery, January 2021

Rapid Response Collection: COVID-19, Guelph Civic Museum, 2021

Noah/Ben in Cover Me, Ho Tam Press Gallery, November 2020 - January 2021

IMICO is a brownfield/IMICO is a refuge in 2020 Carmichael Canadian Landscape Exhibition, Orillia Museum of Art and History, October 2020 - January 2021

Dispatches from the Abstraction in Art as Activism: Truth, Survivance and Resilience, Guelph Civic Museum, August 2019 - January 2019

A second first birthday cake (Intervention for sand), photo transfer on vanilla sheet cake, in Food Sport, Good Sport, October 2019 - November 2019

Wild Leaf Tea with Honey (Craganrock Apiary) in Food Sport, Good Sport, October 2019 - November 2019

Greetings from Energy East! in Common Waters. Cambridge Art Galleries Idea Exchange, June 2019 - September 2019

Greetings from Energy East! in Grow Op: 2019, The Gladstone Hotel, April 2019 (Support: Ontario Arts Council)

Structures in The Body Electric (at the Royal Canadian College of Surgeons and Physicians Annual Conference), October 2019

Sacrifice of the Riverkeepers at Toronto Island (Pop-up show curated by Rebecca  Casalino), October 2018

As It Flows Down from the North in Canadian Museum of Science and Technology Water Gallery, (Permanent Exhibition), Ottawa, 2016 (Permanent)

Structures/Mark of Men: Images by Justin Langille and Mickey Nielsen
Untitled Gallery, Vancouver in the Capture Photography Festival), May 2015

Structures in Visual Narratives, Centre for Fine Art Photography, Colorado, October 2014

304-1209 East Broadway in Postcards from Home, St. Emilie Skillshare, Montreal, Quebec, February 2012

Publication

Assembling Recipes for Sustainability, Centre for Sustainable Curating, 2023

What's happening with Airbnbs? The Globe and Mail, July 20, 2021

How massive online shopping increase changed customer service, The Globe and Mail, June 01, 2021

Living Rooms (pdf flip book), Art Gallery of Guelph/Guelph Civic Museums, 2021

University looks different this year, but it’s not all bad, The Globe and Mail, November 06, 2020

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Photographs of Energy East pipeline water crossings, Greenpeace Canada Instagram account takeover, July 2017

Celebration, Occupation, Capital: Commemorating and contesting Canada 150 in Ottawa, Magenta Foundation Instagram account takeover, December 2017

We Could Live Here, We Could Die Here: A Southwestern Ontario Travel Diary (2014-2015), CONTACT Photography Festival Instagram account takeover, September 2017

No Choice, Maisonneuve Magazine, August 2013

Canada Is No Safe Harbour for Reproductive Rights, Ms. Magazine, April 12, 2012

Mission Possible, The Walrus Magazine, June 2012

Words of Home: Graffiti at the Bosman, The Tyee, October 2012

Professional Development and Leadership

Magnum Photos Mentorship, 2023 (w/Cristina de Middel)

BIPOC Photo Mentorship, 2021 (Mentor)

Re-Writing the Personal (w/Diana Markosian), International Centre for Photography, January - February 2021

Guelph Arts Council Emerging Artist Mentorship Protect (Mentor), October 2020

Once Upon Water residency with Teresa Ascencao, Artscape Gibralter Point, Toronto Island, September 2019

Narrative Photography with Richard Rothman, International Centre of Photography, September 2018 - December 2018

CONTACT Photography Festival Portfolio Reviews, Gladstone Hotel, Toronto, May 2014 (With James Estrin (New York Times), Cheryl Newman (The Guardian), Mauro Bedoni (Colour), Laurence Butet-Roche (Boreal Collective) and Amber Terranova)

Boreal Bash Portfolio Reviews, Toronto, August 17, 2013 (With Boreal Collective photographers Ian Willms, Johan Hallberg-Campbell and Eamon MacMahon as well as Louie Palu)

Documentary Process and Practice workshop, Emily Carr University, June 2012 (with Jonathan Taggart of Boreal Collective)


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