About
Justine Langille (they/them) is a Canadian queer/trans photographic artist.
Informed by a distant rural youth, career experience doing 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 dominions ruled by the Loblaw corporation as food becomes unattainable in Canadian communities today.
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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
Queer Zone (A public drawing performance for queer peace organized by Kate Barry w/ Lily Flanjak, Vee CR, Sol Strandebo, Manuele Arias Saldarriaga, Justine Langille and Kay Slator), Leg-in-Boot Square, City of Vancouver Community Placemaking Grant, August 25th, 2024
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 Toronto Metropolitan 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)
