Julie Pasila is an artist from Tkaronto/Toronto, Canada. Her practice is centred around an exploration of the natural world and its relationship to timekeeping, transformation and place. She works with tactile, sensitive materials, including analogue and experimental photographic processes, and biomaterials made in collaboration with the landscape. Julie’s work has been exhibited in Canada, the United States, the United Kingdom and Europe, and her practice has been supported by the Canada Council for the Arts and the Ontario Arts Council.

Education

MFA Documentary Media, School of Image Arts, Toronto Metropolitan University

BFA Studio Art, School of Fine Art & Music, University of Guelph

Solo & Two-person Exhibitions

2024 Sand Sigh, G44 Centre for Contemporary Photography (Vitrines), Toronto (CA)

2022/23 Dream Machine (with Yuula Benivolski as part of the Ferry Terminal Billboard Project), Jack Layton Ferry Terminal, Toronto (CA)

2019  Cold Spell, Artspace Gallery at the Gladstone House, Toronto (CA)

Selected Group Exhibitions

2022 + 2023 + 2024 Salon 44, G44 Centre for Contemporary Photography, Toronto (CA)

2023 Art in the Open, Charlottetown, Prince Edward Island (CA)

2021 Nature Inspired, Through Objects, Copenhagen (DK). Online.

2020/21 Dust: The Plates of the Present, Centre Pompidou, Paris (FR)

2019  Open Studios Neukölln, KM58, Berlin (DE)

2019  Grow Op: Art, Ecology & the Environment, Gladstone House, Toronto (CA)

2018  In Situ, Small Arms Inspection Building, Mississauga (CA) 

2018  NES Alumni Exhibitions, Nes (Skagaströnd, IS) and Deiglan (Akureyri, IS) 

2018  Lumen Residency Exhibition, The Crypt Gallery, London (UK)

2017  Lumen Residency WIP Exhibition, Chiesa di San Francesco, Atina (IT)

2015  Field Study, Weinberg/Newton Gallery, Chicago (US)

2015  Fljótstunga Creative Process Exhibition, Fljótstunga Residency, Reykholt (IS)

2014  NES Opið Hús, Skagaströnd (IS)

2012  Näkymä, Kulttuurikeskus Laaksola, Akaa (FI)

2010  Some Story We Were Told, Nuit Blanche, Toronto Metropolitan University, Toronto (CA)

Grants + Awards

2022 Honourable Mention, The Burtynsky Grant

2022 Ontario Arts Council Project Creation Grant

2022 TIW ‘Best in Show’ Award, Salon 44, G44 Centre for Contemporary Photography

2020  Canada Council for the Arts Research & Creation Grant

2018  Ontario Arts Council Project Creation Grant

Artist Residencies

Artist in Residence, Union House Arts, Port Union, Newfoundland (CA), June 16 - July 1, 2023

Invited Artist, Dust: The Plates of the Present, Paris (FR), August 17 - 20, 2017

Lumen Artist Residency Programme, Atina (IT), August 3 - 17, 2017

Artist in Residence, NES, Skagaströnd (IS), November 1 - December 31, 2014

Artist in Residence, Fljótstunga, Reykholt (IS), October 16 - 30, 2014

Artist in Residence, Arteles Creative Centre, Hämeenkyrö (FI), June 1 - 30, 2012

Artist Talks + Interviews

Vitrines Conversations, G44 Digital, January 2024.

Photography Now, Memorial University, Corner Brook, Newfoundland (CA), September 25, 2020

Art Forum Tampere, Tampere (FI), June 2012

Introduction to Documentary Practices, Toronto Metropolitan University, Toronto (CA), April 12, 2012

Workshops + Related Professional Experience

Photography Facilities Technologist for Art & Art History, a joint program between the University of Toronto and Sheridan Institute of Technology & Advanced Learning, 2015 - Present

Instructor, Plant-based Chemigrams, part of the Eco-Darkroom Course, G44 Centre for Contemporary Photography, Toronto (CA), September 23, 2023.

Instructor, Beyond Concrete: Lumen Prints + Phytograms Beneath the Gardiner Expressway, co-presented by G44 Centre for Contemporary Photography & The Bentway, Toronto (CA), August 19, 2023.

Instructor, Field Study: an Introduction to Plant-based Silver Gelatin Processes, co-presented by G44 Centre for Contemporary Photography & CONTACT Photography Festival, Toronto (CA), May 28, 2022

Instructor, Introduction to Lumen Printing, G44 Centre for Contemporary Photography, Toronto (CA), September 21, 2019 + September 19, 2020

Artist Mentor, BIPOC Photo Mentorship, Autumn 2020

Visual Arts Technologist, Media Studies, University of Guelph-Humber, 2013 - 2014

Co-Chair, Curatorial Committee, DOC/NOW Documentary Media Festival, 2010 - 2011

Publications

Origines #1, Macaroni Book (FR), 2024.

DUST: The Plates of the Present, Spector Books (DE), 2021.

Collections

Centre Pompidou, Paris (FR)

NES Artist Residency, Skagaströnd (IS)

University of Guelph Print Collection, Guelph (CA)

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Studio 14, Artscape Gibraltar Point

443 Lakeshore Ave., Toronto Islands

juliepasila@gmail.com