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
2024 Living Palette, Xpace Cultural Centre, Toronto (CA)
2023 Art in the Open, Charlottetown, Prince Edward Island (CA)
2022 Salon 44, G44 Centre for Contemporary Photography, Toronto (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 Toronto Image Works ‘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
Visiting Artist, Worlds End School of Thought, Craft & Agriculture, Esperance, NY (US), July 8 - 14, 2024
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
Teaching + 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 two 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
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)
*****
Studio 14, Gibraltar Point Centre for the Arts
443 Lakeshore Ave., Toronto Islands
juliepasila@gmail.com