"ONCE WE HAVE GRASPED THAT WIND, EARTH, AND WATER ARE ALL PARTS OF ONE DYNAMIC SYSTEM OF WHICH HUMANKIND IS ALSO A MEMBER, WE WILL BETTER UNDERSTAND NOT JUST OUR TERRAQUEOUS PLANET BUT ALSO OURSELVES."

- JOHN R. GILLIS, THE HUMAN SHORE

Justin Levesque (b. 1986, Maine) is an interdisciplinary artist. He earned his BFA in Photography from the University of Southern Maine, Portland, ME. Levesque has exhibited throughout New England including the Center for Maine Contemporary Art, Rockland, ME; the Portland Museum of Art, Portland, ME; nationally at Midwest Center for Photography, Wichita, KS; Terrault Contemporary, Baltimore, MD; JanKossen Contemporary, New York City; and internationally at Shape Arts, London, UK; Reykjavík Art Museum, Reykjavík, Iceland; and at the Bildmuseet, Umeå, Sweden.

Levesque is the recipient of three Maine Arts Commission Artist Project grants; The Kindling Fund, an Andy Warhol Regional Regranting Program administered by Space Gallery; was one of thirteen emerging photographers under 30 by Maine Media Workshops + College in 2016; and was named an Emerging New England Artist by Art New England in 2022. He was recently a fellow of The Arctic Circle artist residency in Svalbard and has created independent artist residencies with Eimskip, Portland, ME / Iceland; Bigelow Laboratories for Ocean Sciences, East Boothbay, ME; the New England Ocean Cluster, Portland, ME; and the Microsoft New England Research and Development Center, Cambridge, MA.