"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 is a Maine-based artist whose practice explores themes of the Arctic, Iceland, the North Atlantic, technology, and the cultural and aesthetic significance of the color blue. His work spans photography, installation, and conceptual media projects that interrogate shifting landscapes, ecological precarity, and the mythology of exploration. Through series such as Geographical Problems, Objects with No Owner, and Indeterminate Lands + Bodies, he examines the intersections of place, memory, and mediated geographies. Public installations like Glacial Retreat, Dazzle Utility, and Orison (Blue) further engage with environmental transformation and the visual language of climate crisis. His work questions the historical narratives surrounding polar exploration and the extractive impulse in contemporary digital culture, offering a critical yet wry meditation on our relationship to remote landscapes.

Levesque's work has been exhibited internationally, including Иorður og niður: North Atlantic Triennial at Listasafn Reykjavíkur / Reykjavík Art Museum in Iceland and Down Иorth: North Atlantic Triennial at the Portland Museum of Art in Maine. He has presented solo and group exhibitions at AS220, the Center for Maine Contemporary Art, 3S Artspace, SPACE Gallery, and GAMLA SÍLDARVERKSMIÐJAN, among others.

In 2015, he created an independent residency aboard an Eimskip container ship from Maine to Iceland, culminating in ICELANDx207. His public art installation ICELANDx207: Container brought Arctic research into an urban setting through a traveling shipping container exhibition. In addition to his exhibitions, Levesque has participated in residencies that deeply inform his work, including The Arctic Circle in Svalbard; Bigelow Laboratory for Ocean Sciences; Microsoft New England Research and Development; and the New England Ocean Cluster.