Justin Seiji Waddell is an artist and Associate Professor in the School of Visual Art at the Alberta University of the Arts in Mohkinstsis (Calgary), Alberta. He is currently the Vice President of CARFAC National, Board member of Peripheral Review, C the Visual Art Foundation, the New Media Caucus, the Immigrant Council for Arts Innovation, and the Arts, Culture, and Education Committee (ACE) of the National Association of Japanese Canadians. He has worked in various capacities at several artist-run centers, festivals, galleries, and magazines in Canada, including Prefix Photo, Trinity Square Video, Lola Magazine, the Art Gallery of Ontario, the New Gallery, Emmedia, and Mountain Standard Time Performative Art Festival. He has served as the Director at YYZ Artists’ Outlet, the Director of the Stride Art Gallery Association, and as a founding member with the every-age art and music venue, Local Library in Calgary, Alberta.

In 2025, he will be returning to Japan as an Artist in Residence with Studio Kura in Itoshima, Fukuoka Prefecture, and he is currently an Artist in Residence with the Past Wrongs, Future Choices as a part of the Japanese Canadian Legacies Project, the Centre for Global Studies, and the Centre for Asia Pacific Initiatives at the University of Victoria.