About 

Justin Burns is an artist, educator, and creative technologist whose work blends painting and digital media to explore memory, place, and the passage of time. Raised in Farmers Branch, Texas, he draws inspiration from his family’s century old farm in Kopperl, capturing fragments of rural life in paintings on aluminum and Dura Lar film that preserve the texture of weathered spaces and shared stories.

After earning a BFA in Studio Drawing and Painting at the University of North Texas, Justin expanded into music, filmmaking, and creative coding. He is completing a master’s degree in Creative Technology at Southern Methodist University, where he experiments with interactive installations, augmented reality, generative visuals, and blockchain platforms. His project Memory Foam combines hand painted imagery with projection mapped animations triggered by sensors, allowing viewers to activate memories through movement and light.

Justin also creates data driven works that turn social and environmental trends into poetic visualizations, from 3D particle systems showing the shift from industrial farming to home gardening to p5.js pieces prepared for NFT minting. As a Golden Artist Colors Working Artist and longtime high school art educator, he thrives at the intersection of material skill and emerging technology, creating immersive experiences that invite audiences to feel memory as a living event.