Catherine Just (Los Angeles, b. 1968)
Catherine Just is a visual artist and photographer living in Los Angeles. Her fine art explores the unseen and unsaid emotional & psychological terrains of love, loss, and what lives in-between them. Her “Capturing Breath on Film” photography sessions are opportunities to slow down and experience deeper belonging to yourself and an experience of remembering you’re part of the hum that is the pulse of the planet.

With 38 years of sobriety from a meth addiction, her creative path is a parallel journey of healing, shaped by her personal apprenticeship with Miguel Ruiz (Author of the Four Agreements) and a devotion to image-making as transformation. She works mainly with Large Format Film Photography, Polaroid and Alternative Photo Processes.

Catherine’s work has been published on the cover of National Geographic Magazine, inside O Magazine, and has been shown in international exhibitions including Photo London, The Milan Photo Fair, and an annual group exhibition in Paris with Alta Vista Arts Gallery every November. Her signature “Capturing Breath” photo sessions go to Milan, London, Paris, Marrakech, Oaxaca, Mexico City, Rome, Mallorca, Vancouver BC , Los Angeles and more.

She holds a BFA from the Minneapolis College of Art and Design and is represented by Alta Vista Arts, 3C Gallery and Fabrik Projects Gallery.

She teaches online courses, leads art retreats in France, mentors creatives looking for a deeper experience inside their creative practice and has a podcast “Into the Deep with Catherine Just”. She weaves the Toltec Practices she learned from Miguel Ruiz into everything she does.

Catherine is a single /co-parenting mom to her teenage son Max, who has Down syndrome. Together, they create projects that challenge ableism and reimagine visibility and inclusion.

Catherine launched 2 limited edition books November 2025.

Catherine Just
Visual Artist | Fine Art Photographer | Creativity Mentor
Based in Los Angeles.
catherinejust.com | studio@catherinejust.com

EDUCATION

BFA in Conceptual Photography, Film & Video
The Minneapolis College of Art and Design, 1992

SELECTED EXHIBITIONS
2025
Alta Vista Arts Gallery, She Persists / Elle Persiste, Paris (Nov. 8-15 )
Afforadable Art Fair, Fabrik Projects Gallery, NYC
Artist / Proof, The Makery, Los Angeles
Contemporary Visions, Fabrik Gallery at bG Gallery, Bergamot Station, Santa Monica, CA
Los Angeles, OFFUS Gallery, Los Angeles
Photo London, Fabrik Gallery, Somerset House, London
MIA Photo Fair, Alta Vista Arts Gallery, Milan

2024
Alta Vista Arts Gallery, She is Present, Galerie Couteron, Paris
OFFUS Gallery, Bendix Building, Los Angeles
Tryst International Art Fair, OFFUS Gallery, Torrance, CA
Chasing the Fog: Learning How to Breathe, OFFUS Gallery, Los Angeles

2023
Alta Vista Arts Gallery, Galerie Couteron, Paris
PBA & Associates, Beverly Hills, CA
WhiteWall Art Projects Gallery, New South Wales, Australia

2022
WhiteWall Art Projects Gallery, New South Wales, Australia

2021
Laurel Canyon Open Studio, Los Angeles, CA
Monochrome, WhiteWall Art Projects Gallery, New South Wales, Australia

2020
Photos de Femme, Château Lomenie, France
Photos de Femme, Château de LaLande, France
Art in Isolation, North Dakota Museum of Art
WhiteWall Art Projects Gallery, New South Wales, Australia

2018
The Polaroid Show , Brooklyn, NY
Duncan Miller Gallery, Les Rencontres d'Arles, Arles, France
Home, SE Center for Photography, Greenville, SC
The Shed Collective Pop-Up with MOPLA, Los Angeles

2016
She, Pop-Up Art Show with Jennah Ferrer Foronda + Fantine Reucha, Paris

2015
Personal Project, LA Center of Photography, Los Angeles

2014
The Mobile Photo, MN Center of Photography, Minneapolis, MN

2013
Cell Phone Exhibition, Lenscratch
Love + Lust, Open to Interpretation, Lenscratch

2012
Love, Lenscratch Online Photography Magazine

2011
Self Portrait Group Show, Gallery 122, Minneapolis, MN

2005
Juried Show, Newspace Center of Photography, Portland, OR

2001
Group Show, The Darkroom Gallery, Portland, OR
Abajo del Río (Solo Show), Forbidden Fruit Gallery, Portland, OR

PUBLICATIONS & PODCASTS

Selected features from 2003–2025:
Into the Deep with Catherine Just Podcast (Host, 2020–present)
Rachel Anzelone : Pleasure & Profit Podcast (2025)
L'Œil de la Photographie Magazine (2025)
The Art Talk Magazine, Zurich, Switzerland (2025)
National Geographic Magazine (Cover)
O Magazine Online
Rangefinder Magazine
PDN (Photo District News)
Shots Magazine
Lenscratch
The Candid Frame
Light Leaked
Digital Photography School
Refinery29
DanielleLaPorte.com
The Desire Map, Book by Danielle Laporte (Author Image)
PsychCentral.com, How to Unlock Creativity
Enso Radio Interview
White Hot Truth with Danielle LaPorte, Author Image
Inside Story with April Adams
Dream with Dan Podcast, Dan Mangena
Lane Kennedy Podcast
Into the Deep with Catherine Just Podcast (Host, 2020–present)

AWARDS & HONORS

2020
Photos de Femme, Château Lomenie, France

1st Place: The Crown
Honorable Mention: Self Portrait in Paris
Honorable Mention: The Stitched Heart
Honorable Mention: Day 23 of Quarantine

2014
The Mobile Show, Minneapolis Photo Center
Honorable Mention

RESIDENCIES

OFFUS Gallery, Los Angeles (July 2024 to March 2025)

TEACHING & MENTORING EXPERIENCE

Courses & Programs

LA Center of Photography
The Visual Poetry of Self Portraiture
Online through Catherinejust.com
The Deepening : Fine Art Photography Mentoring Program
Self Portraiture as Medicine
Art as Medicine
Conceptual Photography 101
From Good to Great Self-Paced Photo Course
Bedside Stories - Release Internalized Ageism using self portraiture as a tool for transformation
The Daily Miracle / In Plain Sight

Mentorship & Healing Work
1:1 Mentoring for Women Artists and Women in Recovery
EFT Tapping and NLP techniques : 1:1 Sessions

Retreats & Experiences
Artist Retreats in Paris and the South of France, 2016 - Present
Photography Sessions (Capturing Breath on Film): France, Morocco, Italy, Canada, US, Mexico, 2016 - Present

Email: support@catherinejust.com

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