Justin Cole (b. 1995) is a Brooklyn-based artist whose practice moves between figuration and abstraction, exploring perception, consciousness, and mortality. His paintings bring together moments of clarity and dissolution, where figures and environments emerge and recede, evoking states of introspection and psychological transformation. Working with a fluid and responsive visual language, Cole constructs images that resist fixity, allowing memory, emotion, and sensation to shape the pictorial space. His compositions operate at the threshold between the physical and the psychological, where representation becomes unstable and meaning remains open.

He received his BFA in Illustration from the College for Creative Studies in Detroit. Cole has presented solo exhibitions with Sébastien Bertrand in Geneva and Lyles & King in New York City. His work has been included in group exhibitions at Blumka Contemporary, Shoreditch Modern, Monti8, Alica Amati, and IRL Gallery.

Based in Brooklyn, Cole continues to develop a practice that investigates the shifting boundary between inner experience and material reality.