Juliana Irene Smith is a California-born, half Iranian artist, mother and activist who has been living and working in Finland for nearly a decade. She has a Bachelors Degree in Photography from Parsons School of Design in New York and a Masters Degree in Public Art from the HSLU in Switzerland. She left New York in 2003 and has also lived in South Africa, Palestine and Switzerland. Recent exhibitions include: Summer Rain a group exhibition curated by Eeva Holkeri at the Art Hall in Helsinki, Scaredy Cat Boo! A solo exhibition at Photographic Centre Peri in Turku and Saggy Wednesday a solo at Verkligheten Gallery, Umeå. In October 2025, Smith published her first book GOOD FEELINGS EVERY DAY with Utu Press and which launched at the Photographic Gallery Hippolyte in Helsinki.

Her work embodies the feminist manifesto of the personal is political, as well as dark humor and pushing forward.