Julie Forgues holds an MFA (Photography) from Concordia University and a BFA from the Université de Moncton. She is the 2024 laureate of the Glenfiddich Artists in Residence Program. She also participated in the renowned Swatch Art Peace Hotel residency in Shanghai (2017–2018) and twice in the Arctic Circle residency program (2016 and 2023), as well as several other international artist residencies, including in China, Iceland, Ireland, and Japan.  

She has exhibited her work regionally, nationally, and internationally, including at Shanghai PhotoFairs (2018). She will present her work at Galerie Sans Nom (Moncton, NB) in May–June 2026 and will take part in the LISA residency in the Faroe Islands in May 2026. Julie has also been a professor at the Université de Moncton since 2000. She considers her photographic research as occupying intermediary spaces between space and place.