Laurena Finéus - Curriculum Vitae
Last updated : March 2025
Education
2022-2024 Master’s of Fine Arts Candidate, Columbia University New York
2016-2020 Bachelor of Fine Arts with minor in Communication , University of Ottawa
Group Exhibitions
2025 Mythic Terrain, Fridman Gallery, New York, curated by Sadaf Padder
2025 OPEN CALL, The SHED , New York
2024 The Brooklyn Artists Exhibition, Brooklyn Museum, New York
2024 A Billion Brilliant Points of Unity, Fridman Gallery, New York
2024 Block Party , Jenkins Johnson, New York
2024 Summer fling, Lupo lorenzelli projects gallery, Italy
2024 Thesis exhibition , curated by fawz kabra , Wallach gallery at Columbia university
2023 Byenvini , Caribbean cultural center african diaspora institute (cccadi) , New york
2023 Kindred worlds : the priscila and alvin hudgins collection , hudson river museum , New york
2023 Still present, yet absent, the next contemporary , Toronto
2022 Horses stood like men, Jenkins Johnson, New York, curated by Dr. Margarita Lila Rosa
2022 Imaginaires souverains, Galerie Janine-Sutto, Montréal, curated by Dominique Fontaine
2022 Le dernier des touristes, Galerie 101, Ottawa
2022 Diaspora Reframed : Locating Identities (EAHR Virtual exhibition), Montreal
2022 Being Scene, Workman arts , Toronto
2022 Dos à Dos, Face à Face , Institut National d’art contemporain, Montréal
2021 Marble strikes moon, Wallack’s Gallery, Ottawa
2021 Filtered , Ottawa Art Gallery
2020 Hindsight : 2020 Recent acquisitions , City of Ottawa
2020 Lalande + Doyle, Shenkman Arts Centre , Orléans
2020 People + Place , Annexe Ottawa Art Gallery, Ottawa
2019 Limitless, Paradigme gallery, Ottawa
2019 Peinture fraîche et nouvelle construction, Art Mur Gallery, Montreal
2019 OPAL, Annexe Ottawa Art Gallery, Ottawa
Solo Exhibition
2021 Déchoukaj , Ottawa School of Art Gallery ( September )
2020 Mise à nue forcée, Gallerie 115, Ottawa
Fairs
2025 PLURAL,Chiguer Art Contemporain, Montreal
2024 154 African Contemporary Art , LUCE Gallery, London UK
2024 Untitled , Fridman Gallery, Miami FL
Residencies
2024 AIRIE residency, Everglades , Florida
2023 Atlantic center for the arts, Miami
2020 Gathered Gallery Digital residency , August
2020-2021 Artist-in-residence at E.S.C Béatrices-Desloges for the programme spécialisée en Arts Visuel
Grants
2021 Exhibition Assistance, Ontario Arts council
2021 PIVOT: Black artist resource fund , Nia Centre
2021 Youth in Culture , City of Ottawa
Collections
2024 Google, toronto, canada
2022 Canada Council Art Bank, Canada
2020 City of Ottawa Art Collection, Ottawa
2016-present Various Private collections across Canada and the United states
Awards
2024 Saunderson Prize, Emerging Artist Recipient
2024 Jar of love , artnoir , recipient
2023 Helen Frankenthaler fund , recipient
2022-23 Elizabeth Greenshields Foundation, Recipient
2022 IBPOC Emerging artist award
2021 The Salt Spring National Art Prize, Finalist
2021 Critic’s Choice Winner, Ottawa Art Gallery
2020 Critic’s Choice Winner , Ottawa Art Gallery
2020 Edmund and Isobel Ryan Visual Arts Scholarship (May 2020)
2020 Visual Arts member’s association Scholarship, University of Ottawa (March 2020)
2020 Dean’s Honour list Scholarship, University of Ottawa (February 2020)
2019 Awarded the Ineke Harmina Standish Memorial Scholarship (March 2019)
Text/Publications
2025 Black Copper Magazine , The Unspoken Truth: Reimagining Power, Past and Future
2022 love letters to haiti, Juxtapoz magazine
2021 Figure-ing it Out: Laurena Finéus’ Depictions of The Complexity of Identity and Haitian History
2021 CHUO, COVID-19 creativity: Ottawa Black artists reflect on their work in the pandemic
2021 Le Pressoir, Artiste en vedette - Laurena Finéus
2021 The Gazette, Célébrer l’histoire et la culture haïtiennes à travers l'art de Laurena Finéus
2019 Kaur Space , Front and Center Magazine interview
2018 Krowd Magazine interview
2018 Ottawa Beat Cover , July 2017 The Feminist Word Cover
2017 Mina Gilligan, Bad girl Painter Interview, Rookie Magazine, Online Issue.68
2017 Grounders magazine, Cover, Vol. 4, August
Jury experience
2024 Direct purchase program, city of ottawa , Ottawa
2021 Art Juror, Creation and production fund for professional artists - City of Ottawa
2020 Art Juror – Young at Art, City of Ottawa
Laurena Finéus wishes to thank The Elizabeth Greenshields Foundation for its financial support