Laurena Finéus
Quand Les Murs Tobent (When The Walls Fall Down) (2023)
Oil on canvas, 20 x 24 in
HOLD
Daffodils in the Wind, Iron Strong (2022)
Acrylic and oil on canvas
40 in x 30 in x 2 in
Nou Vle fe Zanmi Ave Nou (2022)
Acrylic and oil on canvas
50 in x 35 in x 2 in, $3,000.00
Un Vrai Patriote Empoche L’argent (2022)
Acrylic and oil on canvas
30 in x 24 in x 2 in, $3,500.00
Indefinite Home(s) (2022)
Acrylic and oil on canvas
48 in x 36 in x 2 in, $5,000.00
Laurena Finéus
Laurena Finéus (she/her) is a Haitian visual artist, educator and art administrator specialized in painting. In her practice, Finéus has been concerned with representations of Haiti, relationality within its dyaspora, and its growing archives across the globe through an array of figurative and painterly imagined landscapes. These elements are juxtaposed with personal memories of her life in so-called Canada. Finéus’ strategies include the collapsing of North American history in order to question its production and its mechanisms.
Finéus is currently a MFA candidate at Columbia University. She is a graduate from the University of Ottawa with a Bachelor of Fine Arts and a minor in Communication (2020). Her work has been exhibited at the Ottawa Art Gallery (2021), Karsh-Masson Gallery (2021), the Ottawa school of Art (2021), Art mûr (2019) and Galerie 115 (2019-2020) among others and is part of a range of private collections internationally. She is the recipient of the Elizabeth Greenshields award (2022), Ottawa Arts Council IBPOC Emerging Artist Award (2022), the Edmund and Isobel Ryan Visual art scholarship (2020), and the Ineke Harmina Standish Memorial (2019), amongst others.
