“My work is concerned with representations of Haiti, relationality within its diaspora, and its growing archives."

Laurena Finéus is a Haitian visual artist, educator, and art administrator specializing in painting, with a Bachelor of Fine Arts from the University of Ottawa. Born and raised in Gatineau, Québec, she's currently based between Ottawa and Toronto, Ontario.

Her practice engages representations of Haiti, relationality within its diaspora, and its growing archives across the globe through figurative and painterly imagined landscapes, juxtaposed with personal memories of her life in Canada. Laurena's strategies include collapsing history to question its production and mechanisms, informed by Haitian scholar Michel-Rolph Trouillot's Silencing the Past.

Hometown
Toronto, Ontario