About this episode
Laurena Finéus discusses her interdisciplinary art practice and the influences of black geographies and migratory histories.
Ep.268 Laurena Finéus is a Haitian-Canadian interdisciplinary artist working primarily in painting, performance and social practice. In her practice, Finéus has been concerned with representations of black geographies, maroon thought, and migratory histories through an array of painterly imagined landscapes. The teachings of Haitian scholar Michel-Rolph Trouillot in ‘Silencing the past’ informs her understanding of visual narration in her practice. Finéus’ strategies include the collapsing of history in order to question its production and mechanisms. Finéus is an MFA graduate from Columbia University (2024) and the University of Ottawa with a Bachelor of Fine arts (2020). Her work has been exhibited at the SHED NY (2025), Brooklyn Museum (2024), Hudson River museum (2023), the Ottawa art gallery (2021), and Art mûr (2019) among others . She is part of a range of private and public collections internationally such as the Canada Council Art Bank , the City of Ottawa’s Art Collection and Google. She is the recipient of the Saunderson Prize (2024), the Helen Frankenthaler fund (2023), the Elizabeth Greenshields foundation grant (2022-2023) , the Ottawa arts council IBPOC emerging…
People in this episode
Host: Phyllis Hollis
Guest: Laurena Finéus
Topics covered
- interdisciplinary art
- black geographies
- migratory histories
- visual narration
- social practice
- painting
- performance
Keywords
- Haitian-Canadian artist
- interdisciplinary art
- black geographies
- migratory histories
- visual narration
- painting
- performance
- social practice
- Columbia University
- Ottawa
Mentioned in this episode
Organizations: Columbia University, University of Ottawa, SHED NY, Brooklyn Museum, Hudson River museum, Ottawa art gallery, Art mûr, Canada Council Art Bank, City of Ottawa’s Art Collection, Google
Places: Brooklyn, NY
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