
Laurena Finéus is a Haitian-Canadian visual artist based in New York, NY and is an MFA Candidate at Columbia University (2024) . She was born and raised in Ottawa, ON. In her practice, Finéus has been concerned with representations of black geographies, maroon ideologies, and migratory patterns through painterly, figurative, and imagined landscapes.
She is a graduate from the University of Ottawa with a Bachelor of Fine Arts . Her work has been exhibited at Jenkins Johnson (2023), Wallach Art Gallery (2023), G101(2022), the Ottawa Art Gallery (2021), and Art mûr (2019) among others. She was the recipient of the Helen Frankenthaler fund (2023), the Elizabeth Greenshields Foundation Grant (2022) , the Ottawa Arts Council IBPOC Emerging Artist Award (2022), and the Ineke Harmina Standish Memorial (2019).