TANEA HYNES


EDUCATION

2024 MFA – Concordia University, Montréal, Québec, Canada

2019 BFA – NSCAD University, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada


RELEVANT WORK EXPERIENCE

2024 Photo Editor, Canvaspop, remote

2024 Mentor, VANL-CARFAC Mentorship Program

2022, 2023 Teaching Assistant, Intro to Food Studies: We Are What We Eat (FFAR-254, Laura Eliza Enríquez), Concordia University, Montréal, Quebec 

2021 - present Editor, Visual Art, Riddle Fence Magazine: Journal of Art & Culture (remote)

2021 Teaching Assistant, Advanced Workshop in Photography (PHOT-400 B, Chih-Chien Wang), Concordia University, Montréal, Québec

2021 Teaching Assistant, Black and White Photography (PHO-211 AA, Velibor Božović), Concordia University, Montréal, Québec

2016, 17, 18, 19, 22 Haul truck driver, Iron Ore Company of Canada/Rio Tinto, Labrador City

2015 Technician, Repercussion Theatre, Shakespeare in the Park, Montréal, Québec

2015 Technician, Lisa Lipton’s HOOP DREAMS (THE IMPOSSIBLE BLUE ROSE), Nocturne Halifax, Nova Scotia


PUBLIC WORK

2022 Remediated, inkjet print on archival paper. New Mental Health and Addictions Facility, St. John’s, Newfoundland and Labrador

2022 Outside, mounted inkjet print, 5x7 feet, Avalon Mall, St. John’s, Newfoundland (commissioned by Eastern Edge Gallery, St. John’s, NL)

2018 Spark, interactive lighting fixture, Halifax Stanfield International Airport, Halifax, Nova Scotia


SOLO & DUO EXHIBITIONS 

2026 Upcoming Exhibition, YYZ Outlet, Toronto, Ontario

2025 Art Rotterdam, KIN, Rotterdam, Netherlands

2024 Locally Hated, KIN, Brussels, Belgium

2024 Iron Aura, MFA Thesis Exhibition, Concordia University MFA Gallery, Montreal, Quebec

2022 The Shape Of Desire (Tanea Hynes and Ethan Murphy) Fogo Island Gallery, Newfoundland

2021 Workhorse, The Rooms, St. John’s, Newfoundland


SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS 

2025 A Walk in the Park with James Christie: Tanea Hynes, David Rickard, and Müge Yilmaz, Christie’s Amsterdam, Netherlands

2024 Kinship, KIN, Brussels, Belgium

2024 Pathways, AC WORLD, Halifax, Nova Scotia

2024 Liquidation Totale, Pal Project, Paris, France

2022 Photorama, TPW Gallery, Toronto, Ontario

2019 Aiding & Abetting, Sound Symposium Concert, D.F. Cook Hall at MUN School of Music, St. John’s, Newfoundland and Labrador

2018 Run Away With Meme, Areté Venue & Gallery, Brooklyn, New York


RESIDENCIES & PUBLIC EVENTS

2024 Supernature, public screening, The Cloud Factory ARC, Corner Brook, Newfoundland and Labrador

2024 Tanea Hynes: One-night exhibition at Iron Rock, Labrador City, Newfoundland and Labrador

2024 Supernature, private screening, KIN Gallery, Brussels, Belgium

2022 Fogo Island Arts Presents: Nicolaus Schafhausen in Conversation with Ethan Murphy and Tanea Hynes, SUF Hall, Fogo Island, Newfoundland

2021 Elbow Room Residency Series Artist Talk, The Rooms, St. John’s, Newfoundland

2020 Elbow Room Residency, The Rooms, St. John’s, Newfoundland

2019 Eastern Edge Artist Talk, St. John’s, Newfoundland

2019 Eastern Edge Studio Residency, St. John’s, Newfoundland


PRESS & PUBLICATION

2025 CBC Radio - The Signal, guest

2025 Newfoundland Quarterly, Memorial University press

2025 Photo East WIP Catalogue, presented during the inaugural Photo East festival in Fredricton, New Brunswick

2025 The Other Side of Iron by Wouter van den Eijkel for ArtRotterdam.com

2024 Iron Aura, artist edition (AC WORLD)

2024 Town of Uneven Love (But All Love is Uneven) by Micaela Dixon, exhibition text for Locally Hated at KIN, Brussels

2024 CBC Radio Labrador Morning

2022 Ambiguous Matter: The Life of Mine Waste, Anatolijs Venovcevs, Journal of Contemporary Archaeology 

2022 Momentum Magazine, Concordia University press

2022 Concordia University Magazine

2021 Akimbo Hit List

2021 CBC Here & Now 

2021 CBC Radio Labrador Morning

2021 WORKHORSE, artist edition

2021 The Telegram 

2021 On tending the fog, the stone, the chisel, and the marrow by Dana Prieto, exhibition text for WORKHORSE at The Rooms 

2021 CBC Radio Labrador Morning 

2020 The Rooms, In Practice: Darryn Doull (Curator of Canadian Art) Checked in With Tanea Hynes 

2020 CBC Radio Labrador Morning 

2019 The Telegram, Labrador City artist explores personal connection to mining through art practice


AWARDS, GRANTS, SCHOLARSHIPS, JURIES

2024 Pilot Art List Fund, winner 

2023 Canada Council for The Arts, Research and Creation Grant

2023 Scotiabank New Generation Photography Prize, National Gallery of Canada, Long Listed

2022 Scotiabank New Generation Photography Prize, National Gallery of Canada, Long Listed

2021 Concordia University Department of Photography, Roloff Beny Foundation Graduate Fellow

2021 St Michael’s Printshop, Don Wright Scholarship, juror

2021 ArtsNL Professional Project Grant 

2020 Cox & Palmer Pivotal Point Grant VANL-CARFAC, juror

2020 ArtsNL Professional Project Grant 

2020 Concordia University Faculty of Studio Art, Hitting The High Notes Graduate Fellow 

2019 Briarpatch’s Writing In The Margins Prize, shortlist 

2019 Cox & Palmer Pivotal Point Grant, VANL-CARFAC