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