Laurena Finéus is a Haitian-Canadian artist born and raised in Ottawa, Ontario. Her practice explores representations of Black geographies, maroon ideologies, and migratory patterns. She investigates themes of statelessness, land, and emotional fugitivity, beginning with the Haitian migration crisis that has unfolded from the 1980s to the present.

Finéus holds an MFA from Columbia University (2024) and a Bachelor of Fine Arts from the University of Ottawa (2020). Her work has been exhibited at The Shed, New York (2025); the Brooklyn Museum (2024); the Hudson River Museum (2023); the Ottawa Art Gallery (2021); Karsh-Masson Gallery (2021); and Art Mûr (2019), among others.

Her work is part of several private and public collections internationally, including the Canada Council Art Bank, the City of Ottawa Art Collection, Manulife Global, and Google. She has received numerous awards, including the 2024 Saunderson Prize, the 2023 Helen Frankenthaler Foundation Grant, the 2022–2023 Elizabeth Greenshields Foundation Grant, the 2022 Ottawa Arts Council IBPOC Emerging Artist Award, and the 2019 Ineke Harmina Standish Memorial Award.

Finéus’s work has been featured in Juxtapoz, Essence, Hyperallergic, Forbes, and Sheer Worldwide Magazine. She is currently based in Brooklyn, NY.