Laurena Finéus is currently based in New York, NY, and has received an MFA at Columbia University (2024). She was born and raised in Ottawa, ON. She is a graduate of the University of Ottawa with a Bachelor of Fine Arts. Her work has been exhibited at the Hudson River Museum (2023), Jenkins Johnson (2023), Wallach Art Gallery, NY (2023), G101 (2022), Karsh-Masson Gallery (2021), the Ottawa Art Gallery (2021), and Art mûr (2019) among others. Her work is also a part of a range of private collections internationally. 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), the Edmund and Isobel Ryan Visual Art Scholarship (2020), and the Ineke Harmina Standish Memorial (2019).