Timothy Yanick Hunter (b. 1990, Toronto, Canada) is a multidisciplinary artist and curator. After graduating from the University of Toronto in 2015 with a degree in Art History and English, his practice explores varying concepts surrounding digital security, identity – both digital and lived, narratives of hierarchical power-structures and how these ideas intersect with notions of Blackness and the greater African Diaspora. His approach alternates between exploratory and didactic. At times Hunter defines his process as experiments in visual language, where the mediums represent a range of languages and individual works express different stories. His work ranges from painting, sculpture, video, performance and installation. August 2018 Hunter debuted his first curatorial project Terms And Conditions – a group exhibit exploring information technology and the culture of mass surveillance. Currently Hunter is exhibiting overseeing programming at the Whippersnapper Gallery for its 2018-19 season alongside fellow members of Black Artist Union Collective. Timothy Yanick Hunter lives and works in Toronto, Canada.
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Timothy Yanick Hunter
Born 1990, Toronto, Canada
Lives and works in Toronto, Canada
Education
2015
Bachelor of Fine Arts – English and Art History, University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada
Solo Project
2016
ORANGE ROOM, Wills Gallery, Toronto, Canada
Selected Group Exhibitions
2018
Nuit Blanche Toronto: Filibuster, Scarborough Civic Center, Toronto, Canada
Critical Mass, Art Gallery of Guelph, Guelph, Canada
You Done Taken My Blues And Gone, Ignite Gallery, Toronto, Canada
2017
Black Creators, OCAD University, Toronto, Canada
Mines is Yours, Yours is Yours, Neilson Park Creative Centre, Toronto, Canada
Those Who Dance, White House Studio Project, Toronto, Canada
2016
Night Glow Fabric, Wills Gallery, Toronto, Canada
Afro-Futuristic, Northern Contemporary, Toronto, Canada
A Love Supreme, Blank Canvas Gallery, Toronto, Canada
THE SHIFT, Hermann & Audrey, Toronto, Canada
2015
ILLUMINATED, 416 Gallery, Toronto, Canada
Platform A, Artscape Youngplace, Toronto, Canada
UNBOUND, CineCycle, Toronto, Canada
TONIGHT, Edward Day Gallery, Toronto, Canada
2014
Margin of Eras, CUE Arts Projects, Toronto, Canada
Art Last, Brockton Collective, Toronto, Canada
Conscious Contempo, Brockton Collective, Toronto, Canada
Curated projects
2018
Terms and Conditions, Margin of Eras Gallery, Toronto, Canada
Professional Experience
2018
Lead Administrator (Black Artist Union Project), Whippersnapper Gallery, Toronto, Canada
Artist Talks and Workshops
2017
Alternative Forms of Learning, Gardiner Museum, Toronto, Canada
Off Canvas Youth Residency (Instructor), Y + Contemporary, Scarborough, Canada
Residencies
2015
Residencia Creativa Calpulli, Tulum, Mexico
CUE Arts Projects, Artscape YoungPlace, Toronto, Canada
Bibliography
2016
Otchere, Shantal. “New arts collective carves out space for Toronto’s young Black artists.”, NOW Magazine. N.p., 07 Dec. 2016. Web
“CUE ARTIST IN RESIDENCE LAUNCHES SOLO EXHIBITION.”, CUE. N.p., 30 Aug. 2016. Web
Fanfair, Ron. “Creativity Celebrated at Black Arts and Innovation Expo.” SHARE [Toronto] 05 Mar. 2015: 9+. Print
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