Timothy Yanick Hunter
Cb. Toronto, OT, Canada, 1990Lives and works in Toronto, OT, Canada
Timothy Yanick Hunter uses self-led research and methodologies of bricolage and sampling to explore the experiential and aesthetic dimensions of the Black diaspora. References culled from a range of sources suggest shifting proximities, novel interactions between material and provenance. Historical photographs from museum archives meet ephemera from obscure corners of the Internet, overlaid with shards of music and spoken recordings. The resulting works are living mélanges, invested in adaptive modes of making and thinking about memory, temporality, and the unknowable facets of existence.
Education
2015 BA, English and Art History, University of Toronto, Toronto, CASelect Solo Exhibitions
2024 Wavetable (Nine Night), Kendra Jayne Patrick, Bern, CH2023 Microwave Background, Centre Clark, Montreal, CA
• Collapse and Incompletion, Oakville Galleries in Gairloch Gardens, Oakville, CA
2022 Basic Instructions Before Leaving Everything, A Space Gallery, Toronto, CA
2021 Volcanic Spine, Cooper Cole, Toronto, CA
2020 Basic Instructions Before Leaving Everything, A Space Gallery, Toronto, CA
Public Art
2024 (forthcoming) the AKA-Artist Run billboard, CONTACT Photography Festival, Saskatoon, CASelect Two-Person & Group Exhibitions
2024 Greater Toronto Art 2024 (GTA24), MOCA, Toronto, CA 2023 Dancing in the Light, The Wedge Collection, curated by Farida
Abu-Bakare and Kate Wong, MOCA, Toronto, CA
• I am a city of bones, ILY2, Portland, USA and we learn how to keep the soil wet…, The Center for Art, Research and Alliances (CARA), New York City, NY, USA
2022 Rencontres de Bamako Biennale, Bamako, ML
• New Document, Cooper Cole, Toronto, CA
• Toronto Biennial Of Art, Small Arms Inspection Building, Mississauga, CA
2021 Is Love A Synonym for Abolition? Isabel Okoro and Timothy Yanick Hunter, curated by Liz Ikiriko, Gallery 44, Toronto, CA
• Fossilized Sunshine, Visual Arts Center of Clarington, Bowmanville, CA
2020 Between Land And Sea: Simon Benjamin and Timothy Yanick Hunter, 92Y, New York City, NY, USA
2019 Field Work, PADA Studios, Barreiro, PT
• A Complete Change Of Form Into A More Beautiful Or Spiritual State, Cooper Cole, Toronto, CA
2018 Nuit Blanche Toronto: Filibuster, Scarborough Civic Center, Toronto, CA
• Critical Mass, Art Gallery of Guelph, Guelph, CA
• You Done Taken My Blues And Gone, Ignite Gallery, Toronto, CA
Art Fairs
2023 Art Toronto, with Cooper Cole, Toronto, CAAwards
2022 Sobey Art Award, National Gallery of Canada, Longlist 2021 Visual Artist Grant, Toronto Arts Council
2020 Explore and Create, Research and Creation, Canada Council for the Arts
Press
2023 Timothy Yanick Hunter & Robert Bolton, “Cosmic Microwave Background: Timothy Yanick Hunter speaks to Grief” Newest, November 262022 Cooper Cole, “New Document in Contemporary Art Daily”, July 29
• Luther Konadu, “In our very own hands” Public Parking, May 30
• Heather Rigg, “Technologies of the diasporic mind: an Interview with Timothy Yanick Hunter” Function Magazine, Issue 23, April 29
• Katherine McKittrick, “Pacing Ourselves: Timothy Yanick Hunter and Katherine McKittrick in Conversation” The New Inquiry, May 10
• AGO Insider, “New document: A new group show at Toronto’s Cooper Cole Gallery features AGO Artist-in-Residence alum, Timothy Yanick Hunter.” Art Gallery of Ontario, July 27
• Cooper Cole, “Timothy Yanick Hunter at COOPER COLE”, Art Viewer, January 5
2021 Ashley Marshall, “Holding Space for Beauty and Blackness” Rungh Cultural Society, Oct 19
• Liz Ikiriko, “Timothy Yanick Hunter: Past, Present, Future Sense” BlackFlash Magazine, vol. 38, no. 1, May, pp. 34–39
• “Rencontres de Bamako Reveals Artist List for 2022”, Contemporary And, December 17
2019 Cooper Cole, “A Complete Change of Form Into A More Beautiful Or Spiritual State featured on Contemporary Art Daily”, Contemporary Art Daily, June 15
• Cooper Cole, “A Complete Change of Form Into A More Beautiful Or Spiritual State featured on Journal FYI”, Journal FYI, June 6
• Cooper Cole, “A Complete Change of Form Into A More Beautiful Or Spiritual State featured on Art Viewer”, Art Viewer, June 6
2016 Shantal Otchere, “New arts collective carves out space for Toronto’s young Black artists” NOW Magazine, Dec 7