About
Zoë Heyn-Jones is a researcher-artist and cultural worker who grew up on Saugeen Ojibway land in Ontario, Canada and on Tz’utujil/Kaqchikel Maya land in Guatemala. Zoë uses artistic research and curatorial practice as tools for communal abundance, and convenes groups in order to weather the collapse of capitalism together.
She works with:Selected Solo Exhibitions & Screenings:
[2024] - Cha ni chinu chi'in ñu'un / Construida de tierra / Built of Earth, Estudio Materia Abierta, Mexico City, Mexico
[2018] - al lado, afuera. // beside, outside. Special Projects Gallery, Goldfarb Centre for Fine Arts, York University, Toronto, Canada
[2015] - Zoë Heyn-Jones: Measures in Time YYZ Artists’ Outlet, Toronto, Canada
Selected Group Exhibitions & Screenings:
[2025] - Kimcheenicuil , CROMA & Vivero Philodendro, Mexico City, Mexico
[2023] - On a Table, Over Time The Plumb, Toronto, Canada [with Beatriz Paz Jimenez as Dupla Molcajete]
[2018] - contact landing(s), Thames Art Gallery, Chatham, Canada
[2018] - Soy un ser cuyas raíces // I am a being whose roots Commissioned by LIFT (the Liaison of Independent Filmmakers of Toronto) LIFT Artist Commission: The Madvo Collection.
Screenings: aluCine Latin Film & Media Arts Festival (Toronto) 5 October 2018 | Duke University Rubenstein Arts Center (Durham, NC) 12 November 2018 | Toronto Metropolitan University, School of Image Arts (as part of “Memory on Motion” UNESCO World Audiovisual Heritage Week screening), 27 October 2022.
[2016] - Hierba Buena Nocturne: Art at Night, Halifax, Canada
[2015 & 2016] - Photorama Gallery TPW, Toronto, Canada
[2015] - Northern Light: New Experimental Works from the Great White North Echo Park Film Center, Los Angeles, USA
[2015] - The Disappeared Gallery 44 Centre for Contemporary Photography, Toronto, Canada
Selected Curatorial Projects:
[2025] - hasta una profundidad suficiente para alcanzar lo que se busca. Espacio Unión, Mexico City, Mexico, 2025
[2024-ongoing] - descomponer / regenerar, Materia Abierta Studio, Mexico City, Mexico
[2023-ongoing] - Momoxca Xochicalco: La Casa de las Flores public programming Calpulli Tecalco, Malacachtepec Momoxco/Milpa Alta, Mexico City, Mexico
[2023] - Visualizing Foodways Field School. Various locations, Mexico City, Mexico
[2019] - Resisting Extractivism, Performing Opposition OCAD University, Toronto, Canada
[2016] - Una celebración de oscuridad y luz, Ciudad Imaginación, Xela (Quetzaltenango), Guatemala
[2013] - Re-visioning Cultural Encounters. Pleasure Dome, Toronto, Canada