Layne Hinton

Layne is an artist, fabricator, producer, project manager, curator, cultural connector, and mediator. She works to shape public spaces, explore and reveal elements of the city, and use art as a tool to bring people together. She inadvertently became a city builder and urban explorer in the process.

As an artist, her work often plays with light and shadow, space and architecture — building machines and installations that explore elements of cinema and projection. Hinton’s work has been shown in Toronto at the Art Gallery of Ontario; YYZ Artist’s Outlet; InterAccess Electronic and Media Arts Centre, and Pleasure Dome; and abroad with WRECK CITY, Calgary; the Lower Gallery at University of Buffalo SUNY; The Frank Gallery Pembroke Pines, Florida; Mono No Aware NYC; L’École des Beaux-Arts Paris and the Hermitage Museum, St. Petersburg Russia.

She works far more collaboratively and creatively as a curator, acting as an active partner, supporter, and mentor. She came to curating as an artist, interested in bringing art outside of traditional spaces and providing new ways for artists to work and interesting spaces for them to explore creatively. Layne has been co-director and co-curator with Art Spin since 2010, an organization focused on presenting temporary public art in unique and overlooked spaces. Over Art Spin’s 13-year history, she has collaborated with over 500 artists and numerous additional performers in creating over 115 commissioned art projects. Notable achievements include the 2016 in/future festival, an eleven-day multi-disciplinary exhibition that animated the West Island of Ontario Place, a theme park closed to the public while undergoing redevelopment, and in 2019 curating 9 commissioned projects produced by the City of Toronto for Nuit Blanche as part of a major exhibition titled Creation: Destruction.

Having worked on the public art program for Waterfront Toronto, as an advisor on the City of Toronto’s External Advisory Committee on the Public Art Strategy, and in programming and production for Nuit Blanche, Layne knows the impact that art can have on a city. She is co-chair of the board of directors for InterAccess, was recently granted the OCAD University Alumni Trailblazer Award, and has been invited to participate as a panelist, speaker, advisor, consultant, and jury member for numerous events, organizations, and projects.

www.laynehinton.com

www.artspin.ca