Zoë Heyn-Jones

Zoë Heyn-Jones is a white settler researcher-artist, cultural worker and mother who grew up on Saugeen Ojibway land in Ontario, Canada and on Tz’utujil/Kaqchikel Maya land in Guatemala. Zoë holds a PhD in Visual Arts from York University and a graduate diploma in Latin American Studies from CERLAC (the Centre for Research on Latin America and the Caribbean, York University). Zoë currently holds an Izaak Walton Killam Memorial Postdoctoral Fellowship at the University of Alberta (2023-25) for her research project “Composting Research-Creation: Organic Waste Management and/as Art for the Climate Emergency” for which she received the Dorothy J. Killam Postdoctoral Fellowship Prize. Zoë was one of two inaugural SSHRC postdoctoral fellows (2021-23) at the Centre for Sustainable Curating in the department of Visual Arts at Western University where she developed an interdisciplinary arts-based project on food security, sovereignty and justice in Canada and Mexico. Zoë is also one half of Dupla Molcajete, an emergent collaboration (with Beatriz Paz Jiménez) that serves to create a space for experimentation at the nexus of art, food, and culture from Mesoamerican and hemispheric perspectives, with a current focus on edible insects. Zoë is a co-founder of the F4A (Film for Artists) collective and F4A’s Site + Cycle residency project that combines analogue filmmaking instruction with teachings about site specificity and plant-based image making. She lives and works in Mexico City and Tkaranto/Toronto.