Faculty Profile for Toni Hafkenscheid

Toni Hafkenscheid

Haliburton School of The Arts

Toni Hafkenscheid is a Toronto based photographer who was born in 1959 in Rotterdam, the Netherlands. In 1989, he graduated from the Rietveld Academy in Amsterdam and shortly thereafter moved to Toronto. During the following six years he was active in the arts community in Toronto and received several Canada Council and Ontario Arts Council awards. In 1996, Toni moved back to the Netherlands to pursue a career as a commercial photographer and to teach photography at the Rietveld Academy in Amsterdam. In 2002 Toni moved back to Toronto, Canada, and is currently teaching at OCAD. He is represented in Canada by the Robert Birch Gallery in Toronto, the Skew Gallery in Calgary, by Packer Schopf, Chicago, and Marcia Wood Gallery in Atlanta, U.S.A. He has exhibited in solo and group shows throughout Canada, the U.S., Japan, and Europe. His work resides in a number of important collections, including the Canadian Museum for Contemporary Photography (Ottawa), the University of Toronto, the Canada Council Art Bank, The Royal Bank of Canada, the Center for Exploratory and Perceptual Art (Buffalo, NY), Kodak France, and Kodak Netherlands, and various private collections.