Yannis Lobaina. PHOTOGRAPHY EXHIBITIONS (Selection)
BIO
Yannis Lobaina is an award-winning Cuban artist, author, and mindful nature photographer based in Toronto. She specializes in narrative art, focusing on themes such as motherhood, immigration, and the magic of everyday life. As a photographer, Yannis’ artwork explores minimalist and visual storytelling, capturing fleeting moments of beauty, patterns, sacred geometry, textures, and pareidolia (faces in nature). Her photography encourages viewers to pause and appreciate the stillness, calmness, and beauty of the natural world. Yannis is passionate about slow creativity, mindful living, slow travel, and ethical photography. These principles are integral to her work. Since 2020, she has hosted and produced more than 40 episodes of “The Yannis Lobaina Podcast: We Should Talk.” Yannis is also the founder of AlbART Global Collective, which received the Local Leadership Grant in 2024 from the City of Toronto.
ARTIST’S STATEMENT
Walking with my camera is a conscious daily meditation, guiding me to slow down, observe, be patient, and savour the present moment while listening to Mother Nature. She is our sanctuary for healing and renewal. Mother Nature fuels my photography, igniting my passion to capture fleeting moments that surround me. I aim to reveal the uniqueness and beauty in everyday elements that often go unnoticed. Each detail becomes a vital thread in the narrative I create through my photographic storytelling.
I believe in the power of visual storytelling, I’m passionate about telling stories using a variety of media, including filmmaking, writing and photography. Taking photographs allows me to explore past and present themes, memory, disappearance and loss, and often to reflect on how we see and interpret beauty. My images represent life experiences influenced by memories and dreams and how they often reveal confusing but exciting connections and patterns.
CURATORIAL PROJECTS (SELECTION)
Shinrin Yoku: The Healing Art of Forest Bathing. Group exhibition at Etobicoke Civic Centre Art Gallery in 2024. The group art exhibit by ALbART Global Collective (a community-engaged art project) was curated by Yannis Lobaina. https://akimbo.ca/listings/albart-global-collective-shinrin-yoku-the-healing-art-of-forest-bathing/
Contact
“My visual influences for this ongoing series Alive, Upside Down are the artists and photographers: Vivian Maier, Amy Friend, Danny Bittencourt, Ana Mendieta, and Teju Cole. Thrilled and grateful for being recognized as an award finalist for the Toronto Arts Foundation’s RBC Space award (2021-2022) with my ongoing photography series Alive, Upside Down. And the support of the ONTARIO ARTS COUNCIL. THANKS. GRACIAS. MERCI.
$1,600
Bleeding Heart
Photograph printed on canvas.
20×16″
Release
$1,600
Photography, acrylic & metal print.
36×24″
Female Spirit An Oak Tree
$1,600
Photograph print on canvas.
24×30″
STILLNESS
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Photography inkjet print.
14×11″
FRACTAL EYES
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Photography (framed).
14×11″
Magical Rain
$1,200
Photograph print on canvas.
20×16″
Dragonflies Mystic encounters
$1,600
Photograph print on canvas.
30×24″
Triptych of wild forest in Havana (2023)
$600
Photography, acrylic and metal print.
14×11″
Mudras
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Photography inkjet print.
11×14″
FEMALE SPIRIT AN OAK TREE
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Photography (framed).
11×14″
Morning Dew
$1,200
Photograph print on canvas.
16×20″
Magical Portal
$1,200
Photography, acrylic & metal print.
14×11″
Triptych of wild forest in Havana (2023)
$600
Photography, acrylic and metal print.
14×11″
LIFE IS A SPIRAL
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Photography inkjet print.
11×14″
Rebirth
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Photography in linen (framed).
12×18″
Ode to the Red Squirrel
$1,600
Photograph print on canvas.
20×16″
Resistance
$1,600
Photograph print on canvas.
30×24″
SUMMERTIME IN TORONTO
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Photography inkjet print.
11×14″
AWAKENING
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Photography Inkjet print.
14×11″
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