oni 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. He is currently teaching at OCAD in Toronto. He is represented in Canada by Robert Birch Gallery in Toronto and Skew Gallery in Calgary and in the US by Packer Schopf, Chicago and Marcia Wood Gallery in Atlanta. He has exhibited in solo and group shows throughout Canada, the U.S., Japan and Europe. His works reside 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 Canada, the Center for Exploratory and Perceptual Art (Buffalo, NY), and Kodak France and Kodak Netherlands and Various Private Collections.

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