Kim Y. Hanewich was born in small town Ontario in 1956 and now lives in a cabin in the bush just south of Algonquin Park with her husband and two children. She paints, raises small livestock, and tends to her gardens.
She has viewed major exhibitions in Canada, United States, Netherlands, Austria, Germany, Sweden and France.
In 1981, with funding provided by the Ontario Arts Council, She worked as an assistant printmaker at Art's Sake, an independent art school in Toronto, run by a group of working artists who branched out of Three Schools. At this time she appeared in a Maclean Hunter documentary Series: Art About, aired Sept. 1982, assisting the artist Diane Pugen.
She helped teach the art program of the special ed. class 85-86, at Harold Wagner Elementary School, Waterloo Regional Board of Education, and has some experience supply teaching at Madawaska Valley District High School, Barry's Bay Ontario.
She was profiled in the Culture section of the annual publication Kitchener - Waterloo Profile 87.
She is represented in A Celebration of Rural Living 1994 International Plowing Match Calendar.
In 1993-94 and 1994-95 she was assistant coordinator of the gallery at the Madawaska Valley Community Arts Council Summer Arts and Crafts Show in Barry's Bay.
On June 5 1994 Eight Stories from Artisans of the Madawaska was released on Maclean Hunter Cable TV. She was one of the artists featured in this program by producers Ruben Denty and Scott Iverson.
In October 1994 she also participated in the Madawaska Valley Autumn Studio Tour and was featured in the Barry's Bay This Week October 4, 1994.

Positions: Nov 98 advisor and juror for exhibit, Art and Spirit: Marguerite Centre, Pembroke, Ontario.
-1993-1994, 1994-1995 Board of Directors, Madawaska Valley Community Arts Council

Awards: 1989 Certificate of Acknowledgement: Valley Arts Council
June - September, 1981 Ontario Arts Council - Grant funding assistant print maker position.

Exhibitions:
- The Sporting Life: Artist Look at Athletes, The Gallery Stratford, Stratford, Nov. 98 - invitational group show
- The Jack Pine Gallery, Ottawa, Ontario, Nov. 96 to Sept. 98 - consignment artist
- Canada Day Presentation of Work: U of W Alumni, Chrysanthemum Club, Tokyo, Japan, July 93 - work viewed as part of Canada Day celebration
- Celebration of Spring, Michael Moncion Gallery, Pembroke, April 92 - juried show
- Homage to Goya, University of Waterloo, Waterloo, Sept. 91 - invitational group show
- C.H.H.A. 'Sound Affair': House of Commons, Ottawa, May 91 - celebrity auction/benefit
- Introduction to Public: Studio Colleen, Ottawa, Nov. 90 - presentation of a group of works
- VAC Queen's Park Exhibit: Toronto, May 89 - group show .
- Works in the Gallery, University of Waterloo, May/June 88 - group show
- Stepping Out, Honours Student Show, Modern Languages Gallery, University of Waterloo, Waterloo, March 88 - group show
- 21st Annual Juried Art Exhibition, Robert McLaughlin Gallery, Oshawa, Apri1 88 - juried show
- Grand Opening East Campus Hall, University of Waterloo, Jan. 88 - group show
- Wilfred Laurier Group Show, Wilfred Laurier University, Waterloo, April 86 - group show
- Curator's Choice Alumni Show, Philip Street Gallery, Waterloo, March 85 - group show
- Art's Sake Inc Fourth Exhibition, #l Phoebe St. Toronto, April 82 - juried show.

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