Elizabeth MacKenzie

Elizabeth MacKenzie has lived and worked in a number of Canadian cities, including Toronto, Saskatoon, Edmonton and currently resides in Vancouver, the unceded traditional territories of the Coast Salish peoples of the xʷməθkʷəy̓əm (Musqueam), Skwxwú7mesh (Squamish), and səl̓ilwətaɁɬ (Tsleil-Waututh) Nations.

She uses drawing to explore the productive aspects of uncertainty through repetition, interrogations of portraiture and considerations of intersubjective experience. MacKenzie’s drawing installations have been shown across Canada, including exhibitions at the Mount Saint Vincent Art Gallery (Halifax), the Agnes Etherington Art Centre (Kingston), the Glenbow Museum (Calgary), the Mackenzie Art Gallery (Regina) and the Vancouver Art Gallery. She participated in the group show, YYZ World Tour, at the Embassy Cultural House in 1986. She maintains an ongoing commitment to collaborative and community-engaged art practices, critical writing and teaching.

For more information visit her website and blog.

Work by Elizabeth MacKenzie

Installation view, west wall, Unlikeness, 2020, Teck Gallery, Simon Fraser University, Vancouver, BC. Digital prints on existing walls, ceiling height: 12’. Courtesy of the artist. Photo: Rachel Topham Photography

Detail, east wall, Unlikeness, 2020, Teck Gallery, Simon Fraser University, Vancouver,D BC. Digital prints on existing walls, ceiling height: 12’. Courtesy of the artist. Photo: Rachel Topham Photography.

Detail of installation, Eight, 2010, SLOW: Relation + Practice, group residency/exhibition, Centre A, Vancouver, BC. Ink on rice paper, on existing wall, each image approximately 12 x 9”. Courtesy of the artist. Photo: Elizabeth MacKenzie.

Installation view, Identification of a Woman, 1986, 1087 Queen St. West, Toronto, Ontario. Graphite on existing walls, ceiling height: 12'. Courtesy of the artist. Photo: Peter MacCallum.

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