Elizabeth MacKenzie

Elizabeth MacKenzie’s work explores drawing as an ambiguous, shifting field of interaction and interpretation. Her work considers the productive aspects of uncertainty through repetition, interrogations of representation and considerations of intersubjective and other kinds of intra-active experience. The materials and processes she employs interrupt representation and create tension between the act of drawing and the illusion it creates.

Many, many years ago she studied at the Ontario College of Art and Design in Tkaronto and then quite awhile after that she received her MFA from the University of Saskatchewan on Treaty 6 Territory.

She has lived and worked as an artist in a number of cities across the country currently known as Canada, and now lives on the unceded traditional territories of the xʷməθkʷəy̓əm (Musqueam), Skwxwú7mesh (Squamish), and səl̓ilwətaɁɬ (Tsleil-Waututh) Nations.

Her drawing installations and other works have been shown in exhibitions at the Mount Saint Vincent Art Gallery (Mi’kma’ki territory), the Agnes Etherington Art Centre (Anishinabek, Haudenosaunee and the Huron-Wendat territory), the Glenbow Museum (Blackfoot Confederacy), the Mackenzie Art Gallery (Treaty 4 Territory) and the Vancouver Art Gallery (Musqueam, Squamish and Tsleil-Waututh territories). Her videos have been presented in numerous screenings and exhibitions across the countries currently known as Canada and the United States, as well as Europe. MacKenzie maintains an ongoing commitment to collaborative and community-engaged art practices, teaching, writing and ongoing learning.

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