Heidi McKenzie


Heidi McKenzie is a Canadian ceramic and installation artist based in Toronto, Ontario. Her work combines ceramics with photography, digital media, and archival material, and explores themes of ancestry, race, migration, and colonization.[1][2]

McKenzie studied ceramics at Sheridan College and later completed an MFA at OCAD University in 2014.[1]

Her work has been the subject of coverage in ceramics and arts publications. In 2021, Ceramics Monthly published a feature on McKenzie's studio practice and artistic development.[1] In 2022, CKUA featured her exhibition Brick by Brick: Absence vs. Presence, describing it as a multimedia exhibition incorporating historical and contemporary photographs, ceramic sculpture, and other audiovisual elements.[3]

In 2023, she presented the solo exhibition Reclaimed: Indo-Caribbean HerStories at the Gardiner Museum in Toronto. Reviewing the exhibition in Foyer, Simone Aziga wrote that McKenzie's mixed-media, ceramic-based work centered the histories and lived experiences of Indo-Caribbean women through a feminist lens.[4]

In a 2024 profile in Brown Girl Magazine, Savita Prasad described McKenzie's work as an effort to recover and visualize Indo-Caribbean histories, particularly the stories of women obscured by colonial archives.[2] The same year the Royal Ontario Museum acquired two of her pieces Iluminated and First Wave for its permanent collection and ran feature interview with her in the ROM Magazine. In 2025, her piece Building Blocks was included in the permanent collection of the Gardiner Museum.

McKenzie was elected as a member of the International Academy of Ceramics in 2021.

References

  1. ^ a b c Wood, D. (February 2021). "Heidi McKenzie: Mixed Clay and Color". Ceramics Monthly. Retrieved 8 March 2026.
  2. ^ a b Prasad, Savita (7 March 2024). "Artist Heidi McKenzie is Unearthing Indo Caribbean History on a Global Scale". Brown Girl Magazine. Retrieved 8 March 2026.
  3. ^ "On Art: Heidi McKenzie shares "Brick by Brick: Absence vs. Presence"". CKUA. 8 June 2022. Retrieved 8 March 2026.
  4. ^ Aziga, Simone (15 August 2023). "Indo-Caribbean herstory at the Gardiner Museum". Foyer. Retrieved 8 March 2026.

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