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Elizabeth MacKenzie (born 1955) is a Canadian artist based in Vancouver known nationally and internationally for her video, photography and drawn installation since the early eighties. A graduate of the Ontario College of Art with an MFA from the University of Saskatchewan, her practice also includes an ongoing commitment to collaboration, curating, writing and teaching.

Biography
Elizabeth MacKenzie is a sessional faculty professor at Emily Carr University in Vancouver and has co-curated a number of exhibitions including Persistent Resistance: Early video in Vancouver exhibition in Vancouver with Canadian art historian and Curator Jennifer Fisher and artist and professor Marina Roy at the VIVO Media Arts Centre in 2008. She co-lead with Cindy Mochizuki and Kristina Fiedrich the Vancouver Draw Down 2011: Summer of Ten Thousand Drawings a city-wide workshop series sponsored by the Vancouver Parks Board.

Artistic Practice
Elizabeth MacKenzie's ongoing commitment to collaborative and community-based art practices and critical writing and is also one of the founding member of YYZ Gallery in Toronto.

The Underside of Shadows, was a collaboration with writer Jeanne Randolph that undertook to extend the collaborative installation by MacKenzie and Jeanne Randolph, at Artspeak Gallery in Vancouver from September 8 to October 13, 2001. This two person exhibition was the result of a long-distance, technologically mediated collaboration.

MacKenzie's work has been contextualized alongside visual artist Nancy Spero in Jo Anna Isaak's seminal book; Feminism and Contemporary Art: The Revolutionary Power of Women’s Laughter.

Exhibitions
Solo exhibitions include UnBecoming: An Annotated Exhibition, curated by Sarah Cavanaugh in 2016 at Seymour Art Gallery in North Vancouver.

The Gaze of History: Portraits from the Collection, curated by Darrin Martens, Burnaby Art Gallery at Deer Lake (British Columbia) in 2012. "At the BAG, MacKenzie has used powdered graphite to draw portraits of the building’s former occupants directly on the gallery’s white walls. The effect she achieves is pale, insubstantial, ephemeral—ghostly, really."

Reunion, curated by Corrine Corry at the Richmond Art Gallery in Richmond, British Columbia. Elizabeth MacKenzie "believes in, it’s that the act of making a mark on paper with a pencil—or on a cave wall with the burnt end of a stick—is at least as natural as speech."

The Underside of Shadows, in 2001 with writer Jeanne Randolph at Artspeak Gallery in Vancouver.

Group exhibitions include; 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 (Vancouver).