ROM Acquires two of Heidi McKenzie’s works from Indo-indentured series: First Wave, and Illuminated (set of three). Read more here.
People are arriving on their own time, some arrived a couple of weeks before me and two more are still coming from India. We will be about 16 artists in the residencies from Australia and New Zealand to India, Belarus, Serbia, UK, China, Canada (me!), Brazil and Argentina.
Since I last checked in a few weeks ago, it feels like a lifetime of creative process. Residencies tend to ramp up the intensity, and those of us that belong to the International Academy of Ceramics (IAC) had a May 20th deadline to get photos for the catalogues of our new works out. Kilns were humming and spray guns glazing.
I’m thrilled to announce that I have been selected to take part in the International Academy of Ceramics Special Residencies Project in Jingdezhen, China.
Check out my blog post about my trip to Belfast and artist talk at the Linen Biennale Northern Ireland as part of Common Threads.
Bob Acton with Colour and Ceramics in conversation with Heidi McKenzie. Featured on Colour & Ceramics, this episode explores Heidi McKenzie’s multidisciplinary practice and her exploration of ancestry, migration, race, and belonging.
SAVAC is pleased to present a talk by multidisciplinary artist Heidi McKenzie as part of its 2026 AGM. Free event, everyone is welcome.
Building Blocks acquired by and on view at the newly renovation Gardiner Museum.
L’Homme Oublie / The Forgotten Man opens October 23 at the Centre Ceramique Bonsecours
I had the great privilege to attend the Linen Biennale, Northern Ireland in Belfast for the closing and an artist talk at the Island Arts Centre, supported by the Ontario Arts Council. Read more
check out the blog, opening, installation, and panel discussion HERE
Across Latitudes with Soheila Esfahani, Heidi McKenzie, and Zinnia Naqvi - check out the virtual tour/
FUSION celebrates 50 years in 2024! Art Gallery of Burlington, June 20th - Sept 2nd.
Thrilled to be invited to the Indian Ceramics Triennale, Common Ground, Arthshila, Delhi, Jan 19-March 31, 2024 with Girmitya HerStories.
Underneath Everything: Grandeur & Humility in Contemporary Ceramics, Grand Rapids Art Museum, October 7 - January 14, 2024.
I feel like a spec of sand on the beach of Ballenskelligs, one of many trillion, but all part of one.
“In her mixed-media ceramics-based exhibition, Heidi McKenzie enshrines collective memory.”
Indo-Caribbean herstory at the Gardiner Museum
— By Simone Aziga
Underneath Everything: Grandeur & Humility in Contemporary Ceramics, Des Moines Arts Centre, June 3 - September 10, 2023 - link to more
This exhibition tRaces Jeannie Mah’s and Heidi McKenzie’s relationships with their fathers and the impact of inter-generational transcontinental journeys in their lives
View the opening remarks and gallery of candid photographs here.
UNFRAMED at Propeller Gallery, Jan 25 to Feb 12th in person, and March 26 online. 85 artists from Canada, US, Spain and India.
My T&T research trip finally happened 2.5 years later, visit my Inspiration blog
I am proud one of the featured artists in #cripclay at NCECA in Cincinnati this March 15-18. More info: WE ARE NOT INVISIBLE Register for NCECA
March 10 - April 22nd at A-Space, with Natalia Arbalaez, Habiba El-Sayed, Magdolene Dyckstra, Heidi McKenzie Gallery Views
thrilled to be part of this group show at the Carl Solway Gallery in Cincinnati - March 13-18, Opening Friday March 18, 5-9pm. See more at wearentinvisible
Fusion Clay & Glass SALE - this weekend Nov 19-20 at Wychwood Barns, St. Clair/Christie, come out and support your community clay and glass artists. I’ll be showing my Spaces Within Series.
Voices @ Canadian Clay and Glass Gallery Panel Discussion January 14th at 1pm.
Emergence - finalists of the Shantz Ceramic & RBC Glass Awards
