Curriculum Vitae
Select Accomplishments
Honours.
Inducted into the International Academy of Ceramics, 2022
Solo Exhibitions.
2023: Reclaimed: Indo-Caribbean HerStories, Gardiner Museum, Toronto, ON
2023: Brick by Brick: Absence & Presence, Moosejaw Museum & Art Gallery, Moosejaw, SK
2022: Brick by Brick: Absence & Presence, Esplanade Gallery, Medicine Hat, AB
2020: Body Within, Come Up To My Room, Gladstone Hotel, Toronto
2019: Family Matters, Gardiner Museum Shop Feature,
Toronto
2019: Whatever Will Be, Medalta Potteries, Medicine Hat
2018: Oz-Inspired, Gardiner Museum Shop Lobby Exhibition, Toronto
2017: Spaces Within The Oz Collection, Newington Armory, Sydney, Australia
2015/2016: Clay in Motion, Canadian Clay and Glass Gallery, The Shop, Waterloo
2015: China Unbound, David Kaye Gallery, East Gallery, Toronto
2014: Life in Balance, Gaya Ceramics Arts Centre, South Bali, Indonesia
Education.
2012 – 2014: OCADU, MFA Criticism & Curatorial Practice
2010 – 2012: Sheridan Institute of Advanced Technology and Learning – Diploma Crafts & Design
1993 – 1994: University of Warwick, UK – Masters of Arts in Comparative Cultural Policy
1987 – 1991: University of Toronto – Bachelor of Arts, Honours Distinction, Arts Administration
Selected Canadian Group Exhibitions.
2022: Disruption, Canadian Clay and Glass Gallery, Waterloo
2022: Atlantic Vernacular, virtual (national)
2021: Biennale Internationale du Lin de Pontneuf, Trois Rivieres, Quebec
2020: Circular Dimensions, Carnegie Gallery, Dundas
2020: Come Up to My Room, DesignTO/Interior Design Show, Gladstone Hotel, Toronto
2019: The Body Has Reasons Which Reason Knows Not Of, Craft Ontario, Toronto
2019: Fireworks! Fusion Clay & Glass Biennial, Canadian Clay & Glass Gallery, Waterloo
2019: Carnegie Craft Juried Biennial Exhibition, Dundas/Hamilton
2018: Reflexive Works, Hamilton Potters Guild Juried Biennial, Dundas, Ontario
2017: Fireworks, Fusion Clay and Glass, touring 2 years to multiple venues
2017: Spaces Within, Walnut Contemporary, Toronto
2016: To Be…Celebrating Organ Donation Awareness, Walnut Contemporary, Toronto
2016: 18th Toronto Potters Juried Exhibition Biennial, Gardiner Museum, Toronto
2016: Revitalize, Gardiner Museum Shop invitational, Toronto
2016: 40th Anniversary Craft Ontario Awards Exhibition, John. B. Aird Gallery, Toronto
2016: Emerge, Juried Biennial, Mississauga Potters’ Guild, Living Arts Centre Gallery
2016: Revitalization, Invitational, Gardiner Museum Shop
2016: To Be…, Walnut Contemporary, Toronto
2016: The Abstractionists, Harbourfront Centre, Toronto
2015: Recall, Walnut Contemporary, Toronto
2015: Order in Disorder, Ontario Society of Artists, John B. Aird Gallery, Toronto
2015: Carnegie Juried Craft Biennial 2015, Carnegie Gallery, Dundas
2015: Fireworks! Fusion’s (Ontario Clay and Glass Association) touring biennial exhibition
2014: 17th Toronto Potters Juried Exhibition Biennial, Toronto
2014: Young Collectors’ Exhibition, Walnut Gallery, Toronto
2014: Emerging Artist Exhibition, Gallery 1313, Toronto
2014: Materialize, Craft Ontario’s Juried Emerging Makers’ exhibition, Toronto
2013: In the Loop, Living Arts Centre Gallery, Mississauga
2013: Fireworks! Fusion’s (Ontario Clay and Glass Association) touring biennial exhibition
2011: SAVAC, [South Asian Visual Artists’ Collective] The Annual, “Paisley Transplanted”, Living Arts Centre, Mississauga
2011: Untapped Emerging Artist: Toronto Artist Project, juried installation, “Paisley Transplanted”, Toronto
International Residencies.
2019: Medalta: Shaw Centre for Contemporary Ceramics, Medicine Hat, Canada
2018 Kecskemet International Centre for Ceramics, Muscle Memory Invitational, Hungary
2017: Newington Armory, Sydney Olympic Park, Australia, 3-month residency
2014: The Network Project, Guldagergaard, Denmark, 12-week post MFA group residency
2013: Gaya Ceramic Arts Centre, Bali, Indonesia, 2-month artist residency
2013: The Pottery Workshop, Jingdezhen, China, 6-week artist residency
2009: 12-week residency at Andretta Pottery, Andretta, Himachel Pradesh, India under the mentorship of Mansimran Singh (student of Bernard Leach)
International Exhibitions.
2023: #CripClay, NCECA Concurrent Exhibition, Cincinnati, Ohio
2021: Cladogram - KMA International Juried Exhibition, Katonah, New York
2021: Journeys - SeeMe, Brooklyn, New York
2021: Disruptions, NCECA Concurrent Exhibition, Cincinnati Ohio (Virtual)
2019: 4THCluj International Ceramics Biennial, Cluj, Romania
2019: Craft Forms,25th International Juried Exhibition of Contemporary Fine Craft, Wayne Art Centre, Pennsylvania
2019: Decolonizing Clay, at the Australian Ceramics Triennale, Tasmania, Australia
2018: Muscle Memory, International Symposia Work, Kecskemet, Hungary
2018: The Shoe Box Show: 40th Anniversary Touring Exhibition, Guldagergaard, Denmark
2017: 3rd Cluj International Ceramics Bienniale, Cluj, Romania
2017: Potter’s Council Juried Exhibition at NCECA, Portland, Oregon
2014: 4th International Triennial of Silicate Arts, Kecskemét, Hungary Transcending Materials, Potters Council Juried Exhibition, NCECA, Milwaukee Gaya Ceramics Arts Centre & Desa Seni collaborative exhibition, South Bali, Indonesia.
2014: 4th International Triennial of Silicate Arts, Kecskemét, Hungary
2014: Transcending Materials, Potters Council Juried Exhibition, NCECA, Milwaukee
2014: Gaya Ceramics Arts Centre & Desa Seni collaborative exhibition, South Bali, Indonesia
2013: Cluj International Ceramics Bienniale, series: China-Bound, Cluj, Romania Balancing Act, Gaya Ceramic Arts Center, Sayan, Bali (Solo Exhibition)
2013: Balancing Act, Gaya Ceramic Arts Center, Sayan, Bali (Solo Exhibition)
2012: Toronto International Art Fair, Toronto (SAVAC booth)
Collections/Archives
2019: Global Affairs Canada, Permanent Collection for exhibition in Canadian embassies
2019: The Esplanade Art Gallery, City of Medicine Hat, Alberta
2019: Surrey Art Gallery, British Columbia
2019: “Best of” Cluj Centre for Ceramics, Cluj, Romania
2017: Art Gallery of Ontario, Artist File in the Edward P. Taylor Library and Archives
2014: Guldagergaard International Centre for Ceramic Research, permanent collection
2014: Family Circus, 55” x 82” installation for Daniels Spectrum Condominium, Toronto Collections
2013: Canadian Clay and Glass Gallery Archive: AIR Jingdezhen, China/Bali, Indonesia, April-August, collected writings and photographs.
Awards.
2022: Canada Council for the Arts Professional Development Grant
2021: Best in Show, Toronto Potters Juried Biennal
2020: NCECA Helene Zucker Seeman Fellowship
2019: Canada Council for the Arts, Explore and Create Visual Artist Grant
2019: Toronto Arts Council Grant to Visual Artists, Mid-Career
2019: Craft Ontario Award, Tuckers Supply House
2018: Visual Artists Creation Project Grant, Ontario Arts Council
2018: Canada Council for the Arts, Travel Abroad (Australian Triennale)
2017: Ontario Arts Council Visual Arts Emerging Artist Grant
2017: Ontario Arts Council International Residency Grant (Australia)
2016: Craft Ontario Award, Toronto One of A Kind Spring
2016: Best Technical Award, Emerge, Mississauga Potters Guild Juried Biennial
2015: Ontario Society of Artists, Order in Disorder, Best in Show Award
2013: Ontario Arts Council Access Grant for research/residencies summer 2013
2012 – 2013: Ontario Graduate Scholarship Fellowship
2012: Joan Bennett Award for Excellence & Outstanding Achievement, Sheridan College
2011: Tucker’s Pottery Supplies Sheridan College Academic Award
2011: Metchosin International Summer School Bursary: Les Manning’s workshop
2011: Untapped Emerging Artist Award, Spring 2011 Toronto Artist Project
Bibliography.
2021: “Heidi McKenzie: Mixed Clay & Color” by D Wood, in Ceramics Monthly, February issue
2021: “Heidi McKenzie: Imaging & Imagining: The Inheritance of Colonialism” by Debra Sloan, in New Ceramics, Berlin
2020: “Crafting Identity” by Lera Kotsyuba, in Rungh.org
2020: “Disrupting the Canon” in Studio Potter, March, 2020
2019: Josie Slaughter, “Family Matters: An Interview with Heidi McKenzie” Gardiner Museum Blog, summer 2019.
2019: “Heidi McKenzie, Est. 2012” Toronto Makes: The Things We Love and the People Who Make Them, Randi Bergman
2018: “Breakthrough: New Space for Emerging Artists” FUSION: A Magazine for Clay and Glass, Volume 42, Number 2, Fall 2018, pp. 22-25.
2017: Ceramics Monthly: Ceramic Arts: Yearbook and Annual Buyers Guide, “Awards”
2016: “Heidi McKenzie: China Unbound – A Review by Gil McElroy” Ceramics: Art & Perception, Spring 2016
2015: “Heidi McKenzie: China Unbound” Gil McElroy, Fusion Magazine, Volume 40, Number 1, Spring 2016
2014: IV – International Triennial of Silicate Arts, Exhibition Catalogue, Foundation for Contemporary Ceramic Arts, Kecskemét, Hungary
2013: Cluj International Ceramics Biennale 1st Edition, Exhibition Catalogue
2013: Lilianne Milgrom, “At the Forefront: Cluj International Ceramics Biennale 2013” in Ceramics: Art and Perception,No. 94, 2013. Pp. 93-94.
2013: Ceramics Monthly: Ceramic Arts: Yearbook and Annual Buyers Guide, “Awards”, p. 29