Perri MacKenzie
perrimackenzie@gmail.com
perrimackenzie.info
kantine.space
Artist, writer.
Curator of Kantine (with Kevin Gallagher) 2017 - 2023.
Publisher of Leaky Press.
Bio
1986 Aberdeen, UK
Lives and works in Brussels, Belgium.
Education
2014 Piet Zwart Institute, Hogeschool Rotterdam, NL, Master of Fine Arts
2008 Duncan of Jordanstone College of Art, UK, Bachelor of Fine Arts
Selected Exhibitions
2024
Amphor-her, TBA
2022
Try See, Try Say, Wilford X, Temse
Autofiction, Fons Welters, BrusselsLook! Lightning has struck the flowers, Sundy, London
Kantine Blossoms, Kantine, Brussels
2021
Hot Author, Atelier Gordon Evans, Brussels (solo)
Level Five Salon Sale, Level 5, Brusselsohm, FORMER, Brussels
2020
The Serving Library Collection, 019 Gent, Gent
2019
I AM SO MULTIPLE IN NIGHTS, SB34 The Pool, Brussels
2018
Noise! Frans Hals, Otherwise, Frans Hals Museum, Haarlem
yes resonance, no reflection, Kantine, BrusselsB-SIDES, Saloon, Brussels
2017
ICEY, Kantine, Amsterdam (solo)
2016
The Life Intense, W139, Amsterdam
Whiskers by the name of lilacs, Galerie Rianne Groen, Rotterdam2015
A need to reply, Peach, Rotterdam
Find yourself a human activity, Futura, Prague2014
Kairos Time, TENT, Rotterdam
Real Snow, Pracownia Portretu, ?ód?Bibliography
2022
‘Autofiction’ Reveals the Incoherent Principles of Ownership", Jim Van Geel, Frieze.
'In Autofiction combineren kunstenaars het autobiografische met fictie.' Roos van der Lint, Grone Amsterdammer2018
'Interview with Jacqueline de Jong, Justin John Greene, Perri MacKenzie'. Melanie Bühler, Frans Hals Museum Magazine
2014
'In Conversation: Perri MacKenzie and Lisa Robertson'. Kairos Time, Piet Zwart Institute Publications
Selected Writing
2023
'Dana Schutz at Musée d'Art Moderne, Paris' Glean Magazine, Issue 2
'The Spot: Gauli Zitter' Glean Magazine, Issue 2
2021
'Hot Author' Leaky Press
'Batsheva Ross: Fitness Studies', Kantine
'Metal + Wind' Air Aggregation, Rib Rotterdam2020
'The Stakes are a Thick Vision: Images of Women Gambling in Eliot and De La Tour', Le Chauffage
'Figuration', Figuration, Kevin Gallagher, Alma Sarif, Brussels‘Polymorphic Light Eruption’, Something for the Ivory, Helen Dowling, MAMBO Bologna
‘For Brussels City, is Diversity More Than a Façade ?’ The Bulletin.be
'Is diversiteit voor Stad Brussel meer dan een façade? De Wereld Morgen.be
2019
'This is not a hard day: On the work of Monika Stricker' F.R. David
'24hrs of inscape', Inscape at Sunrise, Kantine (with Aukje Koks)2015
'A Diaphanous Ejaculation', R-DAMN, Bernd Krauss, Piet Zwart Publications
2014
'An invitation is sent out', Pracownia Portretu Publications
'A Running Composition', The Serving Library #62011
‘Triangle’ The Serving Library #2
Editions
2023
Illustration fantasy, 6-colour screenprint oh Heritage 350, edition of 12 plus 2 AP.
Fountain, lithograph on Pure Silk paper, edition of 10 plus 2 AP. The predominant image in classical texts, lithograph on Simili paper, edition of 5 plus 2 AP.
Pandora's Boy, Screenprint on Simili, edition of 10 plus 2 AP.
All editions printed at Frans Masereel Centrum and published by Leaky Press
Prizes and grants
2016 Centrum Beeldende Kunst Rotterdam: Research & Development Grant
Niemeijer Fonds: Travel Grant
International Summer Academy of Fine Arts, Salzburg: Scholarship
2012 Leverhulme Foundation: Study Abroad Studentship
2011 Banff Centre Thematic Residency: Scholarship
2009 Glasgow Visual Artist Grants
2008 Alan Woods Memorial Prize
Residencies
2023 Frans Masereel Centrum, BE
2016 International Summer Academy of Fine Arts, Salzburg, AU
2015 Futura, Prague, CZ
2012 Creative Lab, Centre of Contemporary Art Glasgow, UK
2011 Thematic Residency with the Serving Library, Banff Centre, Banff, CA
Teaching
2023
Teacher of two experimental drawing classses for one semester, ERG Brussels:
Dessin d'observation, Bachelor 1Techniques Fondamentales, Bachelor 2
Jury for BFA Students, ERG Brussels
Seminar: 'Medium and Medium Critique', BFA students, LUCA Brussels
2020
Jury for BFA Students, LUCA Brussels
'Exhibition-making workshop', BFA, LUCA Brussels (with Kevin Gallagher)2019
Curator Talk, BFA, LUCA Brussels
Seminar, Artnews, MFA, La Cambre, BrusselsCurator Talk, MFA, Sint-Lucas Antwerp (with Kevin Gallagher)
Artist Talk, BFA, KABK Den Haag
Artist Talk, Drawing Programme, MFA, La Cambre, Brussels