Lucy McKenzie

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Lucy McKenzie
Born1977 (age 47–48)
Glasgow, Scotland
Nationality Scottish
Education DJCAD
Alma mater State Academy of Fine Arts Karlsruhe
Notable workThe Quodlibet series
Movement Maximalism [1]
AwardsEAST
1999
Website lucymckenzie.com

Lucy McKenzie (born 1977) is a Scottish artist based in Brussels.

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Biography

Born in Glasgow, McKenzie studied for her BA at Duncan of Jordanstone College of Art and Design in Dundee from 1995–1999, and at State Academy of Fine Arts Karlsruhe in Germany in 1998.[ citation needed ] During this time she played guitar in the post rock band Ganger.

McKenzie first came to prominence when she won the EAST award at EASTinternational in 1999 which was selected by Peter Doig and Roy Arden. She has since shown work in many exhibitions, such as “The Dictatorship of the Viewer” at the Venice Biennale, Becks Futures 2000 in London, Manchester and Glasgow and “Happy Outsiders” at Zacheta Gallery in Warsaw. She has exhibited internationally at galleries and museums including Tate Britain in London, Kunsthalle Basel in Switzerland and the Walker Art Center in Minneapolis.[ citation needed ]

In 2013 McKenzie exhibited at Tate Britain in 'Painting Now: Five Contemporary Artists'. [2]

The Art Institute of Chicago featured McKenzie in 2014 in an exhibition entitled focus: Lucy McKenzie. [3]

The seventh season of The Artist's Institute at Hunter College, New York was dedicated to Lucy McKenzie, September 20, 2013 – February 2, 2014, describing her as an artist who "makes works drawn from the artistic lieu of the cities and social circles she inhabits. Early paintings appropriated the language of Alasdair Gray's Glasgow murals of the 1970s, [4] while more recent projects have reconstructed archetypal domestic interiors by employing faux finishing techniques. McKenzie has also founded a record label, a bar, a fashion line, and is currently experimenting with the field of crime fiction." [5]

She was a guest professor at the Kunstakademie Düsseldorf 2011-2013. [6] In April 2025 an article on the Euronews website reported speculation that she was in fact the anonymous street artist Banksy. [7]

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References

  1. ↑ Peck, Aaron (20 August 2020). "The Exquisite Maximalism of Lucy McKenzie". Frieze .
  2. ↑ Tate. "Painting Now: Five Contemporary Artists - Exhibition at Tate Britain - Tate" . Retrieved 8 January 2017.
  3. ↑ "focus: Lucie McKenzie". Art Institute of Chicago. Art Institute of Chicago. Retrieved 23 October 2014.
  4. ↑ Glass, Rodge, "Erasure and Reinstatement: Gray the Artist, Across Space and Form", in Pittin-Hédon, Marie-Odile, Manfredi, Camille, and Hames, Scott (eds), (2022), Scottish Writing After Devolution: Edges of the New, Edinburgh University Press, p. 288, ISBN   9781474486187
  5. ↑ "Lucy McKenzie – The Artists Institute". The Artists Institute. 18 January 2016. Retrieved 12 March 2017.
  6. ↑ "Lucy McKenzie - GENERATION". generationartscotland.org. Archived from the original on 23 April 2014. Retrieved 12 March 2017.
  7. ↑ Walfisz, Jonny (11 April 2025). "A conspiracy undone: Is Banksy a woman?". Euronews .
  8. ↑ "Projects 88: Lucy McKenzie | MoMA". The Museum of Modern Art. Retrieved 12 March 2017.
  9. 1 2 3 "Parkett Vol. 76". www.parkettart.com. Retrieved 12 March 2017.
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