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Bio:

Alexia McKindsey is a Montreal-based artist born in 1996 whose work explores the potential of domestic life and its artifacts. Graduated with a Bachelor of Fine Arts from Concordia University (Montreal, QC) in 2020, her work has been exhibited in several exhibitions and resides in collections across Montreal and Canada. She participated in the Art Souterrain Festival (Montreal, QC) in 2017, ARTCH (Montreal, QC) in 2019 and presented her first solo exhibition And the Mourning Dove Keeps Cooing at AVE (Montreal, QC) in 2020. 

Artist statement:

Alexia McKindsey's practice derives from the spaces she's lived in; spaces rich in familial narrative, heritage, and history. She is interested in the way our homes reflect the collective identity and mythologies spanning the generations of a family. Pulling from the physical facades, archives, and relics found in these spaces, she maps out the physical progression of time and tradition that have passed through these dwellings. Incorporating painted collaged fragments and craft-based processes allows for the embodiment of the whole of the archives she's collected along the way and for reflection on the legacies of the generations that have come before her and that have helped form her identity. Contrasting and combining these elements allow for nonlinear and cyclical representations of memory, space, and experience spanning multiple eras and members of a family.

Selected solo & duo exhibitions:

2022 TBD (with Jose Guillermo Garcia Sierra), Fais moi l’art, Montreal, QC