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Liam Mackenzie

Liam Mackenzie (they/he)(b. 1997) is a lens-based artist who creates using photography, videography, and physical fabrication. Their work follows the act of ‘performing for the camera’ to personally, politically, and theoretically examine queerness, gender expression, bodies, disability, and sex. Using themselves as the performer and using repeating elements of exaggeration, maximalism, humour, and kink, Mackenzie embodies the varying forms people assume to subvert perceptions. Mackenzie has created a couple of projects from an ever-growing series of self-portraits titled Familiar Faces (2018 -). Notably, Mackenzie has won Special Interest Winner for Magenta Foundation’s Flash Forward competition for Familiar Faces in 2019. When Mackenzie pursued their degree in 2021, they developed a passion for physical fabrication, videography, and disability justice, which all fed into their practice. In their degree, they had the opportunity to study abroad in London, England, at the University of Westminster and created LAST TIME (2024) and HAGSTONE (2024). They explore how filth and disability are heavily interwoven with each other, and how time can be a malleable embodiment of fear and rejection. They created Break My Back (2024), which uses kink and sexuality to examine the act of self-destruction and minimization. For Mackenzie’s thesis project, The Disabling, they use an assemblage of a majority of their studies to create a body of work to explore disability, sexuality, and the social perceptions of both. Mackenzie currently practices in Toronto, Canada. Mackenzie earned a diploma in Photographic Technology from NAIT (2017) and a BFA in New Media, minoring in Disability Studies from Toronto Metropolitan University (2025.)

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