Landon Mackenzie

Landon Mackenzie (born 1954) is a Canadian artist based in Vancouver, Canada. She is known for her large-format paintings and works on paper and her contribution as a professor of painting at Emily Carr University of Art and Design where she continues as Professor Emerita).

Early life and education Landon Mackenzie grew up in Toronto, Canada and left at 17 to study at NSCAD in Halifax, leading to a Bachelor's of Fine Arts degree from the school (Nova Scotia School of Art and Design) (1972–1976). She later earned a Master's of Fine Arts from Concordia University in Montreal (1976–1979) where she studied with Guido Molinari and Irene F. Whittome. It was not until after completing art school that she began to fully pursue the discipline of painting. In the same year, she cofounded the 188 West 3rd studio building with other Vancouver artists.

Her paintings are characteristically large and intensely involved in the continuation of the history of painting. Her works have been featured in several installations from the collections of National Gallery of Canada, Vancouver Art Gallery, The Art Gallery of Ontario, and the Musée d'art contemporain de Montréal to name a few. Her paintings have also been exhibited at the Museum of Contemporary Art, Toronto, The Esker Foundation, Calgary, and the Confederation Centre Art Gallery in Charlottetown, Prince Edward Island, as well as in many solo and group shows in Canada and internationally. Over the past forty-five years, Mackenzie's works have been extensively written about both in the popular media and academically. She has held a fascination for research on the brain and neural mapping in relationship to the mapping of our physical environment leading to series such as, 'Houbart's Hope', 'Neurocity', and 'The Structures'. In 2014–2015, Mackenzie exhibited with the iconic historical painter Emily Carr in an exhibition for the Vancouver Art Gallery called 'Emily Carr and Landon Mackenzie: Wood Chopper and the Monkey'. Often her work hovers in both regions of abstract, landscape and representational art.

In 2015, Landon Mackenzie: Parallel Journey: Works on Paper (1975–2015) was curated by Liz Wylie for the Kelowna Art Gallery before embarking on a national tour. As a 40-year retrospective, it was accompanied by a book of the same name published by Black Dog Publishing.

In 2026, Mackenzie's public art project for the City of Toronto at CIBC Square opened to acclaim. Consisting of over 2400 sq ft of back lit glass imagery, the project was supported by Hines and La Caisse corporations. The lobby of the new CIBC Square tower is located at 141 Bay Street joined to Union Station by a new footbridge.

Selected collections National Gallery of Canada Musée national des beaux-arts du Québec

Selected awards Queen Elizabeth II Golden Jubilee Medal 2003