Mackenzie Kelly-Frère is an artist, writer and educator currently living in Calgary, Canada. He has contributed texts to various Canadian and international publications including Craft Perception & Practice Vol III and recently to Textile: The Journal of Cloth and Culture. Mackenzie’s work has been exhibited across Canada, including the Alberta Biennial of Contemporary Art: The News from Here in 2013 and Lieux de memoire: International biennale du lin du Portneuf in Deschambault-Grondines, Quebec in 2009. His international exhibitions have included China, Japan, Korea and the United States where he also participated in a residency at the Museum of Contemporary Craft in Portland, Oregon. In 2014 Mackenzie mounted a solo exhibition titled Frequency for GalleryGallery in Kyoto, Japan.
Member of ACAD Faculty since 2006.
Education
MFA Textiles, Nova Scotia College of Art.
BFA Textiles, Alberta College of Art + Design.
Selected Professional Activity
Frequency, GalleryGallery, Kyoto, Japan,2014
Continuum, Alberta Craft Council Feature Gallery, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada, 2014
In the Making, Illingworth Kerr Gallery, Calgary, Alberta, Canada, 2014
The News from Here: Alberta Biennial of Contemporary Art, Alberta Gallery of Art, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada, 2013
Laurie Herrick: Weaving Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow, Museum of Contemporary Craft, Portland, Oregon, USA. [travelling], 2011
Lieux de memoire, Maison de la Culture Marie-Uguay, Montreal, Quebec, Canada, 2010
(im)material beauty, MFA thesis exhibition, Anna Leonowens Gallery, Nova Scotia, Canada, 2005
Selected Publications
Frere, Mackenzie. “When the studio becomes the spectacle: a reluctant itinerant weaver talks about the weather in Alberta” Textile: The Journal of Cloth and Culture, ed. Lisa Vinebaum & Kirsty Robertson, Bloomsbury, UK [issue forthcoming].
Morton,Bill. Tinctorium. [exhibition catalogue]. “Bill Morton: Tinctorium”. Mackenzie Frere. Calgary: Stride Gallery, 2012. 25-31. Print.
Frere, Mackenzie. “(Im)material Beauty”. Craft Perception & Practice: a Canadian Discourse. Ed. Paula Gustafson, Nisse Gustafson and Amy Gogarty. Vancouver: Ronsdale P, 2002. Vol.1 of 3 vols to date. 107-112. Print.
Selected Awards
ACAD Leadership Excellence Award Recipient, 2014