ABOUT

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“Reinvention is essential to my practice. I work beyond the visible, entering the subconscious to access new creative territories. Each work challenges the perceived limits of possibility.”
— Stephanie MacKenzie

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Stephanie MacKenzie is a Canadian artist based in Paris. Her work investigates energy, rhythm, and vibration as material forces, translating the pulse of music into abstract form. Her practice began in early childhood and is deeply rooted in her lineage.  Both her grandfather and great-grandfather were painters and leather designers. Her great-grandfather studied design in Paris, and this connection continues to feed her sensibility; the city remains central to her visual language, structured yet fluid, historic yet in motion.

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Music functions as both catalyst and framework. Each work emerges from a selected composition, its tempo and tonal shifts shaping gesture, density, and chromatic movement. Rather than illustrating sound, MacKenzie renders its physicality, transforming rhythm into texture and vibration into spatial tension.

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Her process is shaped by early martial arts training and meditative practice, cultivating a heightened awareness of movement and presence. This embodied approach allows instinct and control to operate simultaneously, resulting in compositions that balance force and restraint. Working across painting, sculpture, and design, MacKenzie draws on formal training in Toronto at Sheridan College and Centennial College before relocating to Paris to further develop her practice. Her work has been exhibited internationally and is held in private collections.

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Through an evolving body of work, MacKenzie explores abstraction as a site of transmission where gesture becomes frequency and the canvas operates as a field of energetic exchange.

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