MacKenzie, Duncan

Visual Communications, Graduate

Duncan MacKenzie is an animator, sculptor, fine artist, art critic and designer. He joined the American Academy of Art in 2005 and currently teaches Animation, Digital Video and Multimedia.

Originally from Calgary, Alberta Canada, where he received a BFA with Distinction from the University of Calgary, Duncan has been a Chicago resident since 2000. He was enticed to come here to pursue Graduate Studies at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago on a Trustee Scholarship for Merit, the school’s top honor.

Mr. MacKenzie produces and co-hosts Bad at Sports, a weekly podcast about art in Chicago and is a correspondent for the Boston-based art journal Big, Red and Shiny and the Los Angeles Critical Studies Journal Octopus.

He has several years experience in Print Design with Canadian firm Zero Degree and in Project Management with museum, theater, trade show and specialty construction firm Scenic View Inc. He has worked on aesthetic projects ranging from Alberta Views Magazine, Sport Chek Catalogs, Calgary Art Walk Brochures, The Museum of Science and Industry’s “The Great Train Story” and “Toy Maker 3000”, The Children’s Museum of Indianapolis “Dinosphere”, and Mills Corporation Malls in St Louis, Atlanta, Cincinnati, Washington DC, Toronto, and Florida.

As an artist, Duncan has had exhibited in Canada, Australia, The United States of America, New Zealand, and England. He has given Lectures and participated in panel discussions at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Columbia College, The University of Illinois Chicago, The University of Western Sydney, Chicago Public Radio’s Third Coast Festival, The Pond Gallery Chicago, Three Walls Gallery Chicago, Articule Gallery Montreal, Gallery 400 Chicago, and The University of Calgary. He has had projects written about in Flash Art, Time Out Chicago, New City Chicago, F News, Coterie Magazine, Iconoduel.org, Chicagoist.com, Regulator Magazine, The Chicago Reader, absoluteart.com, FFWD Magazine, The Calgary Herald, The Calgary Straight, Where Magazine, and several catalogs published in Canada, Australia, and the United States of America.

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