Join the MJMAG an Opening Reception & Art Talk for our new exhibitions! This event will be taking place on May 26th at 7:30 pm at the Gallery.

Jeannie Mah and Heidi McKenzie are two established Canadian ceramic artists of colour whose paternal ancestors are each directly intertwined with migration and immigration across multiple continents. This exhibition is a portrait of two migrant/immigrant narratives through ceramic works that incorporate archival image and document the artists’ families with particular attention to each artist’s relationship with their father.

Heidi McKenzie’s works document her father’s journey, growing up in Colonial Trinidad and his struggle to find his place as an immigrant of colour in Canada, while also being informed by her own everyday lived experience of her mixed Indo-Caribbean and Irish heritage. Jeannie Mah’s work seeks to mark the 100th anniversary of the Chinese Exclusion Act, which, in 1923, closed the door to all Chinese immigration until 1947, while also exploring her own Chinese-Canadian identity through her impossibly, delicate porcelain vessels that allude to the global meandering pedigree of Chinese blue and white porcelain