McKenzie Ashton Ellis[1] (born March 12, 1995), known professionally as Mothica, is an American singer.

Since 2015, she has produced a dozen albums and singles distributed across several online musical streaming platforms such as on Spotify, SoundCloud and Bandcamp.

In June 2020, a TikTok video she posted that included her song "VICES" went viral, providing greater notability as a musician and singer.

Having experienced depression and engaged in self-harm, she turned to online communities after finding that expressing her struggles in her hometown was taboo.

[3] She attended Harding Fine Arts Academy before receiving a scholarship from Pratt Institute for visual web programming, leading her to move to Brooklyn in 2013.

Ellis adopted the name "Mothica" for her music and visual art at age 15 in reference to the tendency of moths to be attracted to light.

She has more than 500,000 followers on TikTok where she shares openly about her experiences with depression as well as sobriety and hair loss.

She has a sleeve tattoo on her right arm that includes a flying hawk impaled by an arrow as well as the skull of a ram and a fern leaf.