Sarah McKenzie (artist)

[14] McKenzie is the 2021 recipient of the Marion International Fellowship for the Visual and Performing Arts (Fredonia, NY)[15][16] and a 2012 recipient of a Painters & Sculptors Grant from the Joan Mitchell Foundation (New York, NY).

Past series have focused on construction sites, abandoned structures, hotel rooms, and parking garages– spaces that are fluid rather than fixed.

[32] With White Walls, the series of paintings McKenzie created from 2014 to 2020, she depicts the architecture of exhibition space: art fair tents, minimalist museum and gallery interiors, and video-screening rooms.

[33] Her work has been influenced by the writings of Brian O'Doherty, particularly his 1976 book, Inside the White Cube: The Ideology of the Gallery Space, which explores the history and development of gallery architecture in response to modern art.

In 2021, with the support of the Marion Fellowship, McKenzie launched a new project exploring the architecture of the US prison system.