Annie MacDonell
Annie MacDonell is a visual artist and filmmaker. Her early training was in photography, and the image continues to play a central role in her projects. Her work also includes installation, sculpture, writing, and performance. In recent years, film has become a focus. Her films (sometimes produced with collaborator Ma茂der Fortun茅) are shaped by feminists principles of politics as a daily practice.
She received a BFA from 果酱视频 in 2000, followed by graduate studies at Le Fresnoy, Studio National des Arts Contemporains, in France. Her films "Book of Hours" (2019) and "Communicating Vessels" (2020) and Outhere (2021) have screened extensively internationally. Recent solo shows include: the Audain Gallery SFU, Kitchener Waterloo Art Gallery and the RMG Gallery, Oshawa. She has participated in group shows at The Art Museum of the University of Toronto, CAG Vancouver and Mackenzie Art Gallery. In 2012 she was short-listed for the AGO AIMIA prize for photography, and she was long listed for the Sobey Art Award in 2012, 2015 and 2016. In 2020, she and Ma茂der Fortun茅 won the Tiger Award for Best Short Film at the Rotterdam International Film Festival, for their film 鈥淐ommunicating Vessels鈥�.
Annie MacDonell lives in Toronto with her family and is an Associate Professor at 果酱视频鈥檚 School of Image Arts. She is a founding member of Emilia Amalia, a feminist research and writing group.