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Catherine Mackenzie

Pensioner

Department: Art History

Faculty: Fine Arts


Catherine Mackenzie
Phone: (514) 848-2424
Email: catherine.mackenzie@concordia.ca

Expertise:

Looted Art, Art Restitution

Language(s) spoken:

English

Professional associations:

PhD


Catherine MacKenzie received her doctorate from the University of Toronto in 1984, specializing in eighteenth-century French architectural theory. Since coming to Concordia University, she has held a large number of administrative posts in the Faculty and University (most recently, Chair of the Mel Hoppenheim School of Cinema, 2001- 2004), and has shifted her academic interests to issues of racism as they pertain to nineteenth and twentieth century art worlds. Her specific research concerns follow two  distinct trajectories: the dynamics of expatriate production by American and British women living in China in the first half of the twentieth century and its reception 'back home' and; the need, in light of the intervention of Nazi 'cultural policies' and gaps in existing art history scholarship, to reclaim the roles of German- Jewish collectors and art dealers in the first third of the twentieth century. In the fall of 2006, Professor MacKenzie curated for the FoFA Gallery an exhibition entitled Auktion 392: Reclaiming the Galerie Stern, Dusseldorf for which several MA students provided research assistance, as well as entries for the accompanying catalogue. Auktion 392 travelled to The Leo Baeck Institute in New York City in spring 2007, and the Ben Uri Gallery, The London Jewish Museum of Art in London, England, in mid-September 2007. Under the management of the Ben Uri Gallery, the exhibition has since appeared at The Hebrew University in Jerusalem and several venues in England, and returned to North America in January 2011, with a showing in Florida.

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