Landon Mackenzie has been a practicing artist for thirty years. Starting as a student at the Nova Scotia College of Art and Design in 1972, Mackenzie has built an impressive body of work and is probably best known for her new image work called "The Lost River Series" in 1981-82 when she won the Quesbec Biennale of painting and her large-format mapping and abstract paintings from the mid '90s to current. Her work has been collected by the National Gallery of Canada, the Vancouver Art Gallery, the Art Gallery of Ontario, the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts and the Musee d ’art Contemporain de Montreal among many others. Mackenzie received her Masters of Fine Arts from Concordia University in Montreal where she also began her teaching career. She has received numerous awards and grants and is an active painter and educator within the Canadian art community. Mackenzie is a Professor at the Emily Carr University of Art + Design in Vancouver.