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Gallery 1C03 is pleased to host an artist talk by Heidi McKenzie, presented in conjunction with her Gallery 1C03 exhibition “Reclaimed: Indo-Caribbean HerStories”. Heidi McKenzie is a ceramic and installation artist based in Toronto. Heidi completed her Master of Fine Arts degree at the Ontario College of Art and Design University in 2014. She is informed by her mixed-race Indo-Trinidadian/Irish-American heritage. Heidi uses ceramics, photography, digital media, and archive to forefront themes of ancestry, race, migration and colonization, as well as body and healing. Heidi has exhibited internationally in Europe, Scandinavia, Asia, Oceania and North America. The recipient of numerous grants, Heidi has created work in Ireland, Denmark, Hungary, Australia, China and Indonesia. Her art has been collected by the Royal Ontario Museum, Global Affairs Canada, and the Canadian Clay and Glass Gallery, among others. Heidi curated Decolonizing Clay at the Australian Ceramics Triennale in 2019 and participated in the World Indian Diaspora Congress in Trinidad in 2020. She was inducted into the International Academy of Ceramics in 2022. She serves as a volunteer board member with NCECA, the National Council for the Education of the Ceramic Arts. Heidi’s installation, Division, which highlights the division of class between plantation owner and worker in the Caribbean, was invited to tour in the US alongside works by Ai Wei Wei, Theaster Gates, Simone Leigh, and Magdolene Odundo in the exhibition Underneath Everything. Heidi’s solo exhibition Reclaimed: Indo-Caribbean HerStories – exploring the little-known migrant and labour histories of Indo-Caribbean indentureship through a feminist lens -- was first shown at the Gardiner Museum in 2023 and is remounted in Winnipeg at Gallery 1C03 in 2025. She presented Girmitya HerStories at the 2024 Indian Ceramics Triennale in Delhi – bringing the Indo-Caribbean diaspora “home.”