Andrew James McKay is a painter and print-maker currently working from Kitchener-Waterloo, Ontario, and Vancouver, BC. A graduate of Emily Carr University of Art+Design, he was over the course of his studies there the recipient of numerous awards and scholarships, including two grants from the Elizabeth Greenshields Foundation (2016 and 2018). As of 2019, he is also a carrier of the Lieutenant Governor’s Medal, presented for his BFA work and for contributions to, “Inclusion, Democracy, and Reconciliation” as defined by the office of the LG. At the time of writing this in the late winter of 2020 he is preparing for his MFA work, an historical overview and critical appraisal of the portrait genre and its ties to social power structures.