Andrew James McKay’s practice is an exploration of the relationship(s) between the component and the whole. That is to say: What are the individual and specific details of the life we experience? How do we record and arrange those details to make a work which can tell of that experience? What are the compositions of our communities as far as the relation of the individual to the collective experience?

McKay is a graduate of the honours arts programme at Emily Carr University of Art+Design. He was over the course of his studies the recipient of a number of merit scholarships, grants and awards. In 2019 he became the first student in the history of that institution to be awarded upon graduation, the Lieutenant Governor’s Medal for Inclusion, Democracy and Reconciliation. He has since gone on to a promising emerging practice, receiving a Canada Council Research and Creation grant in 2022.