DANI McKENZIE is an Australian born artist, who is currently based in Naarm/Melbourne. Influenced by street photography, 21st century notions of privacy and the intrigues of everyday life, McKenzie’s paintings examine the ways we identify with strangers, both as one who is seeing, and one who is being seen. Since graduating from the MFA program at the National Art School in Sydney (2016), McKenzie has exhibited extensively in both Australia and internationally. Recent solo shows include, Ultra Romance, Long Story Short Gallery, Paris FR (2024), Room With a View, Long Story Short Gallery, Los Angeles CA (2023); Evening’s Empire, MARS Gallery, Melbourne (2022), and Close to Home, Olsen Gallery, Sydney (2022). She has participated in several group exhibitions including Romancing the Streetscape, at Town Hall Gallery in Melbourne (2023) and National Art-Part One: a touring exhibition of prominent alumni from the National Art School over 50 years (2018-2021). In 2019, McKenzie was awarded the Bayside Acquisitive Art Prize in Melbourne, and in 2017 she was a recipient of the Onslow Storrier Residency at la Cité Internationale des Arts in Paris.