Eliza McKenna (b. 1997, Woodstock, NY) is an artist and mystic based in New York’s Hudson Valley. Her work moves between photography, writing, and experimental materials to explore grief, memory, and consciousness within and beyond the body. She is interested in the image’s potential to uncover our thoughts, feelings, and unconscious beliefs.
McKenna works within an idealist paradigm in which consciousness exists as the underlying reality of all physical form. Her practice is rooted in a desire to build visual systems for organizing her connection to this fundamental Source energy. Drawing from Eastern thought, philosophy, and mystical systems, she investigates what remains after death, how presence and absence manifest in form, and her own perception. Photography often serves as a starting point of investigating the world around her, but she moves beyond traditional representation into layered surfaces, text, and objecthood that invite viewers to interact and bring their unique historical consciousness to the image.
She holds a BA in Film Studies from Wesleyan University and an MFA in Photography from Pratt Institute. Her work has grown through dialogue with both intellectual and mystical traditions, situating her within a lineage of artists seeking to bring to light the ways art can expand human perception.Eliza McKenna (b. 1997, Woodstock, NY) is an artist and mystic based in New York’s Hudson Valley. Her work moves between photography, writing, and experimental materials to explore grief, memory, and consciousness within and beyond the body. She is interested in the image’s potential to uncover our thoughts, feelings, and unconscious beliefs.
