Annie MacDonell is a Toronto-based artist and filmmaker whose interdisciplinary practice moves between photography, moving image, installation, and sculpture. Her work explores the structures that shape our visual, psychic and political perception, often departing from archival material, feminist histories and past events. Across media, MacDonell is drawn to cycles of return, doubling, repetition, and the porous boundaries between interior and exterior life. Recent solo shows include the Audain Gallery SFU (Vancouver, 2022), Kitchener Waterloo Art Gallery (2021), the Robert McLaughlin Gallery (Oshawa, 2022), Ilingworth Kerr Gallery (2023), and the Mackenzie Art Gallery (2023). She has participated in group shows at Blackwood Gallery (Toronto, 2025), Les Instants Chavirés (Paris, 2025) and Goodwater Corktown (Toronto, 2025). In 2012 she was short-listed for the AGO AIMIA prize for photography, and she was long listed for the Sobey Art Award (2012, 2015 and 2016). In 2020, she was shortlisted for the Scotiabank Photography Award. In 2020, she and Maïder Fortuné won the Tiger Award for Best Short Film at the Rotterdam International Film Festival, for their film “Communicating Vessels”. MacDonell has upcoming solo shows at Dazibao (Montreal, 2025) and the Goldfarb Gallery at York University (Toronto, 2026). 

MacDonell lives in Toronto with her family and is an Associate Professor at TMU’s School of Image Arts. She is a founding member of Emilia-Amalia, a feminist research and writing group. The group is currently in residence at Mercer Union as part of their “groundworks” program.