Huile et acrylique sur toile, 2025
Central to the painting and spanning from edge to edge is a pink and red dog against a gray background standing on a flat red ground. Framing the dog is a comic book-style burst shape. The dog’s head is turned to the side and its gaze is fixated on the viewer.
Malik McKoy is an emerging artist based in Montréal, with a multidisciplinary art practice consisting of painting and digital media. Through abstraction and figuration, he transports the banal everyday moments into a realm of fantasy.
Exhibition venues include Patel Brown (Montréal), Leonard & Bina Ellen Art Gallery (Montréal), and Susan Hobbs (Toronto). Recent fairs include Plural (Montréal), Felix Art Fair (Los Angeles), Toronto Art Fair, and NADA (Miami). McKoy is a recent recipient of a project grant from the Canada Council for the Arts, and he has been awarded a project grant from the Ontario Arts Council. Residencies include CO/CREATE by World Creation Studio (Montréal) and the RBC Emerging Artist Residency Program at Robert McLaughlin Gallery (Oshawa).