Kenzie Housego is a multidisciplinary artist working primarily in textiles, embroidery, electronics, and new media. Her practice explores the intersection of digital culture and historical craft traditions, often inviting viewers to interact with the work in playful, intimate, and reflective ways. Her pieces encourage a shift from passive observation to active participation, using digital media to promote perspectives and reflection.
Housego’s work explores themes of identity, technological mediation, and data collection. Through a feminist lens, she draws connections between labor-intensive practices historically associated with women, such as embroidery, and the increasing algorithmic oversight of intimate aspects of life. By pairing handcrafted techniques with responsive technologies, she creates immersive experiences that engage viewers both physically and conceptually.
This tension between analog and digital, past and future, recurs throughout her practice. The artwork is both nostalgic and critical, infused with humor and tenderness. Housego’s practice celebrates and questions how we perform, connect, and care, both online and offline, through the materials and technologies we choose to hold close.
Housego holds a Master of Fine Arts from the University of Calgary and a Bachelor of Fine Arts from the Alberta University of the Arts. She has exhibited nationally and internationally, including a solo exhibition at the Art Gallery of Alberta, Edmonton (2023), and group exhibitions at CURRENTS Festival, Santa Fe, New Mexico (2020), and Curiosity Festival, Dublin, Ireland (2017). Her work is included in several permanent collections, including the Alberta Foundation for the Arts. Housego .
Housego lives and works on Treaty 7 Territory, in Mohkinstsis/Calgary.
Learn more about Kenzie's Fashiontech collaboration artwork with PHI : Illuminated Design here.
Housego’s work explores themes of identity, technological mediation, and data collection. Through a feminist lens, she draws connections between labor-intensive practices historically associated with women, such as embroidery, and the increasing algorithmic oversight of intimate aspects of life. By pairing handcrafted techniques with responsive technologies, she creates immersive experiences that engage viewers both physically and conceptually.
This tension between analog and digital, past and future, recurs throughout her practice. The artwork is both nostalgic and critical, infused with humor and tenderness. Housego’s practice celebrates and questions how we perform, connect, and care, both online and offline, through the materials and technologies we choose to hold close.
Housego holds a Master of Fine Arts from the University of Calgary and a Bachelor of Fine Arts from the Alberta University of the Arts. She has exhibited nationally and internationally, including a solo exhibition at the Art Gallery of Alberta, Edmonton (2023), and group exhibitions at CURRENTS Festival, Santa Fe, New Mexico (2020), and Curiosity Festival, Dublin, Ireland (2017). Her work is included in several permanent collections, including the Alberta Foundation for the Arts. Housego .
Housego lives and works on Treaty 7 Territory, in Mohkinstsis/Calgary.
Learn more about Kenzie's Fashiontech collaboration artwork with PHI : Illuminated Design here.