McKinzie Trotta (b. 1995) grew up outside Cleveland, Ohio in a midwest landscape populated with tree lawns and open space. Through printmaking, drawing, and sculpture, her work considers the difference between “man-made” and “god-given” material actions. Trotta’s recent projects include a printmaking fellowship at Wassaic Project (2022) and the published works Past Lives (2020) and How To Be Simultaneously Precise and Nondescript (2020). Trotta has exhibited her works in sites such as the Print Center New York, Albany Center Gallery, the State VIII Project and, most recently, in a two-person presentation at W.I.H.S.H in Chicago. She earned an MFA from the Rhode Island School of Design and a BFA from Kent State University. McKinzie Trotta currently lives in Wassaic, NY.