The Artist

Mackenzie Reilly is a New York–based visual artist working at the intersection of photography, painting, and alchemy. Her practice centers on black and white giclée portraiture, layered with hand-painted detail and 24k gold, exploring themes of fracture, value, and transcendence through a surreal, feminist lens.

Before turning her focus to visual art, Reilly spent over a decade as a perfumer, creating fragrances for global houses including Donna Karan, Viktor & Rolf, Giorgio Armani, Amouage, Lanvin, and Maison Martin Margiela. Her olfactive works have been exhibited internationally, with showings at the Rijksmuseum, Olfactory Art Keller, and Art Basel, among others.

Influenced by her travels, mythic storytelling, the resilience of women, and the raw poetry of the natural world, Reilly’s current body of work—Kintsugi Women—embraces visible restoration as a form of power and beauty. Each piece becomes a ritual of reassembly, honoring imperfection while transforming rupture into radiance.