LLD, RCA
1926 – 2000
Apart from a term as an Associate Professor of Art with the Nova Scotia College of Art (1967-68), he taught as an Associate Professor with the University of Regina until his retirement in 1987. During this time he was known as a member of the Regina Five who exhibited at the National Gallery in 1961 and who were considered to be at the forefront of the Canadian abstract art movement. His work has been shown across Canada and in the United States, where he was included in a 1964 Los Angeles exhibition organized by the New York art critic, Clement Greenberg, and entitled “Post- Painterly Abstraction”. Organized to marking the new generation of “colour” painters, McKay was one of only three Canadians to be included in the show.