Charlie Mahoney-Volk is an emerging queer artist of settler descent from Treaty 1 Territory, so-called “Winnipeg, Manitoba”, and is currently based on the unceded traditional territories of the Musqueam, Squamish, and Tsleil-Waututh Nations, so-called “Vancouver, British Columbia”. Mahoney-Volk’s practice is centred in lens-based work and publication design, and considers historical ties to westernized masculine archetypes in relation to queer gender identity, frequently using humour to explore themes of body and isolation.

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Charlie Mahoney-Volk holds a Bachelor of Fine Arts from Emily Carr University (2024). They served as Editor-in-Chief of WOO Publication for Tender (Fall 2024) and Burnt (Spring 2025).

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Mahoney-Volk’s lens-based work has been exhibited in ECUAD x Capture Photography Festival: Looking After: Photography as an Act of Care (Vancouver, 2023), Longing to See (Vancouver, 2024), Current: Photography as Pause at Gallery 881 (Vancouver, 2024), and The Failed Life of a Cowboy at Zebra Club (Vancouver, 2025