Exhibitions & Press

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On View

Exhibitions
Blurred Repositories
Blurred Repositories

Showing until January 31st, 2026 at the VAV Gallery.

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Grieving Reveries
Grieving Reveries

On until February 20th at the FOFA Gallery, Concordia University.

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UPCOMING EVENTS

UPCOMING EVENTS

2026

Art Matters Festival (Facilitator)
Concordia University, March 2026
Details to come.

Artist Residency, ICA Yerevan
Institute of Contemporary Art, Yerevan, June 2026
Research-creation residency; more information forthcoming.

Past Events

2025 | 2024

2025

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Exposition de résidence d’été
Exposition de résidence d’été

VAV Gallery, Montreal, Qc, juried exhibition

September 2025

Held in September of 2025, the Summer Residency Show was an exhibition to show the work that the 6 reisdent artists produced during their residencies over the course of the summer of 2025. In two cohorts, a group of 3 artists were given access to the gallery space and facilities to develop reserach-creation projects.

Marie Khediguian's Beneath The Surface Series (Isolation Part I, Part II & Part III).

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Summer Residency Show
Summer Residency Show

VAV Gallery, Montreal, Qc, juried exhibition

September 2025

Held in September of 2025, the Summer Residency Show was an exhibition to show the work that the 6 reisdent artists produced during their residencies over the course of the summer of 2025. In two cohorts, a group of 3 artists were given access to the gallery space and facilities to develop reserach-creation projects.

Marie Khediguian's Beneath The Surface Series (Isolation Part I, Part II & Part III).

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UnFamiliar Spaces
UnFamiliar Spaces

(Un)Familiar Spaces was a juried student exhibition that brings together emerging artists exploring the fluid boundary between memory and place. Hosted at WIP Works, the show invites viewers into spaces both intimate and uncanny—where nostalgia, displacement, and personal history converge.

Marie Khediguian’s The Barber of Alexandria was selected to be shown alongside a dynamic lineup of talented artists. Her work contributes to the exhibition’s reflection on how memory transforms the spaces we once knew—be they homes, shops, or interior landscapes—into layered, sometimes surreal reconstructions.

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Topographies of Longing
Topographies of Longing

Topographies of Longing | SWANA Group Exhibition at VAV Gallery, Montreal (May 2025)

Topographies of Longing, a juried May 2025 exhibition at VAV Gallery in Montreal, showcased artists of SWANA (South West Asian and North African) descent. Featuring Marie Khediguian’s Between Then & Now and Nairi & Ara, the show centered voices often marginalized or misrepresented in mainstream art spaces.

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The Weight of Fragments
The Weight of Fragments

was a group show that highlighted artists of SWANA (South West Asian and North African) descent. These voices are often underrepresented, marginalized or fetishized and this show along with Topographies of Longing aim to amplify the voices of artists from this background.

Marie Khediguian's the barber of Alexandria was shown alongside 5 other artists.

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Glue
Glue

January 2025

Ada X, Montreal, Qc

Held January 2025, Glue was the debut group exhibition curated and facilitated by the MUD collective at Ada X, featuring 14 women or non-binary artists. Marie Khediguian’s Alexandria, Egypt in the 1950s was chosen to be part of this show.

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Art Matters: Anchor
Art Matters: Anchor

March 2025

VAV Gallery, Montreal, Qc

Anchor was a group exhibition part of Art Matters Festival: North America’s largest student-run festival held in galleries all over Montreal that takes place in March. Anchor invites viewers to reflect on their own anchors and the ways art can illuminate paths to stability and hope. Featuring works by nine artists, including the first piece of the Armenian Goddess series, Anahid, Goddess of Fertility by Marie Khediguian.

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Love & Loss Symposium
Love & Loss Symposium

In conjunction with the Milieux Institute, 4th Space and Concordia Univeristy, Nostagain is a day-long symposium and research creation showcase featuring works by students, scholars, and artists. I presented three of my paintings: Bear Witness, The Barber of Alexandria, and Alexandria, Egypt in the 1950s. The event brought together artists and scholars exploring themes of memory, migration, and intergenerational legacy. My work contributed a visual narrative rooted in Armenian diasporic experience and family history, offering intimate reflections on survival, place, and cultural continuity.

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2024

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Ballads of Displacement
Ballads of Displacement

October 2024

VAV Gallery, Montreal, Qc

A group exhibition exploring themes of dislocation, identity, and memory. Featuring works by seven artists, including three pieces by Marie Khediguian (Anchored in Time, Alexandria, Egypt, 1950s, andBearing Witness), the show examined displacement as both isolating and transformative. Curated by Emitees Tajdari, the exhibition invited reflections on survival, heritage, and belonging. An artist talk led by India-Lynn, as part of the IUNGO Talks program, deepened the dialogue on personal and collective narratives.

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Complete Overview

Education

2022–2027 — BFA, Painting and Drawing, Concordia University, Montréal, QC
2005–2007 — Master of Architecture (M.Arch), McGill University, Montréal, QC
2002–2005 — Bachelor of Science (Architecture), McGill University, Montréal, QC

Residencies & Awards

2026 — Artist Residency, Invisible Labor, Living Archive of Displaced Women in Armenia, Institute of Contemporary Art Yerevan, Yerevan, Armenia

2026 — Travel Grant ($6300), Conseil des arts et des lettre du Québec (CALQ) for the Project: Archive Vivante et travail invisible: recherche et rencontres en Arménie. 

2026 — FASA Special Projects Grant, Fine Arts Student Alliance, Concordia University — for the design and production of the exhibition catalogue The Risk of Colour

2025 — Summer Artist Residency, VAV Gallery, Montréal, QC

2025 — Nominee, Cecil Buller – John J.A. Murphy Award in Drawing

2025 — Nominee, Lise-Hélène Larin Scholarship in Drawing

Exhibitions

2027 — 15 Stories: An Act of Visibility, juried group exhibition, Armenian Center for Contemporary and Experimental Art (ACCEA), Yerevan, Armenia

2026 — FOFA Annual Undergraduate Student Exhibition (USE 2026), juried group exhibition, FOFA Gallery, Montréal, QC

2026 — Blurred Repository, juried group exhibition, VAV Gallery, Montréal, QC

2025 — The Weight of Fragments, Juried Group Exhibition, VAV Gallery, Montréal, QC

2025 — VAV Residency Show, Featured work by six resident artists, VAV Gallery, Montréal, QC

2025 — Topographies of Longing, juried group exhibition, VAV Gallery, Montréal, QC

2025 — Inkblot, Print Exchange and Exhibition, MFA Gallery, Concordia University, Montréal, QC

2025 — Anchor, juried exhibition, Art Matters Festival, Concordia University

2025 — Glue, juried group exhibition, Ada X, Montréal, QC

Talks, Lectures & Public Programming

2026 — Juried Artist Presentation & Research Talk, Parallel Memories, NOSTAGAIN Nostalgia Symposium, Montréal, QC 

2026 — Artist Talk, FOFA Annual Undergraduate Student Exhibition, (USE 2026), FOFA Gallery, Montréal, QC

2026 — Facilitator, Trchnakir Armenian letterform and cultural pattern workshop, Through This Fire group exhibition, Montréal, QC

2025 — Juried Artist Presentation & Research Talk, NOSTAGAIN Nostalgia Symposium, Montréal, QC 

2024 — Artist Talk, IUNGO talks in conjunction with Ballads of Displacement Exhibition, VAV Gallery, Montréal, QC

Publications & Writing

2026 — FOFA Annual Undergraduate Student Exhibition catalogue, features artwork and essay on my work by Chloé Marchal, Galerie FOFA

2026 — The Risk of Colour, Exhibition catalogue, curatorial essay, editorial direction, and layout design, Art Matters Festival, Concordia University

2026 — NOOR, Issue 3, artist feature, online and print publication

2025 — AZAD Archives,  feature article on artistic practice

2025 — Catalogue of (UN)Familiar Spaces Exhibition, artist statement, reproduced work

2006 — Catalogue of Student Work 2005-2006, School of Architecture, McGill University, Montréal, Qc

2003 — Architecture, Landscape and Myth, Article and photograph, School of Architecture, McGill University, Montréal, Qc

Profiessional Experience

2026 — present — Member, Board of Directors; Visual Arts Center, Westmount, Qc.

2026 —                  Instructor, Hadrut Cultural Center.  Facilitated a portrait masterclass for youth between the ages of 7 and 15. Yerevan Armenia

2026 —                  Facilitator,Through this Fire group show. Led a workshop on the history and creation of Armenian bird letters (Trchnakir) for adults. Montréal, QC.

2025 — present — Member, Public Art Advisory Committee & Curatorial Sub-Committee; Concordia University

2026 — Curator and facilitator, The Risk of Colour, Art Matters Festival, Concordia University, Montréal, QC

2020 — present — Independent visual art practice focused on painting and   research-creation.

2021 — present  — Guest Lecturer, presenting Armenian Genocide history through art in secondary schools.

2012 — 2016       — Instructor, Herzing College; Montréal, Qc. Taught college-level architectural technology, managing curriculum and student evaluations.

2005 — 2012      — Architectural design and teaching practice, Montréal and New York

Media Coverage

2026 — Hye Connect, "Hyelights" feature video profiling artistic practice

2024 — Le Devoir, front-page coverage of Greenwashing Genocide performance

2024 — CBC Montreal, televised segment on Greenwashing Genocide 

2022 — CBC News, interview on the Armenian Genocide as it relates to artistic practice

AFFILIATIONS

RAAV — ELAN — Culture Montéregie — Centre for Oral History and digital storytelling — Agrégat Artist Centre

COLLECTIONS

Private collections in France, Los Angeles, Montréal, New York, Paris, Vancouver, Richmond,

LANGUAGES:

English | French | Western Armenian

The Latest from The Artful Exile

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Failing Towards Brilliance
Failing Towards Brilliance

Failing Towards Brilliance is a personal reflection on the emotional and creative challenges of painting my late mother. Inspired by Arshile Gorky’s decade-long struggle with The Artist and His Mother, I document how grief, memory, and perfectionism shaped this project. What began as an attempt to loosen up artistically became a deep reckoning with failure, identity, and love. This piece explores how process, not product, can be the real act of honoring.

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The Split Rug
The Split Rug

A torn rug, stitched back together, became a map for reunion. Marie Khediguian explores the role of Azad Archives in connecting the Armenian diaspora through digital storytelling. Inspired by a century-old rug torn and later reunited by Armenian sisters, she reflects on how art and culture serve as a bridge for dispersed Armenians. Azad Archives, a bilingual platform, preserves Armenian history and amplifies marginalized voices, fostering global connections. Like diaspora newspapers before it, the platform builds solidarity through shared narratives, ensuring Armenian identity endures despite displacement.

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