(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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.