Biography

Chantal Khoury
Chantal Khoury engages with Lebanon’s history, personal archives, and postcolonial theory for paintings to display transformation. Her broader practice includes engagement and collaboration with other South West Asian and North African diaspora artists. These intersecting practices and diverse experiences heavily inform her works.

Of Lebanese descent and born on the unceded territory of the Wolastoqiyik and Mi’kmaq First Nations (New Brunswick), Chantal Khoury currently lives and works in Tkaronto (Toronto) following thirteen years in Tiohtià:ke (Montréal). She has received several awards and achievements, most recently the 2022 Research and Creation Grant from the Canada Council for the Arts and inclusion in the 2022-23 RBC Emerging Visual Artists Program at The Power Plant Contemporary Art Gallery. Notable collections include the Royal Bank of Canada, the Art Gallery of Guelph and the University of New Brunswick.

Khoury holds an M.F.A. from the University of Guelph (2021) and a B.F.A. with Distinction from Concordia University (2012).

Selected Works

Exhibitions

Chantal Khoury

October 15 - November 19 - 2022

Chantal Khoury “Holding Echoes”

Middle gallery exhibit featuring new evocative paintings by emerging artist Chantal Khoury.

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Curriculum Vitae

Education

2021 Master of Fine Arts, University of Guelph, Guelph, ON
2012 Bachelor of Fine Arts with distinction, Concordia University, Montreal, QC
2010 Certificate, Explore Program: French as a Second Language, University of Montreal, QC

Collections

Royal Bank of Canada
Art Gallery of Guelph
University of New Brunswick
Private Collections

Solo Exhibitions

2022 Holding Echoes, Michael Gibson Gallery, London, ON
Carrying lace and soil, McClure Gallery, Montreal, QC

2021 Cloth and Feather, Birch Contemporary, Toronto, ON

2020 Other People’s Gardens, Beaverbrook Art Gallery, Fredericton, N.B.

2017 Home and Haven, POPOP Gallery, Belgo, Montreal, QC

2014 Unstilled Egos, University of New Brunswick, Fredericton, N.B.

Group & Two-Person Exhibitions

2022 Inaugural Exhibition, Tap Art Space, Montreal, QC
it comes in waves, University of New Brunswick, Fredericton, N.B., Curated by Amy Ash Vitrine, articule Artist Run Centre, Montreal, QC

2021 Grass Taps, the plumb, Toronto, ON
OOO ORIGIN OF ORIGINS, Rad Hourani Foundation, Montreal, QC Roadside Attractions, ConneXion Artist Run Centre, Fredericton, N.B. Moonshow, the plumb & Hearth Garage, Toronto, ON.

2020 No Show, Boarding House Gallery, Guelph, ON
Revelations: Selections from the Permanent Collection, UNB Arts Centre, Fredericton, N.B. Harbour, Beaverbrook Art Gallery, Fredericton, N.B.

2019 Preface, Boarding House Gallery, Guelph, ON
SITUER/SITUATE, articule Artist Run Centre, Montreal, QC
Harbour, Saint John Arts Centre, Saint John, N.B., Curated by Amy Ash

2018 Once Upon Water, Artscape Gibraltar Point, Toronto Island, ON
Carmichael Landscape Exhibition, Orillia Museum of Art & History, Orillia, ON 13th Annual Exhibition, Quest Art School & Gallery, Midland, ON
Be/Longing, Gallery on Queen, Fredericton, N.B.

2016 Artists Under 35, Gallery on Queen, Fredericton, N.B.
2014 La Virée des Ateliers, Le Grover, Montreal, QC
2012 Graduate Exhibition, Concordia University, Montreal, QC
2011 L’Amitié, The Culture and Language Centre, Montreal, QC
2010 Journey into Whatever, New Brunswick College of Craft & Design, Fredericton, N.B.
Expressions, Gallery 78, Fredericton, N.B.

Awards, Grants & Honours

2022 Research and Creation Grant, the Canada Council for the Arts
RBC Emerging Artist Network Program, The Power Plant Contemporary Exhibition Assistance, Ontario Arts Council (X2)
Special Projects Grant, articule Artist Run Centre, Montreal, QC

2021 Canadian Federation of University Women Scholarship (X2) (2021, 2020)
College of Arts Travel and Research Grant, University of Guelph (X4) (2019-2021)

2020 Graduate Scholarship, University of Guelph Dean’s Materials Bursary, University of Guelph

2014 Purchase Award, University of New Brunswick, Fredericton, N.B

Auctions

2022 Art with Heart, Casey House, Toronto, ON
Peripheral Review, Toronto, ON
Temporary Collection, Ed Video, Guelph, ON.
2021 Temporary Collection, Ed Video, Guelph, ON.
2018 Making Waves, Sunbury Shores Arts and Nature Centre, Minister’s Island, N.B.
2010 Beaverbrook Art Gallery, Fredericton, N.B.

Presentations

2022 Panelist, Arts Atlantic Symposium, Saint John, N.B.
Art & SWANA Diasporas, articule Artist Run Centre, Montreal, QC
Artist Talk, McClure Gallery, Montreal, QC

2020 Artist Talk, Beaverbrook Art Gallery, Fredericton, N.B.
Artist Talk, 1050 Foundations, University of Guelph, Guelph, ON x 2 (2020, 2019)

Residencies

2022 Creative Summer Residency, Beaverbrook Art Gallery, Fredericton, N.B.
2018 Once Upon Water, Artscape Gibraltar Point, Toronto Island, ON

Volunteer & Community Engagement

2022 Critique Sessions for BIPOC emerging artists, Beaverbrook Art Gallery, Fredericton, N.B.
Mentor, BIPOC Core Mentorship Program, University of Guelph

2017-22 Member, articule Artist Run Centre, Montreal, QC

Writing

2022 “On The Tactility of Loss” by Chantal Khoury, Qumra Journal, Issue 1, Toronto Arab Film Festival “High School Diary Entry” by Chantal Khoury, Stone Fruit Magazine, Issue 5

2017 “In the studio with Basket Weaver Ralph Simpson” by Chantal Khoury, Created Here Magazine, September Issue

Texts

2022 “it comes in waves”, Review by Janice Wright Cheney, Billie: Visual, Culture, Atlantic, July 11 Making your way under darkness: Moonshow at the plumb, Review by Dana Snow in Peripheral Review, May 25
“it comes in waves”, Essay by Amy Ash, University of New Brunswick

2021 “Chantal Khoury-Carrying lace and soil”, The Montrealer, Jan. 31 Roadside Attractions, Essay by Christiana Myers, Gallery Connexion
“Harbour: A Compendium”, Publication, Beaverbrook Art Gallery
“An Interview with Chantal Khoury”, by Tatum Dooley in Canadian Art Forecast, March 26

2020 “Harbour”, Review by Shannon Webb-Campbell Visual Arts New Magazine, print, Summer 2020
Staples, Michael. “New Art Exhibit Explores the Scattering of Lebanese People”, The Telegraph Journal, print, Jan. 20

2017 Ibrahim, Hadeel. “Artist Shares Utopian Memories of Home”, The Daily Gleaner, print, Dec. 23
Pansera, Katerina. “Out of Lines with Chantal Khoury”, CKUT Radio Interview, Dec. 7
Bolduc, Éric. “Chantal Khoury at POPOP”, Ratsdeville, online, Dec. 1
“Works in Progress by Chantal Khoury”, Akimbo Connects, online, Aug. 21

2016 Carter, Matt. “Artists Under 35”, Grid City Magazine, online, Nov. 15
Morell, Marie-Hélène “Visual Artist Chantal Khoury”, Created Here Magazine, Sept. 15 2014

2014 “Two Women Artists Exhibit Diverse Contemporary Views”, The Daily Gleaner. Nov. 10

2009 Dunvill, Jennifer. “Like Father, Like Daughter: Making a Name for Herself in the Art World” The Daily Gleaner, print, March 16

News

Chantal Khoury

Chantal Khoury Wins Plaskett Award

Painter Chantal Khoury is the 2023 recipient of the Joseph Plaskett postgraduate award in painting.

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Khoury in Swim Drink Fish

Chantal Khoury has an artwork in the May 18th Swim Drink Fish Auction

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