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IGNITION 19

May 1st – June 1st, 2024

Ifeoma U. Anyaeji, Colin Canary, Armando Cuspinera, Zahra Hosseini, Ayodele Mzilikazi, Elisabeth Perrault, Rebecca Ramsey, Andrés Salas and Nina Vroemen

Projects selected by Mojeanne Behzadi, Curator at the Musée d’art contemporain de Montréal, and Julia Eilers Smith, Max Stern Curator of research, LBEAG

NEW DIRECTOR

Concordia University is delighted to announce the appointment of curator, researcher, writer and educator Pip Day as the new director of the Leonard & Bina Ellen Art Gallery. She will begin her mandate on June 10, 2024.

With a career spanning over 25 years that has included stops in New York City, Mexico City and Berlin, Day brings a wealth of experience and expertise to this pivotal role.

The Gallery team warmly welcomes her.

Read Concordia University’s announcement

Press release

SIGHTINGS 40

PERFECT EMPATHY

January 29 – May 19, 2024

A project by Alli Melanson

This project is a part of SIGHTINGS’ ongoing multi-year cycle centered around the theme SEE FEVER.

TERMS

DEPRESSION, PART 2. ECONOMY

Dive into the second segment of the TERMS program, exploring the concept of “depression,” this time through the prism of the economic crisis of the 1930s. Read Andrée Lévesque’s essay, a professor in the Department of History at McGill University, shedding light on the repercussions of the Great Depression in Montreal. Explore a series of photographs taken by Canadian artist Margaret Watkins (1884-1969) during a stay in London amidst the Crisis years, along with the meticulous interpretation by Debra Antoncic, art historian, curator, and Director of the Riverbrink Art Museum.

Explore online now.

UNICEF CANADA

The Gallery’s programming is free and open for all, in absence of fees we encourage you to make a one-time or recurrent donation to UNICEF CANADA.

In every war, the ones who suffer the most are children. Help send urgent aid to children and families caught in the fighting that has engulfed Gaza and Israel.

Donate now