The Gallery will be closed to the public for the summer season. We will resume our regular programming activities in September with an exhibition by artist Raven Chacon as part of MOMENTA Biennale d’art contemporain’s 19th edition.

The Gallery’s offices remain open from Monday to Thursday from 9 am to 5 pm. They will be closed on June 24 and July 1st.

SIGHTINGS 44: IDLE

June 16 to September 14, 2025

A project by Alexandre Bouffard

IDLE considers, on one hand, the architecture and volume of the cube in relation to the Hall Building’s vicinity; on the other, its role as an object of representation—a medium for display in public space. Its glass facades act as an interface between these two dimensions, rendering the cube both self-contained and open to the outside world, particularly through the ephemeral and ambivalent relationship it seeks to establish with passersby. The installation sets in motion a dynamic of reciprocal gazes—between what looks and what is seen, what captures and what is captured.

Tyra Maria Trono

Just a Small Amount for Your Expenses, 2024-2025
Digital print on vinyl
312.42 x 492.86 cm

This year, the Leonard and Bina Ellen Art Gallery is pleased to present, in collaboration with the FOFA Gallery, Just a Small Amount for Your Expenses by Tyra Maria Trono, a special IGNITION 20 satellite project on view in the FOFA Gallery’s outdoor courtyard at 1515 Ste-Catherine St. W., until mid-August 2025

Listen to the conversation between Swapnaa Tamhane & Prasad Bidaye

This public program took place on May 13, 2025 as part of SIGHTINGS 43, presented from February 24 to May 25, 2025 on the ground floor of the Hall Building of Concordia University.

Nicole Burisch is joining the Leonard & Bina Ellen Art Gallery today as its new director. Burisch, an accomplished curator and Concordia alumna, brings over 20 years of experience in arts leadership, programming and advocacy to this role.

“I am deeply honoured to take on this role at the Ellen Art Gallery,” Burisch says. “University art galleries have a unique position in the contemporary art landscape, they have the capacity to support in-depth artistic and curatorial research while also being important spaces for experimentation and risk-taking.

The Gallery team warmly welcomes her.

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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.