Marie Khediguian

Marie Khediguian is an Armenian-Canadian visual artist and researcher based in Montreal (Tiohtià:ke, unceded Kanien’kehá:ka territory). Working primarily in oil painting, her practice explores the fluid and constructed nature of immigrant nostalgia. As the granddaughter of four survivors of the Armenian Genocide, she draws upon family archives and oral narratives, reinterpreting them to bridge personal histories with broader questions of displacement and cultural continuity. Her paintings intentionally move between careful rendering and unresolved passages, mirroring the instability of memory itself.

With a background in architecture from McGill University, Marie is currently completing a BFA at Concordia University. She actively exhibits, curates, and engages in research-creation methodologies. Her recent milestones include the exhibition Ballads of Displacement at the VAV Gallery, curating The Risk of Colour for the Art Matters Festival, and an upcoming research-creation residency at the Institute of Contemporary Art (ICA) Yerevan. Through her studio practice, symposium presentations, and work with her Armenian artist collective, Marie investigates how communities reshape, preserve, and carry histories forward.